"Free yourself from the painted yellow lines., the tracking, the ads, the arbitrary rules and follower counts and gaming the algorithm and acquisitions and shutdowns and a chronic lack of ownership. Free yourself, for the low low cost of a single domain and a moment’s effort. You can start from nothing, and build whenever ready… But fair warning, it may become your new #addiction!" #indieblog #blog

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Indie-blog EVANgelism

"By the end of 2024, #Zuckerberg had given up on finding any middle path through the polarized and opposite criticisms leveled against him by Republicans & Democrats. #Musk spent the past year showing how Republican party support can be bought — cheaply. Zuckerberg’s motivation has only ever been to win. And a doddering, transactional Trump presented #Meta with a rare opportunity for a fresh start. All they would have to do is whatever #Trump wanted them to do."

Platformer

Meta surrenders to the right on speech

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer

"Across a series of experiments, we found that people treated unfairly by an #AI were less likely to punish human wrongdoers afterwards than participants who had been treated unfairly by a human. They showed a kind of #desensitisation to others’ bad behaviour. We called it AI-induced #indifference, to capture the idea that unfair treatment by AI can weaken people’s sense of accountability to others. This makes them less likely to address injustices in their community."

TNW | Future-Of-Work

Unfair decisions by AI could make us indifferent to bad behaviour by humans

Researchers asked: how does experiencing unfairness from an AI system affect how people treat one another afterwards?

Artigo importante do @npub177gp...f8wp sobre não restringir celular por lei em escolas: "Como o celular é um poderoso computador, mais potente do que muitos disponíveis nas escolas, não utilizá-lo é um equívoco…precisamos é de #políticaspúblicas que apoiem as escolas para que possam trabalhar essas máquinas poderosas. Esse trabalho tem que passar pela compreensão crítica das relações de saber e poder do contexto tecnológico contemporâneo…"

Folha de S.Paulo

Opinião - Nelson Pretto: Celulares devem ser restringidos por lei nas escolas? NÃO

Mais do que uma proibição de cima para baixo, precisamos da mesma coragem para enfrentar a captura perniciosa por algoritmos e redes sociais

"I would love to use #Bluesky, not least because I am fast approaching the point where the costs of using #Twitter will exceed the benefits. I'm pretty sure Bluesky would substitute well for the residual value that keeps me glued to Twitter. But the fact that Twitter is such a dumpster fire is why I'm not going to join Bluesky until they install fire exits. I've learned my lesson: you should never, ever, ever join another service unless they've got working #fireExits."

Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#footballclubs are leaving X! They could take better care of their fans with an ActivityPub customized app. "Beyond celebrities and journalists, the most surprising departures from X have come from German football clubs. First #Hamburg’s St Pauli left, calling X a “hate machine”, followed by Werder #Bremen. “We are leaving 600,000 followers on X for only 9,000 on Bluesky,” he said. “For us a place where there is no regulation for hate speech is not the place to be.”"

the Guardian

From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?

Musk’s platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million

"…as pessoas estão cansadas das plataformas, do #instagram…produtores de cultura, de jornalismo, estão cansados do #algoritmo que é opaco, que é difícil de atender…fazem um jornalismo que não querem fazer, porque precisam agradar a programação da plataforma. Não é por ganância, é por sobrevivência, no caso mais visualização. Antes se procurava agradar o #mercado agora ficam tentando agradar o algoritmo… o que é basicamente a mesma coisa." @npub17rm7...f6dk [@r_evangelista](

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Rafael Evangelista (@r_evangelista@mastodon.nudecri.unicamp.br)

569 Posts, 325 Following, 310 Followers · Antropólogo. Pesquisador do Labjor/Unicamp. Prof do PPG em Divulgação Científica e Cultural. Conselh...

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Era promessa de campanha. Mas a forma como foram concebidas e anunciadas as medidas do pacote fiscal coloca Haddad em outro patamar. Trata-se de estratégia civilizatória em país com índice recorde em desigualdade. Com a isenção proposta por #Haddad, hoje, quem ganha até 5 mil reais acaba de ganhar um aumento real de até 27,5% no salário. Quem poderia esperar?!

"#thefediverse is currently actually #decentralized, and from my analysis, if there was willingness to take on the work, the gap of moving towards resolving #contentaddressing and #portableidentity at least are not so large architecturally. But I'm not sure there's interest or not. Maybe there will be so more now." @npub1urx3...v0z4

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

"Some people* say there's only One True Fediverse, the one which speaks #ActivityPub. Others say #theFediverse is whatever you make it, that's it's simply enough to say you're part of the fediverse to be part of the fediverse. Or maybe the rumors are true: there really are fediverseS (fediversi?). * me Own Your Data (OYD)"!!

The Multifediverse? How’s That Working Out for You Marvel

We did it people. We federated. Or so we thought. For you see, it's not enough to have just one “fediverse”. We must have more!