City of Amsterdam takes important steps towards digital sovereignty:
digital sovereignty as condition in procurement;
data control, less cloud service dependency; 
open, independent, non-US software;
new social media and communication strategy
#democracy #cloud #bigtech #socialmedia
https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/digitale-onafhankelijkheid/
" I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore. "
Horrifying. As Voltaire said, "if they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities"
Ruining people's ability to judge truth from fiction will help Gilead tolerate the Concentration Camps
a tidal wave of AI slop to twist the algorithms
Aren't you glad you're on Mastodon right now?
https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/
I wish it were easier to follow Bluesky accounts from Mastodon. Few of the people I want to follow have made bridging possible.
Image: Photograph of a Blue Morpho butterfly (Morpho menelaus). Wingspan of the specimen is cca. 10 cm (4 inches). Abdomen was removed to prevent staining. -- Gregory Phillips -- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 -- Wikimedia Commons
Hey! I’m writing an essay about the #fediverse for an assignment i was given to enter in a university 
I’m new here and still trying to get how everything work, do you have any suggestions about any important matter you think i should talk regarding fediv?
Do you guys think that this will be the future of #socialmedia ? Or will it remain just a niche thing?
What would you consider to be some criticisms??
(The essay should turn around this other one: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22254/4864)
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Elon Musk Reportedly Orders Government to Stop Feeding the Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
As Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency continues to plunder the federal government, even the Transportation Security Administration's bomb-sniffing K9 units aren't safe.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #socialmedia
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@arstechnica Reddit is just a bad website, IDK what happened to it but we need a #fediverse variant ASAP!
PsyPost: Hostile tweets linked to upbringing and legal troubles, study finds. “By linking official government records to the online activity of Danish Twitter users, the researchers found that individuals with numerous criminal verdicts, more time spent in foster care, better performance in primary school, and higher childhood socioeconomic status tended to be more hostile in their social […]
So many people in Denmark now talk about building a Danish/European social media platform (I proposed it 12 years ago and was laughed at) They want to start from scratch, but I keep saying we can build it on the ActivityPub protocol (alternatively Bueskys but I don't trust that in the long run). Anybody here who has experience with that? And know of other countries having done that? Contacts to people who could help build it? #activitypub #socialmedia @mastodon
Biggest Tax Cheats in History!
Trump paid $750 in income tax!
Musk's company Tesla paid $0 in income tax!
Elon Musk’s company avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over three years
Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #socialmedia #x #Fediverse #Tesla #BreakingNews #Breaking
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/
Typical #xiaohongshu cooking video
Creator: Puts together a well-shot video of a dish being made
Comments: Sister, do you have a link to the pot?
John Burn-Murdoch (FT) asks whether 'passive consumption & constant context-switching' in our use of social media is behind the rising number of people who have difficulty with literacy & numeracy?
Thus, while international & active use of information technology can be empowering, for too many (he suggests) the shift to a more passive relationship with what their digital devices offer is having a negative impact on information processing skills....
What is the difference between honest ignorance (which we all have on any number of topics, and if we're humble, we learn) and prideful ignorance ("I know everything already, shut up")?
This man
He came to the #Wisconsin state legislature to speak against #genderAffirmingCare. Instead, after listening to testimony, he apologized and said he learned a lot
On #socialMedia we are drowning in #bigotry
But, sometimes, you can educate those who will listen
Meta so scared of former New Zealand diplomat's tell-all they're trying to have it banned.
And the name of that books is: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
It would be unfortunate if anyone heard of or read it. For Meta.
Elegant Basket on Chicken Feet – STL File for 3D Printing! 
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@cults3d #3DPrinting #3DPrinter #Printable #STLfile #resinprinting #opensource #etsy #etsyshop #mastodon #mastodonart #mastodonband #maker #makers #social #socialmedia
