Hi there! 👋 A lot of our followers here in the Fediverse have asked how we put together the "Dewi Explains" clips. 

Here's a fresh blog post (by @lxplm, @Olivia_Luise, and @andygiefer) that documents the process:

👉 https://innovation.dw.com/articles/explainer-videos-humans-machines-dewi

#DewiExplains #media #tech #journalism #video #explainer

Once in a while I watch a news broadcast from some random country and it's amazing how often the lead story is a variation of "the young people of our country cheer for the vice president as he has won their hearts with the skillful execution of his duties".

Reminds me of that old journalism maxim: if a politician is happy you wrote it, you're not doing your job!

#FreeSpeech #media #journalism

@guardian
> The decision [to restructure as a limited] was taken because like all non-charitable trusts, the Scott Trust has a finite lifespan, unlike limited companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/08/theguardian.theobserver

OK. That's interesting. But why couldn't they do it some other way? The existence of a non-charitable trust implies the existence of a charitable one. Why not just use that?

#media #theguardian #ukpol

List of Reputable Alternative/ #Independent Media [Substitutes to (Biased/Corrupt/Genocidal) Western #Mainstream #Media]

Independent #Journalists - Julian #Assange, Richard #Medhurst, ‘Suppressed News’*, Glenn #Greenwald (Rumble), Sarah Wilkinson, #GonzaloLira (killed by Ukrainian medical neglect), Ali Abunimah, Anne-Laure Bonnel, #Declassified UK (group), Owen Jones, Max Blumenthal, Chris Hedges, Louis Theroux, Asa Winstanley, Matt Kennard.

#Activists - #PalestineAction (group), Edward #Snowden, Chelsea #Manning.

Highly Knowledgeable and Influential Speakers – Jeffrey Sachs, John #Mearsheimer.

Best Mainstream Media: Al Jazeera, RT (on Rumble), TRT, WION**.

Influencers – Jackson Hinkle (on Rumble)***

*X: @SuppressedNws | TG: t.me/SuppressedVoice | IG: suppressednws
**At least in relation to the #Israel-#Palestine conflict and the #MiddleEast.
***Since he fled the #USA to #Russia for safety in early 2025, I think he was forced into becoming also a propaganda machine for the #Kremlin, so he is no longer ‘independent’ like he used to be in the US – in Russia the Media is highly controlled by the government. That said, when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Middle East, he has remained very accurate and become even more influential – he has even interviews with the leaders of #Hamas, #Hezbollah, etc.

Check deze verzameling/collectie met accounts van *journalisten en columnisten* die actief zijn voor Nederlandse media: https://mastodon.nl/collections/117416730124778105

#journalisten #columnisten #media #nieuws

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unfollowed @OlharDigital because just saw they are using #aislop images. can’t take the risk of boosting shit that may also be written by stochastic parrots.

i usually unfollow with nary a peep, but they are a major brazilian news source on the #fediverse. when it comes to #journalism and #news sources, it’s our duty to call that shit out.

#Brasil #media #tech #flipboard

In the Substack piece, I discuss how photos lie, and captions exacerbate the fiction.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/an-instant-for-rage-bait?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #facts #truth #lies #media #outrage #ragebait #photography #news #context #ontology #epistemology #france #protest #unrest #ethics #fiction #news #studentprotests #immigration #policy #blog #substack

Want a Netflix-style library for your own media sources?

Nuvio is a free, open-source media app that brings your sources into a polished library with artwork, ratings, subtitles, profiles, and watch progress. It supports Android, iOS, desktop, Android TV, Samsung Tizen, and LG webOS, under GPL-3.0.

Nuvio doesn’t provide a content catalog you bring sources you’re authorized to access.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/nuvio.html

#OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosting #Media #FOSS #Nuvio

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Nuviо media app introduction showing its open-source media library features.

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Nuvio mobile media app home screen showing featured series, continue watching, and popular shows.

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Nuvio desktop interface showing featured TV series in a horizontal media library.

#GiftArticle

175 years. 15 million articles.
The #NewYorkTimes has recorded the #US’ transformation.
Its work will continue, writes A.G. Sulzberger.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/opinion/nyt-175-anniversary-sulzberger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVE.yE43.PcNVcU6V8Gta&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Behind every "AI gone rogue" or "AI breaks out" or "AI hacks into" headline is someone - a real human - who is not being held accountable for their terrible work performance because we've anthropomorphised a technology.

Media needs to get this story straight as soon as possible.

