Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
@wigbert.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
#Culture 🗿& #Media 🎤 // Cultural Entrepreneur // writing, blogging, publishing about #WorldCulture 🌍🏛 // e.g.: CultureJournal
follow me for curated […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.world/@wigbert on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
follow me for curated […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.world/@wigbert on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@tr3k/115876796688101239
Nach 5 Tagen sind schon 241 Stellungnehmen eingetroffen, die meisten aus den Niederlanden.
Nach 5 Tagen sind schon 241 Stellungnehmen eingetroffen, die meisten aus den Niederlanden.
There are only three weeks left to provide feedback on this EU #FOSS consultation initiative. Spread the word and get involved if you are interested in the future of an EU-funded FOSS economy.
What is this consultation about?
"The consultation aims to gather input and evidence on the state of […]
What is this consultation about?
"The consultation aims to gather input and evidence on the state of […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
January 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@tr3k/115876796688101239
Nach 5 Tagen sind schon 241 Stellungnehmen eingetroffen, die meisten aus den Niederlanden.
Nach 5 Tagen sind schon 241 Stellungnehmen eingetroffen, die meisten aus den Niederlanden.
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
[A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.]
A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.
Please note, I've never been to the United States (and probably never will visit), but here's what I've read. Some […]
A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.
Please note, I've never been to the United States (and probably never will visit), but here's what I've read. Some […]
Original post on mementomori.social
mementomori.social
January 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
[A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.]
A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.
Please note, I've never been to the United States (and probably never will visit), but here's what I've read. Some […]
A long post: Things we have in Europe (and especially in Finland) that Americans don't.
Please note, I've never been to the United States (and probably never will visit), but here's what I've read. Some […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
The 1980s were one hell of a time.
January 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
The 1980s were one hell of a time.
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
January 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
WSJ: “WSJ visual investigation found the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.” www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
WSJ: “WSJ visual investigation found the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.” www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Two #goodhabits for the #newyear that are surprisingly easy to do and are already #makingadifference:
- muting (large) accounts in the #trending section that are doing various forms of clickbait, because even in the #fediverse #ragebaiting #cutevideos #aislop (AI slop with a leftist slant still […]
- muting (large) accounts in the #trending section that are doing various forms of clickbait, because even in the #fediverse #ragebaiting #cutevideos #aislop (AI slop with a leftist slant still […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Two #goodhabits for the #newyear that are surprisingly easy to do and are already #makingadifference:
- muting (large) accounts in the #trending section that are doing various forms of clickbait, because even in the #fediverse #ragebaiting #cutevideos #aislop (AI slop with a leftist slant still […]
- muting (large) accounts in the #trending section that are doing various forms of clickbait, because even in the #fediverse #ragebaiting #cutevideos #aislop (AI slop with a leftist slant still […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Remember History Class and the "secret police" going door to door asking for "papers."?
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Remember History Class and the "secret police" going door to door asking for "papers."?
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Justice for Keith Porter. Also a U.S. citizen, murdered by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve.
#abolishice
https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-shooting-keith-porter-northridge
#abolishice
https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-shooting-keith-porter-northridge
Mom of Keith Porter, LA man fatally shot by ICE, speaks out following Minneapolis shooting
As protests continue over the killing of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the mother of a man who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent in Northridge on New Year's Eve is calling for justice.
www.foxla.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Justice for Keith Porter. Also a U.S. citizen, murdered by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve.
#abolishice
https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-shooting-keith-porter-northridge
#abolishice
https://www.foxla.com/news/ice-shooting-keith-porter-northridge
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
"Bali’s water is disappearing.
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"Bali’s water is disappearing.
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Today's Search Engine and Hard Fork podcasts were super fun to listen to!!
Excited that @caseynewton @kevinroose and @PJVOGT are building their own Mastodon instance called the Forkiverse.
And I absolutely loved the vibe coding experiments Casey and Kevin did to make their own personal web […]
Excited that @caseynewton @kevinroose and @PJVOGT are building their own Mastodon instance called the Forkiverse.
And I absolutely loved the vibe coding experiments Casey and Kevin did to make their own personal web […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Today's Search Engine and Hard Fork podcasts were super fun to listen to!!
Excited that @caseynewton @kevinroose and @PJVOGT are building their own Mastodon instance called the Forkiverse.
And I absolutely loved the vibe coding experiments Casey and Kevin did to make their own personal web […]
Excited that @caseynewton @kevinroose and @PJVOGT are building their own Mastodon instance called the Forkiverse.
