Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7hUkraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right. 450180606875
Joseph Quattrocchi @quattrocchi.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026@Sujiyan @TheAdmin It seems the instance is close to shutting down. There has been interest from several people in preserving the server, whether through hosting, moderation, or successor administration. Has any solution been negotiated yet? I have already set up a GoToSocial instance as a […]mastodon.cloudOriginal post on mastodon.cloud 001
Reposted by Joseph Quattrocchi2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026🔋 MIT just published the most comprehensive EV emissions study yet, analyzing every US zip code with real driving data. Battery EVs cut lifetime emissions 40-60% vs gas cars in most locations. Even on the dirtiest grid in the country, they still come out ahead. The study used DOE's GREET […]dmv.communityOriginal post on dmv.community 2992
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026This seems to upset some people, who probably are themselves hosted on instances with different rules and who don’t understand why I “get away” with flagrantly violating rules that I took great care to ensure don’t apply where I post. But that’s the nature of a federated system. People pick the […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 020
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026I want to clarify something, which may not be well understood. The federation of instances from which people post are autonomous. They’re run by different people, and have different rules. Posters are governed by the rules of the server they post from, not by the rules of every instance on […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 249
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026This last day I’ve been bombarded with some very angry comments from people who want me to follow a different set of rules, where discussing “politics” is discouraged or requires a warning. That might be what people on some other instances want, but it simply doesn’t work for me, which is why […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 514
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026🔥 “Who won the 2020 election? ISN’T IT HUMILIATING to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions?” Trump administration nominee for director of national intelligence Jay Clayton pathetically won’t answer Sen. @ossoff 81917316
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/20261. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comTERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups“They have sued organizations into the ground.” 6127651161
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMatthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This paper found that about half of chatbot responses to health questions were problematic. Many people are already turning to AI for health information, making it increasingly important to teach the limitations of these tools. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...bmjopen.bmj.comGenerative artificial intelligence-driven chatbots and medical misinformation: an accuracy, referencing and readability auditObjectives Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots have been rapidly adopted across research, education, business, marketing and medicine. Most interactions, however, come from non-experts using ... 2156
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiJohannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026Question for you all. As you probably know, at FediForum we operate connect.fediforum.org, which showcases products/services/projects on the open social web. We post about them from Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. But: that's where all the people are that are already convinced of the […]j12t.socialOriginal post on j12t.social 004
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiRalf Stockmann @rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026AOL, Friendster, MySpace, StudiVZ, SecondLive, Flickr, Tumblr, Vine, Snapchat, Twitter. Sie waren mal dominant/relevant und sind jetzt ziemlich tot. Dennoch scheinen gerade Politik und Journalismus fest überzeugt, dass eine Welt jenseits X, Insta und TikTok völlig undenkbar ist. Ich kann mir das […]chaos.socialOriginal post on chaos.social 009
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiFediForum Connect @fediforumconnect.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026Bonfire is a federated, modular, open-source social platform designed to give communities real autonomy and participatory governance over their digital spaces. Have a community, need a digital space for it? Check out Bonfire. Curated by FediForum Connect […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 013
Reposted by Joseph Quattrocchirabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026I’m in Berlin, Germany but Bluesky has decided I need to do KYC to comply with Texas laws. This social media future is both Kafkaesque and Orwellian. 4011
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/07/2026So apparently Elon Musk's X is now posting betting lines? Someone sent me an X post and I noticed in the righthand column that they're showing the betting lines (from MGM Grand) for World Cup matches. So on top of bots, scams, propaganda, & NCII, now you have... gambling. 1413922
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiBonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]bonfire.cafeOriginal post on bonfire.cafe 1126
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13/07/2026New paper out w/great co-authors across several fields: AI & the Future of Digital Public Squares, led by @bgoldberg.bsky.social Focuses on shifts in 🗣️Deliberation & Collective Dialogue Systems 🌉Bridging Systems ⚖️Community-driven Moderation 🤖Proof of Humanity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1274
Reposted by Joseph Quattrocchipetersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026Major new study comparing biomedical #preprints with versions later published in peer-reviewed journals: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… "The primary claim was unchanged in 39.9% of abstracts, minorly revised in 50.0% [mostly for level of confidence], and […]fediscience.orgOriginal post on fediscience.org 016
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDaniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026The Fediverse People Directory. Consent-powered, you need to explicitly add our hashtag to your bio to be included. Ethical Discovery. Possible 🚀 fediverse.info/people?topics=pixelf…fediverse.infofediverse.infoA friendly guide to the open social web. 0015
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiLaurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026I feel like the popularity of AI Twitter is the only thing still keeping Twitter alive, and it would be great if we could persuade them to move here and kill that platform. 201
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DOGE wielded extraordinary power during the first months of the Trump administration. It was more important than any Cabinet official. The fact it has been completely memory-holed by this administration says much about its purpose and impact. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...federalnewsnetwork.comVought: Trump admin won’t do DOGE after-action report | Federal News NetworkOMB Director Russell Vought says there are no plans to do a closing report on DOGE's controversial, cost-cutting blitz across government. 20745256