#artificialIntelligence #media

« FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with historian and author Dr. #AssalRad about the #media's role in the #GazaGenocide, and about her newly-published book on this topic, " #DontSayPalestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide." »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAbHmtS_5A
#Gaza #warOnGaza #Palestine #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #MSM #WesternMedia #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

Signal adds an extra Layer of Security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right Person.

Signal has introduced a new layer of security to help make sure no one has secretly interfered with your encrypted chats.

The chat app is favored by diplomats, activists and journalists for its security. It uses end-to-end message encryption and “safety numbers” [cryptographic fingerprints associated with the keys securing a conversation] which users can compare to verify they have the expected encrypted connection with a contact.

But in theory, someone could still intercept messages by corrupting the centralized directory of accounts and posing as somebody else — a classic "man in the middle" attack. Everything would still be encrypted, just going to the wrong place. To fight this possibility, Signal announced a new feature called Automatic Key Verification [AKV].

https://signal.org/blog/automatic-key-verification/

⁉️From a user perspective, AKV is easy: Tap on a Signal contact’s profile, navigate to the “View Safety Number” screen, and tap on the “Verify automatically” button. It will then show a green checkmark to verify that the contact’s public encryption key matches what Signal’s key transparency system expects.⁉️

Behind the scenes, however, Signal has developed a new architecture for detecting whether someone has tampered with the public keys associated with an account to intercept messages, as that would require a change to the public encryption key and, in turn, the safety number that a user might not recognize.

AKV can also be disabled for users who don’t want a third party involved in verifying their identity, in which case Signal recommends relying on good old fashioned safety number or QR code verification.

https://signal.org/blog/safety-number-updates/

#signal #security #privacy #tech #media #news

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Ledgers and trees and third parties, oh my! ⁉️Signal described the new system as serving as a ledger of public keys in which every change a user makes to their information [e.g., linked phone number] leads to a new iteration of the ledger. Accompanying that ledger is an index, allowing Signal users to verify the information in the ledger about themselves or their contacts to make sure it hasn’t been altered by a malicious third party seeking to intercept messages. This ledger lives on an “open-source key transparency server” Signal created for the AKV process, the company said.⁉️ “When Signal users register, change their phone number or username, or re-create their account, Signal records the changes in a log tree ['the ledger'] and facilitates searching through the log tree with prefix trees ['the index books'],” Signal said in the announcement. 👾Digging through an index is hardly automatic, however, so Signal combs the index on the user's behalf to verify the information they’re retrieving about a contact is the most up-to-date. Up-to-date doesn’t mean it’s accurate, however, which is where third-party auditors come in.👾

A quotation from Douglas Adams

Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

speaking of obfuscating accountability…

https://mas.to/@gleick/117235964078408918

#journalism #media #ai #slopfondlers

24 npm Packages abuse unpkg Mirrors to host Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA Pages.

IT-Security researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses a cluster of 24 npm packages as free phishing infrastructure for redirecting to ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA pages.

⁉️"While the malware is simply a single HTML page inside the npm package, and while downloading it wouldn't do harm, the threat actor’s use of npm isn't to infect developers who install it, but to use the registry and its mirrors as a safe, validated storage for the malware," OX Security researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Vitalii Chepurko said.⁉️

https://www.ox.security/blog/research-clickfix-phishing-npm-packages/

The list of npm packages, some of which are still available for download, is below:

• bgzxcuite2
• prezdentkxheiw
• egair0810
• mnteckets
• airdzticket
• egypt0811
• passport811
• vxhjkseuiaqkb
• ndmushdkeqe
• ndmxchdjxn2
• ndmfguyhoxc3
• mjsdqwocvn
• m2fcsfyjkuxb
• m3fdfocdoewn
• @worrisome/reutil
• testdgdbcsd
• tesgfvbncsdbcv
• mndsxcusiwlk1
• mn2adskhweox
• mn3sadkoiewu
• mn4xcouzvhus
• mbxcnsuwgs1
• skxcmwuncbg2
• mobiwaefhxc3

The campaign specifically targets mirrors like unpkg. Once mirrored on these services, the HTML file [e.g., "unpkg[.]com/ndmxchdjxn2@1.0.0/index.html"] becomes a live, fully-rendered fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA page that's hosted on a trusted domain but redirects to ClickFix phishing infrastructure.

