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Culture Hack Labs launches the Rhizome Fellowship!
This 8-month journey for narrative practitioners, artists, journalists, & changemakers provides a supportive, experimental space to develop powerful narrative interventions through the Culture Hack Method. Apply now: www.culturehack.io/rhizome/
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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📢 The Post Growth Alliance (PGA) is back for 2025 with new members!

The PGA is a solidarity hub and cooperative #socialmedia service for aligned groups hosted by the Post Growth Institute. We’re excited to welcome nearly 30 organizations building worlds beyond capitalism.
March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.

abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....
MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis'
The John D
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The OpenFlexure stand at #FOSDEM is buzzing. Come see us in building H.

@openflexure.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I wrote this to survive. I hope it helps you, too.
January 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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At some point they’re going to go after Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. More decentralised global efforts needed.

“He who controls the past controls the future.”
January 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is.

To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.
January 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Am I crazy for not listening to a fucking word Trump is saying right now?
January 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Just going to reiterate -

We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications
January 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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People keep using Twitter(X) in the end... Come back here ( ;∀;)
January 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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We're apparently talking about automatic follow-backs again, because some people simply can't imagine social media as anything other than a chain email
December 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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I think I may have just signed my first ever fiction contract (for an anthology) which contained a long anti-A.I. clause.

(Meaning: I promised I didn't use A.I. to write my story, they promised not to use my story to train A.I., etc.)
December 30, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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I'm seeing more screenshots of posts from X than I am actual posts here this morning 🙄 My dears, we left X. Can we not bring it over here, please?
December 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Darn. Sounds like an unviable business model then.
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Simply incredible
December 15, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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i just....

it's literally the polio vaccine. how can you be on team polio
December 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning
December 13, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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Beautiful footage….. Humpback whale calf hugs mom ✨🩵✨🤍✨🩵✨
December 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM