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Massive car interchange from the air

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.

What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?

Choices.

I think "clickbait" is a shorter way to put it. After all, we are at a point where the bulk of new data comes from new user input. It takes anything, but _desperately_ needs you to not disengage.

Well, then come Meta boosting scam arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... and Google rewarding copycats mastodon.social/@randahl/115...

The thing is, as bad as this sounds, i don't believe that it was always that different, but gatekeepers simply cut off the folkways at a certain threshold. Online media now reveal the full spectrum of communicative purposes—play, identity, partisanship, performance, outrage, and sometimes: truth.

bsky.app/profile/edhi...

300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias. Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉

Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

Ebook of Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...

You can read & download the chapter for free in the new open-access volume, Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures (edited by Matthew Kilbane).

I highly recommend checking out the whole book! Especially if you're interested in literature and social media.

www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr...

Tolkien “One of the recurring plots of The Lord of the Rings is in fact stories about human beings who try to be immortal and are corrupted by that attempt,”

Sound familiar? #Thiel

“If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other.”

I’m grateful for the Rev. Sharpton’s powerful words of unity this morning and against the cynical politics of fear and division.

#NewMexico joins countries such as #Norway & #Belgium that offer #free #universal #childcare for #children under 3, & #Bulgaria, where early childhood #education is free for all children until elementary school. New Mexico is going further by offering no-cost child care for children up to age 13 […]

...and making costumes for kids is easier because they are smaller :)

Dear friends and colleagues, I am recruiting prospective PhD students for Fall 2026, in Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Critical Data Studies, Social Media, and/or Platform Studies. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions, or share this with anyone who might be interested! Thanks!

Хаха, с 5-годишния ми за пръв път си купихме оранжева тиква, за да я дяламе. Ма тя е много вкусна :D изобщо не е толкова сладка

Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility

Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going

Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds The Xbox Ally is better with Bazzite.

Ever since Windows 95, for 30 years the problem remains Windows

https://www.theverge.com/games/807711/xbox-ally-sleep-fail-bazzite-fix-performance

ми то и аз не обичам тиква, ама не се го изкарвам на децата...

X - Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion

X – Marks the Spot: russia's Second Front

Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack #Ukraine and support putin's murderous invasion

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

@256bit.bsky.social we're definitely in different stages. In Bulgaria protests were taking governments down regularly in the 1990s and 2000s (here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Protests_in_Bulgaria). Then politicians learned to not resist protests, but find other ways to stay […]

The White House Is Already the 2nd-Most Blocked Account on BlueSky — After JD Vance President Trump's White House is already the second most-blocked account on Bluesky, just days after joining the platform. The only account ahead of it? It belongs to Vice President JD Vance.

I think these two are the first accounts I ever blocked. I am lucky to not have been forced to do it in the past. The exception I make now is an expression of solidarity with all the people that witness their country being hijacked.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. What does it take for democracies to bounce back from periods of autocratic rule?

...and this is about the response that needs to emerge, beyond protests
theconversation.com/10-effective...

So, apparently Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with the antichrist, had never pondered how to respond if someone notices that he's behaving like one, or at least enabling one. Not exactly my idea of resilient thinker.

“You’re an investor in AI,” Douthat says. “You’re deeply invested in Palantir […]

[Things as nasty as Trump]

It might be my omission, but it appears that the #TrumpVideo does not feature people of colour.

So I guess the takeaway is they are invincible to his #kingshit.

If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @linuxdays conference here : https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/media/linuxdays-2025/submissions/KGHCKC/resources/FOSS_tools_to_fight__EE3GIn4.pdf

#foss #privacy #linuxdays

I agree with Ian that this is not the place (and apparently on criticism), but I couldn't help noticing that the pension system and public healthcare are forms of insurance (including financial contingency). In no way could I agree that this achievement of civilisation is BS

@zaistinata.com "Ето я разликата, при това съществена – Пеевски се съобразява с това, което казва Борисов, а Борисов изпълнява това, което поиска Пеевски!"

Job Interviews Are Broken People are sneaking answers from AI, and who can blame them?

Today, students might use AI to write college-entrance essays so that they can get into college, where they use AI to complete assignments on their way to degrees, so they can use AI to cash out those degrees in jobs, so they can use AI to carry out the duties of those jobs.

In your article I loved both the reference to Joe and the Volcano, and your interpretation of BS job. Then also tone, story development,... Useless list, that just comes to say I identified so much with it, and not engaged with TikTok also learned a lot

As someone that was in academia for years and came back to a broken job market, I loved the article for many reasons.For each LinkedIn position I applied for, there'd be 100+ candidates within 3hrs. I got considered only for positions where I contacted an insider. Got the job where they moved faster

Did you notice how Bogost interprets #BSjobs in the article? To me it makes so much more sense than Graeber's sense that you seem to be echoing. It's about employee detachment from the job, and not so much about the job necessarily being meaningless itself.