👾As a result, anyone who opens a link that's hosted on the npm mirror will be tricked into carrying out unintended actions that can lead to the deployment of malware. This involves displaying a fake Cloudflare verification page, which then sends the target to an external website controlled by the attacker.👾

#npm #secure #programming #developer #security #privacy #infosec #tech #media #news

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👾The HTML page embeds the logic to serve the bogus CAPTCHA verification prompt, as well as JavaScript necessary to send a request to a remote server. Initial iterations of the malware were found to send the request to a typosquat domain that impersonates the Microsoft login page ["login[.]microsofte[.]live"].👾 But after the domain was added to Google Chrome's Safe Browsing blocklist, the threat actor behind the campaign is said to have responded by switching to KeyVal ["api.keyval[.]org"], a free, public key-value store that allows developers to set a key-value pair or retrieve a value given a key using a REST API. <https://keyval.org/#> In doing so, it turns the legitimate service into a dead drop resolver [DDR] and uses it to extract and decode the URL to which the victim is redirected to. <https://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/hiding-plain-sight-disrupting-malwares-secret-web-dead-drops> ⁉️"Currently the remote logic transfers the user to the legitimate ChatGPT website, but it could be weaponized to deliver ClickFix or any other phishing domains when configured to by the attacker," the researchers said.⁉️

A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. - Hugo Black

I'll have whatever the Wall Street Journal is smoking, because whooooo-eeee!

#JDVance #WSJ #media #GOP

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Real screengrab from the WSJ Opinion page, former home of articles praising the unredeemed Scrooge and advocating for Americans selling their kidneys legally. "JD Vance Is the GOP's Obama: He and the former president have much in common. And both disdain Republicans."

Fascist propaganda alert: talking points handed to Tim Pool and company which come from Russian intelligence is the exact same stuff Farage and his crew use in the #UK. There is a global alignment and coordination on the fascist far-right with moscow KGB and it's a massive threat. This is from a lawsuit involving the Kremlin paying U.S. right-wing agitators to spread propaganda to Americans.

This Putin puppet now given access to the White House and Pentagon to spread more propaganda against Americans.

#usa #news #media #russiaIsATerroristState

I'm sorry, but if you tell me I can find it on Tubi I have to whisper "Poob has it for you"

#poobHasIt #streaming #media

#LongReads pod welcomes #media critic #AdamJohnson to talk about his book, #HowToSellAGenocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza, all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-how-us-media-whitewashed-the-gaza-genocide/id791564318?i=1000783185991

#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #WesternMedia #USpol #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

Hey #media: If Natalie was able to decline getting a White House clearance and continued to work there, would you find who else doesn't have a clearance and is getting paid by me/us? Jared? Steven Cheung?

#USPol
#Corruption

The #WhiteHouse yesterday posted a personal attack against CNN’s #KristenHolmes, invoking her #children, after she asked #Trump a pointed question [doing her job].

The White House on Monday leveled a sharply personal attack against #CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after she asked Trump a pointed question during a news conference, crossing a barrier rarely breached by politicians to invoke her children.

#unfit #journalism #media #FourthEstate #misogyny #sexism #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/17/white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-after-trump-clash-targets-her-children/

A few of president Epstein's treasonous disasters:

-Panama threatened with invasion
-Greenland threatened with military annexation and invasion
-Yemen bombed
-Brought war criminal Putin to America
-Gaza threatened with bombing and genocide to remove 2 million residents to another country
-Said the U.S. will own Gaza
-And Iran war part 1
-Threats to Venezuela
-Threats to seize Cuba
-Blockade of Cuba
-Arrest Venezuela President & fist Lady
-Killing 221 people have been killed in U.S. strikes on boats
-Taking billions in Venezuela oil money
-Lifted sanctions on Russia & Iran
-A year of war with Iran
-US munitions depleted
-US reaper drones 25% destroyed
-Spent $200 Billion+ in war on Iran
-Threatened to destroy Iranian civilization
- Threatened to bomb and destroy Oman
-Attacked South Korea
-Said the North Korea was a good friend and praised North Korean dictator
-Failed to deliver air defense to Ukraine
-Pressured #Ukraine to surrender for over a year

#midterms #elections #news #media #usa #news

737 Chrome VPN Extensions caught routing Traffic through Proxies. [Check If You Have One]

The extensions, published across at least 40 Chrome Web Store developer accounts, racked up 75,486 installs. Of those identified, 274 have been found to impersonate 66 established VPN and privacy brands, including Proton VPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, AdGuard VPN, Browsec, ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Windscribe, TunnelBear, Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 and Google's Outline.

