"Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal."

the Guardian

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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Bluesky Social

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 (@noneck.org)

The IBM of our time... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-pales...

#news #gaza #palestine #technology #microsoft

Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

KNKX Public Radio

Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work

Records show that public servants have used generative AI to write emails to constituents, mayoral letters, policy documents and more.

via @npub1nf69...rs8s #news #FOIA #ChatGPT

"Do you remember, the 21st night of September?" Happy #EarthWindAndFireDay! #EarthWindAndFire #september #September21 #music #NowListening

Many here will remember the Kamala Harris donation drive last year, leading up to the US presidential election. People contributing to it were criticized for ignoring other causes, like mutual aid requests. It was hard to prove it at the time, but seeing @npub1p095...m5vl's Gaza Verified fundraiser reach its $15k goal in only about 8 hours, I think this confirms that people here do care. But also, a simple solution to a problem usually wins. Compare: "Click here to save US democracy!" and "Donate $5 to save people in Gaza!" Vs: "Here's a bunch of strangers who *really* need your help, pick 1-5 of them to save." #fediverse #fundraising #donations #MutualAidMeta

"got no algo in my timeline and my friends use alt text i've never seen an ad here" -- @npub1pwnd...9vq2

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FEDILIKE (2025)

WE DE-CEN-TRA-LIZE fedilike, fedilike, fedilike, fedilike i wanna get you to caching my data, i wanna cache yours all the time fedilike - fedilike ...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)

Holy shit you need to watch @Ultramorbidi@pixey.org's music video about the fediverse, "Fedilike", this fukken owns https://tube.systerserver.net/w...

#fedilike #fediverse #music #NowListening

There's a renewed conversation around the lack of options for migrating post history when you move to a new Mastodon server. And seeing a few people mentioning how this can be a reason for folks to give up on the fediverse when their server shuts down, I hope the Mastodon team will prioritize this.

GitHub

Support Post Migration · Issue #12423 · mastodon/mastodon

#177 – Support Account Migration – was closed after implementing follower migration, but this is only one small part of a true migration. To re...

#mastodon #MastodonDev #fediverse #SocialMedia

"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably what "given current trends" refers to in his own, now-famous missive."

WIRED

Sept. 19, 1982: Can't You Take a Joke? :-)

Scott Fahlman posts an electronic message proposing :-) as a character sequence for joke markers. He's the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-bas...

Archived link:

WIRED

Sept. 19, 1982: Can

Scott Fahlman posts an electronic message proposing :-) as a character sequence for joke markers. He

#OnThisDay #OTD #internet #history #InternetHistory #emoticons #emoji #smiley

My #FollowFriday for this week, or rather #DonateFriday would be folks listed on @npub1p095...m5vl's

Gaza Verified

We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we veri...

. #gaza #palestine

"Only ten percent [of over 5,000 US adults] said they were "more excited than concerned," indicating that most Americans simply do not share the extremely optimistic views of tech leaders selling AI products."

Futurism

New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

A new Pew Research Center poll has found that Americans are getting incredibly fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.

#news #technology #TechNews #AI #survey