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Lambert Heller (he/him) @biblionik.org · 1h

Aber sowas von! Ich vermisse auch diese kleinen geilen Läden, die mit 60-Stunden-Wochen und ein bisschen Kinderarbeit echt geliefert haben. Kann man heute keinem mehr erzählen, dass den Kids heute diese Möglichkeiten vorenthalten werden!

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 22h

Wie kann KI offen & verantwortungsvoll gestaltet werden? Zwei neue Publikationen fassen Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Yes, we are open!?“ zusammen. Die Veröffentlichungen bieten Empfehlungen für Politik & Praxis – für eine faire, zukunftsfähige KI. 🌍🤖 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Wege zu fairer und offener KI-Governance

Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind für die verantwortliche Gestaltung von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Open Science notwendig? Zwei neue Veröffentlichungen bündeln Konferenzergebnisse und entwickeln Handlun...

www.weizenbaum-institut.de

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Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP @cilip-de.bsky.social · 9d

Liebe Freund*innen der Cilip,
mit unserer Webseite polizeischuesse.cilip.de sind wir für den Grimme-Preis nominiert (acht werden ausgewählt). Außerdem gibt es einen Publikumspreis, für den nur noch heute abgestimmt werden kann: www.grimme-online-award.de/voting.
Wir sind gespannt!

Polizeiliche Todesschüsse ab 1976

Seit der Wiedervereinigung wurden mindestens 376 Personen durch Kugeln der deutschen Polizei getötet. Wir zählen von 1976 bis 1990 außerdem 153 tödliche Schüsse allein in Westdeutschland.

polizeischuesse.cilip.de

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Keywan Tonekaboni @ktn.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch @Gargron, @Mastodon und das gesamte #fediverse zum #grimmeonlineaward #goa25

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 2d

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 2d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Dec 13

Three weeks ago I wrote "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

Shortly thereafter, @bnewbold.net wrote his response: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net...

I have written my (final) response blogpost: dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-b...

And as last time, 🧵. Buckle up.

Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

dustycloud.org

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d

We are just over 11 months since I began my analysis of how decentralized Bluesky and ATProto are.

I will return to these for further analysis, but for now, it might be a good idea for you to revisit yourself. How much holds up?

This was my thread about my first blogpost on the subject.

Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Nov 22

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

dustycloud.org

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6d

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 6d

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum

🏺

The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

www.businessinsider.com

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Découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social · 9d

Voici un classement des outils d’IA générative selon leur degré d’ouverture. 🔓

💡 Nous avons jugé utile de le partager afin de soutenir l’intégration responsable de l’IA dans vos projets professionnels, en conformité avec les principes de la science ouverte.

opening-up-chatgpt.github.io

Opening up ChatGPT: LLM openness leaderboard

opening-up-chatgpt.github.io

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 10d

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

pkp.sfu.ca

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 10d

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM

(Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

sr.ithaka.org

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Rudy wants revolution. (did:web edition) @ruuuuu.de · 10d

independent PDS ✅
custom domain as handle ✅
did:web identity ✅
everything else we run on Blacksky ourselves >>>> ✅

i am sovereign

${ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/did/v1", "https://w3id.org/security/multikey/v1", "https://w3id.org/security/suites/secp256k1-2019/v1" ], "id": "did:web:iam.ruuuuu.de", "alsoKnownAs": [ "at://rude1.cryptoanarchy.network" ], "verificationMethod": [ { "id": "did:web:iam.ruuuuu.de#atproto", "type": "Multikey", "controller": "did:web:iam.ruuuuu.de", "publicKeyMultibase": "zQ3shw6rQS6TMeL4VKLNy8kpHG841LxYbrc8GDr5ADvJq8M83" } ], "service": [ { "id": "#atproto_pds", "type": "AtprotoPersonalDataServer", "serviceEndpoint": "https://blacksky.app" } ] }$

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10d

In case the misogyny of this fake Tylenol panic isn't obvious enough, RFK made fun of rape victims during the press conference.

Joe Rogan also jumped in, showing this is about controlling and punishing women, not health care.

www.salon.com/2025/09/29/r...

RFK Jr.'s Tylenol attack insults women's intelligence

Kennedy's tactics are straight out of the anti-abortion movement's playbook

www.salon.com

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 12d

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 12d

Trump schickt gerade Truppen nach Portland gegen angebliche 'Antifa-Terroristen'. Die Stadt selbst sagt: Bei uns ist alles ruhig. Das folgt einem Muster, das wir aus der Geschichte kennen. Ein Thread darüber, wie Machthaber Krisen erfinden, um Militär einzusetzen 🧵 1/8

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Tomorrow on my agenda of visiting Montreal: #habitat67 guided tour, Moshe Safdie's architectural masterpiece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

Habitat 67 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Quote post work-in-progress thread.

Boost count + Quote count.

#phanpysocialdev

Screenshot of a context menu opened on a social media post. The context menu shows a lot of menu items, but one of them is the Boost/Quote menu/button which shows both boost count and quote count. It is shown as "44+2".

Screenshot of a social media post and underneath shows a prominent Boost/Quote button with both boost count and quote count. It is shown as "51+2".

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Aurel Wünsch @aurel.indoorco2map.com · May 15

Last week I have been at the 6th Workplace and Indoor Aerosols Conference #WIAC2025 in Gaeta, Italy and given an presentation about the open source indoor air quality data collection project I created: IndoorCO2Map.com

Overview of the App UI and Website Layout

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Lambert Heller (he/him) @biblionik.org · 19d

Agree with "Mastodon" for now, but also, definitely have a look at what @rude1.blacksky.team is doing with BlackSky www.blackskyweb.xyz

Blacksky Algorithms | Decentralized Tools for Online Communities

Empowering communities with self-hosted infrastructure for decentralized social networks. Blacksky enables safer, independent online spaces.

www.blackskyweb.xyz

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