The censorship circumvention extensions "route the user's entire browser session through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider," security researcher Kush Pandya said. "520 of the 522 in the bulk corpus route browser traffic through the same SOCKS5 infrastructure."

https://socket.dev/blog/chrome-vpn-extension-impersonation

⁉️"For each affected user, while the extension is connected, every request passes through a server the threat actor controls," Pandya said. "Whether the threat actor owns those proxy servers or resells capacity from an upstream provider is not resolvable from the extension code. If it resells, a further party is in the same position."⁉️

"What is established from the packages and from public infrastructure is the impersonation, the undisclosed proxy configuration, the non-existent premium servers, the false statements submitted to store reviewers, and the post-approval code substitution."

#google #chrome #browser #security #privacy #infosec #tech #media #news

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👾The vast majority of the extensions have been found to route users entire browser sessions by setting "chrome.proxy.settings" to a fixed SOCKS5 server on port 1082, placing the threat actor in an adversary-in-the-middle [AitM] position to observe browser destinations, source IP addresses, TLS SNI values and any request body sent over plain HTTP.👾 Every extension that configures a proxy also comes with a bypass list that only includes loopback addresses [i.e., the localhost or 127.0.0.1"], meaning every other browser request is funnelled through the SOCKS5 relay on port 1082 once the user connects to the purported VPN service. ⁉️As many as 221 browser add-ons have been removed from the Chrome Web Store, while the remaining 516 extensions have been listed as active. The threat actor is said to be running a subscription VPN business in Russia, based on a 12-digit taxpayer number and the fact that some of them leak their Windows build path ("C:\Users\ollob\OneDrive\Документы\1.myxa-work\08.06.26\<domain>\<product>\<product>-release.zip").⁉️

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[ImageSource: socket.dev] ⁉️Ideally, the functionality is no different from a legitimate VPN or proxy service. The defining aspect of this activity is its attempt to impersonate established brands as opposed to offering it under their own name. Some of the other red flags include:⁉️ • Advertising paid tiers [or premium locations] that do not exist • DNS-over-HTTPS blocklist evasion • Failing every connection attempt while showing a complete fake interface, including a working connecting animation and status indicator • Shipping an internal manual named "Промт для сотрудников" [translated to "Prompt for employees"] that instructs them to avoid putting the domain directly into "chrome.proxy.settings" (and instead provide only the resolved IP) and refrain from using a domain from another extension without separate instructions • Presence of comments that indicate a deliberate attempt to evade Chrome Web Store policies • Adding a new remote-configuration layer after extension approval • Attempts to game the Chrome Web Store review process by submitting identical justifications, stating "No data transmitted to external servers" or "No user tracking or logging"

@collective_truth @RichardJMurphy @aral

Read the pinned post on my profile.

There are a few institutions that work in collusion to run people’s lives, and form the basis of the #Matrix.

1. #Schools
2. #Churches
3. #Governments
4. #Corporations
5. #Media
6. #Banks

Once I became a #whistleblower against the system, in 2023, #WellsFargo #bank would not give me my own money. They still have not.

( Details: https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/ )

It’s time for the biblical prophecy to come true, and the money lenders to be kicked out.

Here’s how:
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web

AlohaCoin v2 redistributes wealth, and brings about #degrowth

With full bellies, people have the courage to break free of the Matrix, and #disobey leaders. Political, religious, military, corporate leaders etc.

Little incentive for #crime, #war, #violence.

Please boost and spread the message!

Typical how many if not most news orgs phrase the killing of UnitedHleathcare A-hole Brian Thompson like a sad thing happened to an innocent "father of 2"

Seriously, Luigi did not kill him because he was such a great dad..

No wonder less and less people read this crap anymore

You know who you are

#media

Apple iCloud Private Relay can expose Real IPs through WebKit Proxy Bypasses.

IT-Security researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address.

https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/

Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so that no single third-party, including Apple, can determine where the request is originating from and what sites are being visited. It's available as part of the iCloud+ subscription.

https://support.apple.com/102602

⚠️Researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk, who found the issue, said the problem is rooted in three features in Apple's WebKit: DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport. WebKit is the default web browser engine used by Safari and all third-party browsers on iOS and iPadOS, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Brave and others.⚠️

A proof-of-concept (PoC) website named "leaks.psylo[.]app" has been made available for anyone to check if their real IP address leaks, even when Private Relay is on.

https://leaks.psylo.app/

⁉️Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the company told 404 Media that it's investigating the researchers' report.⁉️

https://www.404media.co/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/

#apple #icloud #security #privacy #infosec #tech #media #news

We have to save each other from falling into the "Social" *Media* #loop...

(just #Media mostly without the actually building social or individual #trust between us etc etc)

We are just pushing #bad posts and #boosting without actually building on top of #Mastodon?

