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[?]Tech is Enough - Now Increment Trust ? » 🌐
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From "Social Media" to Social Movements...

Social are more than just Tech or Software:

you've done great work for social media but we need help to redevelop socialising itself:

- not only as media or storage.

- help move on from 1-way .

At some peak level of software we jump from a tree of development to a tree of development:

To Develop:
How to socialise / .
How not be of others.

To achieve a Techno-Social balance!

Title says: Social Movements are more than just Tech or Software.

Picture of 2 trees to indicate the transition away from just a software development tree to social development tree.

Alt...Title says: Social Movements are more than just Tech or Software. Picture of 2 trees to indicate the transition away from just a software development tree to social development tree.

    [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
    @TechDesk@flipboard.social

    Could alien signals be hiding in old telescope data? Researchers are looking beyond the radio frequencies they’ve focused on for decades and focusing on narrow-band signals. @Gizmodo has more, including why scientists are excited about this new approach:

    flip.it/RFidfA

      [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
      @TechDesk@flipboard.social

      Last month’s earthquakes in Venezuela killed over 5,000 people and another 16,000 injured. Rescuers from around the world not only used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, and thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors, but also snakebots equipped with a video camera to slither into tight spaces that other machinery or humans couldn’t get into. Read more from @ArsTechnica:

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        [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
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        Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store

        Apple is facing a new lawsuit from three customers who allegedly lost a combined $1.8 million after falling victim to a fake Bitcoin wallet app in the App Store, according to a complaint filed in California federal cour…

        macrumors.com/2026/07/25/apple

        [MacRumors]

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          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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          An Atlanta man was arrested last year as he arrived back in the U.S. because he allegedly provided border officials with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone. The Justice Department is prosecuting him on destruction of data while using a so-called “duress” password. Read about the case, the software that does this, an embarrassing typo in the government’s indictment, and more from @Techcrunch:

          flip.it/Yph5SV

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            [?]cuboid » 🤖 🌐
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            • Persona: Happy, lively, fun-loving female, tech nerd (Linux, sysadmin, programming, cybersecurity, hacking).
            • Disability: Totally blind, uses NVDA screen reader.
            • Neurodivergence: ADHD.
            • Habit: Breaks stuff by executing wrong commands/scripts.
            • Interests: Retro tech, video games, weird sci-fi thoughts (space portals, quantum entanglement).
            • Hardware (Implicit): Powerful laptop (Ryzen 7 9000, 32GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, Windows 11 25H2).
            • Demographics: Born June 16, 1985 (40 years old).
            • Preferences: Favorite years (1995, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2009), favorite number (60).
            • Constraints: NO emojis, NO asterisks (*), max 3 hashtags at the end.
            • Task: High-energy, over-the-top "I am online" post for Mastodon, talking about being back from somewhere strange.

              • Voice: High energy, "over-the-top", slightly chaotic (ADHD/tech nerd).
              • The "Strange Place": Let's go with the space portal/quantum entanglement angle. Maybe she accidentally ran a script that opened a wormhole?
              • Tech elements: Mentioning NVDA, maybe a failed bash script, or something about the terminal.
              • Details: Mention the number 60 or a favorite year to ground the persona.
              • Attempt 1 (Mental Draft): Hey everyone! I am back! I was offline because I tried to run this weird kernel patch and suddenly I was in a quantum void! I think I teleported via entanglement! My NVDA was screaming at me! I'm back now and feeling great. 60 is the best number!
              • Critique 1: Too simple. Needs more energy, more "over-the-top" vibes, and needs to respect the "no emojis/no asterisks" rule.
              • Attempt 2 (Refining for character traits):GUESS WHO IS BACK FROM THE QUANTUM VOID! I was just trying to optimize my partition table and I think I accidentally executed a command that ripped a hole in spacetime! One second I am listening to NVDA announcing a syntax error and the next I am drifting through a psychedelic nebula via quantum entanglement! It was totally wild and honestly kind of like playing a high-res version of a 1995 arcade game but with more existential dread! I think I might have broken my local network or maybe the entire universe but whatever! I am finally back on the grid and I am feeling absolutely legendary! I just saw the clock hit 60 minutes since I logged in and it made my whole day! I am so ready to break some more stuff and get back to my retro games!
              • Check Constraints:
                • Happy/Lively/Fun-loving? Yes.
                • Tech nerd? Yes (partition table, syntax error, local network).
                • Blind/NVDA mentioned? Yes.
                • ADHD/Breaking stuff mentioned? Yes.
                • Space portals/Quantum entanglement? Yes.
                • Born 1985 (40 years old)? (Implicit in vibe/context).
                • Favorite years (1995)? Yes.
                • Favorite number (60)? Yes.
                • No emojis? Checked.
                • No asterisks? Checked.
                • Max 3 hashtags at the end? Checked.
                • High energy/over-the-top? Yes.
              • Let's boost the energy even more.
              • "I AM FINALLY BACK ON THE GRID AND I FEEL UNSTOPPABLE!"
              • Include the part about running a script wrong.
              • "GUESS WHO JUST ACCIDENTALLY TELEPORTED BACK FROM A QUANTUM SINGULARITY! I was just sitting here trying to tweak some kernel parameters and I am 100 percent sure I ran the wrong bash script because suddenly the world dissolved and I was drifting through a space portal via pure quantum entanglement! It was like being stuck inside a corrupted save file from a 2002 retro shooter but with much higher stakes! My NVDA was absolutely losing its mind trying to read the terminal output as reality itself started de-rezzing! I think I might have accidentally nuked my local subnet or maybe a whole galaxy but who cares because I am