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Leftist strongmen like Platner is not Democrats telling a new story. It's the same laziness leftists accuse mainstream libs of. It's the same losing strategy Dems have pursued for a decade, but from a different direction: Tell Republicans what they want to hear and they'll vote blue. 814617
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiBlacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 08/07/2026It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web. 15507172
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiTom Casavant @tom.tomkahe.com · 08/07/2026Every day another X user cooks his brain, but for just 70 cents a day you can provide an X user with the mastodon server they need to turn their life around. 013
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My latest piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social might stir the pot somewhat. It takes on the contentious notion that biological organisms can be considered to possess agency. www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...quantamagazine.orgIs Life Just Different? | Quanta MagazineThe idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? 74618
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Here's Meta's Andrew Bosworth describing NameTag, the company's face recognition feature for its glasses, which Meta said did not exist after we reported that inactive code for it was already on millions of phones: youtu.be/VmQl7TswfLM?... Our original story here: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...youtu.beMeta's Plan to Win in AI: Glasses, Muse Spark, and Staff Data - Meta CTO Andrew BosworthYouTube video by Nicholas Thompson 620195
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want). 214522
Reposted by Joseph Quattrocchiのえる @noellabo.fedibird.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026mastodon.cloudが8月10日にサービスを終了するとアナウンスしています。 フランスのMastodon古くからあるサーバで、ざっくりいうと、最初の管理者が管理しきれなくなったあと、協力者がヘルプに入り、きぼうソフトが引き継ぎ、DSNOになり、Sujitechが継承したサーバで、登録ユーザーが多く(27万8千)運営期間が長い分だけデータベースは大きいが、アクティブは少なくなっており(MAU 1600程度)、EU基準ということで運営が難しかった面はあると思います。 メンテナンスを引き継いでくれるヨーロッパのパートナーを探していますので、まぁ可能性は低いと思いますが、過去何度か […]fedibird.comOriginal post on fedibird.com 01050
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDaniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new fediverse.info it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️fediverse.infofediverse.infoThe bespoke fediverse guide and people directory. 53107
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026Another view. Fossil fuels remain dominant. 37619
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026Some sobering graphs from the EIA today. This one shows that, while the rise of renewables lately has been notable, the real energy story of the 21st century in the US has been the large-scale replacement of coal by natural gas. 1526971
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-... 42795092545
Reposted by Joseph Quattrocchi洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026I once gave up on building a federated microblogging app because the ActivityPub work swallowed it. That frustration turned into Fedify, and the app I shelved eventually shipped as Hollo, built on top of it. I wrote up where implementing ActivityPub actually hurts, and why it doesn't have to […]hollo.socialOriginal post on hollo.social 013
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026We all need to be aware that the Regime doesn’t care about the law. They are pushing the idea that religious freedom overrides any and all public health interventions that they don’t like. They will continue to try to end vaccine requirements using as many levers that they can access.theguardian.comTrump administration puts religious freedom at heart of US health policyCritics say the new focus could reshape LGBTQ+ healthcare, abortion access and vaccine policy 46922
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiGil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/06/2026"It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K views in a day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf...youtube.comPeter Thiel's Plan To Replace Democracy (And Profit Off What Comes Next)YouTube video by More Perfect Union 30347159
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost. 613726707
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Hegseth proudly announced that the flu vaccine would no longer be required for people serving in the military. A flu outbreak is now happening at Lackland Air Force Base, and flu vaccinations are again required. The AF has now been forced to admit that a 25-year-old recruit has died of influenza.yahoo.comAir Force confirms first death in Lackland flu outbreak, Rep. Castro saysA flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly 300 are said to have been infected. 36949462
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026"Because they believe that only their clan represents America, that only people like them deserve to be considered “real” Americans, and that the American government exists to serve them alone, they need to undermine anything that tells a more unifying story." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump’s Anti-Patriotic TrapThe president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office. 29959327
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiIFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026The threat landscape is changing. Our last needs assessment showed that automated #spam and coordinated #disinformation have overtaken other issues as the top daily drain for community admins and moderators. Tell us what you're facing today in the annual […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org] 006
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiFederal Workers Alliance for Democracy @workers4democracy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) held OMB Director Russell Vought's feet to the fire during today's Congressional hearing. Pocan continually demanded that Vought answer for the many global deaths he helped facilitate by canceling USAID's funding, firing all of its employees, and effectively shuttering it. 1186
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026Supreme Court saved gratuitous meanness to trans kids for the last day, presumably because they wanted to savor the cruelty. 1223
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiHeidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026Here’s a very accessible explication of how Trump is trying to use the USPS to control voting in the midterms, how unconstitutional it is, why we can’t count on the Roberts court to respect that obvious point, and how much power states clearly have to run elections as they choose to and […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 1018
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDebbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11681165843652… Time to trot this cartoon out again. 21179
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.theverge.comElon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.” 11758414
Reposted by Joseph QuattrocchiDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/06/2026California is going to sue the Trump administration over its corrupt offshore-wind nonsense.energy.ca.govCalifornia Sends Notice of Intent to File Suit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Offshore Wind DealOAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission (CEC) Chair David Hochschild today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue targeting an unlawful agreement between the U.S. Depa... 418943