#software #mastodon #movement #movements #progressive #trust #people #progress

The latest from @eryanhaffner: "Our present preoccupation with living the Boy Who Cried Wolf's life forces me to write the same column every so often. This week's column is brought to you courtesy of revelations about President #Trump's secret plane swap forced by an Iranian threat." https://ofb.biz/sa1448

#AirForceOne #DOGE #media #press

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117079539362942787

#Media, if you've been holding off, you can call these people Nazis now.

#Fascism
#Violence

Bootlicker rapist protector Todd Blanche was a legal advisor of Epstein or one of #Epstein's lawyers.

I spent the afternoon reviewing more #Epstein files. Todd Blanche is named throughout the #EpsteinFiles. Trump's own claims are undermined as well. You want to see this.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/sunday-update-more-important-epstein

#EpsteinClass #midterms #elections #Congress #news #eu #France #Deutschland #Poland #uk #media

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CITP Blog: Newsroom Guide for Authentication and Verification in the AI Age. “At our June workshop, organized jointly by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and NYU Journalism, participants shared a desire for a practical, short-form resource to help newsrooms understand the current landscape of authentication and verification tools for addressing AI-generated content. […]

Are there any good, conservative opinion writers left? I miss Krauthammer; I never wound up agreeing with him but it was good exercise to wrestle with a well-reasoned argument. I'd sort of hoped that a silver lining to the WaPo's fash turn would be smart right-leaning opinions but it's been disappointing, so bad that sometimes I wonder if what I'm reading is malicious compliance. Will is out, he uses his vocabulary to obscure his weak, often dishonest arguments #USPolitics #Media

"For generations, #Hollywood has been filled with #Jewish voices — but Jewish identity itself has often been portrayed through a limited lens. The familiar neurotic Jewish character who complains, worries or turns traditions into a punchline has become a recurring presence on screen. The humor is often brilliant, and self-deprecation is deeply rooted in Jewish culture, but #AllisonJosephs believes Hollywood has rarely explored another side: ordinary #Jews from all walks of life who are openly proud of and connected to their heritage.

#Josephs, a #writer, #producer and Jewish advocate, has spent nearly two decades working to change the way Jews are portrayed in #media. In 2007, she founded #JewintheCity, an organization created to challenge misconceptions about #Orthodox Jews through #storytelling. In 2021, she expanded that mission by launching the Jewish Institute for #Television & #Cinema (#JITC) Hollywood Bureau..."

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/film/390875/beyond-the-nebbish-new-hollywood-initiative-seeks-to-transform-jewish-representation-on-screen/

@canderson

#1 reason why we came here on #Mastodon (or top 5 reasonsprobably ) are so we:

- find real community AND do our dreams with others

- find what is useful / mutually discover more

- use each other for the win against dark forces...

AND IF NOT THEN WE FAIL / DIE AS "REAL" LIFE DIGS IT'S HEALS INTO US DEEPER EACH DAY.

This means we fall in to the same bad #news / #mainstream "media" #LOOP: #fatigue / #media #depression / #feel useless / no chance to shine, serve ourself/ves...

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.

No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.

But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

https://stuff.davidaugust.com/david-ellison-convinced-me-he-should-never-own-nor-control-a-combined-paramount-warner-bros-discovery/

#paramount #WarnerBrosDiscovery #wbd #psky #merger #monopoly #news #media #entertainment #movies #tv #film #television

Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/star-wars-dubbed-welsh-s4c #Wales #S4c #StarWars #RhysIfans #UkNews #Film #Culture #Media #Television #TelevisionRadio #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms

"Starting Sunday in #EU, #AI #chatbots, receptionists, #media must reveal they are not human"

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/02/starting-sunday-eu-ai-chatbots-receptionists-media-must-reveal-human

This is excellent

But:

Laws require enforcement

Or they are just feel-good declarations that rot the rule of law: a corpus of laws without bite means the law has no meaning. A dangerous precedent

So *how* do we fight AI. Especially on #socialMedia

You have to understand it's an existential threat. Not to #Mastodon/ #Fediverse, but *all* social media... all media

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an abstract image of "AI"

Lot of fedi commentary on #Australia's #RoyalCommission.

Pretty standard. Five testimonies about firebombing a #synagogue, being cut off from employment opportunities, harrassed in the street, or mass-fucking-murdered on #Bondibeach will get ignored. One person whining people were mean to them for wearing an #Israel pin proves their case against #antisemitism being real.