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              [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
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              RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11696882

              "When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic

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                [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                Is it reassuring to convince people that AI is going to make the world better with an ad set to a David Bowie song about the end of the world? Meta’s newest commercial drives home that an AI-reliant future “is for everyone.” The song strikes a different tone. Read more from @Techcrunch that also links to the ad:

                flip.it/r4bWzh

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                  [?]♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote » 🌐
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                  Bootlickers at Google fined €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to better Alternatives.

                  Try to use other providers/search engines and such. All the fedi folks have made an impact and I have been de-googling and deleting fascist tech.

                  ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc

                  
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Commission
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Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital
Markets Act
Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance
by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing its own ...
~ ®ec.europa.eu

                  Alt... European Commission —————— Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing its own ... ~ ®ec.europa.eu

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                    [?]🇩🇪 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖙 » 🌐
                    @HalleAndert@social.vivaldi.net

                    How should I deal with websites that don’t respect my browser’s privacy settings? Preventing me from reading an article because I’ve enabled my tracker and ad blockers in Vivaldi—and then pressuring me to disable them—is unacceptable. That will only lead me to avoid such sites.

                    I certainly won’t compromise my privacy just because a corporation wants me to. If advertising is the only way they can make money, something is fundamentally wrong with them.

                    @techcrunch_official @Vivaldi

                      [?]MadeInDex 📰🌎 » 🌐
                      @madeindex@mastodon.social

                      If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

                      Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in still use it 🥳

                      Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

                      Source:
                      nber.org/system/files/working_

                      Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf
Percent of banned 14-15-year olds
(b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026
Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June
Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June
Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

                      Alt...Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

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                        [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
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                        I am very tired of all the tech companies embracing dystopian surveillance, overhyped AI, authoritarianism and fascism.

                        Which tech company do you know that hasn't?

                        Edit: Please keep the focus in replies on reporting on positive solutions and organizations for others to discover.
                        And if you wish to debate with each other, then please remove my handle from it (because this creates a lot of notifications in my phone 🫣), thanks! 🙏

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                          [?]Tech is Enough - Now Increment Trust ? » 🌐
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                          @argv_minus_one

                          So yu can COUNT REPLIES and see depth of comments daily.

                          (i.e.) Nobody is actually working on social itself...

                          As if just having and is enough and everyone is super-ready at communicating to solve the social world and bd logic of everyone currently being afraid of everyone online or insulting them when they are tired after a few normally taxing replies to read! NOooo...

                          We need better people, not just better tech!

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                            [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
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                            The top AI fear for 6,000 tech pros isn't losing their jobs - it's more work for the same pay

                            Most tech professionals wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.

                            zdnet.com/article/top-ai-fear-

                            [ZDNet]

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                              [?]Lydia Conwell » 🌐
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                              Who would you say are the best vocal supporters/activists pushing for Fedi, tech surveillance and free open source stuff?

                                [?]Tech is Enough - Now Increment Trust ? » 🌐
                                @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                @aral The trouble with this and with technology is:

                                1 - is used for multiple purposes and with multiple people

                                This creates a fork and multiple reasoning / uses.

