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"The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban."
And user used workarounds hurting newspaper visibility. Bad choice. But going to be repeated in CH 🤦

Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonc

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

Fresh from The End:
**The End Issue #86. Fix Your Feelings Of Existential Dread With Finished Audio Fiction**
https://www.theend.fyi/newsletter/fix-your-feelings-of-existential-dread-with-finished-audio-fiction…

Issue #86: Fix Your Feelings Of Existential Dread With Finished Audio Fiction
Featuring THE HACKER CHRONICLES & UNDERWOOD AND FLINCH, +5 complete series, 6 season finales, and 7 new seasons coming soon! Published on Apr 25, 2024.

Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @…’s account?
Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?
(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)
CC @…

I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

As developers we pay Apple 30% to have a great App Store platform that they keep free of garbage...
...after being told what the garbage is by journalists.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-fo…

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

Weird #fediverse issue. I'm following a person on a very small instance. That person is also following me. Their posts, boosts and likes reach me.
What I don't see is their profile pic. For whatever reason it's not appearing in the profile view or timeline. Going to the instance, the pic is there.
unfollowing and following didn't do anything. Any idea?

People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.

People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.