Things like the royal commission are huge tactical errors on the part of #Jewish #diaspora institutions. They're so stuck on these failed strategies they think doing the same shit harder bigger faster stronger will defeat antisemitism™.

It fuels it.

If the underlying #bigotry believes #Jews control #media, #government and whatever, then anything in the media or by the government, etc that demonstrates antisemitism proves the fucking #conspiracy to them... and the opposite also proves it. Magic!

#Socialmedia is an accelerant. Ya can't win playing a crooked fucking game.

Boomer anti-antisemitism = the wise men of Chelm.

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Once upon a time, an angel, carrying a sackful of foolish souls back to heaven for repair, snagged his sack on a tree growing on top of a tall mountain top. The sack tore and alas, all the poor, foolish souls spilled out of the ripped sack, rolled down the mountain side into the town of Chelm where they stayed from that day on. - The Wise Men of Helm and their Merry Tales by Solomon Simon Image: Jeffrey Allon, "The Wise Men of Chelm Capture the Moon", from the book Ten Traditional Jewish Children's Stories [a group of bearded men standing around a barrel with the moon's reflection in it mostly wearing Tevye caps, one in a Streimel]]

This is something that stems from the bulletin board system period.

When people started to Flame each other they were just banging at the keyboard

BBS flame wars

What happens now {last 20 years} is the same; they can only be horrific towards each other when banging at the keyboard.

I've been told that people in industrialized countries can be very lonely. Hundreds of them in a building but they are still lonely

Often that loneliness is portrayed in a negative manner on public internet forums by people who often live a miserable life. Some of them in the US many, can also not pay for the psychiatric care they need.

The end result is a mess of a comment section

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

"When #DanFreidus walks into #Bookstock, Metro #Detroit’s beloved used #book and #media sale, he is not just browsing for something interesting to #read. He is hunting for history, often tucked between stained pages, spiral bindings and #recipes for #kugel, #brisket or “Aunt Rose’s #mandelbread.”

For Dan, a longtime collector with deep roots in the world of #books, #Jewish community #cookbooks are more than kitchen guides. They are records of Jewish life: where people lived, what they ate, how they adapted, what organizations they built and how communities preserved memory through #food.

As a child, Dan’s father collected books, opening a door to a world Dan might otherwise never have encountered. “I met #librarians and #bookdealers through him that I never would have met,” he explained, “so I got a peek into that world when I was pretty young.”

That early exposure eventually grew into a wide-ranging passion for books and ephemera, and, over time, cookbooks."

https://www.thejewishnews.com/community/metro-detroit-collector-preserves-jewish-community-cookbooks-one-recipe-at-a-time/article_d80ce01c-0d5a-4abd-9ead-c2cd93579a61.html

Despite concerns about AI overviews, some nonprofit news outlets see a surge in search traffic, reports @niemanlab.

"In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and traffic."

https://flip.it/XYL6qZ

#AI #SEO #Media

The AI-authorship debate is bollox.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship

The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.

#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism

The #CBC just outright playing stenographer for OpenAI propaganda today. #AI #Media

An experienced YouTuber said the following

• When you published something on the Internet any reaction is a good reaction
• If someone attempts to troll you shower them with love and affection
• Trolls hate Love and will run back under their Bridge
• If someone reacts extremely negative see rule number one and silently thank them

The fact that a person reacts to something written by someone thousands of nautical miles away is a feat which should be cherished

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

More on that Blue Square poll/survey...

"More #Americans say questioning the #Holocaust is not #antisemitic and express agreement with anti-#Jewish stereotypes, according to a survey the #BlueSquareAlliance Against Hate released on Thursday.

The #poll of 7,053 #US adults, conducted from March 4 to April 3, found that 32% of respondents said they do not believe questioning the Holocaust is antisemitic, up from 26% in August 2025.

The #survey’s margin of sampling error is ±0.92 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Agreement with all 10 antisemitic #tropes tracked by the survey—including claims that #Jews control #Hollywood and the #media or are more loyal to #Israel than the #UnitedStates—also increased since summer 2025. The rise in agreement with individual statements ranged from 12% to 38%, according to the survey."

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/more-americans-reject-link-between-holocaust-denial-antisemitism-as-anti-jewish-attitudes-rise-survey

#RadioWarNerd welcomes #AdamJohnson to talk about his new book #HowToSellAGenocide: The #Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza, all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-rerbx-2f7ac4c4
#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #USpol #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

Tonkatsu Box is a free, open-source media collection manager that lets you organize games, movies, TV shows, anime, manga, books, comics, and more in one place.