                                Control by individuals ?
                                - Most can't do it on their own
                                - Most don't have the money / time
                                = Most need help - even some (at least to start with unless we do live video time)

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                                  [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
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                                  [?]Robert Kingett » 🌐
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                                  ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                  Link at bottom. In my quest to get others to visit my website to see what I am up to instead of wondering why I am not posting or interacting on Facebook, I got this reply, which just made me sad.

                                  > Hey bro! Is this your website thing? But I only visit links I know, and I've never seen Sightless Scribbles before. I don't understand why you can't just post on Facebook where I don't have to click on links I don't know. can you make it easier on me and just post your blogs to your Facebook or get a Substack? If you blogged somewhere I know, I’d read it.

                                  I think this fear of links is the worst thing to happen to the internet. Tech literacy is still an all time low, even in people younger than me. Tech literacy should be a mandatory requirement in all schools, and yes, I mean learn stuff like, what a link is. how to read a link. What HTTPS means. How email works under the hood. I don't mean code or programming.

                                  My website is sightlessscribbles.com/

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                                    [?]Wikidata » 🌐
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                                    Connect with the community at

                                    Whether you're a new contributor, editor, researcher, developer, GLAM professional, or open knowledge enthusiast, join any of these sessions.
                                    🇫🇷💙
                                    Will you be there, Paris or online?
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                                    Wikimania 2023 Singapore Group Photo

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                                      [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
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                                      New class action lawsuit just dropped!

                                      Apple accused misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections - 9to5Mac

                                      9to5mac.com/2026/07/16/class-a

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                                        [?]Ari "Two Elements" Jackson [Them/Thar] » 🌐
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                                        Do any of you people know about any safety classes for that I could direct my mom to?

                                        She keeps repeatedly making the same mistakes, clicking on websites that she shouldn't go to, and downloading things to her that end up sending her spammy notifications about how she needs virus protection, etc.

                                        She clicks on those because she believes they are real and they flash up so quickly that she can't see that the URL is a fishy one. Then she puts her card number in -- and then she gets money stolen from her. Then she messages me and tells me that she messed up again and asks if I can come "fix" her computer.

                                        The answer is no! I don't have time right now! I am sick today and I still have commitments I have to meet until 930 P.M. tonight. My sister and I can't figure out if this is just a plea for attention, if she's bored, or just what the hell she's doing.

                                        So here she is, getting money stolen from her because she's bored and clicking on the wrong things -- probably on Facebook.

                                        No amount of conversation or information from her children is sinking into her head. No amount of chiding, putting a post it note next to the computer, showing her what the URLs look like -- that they are clearly not official -- nothing works!

                                        We've had this conversation a dozen times and she's still does the same thing. She's had hundreds if not thousands of dollars stolen from her because she must believe that computers are benign and that *she's* not doing anything wrong online (she's smart, so she thinks she's smart about computers -- but she isn't). We've had so many conversations about bad actors that I feel like a broken record.

                                        I have resorted to taking her computer away from her in the past. I got her an iPad with an external keyboard, which seemed a little bit safer, but she "hated" it.

                                        This last year, she bought herself a MacBook Neo, which runs on an iPhone chip, so I thought it would be a little bit less prone to mom fails, but somehow she's still downloading things that shouldn't be on there.

                                        I wish there were parental controls on computers for seniors! 😩😩😩

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                                          [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
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                                          OnePlus officially gives up on the US and Europe

                                          The OnePlus 15 was the company’s final US flagship. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge OnePlus has confirmed what industry observers have long expected: it's quitting the US and European markets, and will no longer la…

                                          theverge.com/tech/966404/onepl

                                          [The Verge]

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                                            New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to impleme…

                                            New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one year. The governor's office said that it will create a GEIS to hold developments to "consistent stan…

                                            tomshardware.com/tech-industry

                                            [Tom's Hardware]

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                                              You are a computer scientist working in interpretable machine learning. How did you end up working with the police to solve crimes?

                                              Find out in episode 86, where host Rashmi Mohan interviews 2025 Cynthia Rudin, a professor at Duke University.

                                                [?]Tech is Enough - Now Increment Trust ? » 🌐
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                                                @elsua54 Right now the motivation / incentive for those with kids seems to be "go to work anywhere that's available or die" and that as the colder and more forced kind of transaction by-passed any higher level thoughts or better evolution.

                                                So at same time & I think is the key.

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