I've been thinking a lot about recommendations and discovery ('the algorithm", "search", resp.), esp in light of the 230 debate. Imagine decentralized content hosting coming back, but having recommendation and search being 100% decoupled from the content hosts. Bonus if the impls are open source.
Scott Drake
@daemonburrito.bsky.social
Musician, hacker and GPL advocate. Dedicated to humanity. He/Him https://scottdrake.bandcamp.com/
The US blockade of Cuba is a moral stain. It's barbaric, illegal, based on lies, and meant to inflict nothing but human suffering. We will be judged for this, in a just world. The people of Cuba are heroic, as are all who help. #cuba
The news of WP's layoffs has me thinking about a terrible, implicit, "deal" that the public has made with commercial news; we are told that the resources they have are irreplaceable, and that whatever editorial decisions they make, we need them. We need to revisit this bargain. youtu.be/-T1EHl49pt4
"Journalism Deserves Better": Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Everyone understands that these are camps, right? www.youtube.com/shorts/b9Rnd... From Mother Jones.
Famed Indigenous chef Sean Sherman: My employee was taken.
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans
Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
It's not often, if ever, that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence goes for an FBI ride-along on a raid to a state election office. Are they getting ready for a foreign interference play for this year's midterm? 🤔
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.” @reuters.com
Re youtu.be/Sn53Yjt9_gU?... There is no "sane immigration reform", bc there is no immigration crisis. People lacking paperwork are not criminals, cannot be picked up at any time of the day or night, and no one is illegal. It's not about "citizens", it's about human beings @governorwalz.mn.gov
BREAKING: Gov. Walz To Meet With Homan, Doesn’t Know Who Killed Pretti | The Bulwark Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Don't fall for the hype! Bovino was reassigned and that's significant but the broader mission is far from over
Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
its looking like the local & state administrators might have folded and will let ice continue to operate in minneapolis WITH local law enforcement protection in exchange for some fake promises that there will be a real investigation into the two murders & a "scaleback
Don't fall for the hype! Bovino was reassigned and that's significant but the broader mission is far from over
I am surprised by the incompetence shown in the TT transition. Other platforms, like YT, censor more effectively by altering the viewer graph to lock creators into ghettos, and leaving them unaware of the censorship. #tiktok #usa #oracle #censorship #socialmedia #web
@governorwalz.mn.gov Send the guard to *protect* the protestors, and those targeted by ICE. It is the only moral and legal action you have.
ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity
The Minnesota National Guard is being deployed, facing the wrong direction, according to reports. It should be deployed by the Governor Walz to protect people from DHS. It's a mistake to use them for crowd control, the violence is coming from the federal gov. #ice #Minneapolis @governorwalz.mn.gov
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
OMFG another one. Rm Brown's finest. In spite of the title, the subject is White Replacement "journalism" done about daycare in MN that's being used to justify a fascist purge. I love his work, it cancels out Austin's hosting of Rogan. youtu.be/MlkK85_EIRQ #rmbrown #minneapolis
Joe Rogan Show Somehow Getting Dumber
YouTube video by Rm Brown
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I think NYT is the opposite of informative these days; it's rolled over and is completely compliant. However, there is one bright spot that I consume via Youtube: @jamellebouie.net is telling the truth in beautifully crafted videos. The latest (non-"Short"): youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs Indeed.
Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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@bennjordan.bsky.social has outdone himself again with this *amazing* installment of a series on surveillance and security. @404media.co does great work, too. youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo Scary part: they didn't discover the problems, they're just the first to *say something* with a platform.
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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This may get lost in this media cycle, but it's reporting that would be recognized in better days. youtu.be/CYIxgOw2XwA Extremely detailed. For those too young, the "Iran-Contra" scandal involved Reagan selling arms to Iran, and using the cash to fuel right-wing militias in Central America.
Jeffrey Epstein's Origin Story Goes Back To Iran Contra
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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Btw, if you're affect by the bug where you can't post, the button is in the DOM, just invisible. The `aria-label` is "New Post", which looks like the most reliable way to search for it (they don't believe in html ids, lol). You may be able to find it if you resize, as well.
youtube.com/shorts/brVeO... Helen Thomas, I'm sorry. I had forgotten about this; at the time, it was seen as sad, how a once-great journo had fallen, probably to dementia. It's awful to think about how wrong we were. This short touches on the irony of the NYT suit over the loyalty oath.
After Covering 10 Presidents, Israel Destroyed Her Career
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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Been a minute so I posted an update. #fuckcancer www.gofundme.com/f/aid-anna-m...
Donate to Aid Anna Maul's Fight Against Breast Cancer, organized by April Arndt
My good friend and fellow adventurer, Anna Maul Ripley, has had a rough go … April Arndt needs your support for Aid Anna Maul's Fight Against Breast Cancer
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Old news, but it only now occurred to me how the vast majority's righteous feelings toward environmental justice have been misdirected, into MAHA, "wellness", and ironic conspiracy theories. Cancer clusters, microplastics, lead infrastructure are real; chem-trails are not. youtu.be/wMM6OGaOb3g
Jim Breuer DECLARES WAR on DeSantis over CHEMTRAILS
YouTube video by Left Reckoning
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You: 🤡 @aoc.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🤦 @chiosse.bsky.social RUN. Worst case, clownshoes has to move left. Best case, a ringer for the system is thrown out. If we're going to play the electoral game, we should at least play like we're trying #socialism
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
youtube.com/shorts/vMHUk... I don't share short-form video much, but this is so strange that I have to ask around to see if I'm missing some context. He can't really be saying what it sounds like he's saying, can he? #haskell #plt #programming #categorytheory
Category Theory: The Silent Math Revolution You Need to Know #shorts #space #universe
YouTube video by Galactic Epoch
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youtu.be/XLjqNQB-SGw Gender's best work so far, imo... an investment in time, but worth it this weekend. @jessiegender.bsky.social
Liberalism Won't Admit What it Actually Stands For
YouTube video by Jessie Gender
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There’s an UPDATE! It’s Scott’s birthday today and mine is Thursday so check out the full update here: www.gofundme.com/manage/aid-a... #fuckcancer #gofundme My heart to you, birthday beloved! @daemonburrito is the best 💜