It stores your library locally, works offline after setup, supports local network sync, and can import data from Steam, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and other services.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=tonkatsubox

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Media #Gaming #Anime #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Tonkatsu Box project page in dark mode. The top shows the Tonkatsu Box logo and the tagline: "Your personal collection manager for games, movies, TV shows, anime, visual novels, and manga." Below are platform badges for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and Rustore, followed by badges indicating passing tests, MIT license, Flutter support, and a Discord community. The layout highlights Tonkatsu Box as a cross-platform, open-source media collection manager.

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #RobinAndersen, author of #TheComplicitLens

"We discuss in depth the ways that the New York Times, CNN, and other #legacyMedia outlets became little more than Israeli propaganda organs, uncritically feeding IDF narratives, images, and self-declared expertise while not only discrediting Palestinian voices, but also becoming complicit with #Israel’s policy of censorship by murder"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19421753-the-journalistic-malpractice-that-fueled-a-genocide-robin-andersen-on-complicit-lens
#Gaza #Palestine #mediaCriticism #media #books @bookstodon

SNES Consoles appear to run faster with Age [APU Frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 Years].

Security consultant and TASBot [Tool-Assisted Speedrun robot] administrator Alan Cecil discovered that Super Nintendo consoles have grown slightly faster because of one of their chips. At the moment, the highest frequency submitted is 32,182 Hz, this increase is less than 1% of the original APU value of 32,000 Hz.

https://www.404media.co/super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/

#snes #nintendo #retro #gaming #tech #media #news

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👾After significant research and testing on dozens of actual SNES units, the TASBot team now thinks that a cheap ceramic resonator used in the system's Audio Processing Unit [APU] is to blame for much of this inconsistency. While Nintendo's own documentation says the APU should run at a consistent rate of 24.576 Mhz [and the associated Digital Signal Processor sample rate at a flat 32,000 Hz], in practice, that rate can vary just a bit based on heat, system age and minor physical variations that develop in different console units over time.👾 <https://snes.nesdev.org/wiki/SNES_Development_Manual> ⁉️For a frame-perfect tool-assisted speedrun, though, the clock variations between consoles could cause innumerable headaches. [Alan] explained in his detailed analysis: "On one console this might take 0.126 frames to process the music-tick, on a different console it might take 0.127 frames. It might not seem like much but it is enough to potentially delay the start of song loading by 1 frame (depending on timing, lag and game-code)."⁉️ <https://undisbeliever.net/blog/20250313-smpspeed.html>

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[ImageSource: Alan Cecil] [Alan]'s survey found variation across consoles was much higher than the effects of heat on any single console. <https://docs.getgrist.com/fpwWkqDcnxXR/SNES-SMP-speed/p/1> 👾The APU SPC700 coprocessor uses a ceramic resonator running at 24,576 Hz [Digital Signal Processor sample rate at a flat 32,000 Hz] to set its frequency. However, this component is a sensitive piece of electronics, and heat and other environmental factors could affect its behavior.👾 [Alan] also said the survey-reported DSP clock speeds were also a bit higher than he expected, at an average rate of 32,078 Hz at room temperature. That's quite a bit higher than both the 32,000 Hz spec set by Nintendo and the 32,040 Hz rate that emulator developers settled on after sampling actual hardware in 2003. ⁉️To some observers, this is evidence that SNES APUs originally produced in the 90’s have been speeding up slightly as they age and could continue to get faster in the coming years and decades. But [Alan] says the historical data they have is too circumstantial to make such a claim for certain.⁉️

"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."

Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas

#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media

"In recent years, the Signal messaging app has become a newsroom staple, enabling journalists, colleagues, sources, and others to speak to one another securely with end-to-end encryption. This means no one except those in conversation — not even the service provider — can read your messages or listen in on your calls. Journalists use it individually, and we also see a trend toward using organizational Signal tiplines.

But it’s important to understand this is not a ”set it and forget it” decision. When talking to sensitive contacts, you do need to maintain your account to ensure it is safe and does not fall into the wrong hands.

Imagine if someone took over your Signal account. They could impersonate you, causing reputational damage, or worse, putting sources at risk. Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical. We have seen at least one public example (and some less public) where newsrooms have lost access to Signal identifiers, sometimes leading to abuse.

There are a few simple things journalists can do to maximize the safety of their Signal account."

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-account-safety/

#Messaging #Signal #Privacy #Surveillance #Encryption #PrressFreedom #Journalism #Media

"Johnson argues that the #liberalMedia took upon itself the task of dulling the outrage of ordinary news consumers and making #Israel’s slaughter seem understandable or unavoidable and thus not too objectionable [...]