And I absolutely loved the vibe coding experiments Casey and Kevin did to make their own personal web […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
It's exactly one year since the Mastodon HOA caused me a mental breakdown by verbally attacking me and falsely accusing me of scraping data into a database (which I didn't do, it was just a single index.html file using a public, existing mastodon.social API). That incident led to the shutdown of […]
Original post on mementomori.social
mementomori.social
January 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM
It's exactly one year since the Mastodon HOA caused me a mental breakdown by verbally attacking me and falsely accusing me of scraping data into a database (which I didn't do, it was just a single index.html file using a public, existing mastodon.social API). That incident led to the shutdown of […]
RE: https://toot.cafe/@jrhawley/115861553612884428
this is also true for any democratic governments, international organizations, non-profits, academic & culturalinstitutions, etc
this is also true for any democratic governments, international organizations, non-profits, academic & culturalinstitutions, etc
toot.cafe
January 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
RE: https://toot.cafe/@jrhawley/115861553612884428
this is also true for any democratic governments, international organizations, non-profits, academic & culturalinstitutions, etc
this is also true for any democratic governments, international organizations, non-profits, academic & culturalinstitutions, etc
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
🚨REMINDER: DO NOT take your phone to protest actions. #privacy
"404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer." […]
"404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer." […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🚨REMINDER: DO NOT take your phone to protest actions. #privacy
"404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer." […]
"404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer." […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
" It’s important to remember that we are not powerless. [...] We must continue to find small ways to protect ourselves and our communities, and when we can, fight back."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
www.eff.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
" It’s important to remember that we are not powerless. [...] We must continue to find small ways to protect ourselves and our communities, and when we can, fight back."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
"Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
Kudos to #bose for doing this. I've often called on companies to open the code to products […]
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
Kudos to #bose for doing this. I've often called on companies to open the code to products […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
Kudos to #bose for doing this. I've often called on companies to open the code to products […]
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
Kudos to #bose for doing this. I've often called on companies to open the code to products […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Whales and dolphins will see their migration paths protected as nations approve plan for vast Atlantic sanctuary. Delegates at the IUCN World Conservation Congress have voted 96.5% in favour of creating the Macaronesia Sanctuary. The move marks the culmination of more than four decades of […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Whales and dolphins will see their migration paths protected as nations approve plan for vast Atlantic sanctuary. Delegates at the IUCN World Conservation Congress have voted 96.5% in favour of creating the Macaronesia Sanctuary. The move marks the culmination of more than four decades of […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
#bluesky is busily censoring any videos of the incident where ICE / CBP murdered a woman, even if they only show ICE shooting at the vehicle and the vehicle crashing, no blood, no victim, just a car crashing […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
[Original post on newsie.social]
![Screen shot of a Bluesky post that has been censored with a quoted post.
Bluesky post: Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com
This is the video.
[Then there is a blocked out area with the text, "Graphic Media: labeled by @moderation.bsky.app ]
Quoted post: Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com
· 6h
Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says
- car was blocking ice
- they told them to move
- "something happened'
- ICE shot into the car as it was driving away
- passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead
There is video and I have seen it
11:47 AM · Jan 7, 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gcp5ldm4uzm7cmwxbb7fjel2/bafkreied5z2bfqqkqamrzoutxiktrvucnbp3mzxzcnfqjzbgw42vv4tz6y@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
#bluesky is busily censoring any videos of the incident where ICE / CBP murdered a woman, even if they only show ICE shooting at the vehicle and the vehicle crashing, no blood, no victim, just a car crashing […]
[Original post on newsie.social]
[Original post on newsie.social]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
A bad day for Russia is a good day for the rest of the free world!
"Starmer added that after the ceasefire, “The UK and France will establish “military hubs” across Ukraine And build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defensive needs.”
Still waiting to […]
"Starmer added that after the ceasefire, “The UK and France will establish “military hubs” across Ukraine And build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defensive needs.”
Still waiting to […]
Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
A bad day for Russia is a good day for the rest of the free world!
"Starmer added that after the ceasefire, “The UK and France will establish “military hubs” across Ukraine And build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defensive needs.”
Still waiting to […]
"Starmer added that after the ceasefire, “The UK and France will establish “military hubs” across Ukraine And build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defensive needs.”
Still waiting to […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
Pete Buttigieg: "It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to run a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one." […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Pete Buttigieg: "It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to run a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one." […]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.
To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.
Support small creators and share things made by real humans.
#ugh #aislop #fuckai
To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.
Support small creators and share things made by real humans.
#ugh #aislop #fuckai
January 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
If you didn't grow up in the halcyon days of MTV you have no idea how badly teenage me is devastated by this news
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/mtv-music-channels-off-air-last-song-video-killed-the-radio-star/
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/mtv-music-channels-off-air-last-song-video-killed-the-radio-star/
MTV Music Channels Sign Off Forever With the One That Started It All: 'Video Killed the Radio Star'
MTV debuted its flagship channel MTV Music in 1981 with the same Buggles song that it went permanently dark with Wednesday.
www.thewrap.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
If you didn't grow up in the halcyon days of MTV you have no idea how badly teenage me is devastated by this news
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/mtv-music-channels-off-air-last-song-video-killed-the-radio-star/
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/mtv-music-channels-off-air-last-song-video-killed-the-radio-star/
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
🎉Happy New Year! We accomplished so much in 2025, but the time has come to make our resolutions for this coming year. In 2026, we will have THE MOST consequential elections of our lifetimes.
U.S. citizens living, serving, or studying abroad—you can vote from […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
U.S. citizens living, serving, or studying abroad—you can vote from […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
🎉Happy New Year! We accomplished so much in 2025, but the time has come to make our resolutions for this coming year. In 2026, we will have THE MOST consequential elections of our lifetimes.
U.S. citizens living, serving, or studying abroad—you can vote from […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
U.S. citizens living, serving, or studying abroad—you can vote from […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Reposted by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚
"I know many of the leading trade show organizers, & it’s not just me who’s seeing this. They universally agree that getting people from outside the States to agree to come to the US is increasingly difficult. Many refuse even to try to come. As a result, show managers have begun to close […]
Original post on newsie.social
newsie.social
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I know many of the leading trade show organizers, & it’s not just me who’s seeing this. They universally agree that getting people from outside the States to agree to come to the US is increasingly difficult. Many refuse even to try to come. As a result, show managers have begun to close […]