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I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23)

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What to do if your site or blog is in a subfolder: ActivityPub – FAQ – WordPress Plugin | 2022

Mask Network Acquires Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances

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Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

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William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

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The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

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Links and Comments: Twitter accused of covering up data breach | Cyber Security Hub

A Los Angeles-based cyber security expert has warned of a data breach at social media site Twitter that has allegedly affected “millions” across the US...

What’s Wrong With Google? Letting Go of SEO

I’m not going to mince words. Everybody knows what’s wrong with Google now. There’s lots of speculation and also lots of actual information about why...

Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017

An estimated one million WordPress websites have been compromised during a long-lasting campaign that exploits “all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities” to...

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal (Yahoo Finance) Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe...

Someone Is Trying to Break Mastodon By Attacking One Large Instance. No Really.

As I post this, someone is seriously attacking Mastodon.social. They are probably also going for other large instances. I mean, maybe it’s that by brain...

How the Internet was Stolen

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Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

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The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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The Fight Continues – Internet Archive Blogs

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across...

I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23)

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Kyle Reddoch Teaches You How to Add a Mastodon Sharing Button to Your Site

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A New Site is Birthing: Maaternal.com

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WINTER CONFERENCE | BlacksInCyber

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Comment: Bots run rampant on social media, and most people can’t tell the difference – Study Finds

Scientists from Copenhagen Business School conducted an experiment in which 375 participants were asked to differentiate between real and fake social media profiles. The fake...

Now Crazy Ex Hosting Arden’s Web

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What to do if your site or blog is in a subfolder: ActivityPub – FAQ – WordPress Plugin | 2022

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Mask Network Acquires Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances

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Why AI “Artwork” won’t last in the long run and Why companies are probing themselves in the ass. | mamushroomoracorn on Tumblr

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There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott

There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott from YouTube59 minutes 34 seconds How does science get communicated in an age of social...

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

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How AI Trains Humans on Transphobia

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Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post

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What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

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Real Alternatives to YouTube for People in Marginalized Communities – Africans Live

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Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

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Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis

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William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

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I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy | Techdirt

The last few days on Twitter have been, well, chaotic, I guess? Beyond the blocking of the ElonJet account, followed by the blocking of the...

The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

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SEO vs. HIO – Search Engine Optimization vs. Human Interaction Optimization or How to Help Me List You

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Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative | TechCrunch

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The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

The statistics are not that surprising. I have lost absolutely nothing from deactivating my Twitter account and basically neglecting my Facebook to near oblivion. I’ve...

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch

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Ancient Alien-Aryan Theory Infiltrating Panafrican Spaces: Example Of The Day – Asteroid Mining Reparations

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Building A Preferred Future. It’s about much more than leaving… | by Stephen P. Anderson | Feb, 2023 | Medium

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Welcome to my homepage. Because this is my personal site, it's a mix and there is some adult content here. However, it is very educational and boring.

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cohost! – “I Thanked the Machine and It Said Your Welcome. I think.”

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Pattern Collider Generates Tile Patterns

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Create And Share Mathematical Tiling Patterns

Create Patterns and Explore Symmetries Source: Pattern Collider

Pupating ants make milk — and scientists only just noticed

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony.The research, published in Nature on 30 November1, reveals that as pupae — an otherwise inactive developmental stage — ants produce a nutrient-rich fluid that is consumed by both adults and larvae.Newly hatched larvae depend on this fluid…

LastPass Suffers Another Security Breach; Exposed Some Customers Information

The August 2022 security event targeted its development environment, leading to the theft of some of its source code and technical information. In September, LastPass revealed the threat actor had access for four days.The scope of the breach remains unknown as yet, and it’s not clear if both LastPass and GoTo customers are impacted. The…

Finding a new home for the WordPress community – Ollie

Simply put, OpenPress adds functionality and an interface to your website that enables you to run your own micro publishing platform using readily-available WordPress technology.Your website, and the content you’re publishing, can then be connected to a network of other websites that are also using OpenPress. The result is a network that is powered by…

Evidence Grows of Left-Wing Twitter Purge Directed by Musk

While claiming to have bought the social media giant in order to make it “an inclusive arena for free speech,” multibillionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is apparently overseeing what critics claim is a purge of anti-fascist voices, The Intercept reported Tuesday. “No one should’ve honestly believed Elon Musk would use his ownership of Twitter…