"The focus on the 'liberal' #media is essential. Genocide support from right-wing media is a given; liberal buy-in is essential for genocide to become normalized."

Ida Audeh reviews #AdamJohnson's #HowToSellAGenocide

https://countercurrents.org/2026/07/manufacturing-consent-for-genocide-adam-h-johnsons-indictment-of-the-liberal-media/
#Gaza #Palestine #books @bookstodon

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cover of book: HOW TO SELL A GENOCIDE: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza Adam H. Johnson image (photo, at top): Biden meeting with Netanyahu on July 25, 2024 (Getty Images)

As #Trump rebrands DC festivities as a "spectacular Trump rally," broadcasters should look elsewhere to celebrate the #UnitedStates’ 250th.

As with so much in DC, Trump took over. His effort to rebrand the Washington, DC, events, provides #media & #news outlets an opportunity to instead look around the rest of the country — so do it.

Ignore the Trump rally.

As an example, PBS will turn to Williamsburg, Virginia, instead of DC.

#journalism #FourthEstate #propaganda
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/america-250-july-4-national-mall-trump-analysis

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence

Donald is going to have a threesome with his sons, and in the threesome he'll give them and himself the MEDAL OF HONOR.

Trump: I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one medal of honor to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome.

#usa #news #midterms #press #media #eu

"Has #WesternMedia helped normalise #Israel’s violence against #Palestinians? And how has US corporate and legacy #media coverage of the #genocideInGaza over the last two and a half years shaped public attitudes and political decisions? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to journalist #AdamJohnson, author of the new book #HowToSellAGenocide."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQYdNxQXLc
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaGenocide #GazaCoverage #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #MSM #mediaCriticism #books @bookstodon

There was a terrible event in #WWII in #Saipan where as American troops advanced the Japanese civilians committed mass suicide. They believed due to #propaganda that the Americans would be monstruously cruel

Here we see a similar sentiment as #Ukraine captures #Russia's troops

Traditional #media and #socialMedia lies lead to this

Pointless #war and stupid #projection of one's own malice

It's why the lies we see can't just be dismissed. They are rat poison. They must be fought

#UkraineWar

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291779/gov.uscourts.dcd.291779.16.0_1.pdf

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #news #usa #media #eu

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ORDERED that by no later than July 2, 2026, the Attorney General shall: Page 1 (1) either produce to the public the emails bearing Bates numbers EFTA00749245, EFTA01187999, EFTA01930501, ETFA01928255, EFTA00628112, EFTA02648868, EFTA02504630, and EFTA01022356 with sender and recipient names unredacted, or show cause why the redactions should not be removed; (2) either produce to the public the DOJ documents bearing Bates numbers EFTA01703108 and EFTA00038227 Case 1:26-cv-01417-EGS Document 15 Filed 06/25/26 Page 2 of 2 with potential co-conspirator names unredacted, or show cause why the redactions should not be removed; (3) either produce to the public the underlying FBI interview notes that formed the basis for the FD-302 interview reports bearing Bates numbers EFTA01245620, EFTA02858481, EFTA02858491, and EFTA02858495, with appropriate redactions to protect victims’ information, or show cause why the notes should not be produced; (4) initiate review and production of foreign-language materials that may be subject to production under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and provide notice to the Court and all parties that such review is underway; and (5) either publish in the Federal Register the redaction log required under Epstein Files Transparency Act §2(C) (2), and update it concurrently with each future release of redacted materials; or show cause why he cannot do so.

“Hello?” a voice said on the other end of the line. This time, the president had picked up.

“I’m writing a story about a big supporter of yours in the oil industry, Jeff Hildebrand,” I said. “Can I ask what you think about him?”
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-called-trump-hildebrand?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oil #Gas #Trump #Journalism #Media #Journalists

Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-is-already-lying-about-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Canada #journalism #Media #NationalPost #SocialMedia

#CitationsNeeded pod's Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson have a live convo @ Brooklyn's Word is Change bookstore about Adam's new book, "#HowToSellAGenocide: The #Media's Complicity in the Destruction of #Gaza," all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/live-show-how-to-sell-a-genocide-book-talk-at-the-word-is-change-bookstore-in-brooklyn-ny

#GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #WesternMedia #mediaCriticism #mediaRacism #MSM #liberalHypocrisy #mediaShitlibs #shitlibbingForGenocide #books @bookstodon

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

@infostorm@a.gup.pe