Expired: Gamification Tired: Enshittification Wired: Onionification™ of the news cycle ™ @froginthevalley.com

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Medicare for all, including abortion rights. A green new deal. A living wage for all. Getting dark money out of elections. Taxing billionaires. Publicly funding independent journalism. I'm feeling very good about my vociferous support for Bernie in 2016 and 2020. Imagine how much better off we'd be.

Première d’une série de bédés signées @catherineocelot.bsky.social dans Dialogue ce matin. 🦜

Bande dessinée/Nature humaine | Ces oiseaux qui nous enchantent

L'autrice de bandes dessinées Catherine Ocelot explore notre rapport au monde et à nos semblables toutes les semaines du mois de décembre.

lp.ca

Tools and tips round up: Searching and using Bluesky, new tools from Bellingcat and Henk van Ess, and more, by @craigsilverman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digitali...

Tools and tips round up: Searching and using Bluesky, new tools from Bellingcat and Henk van Ess, and more

Bluesky is surging, so here's a rundown of tools and search operators to use on the platform.

open.substack.com

#media En France, la lutte contre la mainmise des millardaires sur les médias s'organise. Ici, les librairies et le monde de l'édition.

Laurence De Cock@ldec.bsky.social · 2y ago

C’est un combat essentiel. Peu de gens connaissent le circuit du livre et la pression que les éditions Bolloré font peser sur les libraires. C’est aussi pour cela que vous avez leurs livres en têtes de gondoles et que l’édition indépendante souffre. Fréquentez les librairies indépendantes.

The trailer for an animated movie called Flow, which currently has a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. Looks gorgeous. Opens nationally in the US in early December. [youtube.com]

FLOW - Official US Trailer

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a

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AI companies' media deals are "pure lobbying," argues journalism professor Jeff Jarvis the-decoder.com/ai-companies...

AI companies' media deals are "pure lobbying," argues journalism professor Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis, a prominent US media critic, warns against exclusive AI partnerships between tech companies and major publishers, saying these deals shut out smaller publications and put journalism at ri...

the-decoder.com

Just sitting.. 😅

What are some accessible Infosec & Opsec resources that activists, journalists, and organizers can turn to in preparation for the Trump admin? Preparing for a fascist regime can feel scary and paralyzing. This seems like an area where people can take control w/ concrete steps. Please share below 👇🏽

Trouvé ça cet après-midi (en cherchant d'autre chose)! Salut @brunoboutot.bsky.social, @martinlessard.bsky.social, on pourrait refaire le même panel en 15 ans plus tard, en changeant quelques mots pour les noms des plate-formed, mais probablement avec la même réflexion de fond...

Près de 20 millions d'utilisateurs ici et donc présence grandissante des trolls. Petit rappel: Bloquez souvent et laissez-les pourrir en silence. N'échangez pas, ne les citez pas, ignorez-les, privez-les d'oxygène. Laissez-les pourrir en silence. EN SILENCE.

a woman is sitting on a couch and pointing at the camera while saying block block block .

ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch and pointing at the camera while saying block block block .

media.tenor.com

Logement parisien : quand les bailleurs sociaux misent sur l’architecture Dans trois quartiers franciliens, des projets ont réussi à allier densité urbaine, esthétique et confort, en jouant sur l’orientation ou les éléments anciens #TeamArchi www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

Logement parisien : quand les bailleurs sociaux misent sur l’architecture

Dans trois quartiers franciliens, des projets ont réussi à allier densité urbaine, esthétique et confort, en jouant sur l’orientation ou les éléments anciens.

lemonde.fr

Plus de 4 millions de sites en danger : une grave faille touche un plugin WordPress. www.01net.com/actualites/p...

The Fur Web. 🔊 + Runway Gen-3 V2V is now 20 seconds and I'm having a lot of fun with it! + #aivideo #runway

The Fur Web

YouTube video by Karoline Georges

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Wow! How do you tame a large 8-lane arterial road? Dedicate half of it to buses and bikes. Comment apaiser une grande artère de 8 voies? Réserver la moitié aux autobus et aux vélos. Boulevard Henri-Bourassa, Montréal

Marianne Giguère@marianne-gig.bsky.social · 2y ago

Le premier segment du corridor de mobilité durable Henri-Bourassa est presque fini! Nouveau REV, nouvelle voie réservée pour bus. #mobilité #vélo #TC #mtl

Louis Riel Day 🙏

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Wayne@wayneb.bsky.social · 2y ago

in San Francisco they have the Vaillancourt Fountain in the crosshairs for demolition. the first step seems to be hiding it and boxing it in with … pickleball courts

New names for Vermont snow plows 2024, selected by Vermont schoolchildren. Some selections... Skibidi Scooper No More Mr. Ice Guy The Snowy Pl-Owl Clearopathra Snoah Kahan Salt-O-Saurus vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow

🧪I think many people view science as just another belief system, no different from a religion or a philosophy. But there's a big difference: a scientific claim, if doubted, can be directly checked. I wish we'd teach this to young students, using #astronomy. profmattstrassler.com/articles-and...

Basic Astronomy: Verify It Yourself

The nice thing about science is that, unlike various other belief systems, you don’t have to take it on faith. You can check a substantial fraction of it yourself. This is especially true of …

profmattstrassler.com

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kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y ago

FINALLY! Amazon is coming out with a full-color e-reader called the Kindle Colorsoft. Great for comics, graphic novels, and books with art & photography. $280 (same price as the Boox Palma) and ships on Oct 30. [kottke.org]

#media Reportage par Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen @grevy_sarah @CJR

Dave Winer@scripting.com · 2y ago

The organization that safeguards the internet’s history is under attack. cjr.org

Bonjour le monde

Twitter de los Muertos in the style of Frida Kahlo, by DALL-E, at my behest. scripting.com

Hahaha! Formidable!

Dave Winer@scripting.com · 3y ago

The great thing about the new version of DALLAS-E is even if you can’t draw, you can create visualizations of abstractions you work with, like the inhumanity of JavaScript for complex programming work. scripting.com

There's a first chapter excerpt of System Collapse on @tordotcom.bsky.social www.tor.com/2023/10/23/e...

Murderbot Returns! Read the First Chapter of System Collapse by Martha Wells

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse… Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in System Collapse, the next installment in Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries ser…

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*Tech platforms don't want to spread any factual information, they just want to sell you to advertisers www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/t...

Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry

News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.

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#media #C18 Jay Rosen citait le NYTimes "The major online platforms are breaking up with news." La réponse de Jeff Jarvis décrit la situation des médias canadiens:

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Or the news broke up with the platforms, lobbying against them.

#media #participation "Of course, the reporters and sources never even consider the possibility that journalism could work on creating its own social media platform(s)." Dan Gilmore mastodon.social/@dangillmor/...