I'm worried that by the time we're collectively ready to move beyond Big Tech walled gardens, most publications will already be locked into Threads as their primary platform. While Flipboard is great at bringing publications to the fediverse, relying on volunteers to do this for their favorite media outlets (like someone in New Jersey does for RFA) isn't sustainable and doesn't grant true ownership. Could we develop a program that: 1. Establishes nostr identities for news organizations to claim when ready? 2. Utilizes RSS feeds or alternative sources to build a following? 3. Offers support to individual journalists and newsrooms? 4. Pursues web-of-trust verification and actively recommends accounts? This could extend to other public utilities, such as transit systems or weather services.

Curious if in browser cached models could work as an alternative for on-premise hosting for simple republished tasks in terms of security or if that doesn’t make sense https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js/

“The democratization of publishing has had lots of good effects for the growth of media around the world, the biggest being the proliferation of previously under-represented groups to have a voice. But amongst the worst effects of it has been the perception that it is easy to be in media, have a career in media, raise money in media, build a company in media. “

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It *Should* Be Freakin’ Hard To Be In Media

I have usually held unpopular views well enough, so I will go for it: it *should* be hard. Starting something in media, building in, being in it, b...

Flipboard onboarded 64 U.S.-based local and regional publications to the fediverse

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Flipboard Brings Local News to the Fediverse

As part of our commitment to local news, Flipboard is bringing 63 regional and community titles to the fediverse.

Civic media can set standards if they want to. Now would be a good moment again. View quoted note →

🤯 this is great! View quoted note →

Why critique decentralized social media protocols on platforms that harvest your data and where you have no ownership of your relationships, no say in your algorithmic discovery, and your data gets harvested? It's pointless to bash alternative protocols while comfortably nestled in the walled gardens of Big Tech. If you're genuinely concerned about the future of social media, direct your efforts: Invest time, thought, or resources into developing alternatives. Don't just complain—create.

The web scraper bot for Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude hit iFixit’s website nearly a million times in a single day, despite the repair database having terms of service provisions that state “reproducing, copying or distributing any Content, materials or design elements on the Site for any other purpose, including training a machine learning or AI model, is strictly prohibited without the express prior written permission of iFixit.”

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Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day

“We're just the largest database of repair information in the world, no big deal if they take it all without asking and swamp our servers in the ...

CrowdStrike sent Uber Eats $10 apology gift cards to say sorry for outage. Several people who received it found that the cards didn't work.

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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch

Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been ...

“The Chinese internet today is unrecognizable from the internet we all know.”

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OTF’s Nat Kretchun Testified on “The Great Firewall and the CCP’s Export of its Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State”

OTF's Senior Vice President for Programs Nat Kretchun testified before Congress on "The Great Firewall and the CCP's Export of its Techno...

Smol is super interesting as a content aggregator for insights on public debate on social. is anyone working on something like this for fediverse/nostr?

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A good Cybercrime Treaty would recognize the perverse incentives that create the coalition to keep us from knowing which products we can trust and which ones we should avoid. It would shut down companies like the NSO Group, ban spy agencies from hoarding defects, and establish an absolute defense for security researchers who reveal true facts about defects.

Pluralistic: Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare (23 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

malicious software that, for the first time, allowed hackers to reach directly into a Ukrainian heating utility, switching off heat and hot water to hundreds of buildings in the midst of a winter freeze

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How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

The code, the first of its kind, was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year—what appears to be yet another i...

Jigsaw has open sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content shared through their online platforms.

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GitHub - Jigsaw-Code/altitude: Altitude is a tool that gives online platforms a single elevated view of potential terrorist and violent extremist content on their sites.

Altitude is a tool that gives online platforms a single elevated view of potential terrorist and violent extremist content on their sites. - Jigsaw...

https://medium.com/jigsaw/introducing-altitude-an-open-source-tool-to-help-online-platforms-protect-their-communities-from-0c1c5d147fae

Super interesting to watch editing activity on Wikipedia View quoted note →

If you’re also tired of intellectually bankrupt political punditry that claims to be journalism but destroys everything in its path: meet this senior pug who has the biggest heart.

Depoorter has built all manner of quirky and provocative installations and online experiments. There’s a clock that tells you how much of your life you’ve already lived; a phone charger that only works when your eyes are closed; a mobile chat app that you can only use when your phone has less than 5% battery.

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The all-seeing AI webcam

On The Vergecast: Selfie surveillance, DIY jaywalk detectors, and much more

The rebranding of Yandex International to Nebius marks a new era for European AI compute, thanks to Russia’s tech brain drain.

TechCrunch

From Yandex's ashes comes Nebius, a 'startup' with plans to be a European AI compute leader | TechCrunch

Nebius is the new name for Yandex N.V., the holding company for Russian tech giant Yandex. And Arkady Volozh couldn't be more excited.

This moment says so much about the despicably extractive bully culture so much of journalism has succumbed to that leads to nothing good.

A site selling videos and photos of real people to bypass selfie checks for online services.

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Inside the Face Fraud Factory

An underground site is selling videos and photos of real people to bypass selfie checks for online services. In essence, these individuals have bee...