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Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…

Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
Bluesky says it’s planning to make the app feel more “live” this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elon Musk’s X platform.

Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more "live", interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869235/bluesky-roadmap-2026-feed…

Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
Bluesky says it’s planning to make the app feel more “live” this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elon Musk’s X platform.

The Convicted Criminal’s illegal troop deployment in US cities cost almost $USD500m in 2025 <-- There I fixed it for you Al Jazeera :-)
https://mas.to/@newz/115976965642607896

#amateur or
#hamradio #blogs
https://mastodon.radio/@k8vsy…

We need to stop the endless reporting of whatever claims cybercriminal threat actors make on their leak sites because, in many (most?) cases, they are untrue, and yet so many outlets report them anyway.
In this case, HSBC denies the breach, and yet that doesn't stop folks from writing "news" reports about it. These outlets are taking the frequently false word of cybercriminals at face value and clogging up my news feeds.

Je nachdem, wie wir KI in den sozialen Medien einsetzen und welche neuen Funktionen Meta, TikTok und Co. uns zur Verfügung stellen, besteht jedoch ein Risiko. Wenn zu viel KI und zu wenig Persönlichkeit zum Einsatz kommen, könnte Social Media das verlieren, was es ausmacht: Austausch, Informationen und Unterhaltung, meint Jan Firsching. Er glaubt, dass wir das nicht wollen. Hoffentlich. #SocialMedia

Social Content in Zeiten von KI: Ist das überhaupt noch Social Media?
Verwandelt die KI unsere Social-Media-Feeds in eine Flut seelenloser Inhalte? Inmitten dieser Entwicklung könnte gerade das Echte und Menschliche wertvoller werden als je zuvor. Jan Firsching

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

On stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations.
#EuroSkyLive https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-outage-data-cent…

TikTok says a power outage messed up users' feeds over the weekend
TikTok said a power outage at a US data center on Sunday impacted its services, including its For You feeds.

@… thanks.
I'm pragmatic about levels of engagement here and elsewhere.
Looking at other instances' local live feeds, in isolation, was … erm … I'm not sure how to describe the overall experience, but it was worth it.

🪓 Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-27/algorithms-do-widen-the-divide-social-media-feeds-shape-political-polarizati…

Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-

New York State will require warning labels on social media platforms
New York will require warning labels on social media.

A couple of months ago, I shocked friends in the US and UK whilst talking about #cigarette prices in #Australia. “How do people afford cigarettes?” they asked, incredulously.
"They don’t," I replied. "There's an enormous black market in

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)

Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features
Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features to display warning labels alerting young use

I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @…
The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.
'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.
#linguistics

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p4#a260116p4

Blockchain GenAI Yegge, the world is going insane: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/217139

New Trump tariffs collection hits $200 billion, Customs says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/new-trump-tariffs-collection-hits-200-billion-customs-says/ar-AA1Spkzz?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

Sharing my RSS feed if anyone is interested.
#opml #rss

diese arbeitswoche hat nur zwei tage, aber da bekommt man auch ein bisschen was fürs #fachreferat unter. :)
neben einigen (vertretungs)#bestellungen habe ich zum beispiel die etwas ruhigere zeit genutzt, meine fachlichen und bibliothekarischen #RSS-feeds "abzulesen"; der meldungs…

I do love hanging around on a social platform where there simply isn’t any value in all this shit
https://www.theverge.com/news/809349/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-social-feeds-q3-2025-earnings

Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI will add a “huge corpus of content” to social media as the technology makes content easier to create and edit.

Ich hab einen #Bot gebaut, der jeden Tag einmal 10 neue deutsche Wörter postet: @…
Der Bot durchsucht ein paar deutschsprachige RSS-Feeds, um neue Wörter zu entdecken.
'Neu' heißt in dem Fall, dass die Wörter nicht auf einer Liste von ca. 39 Millionen 'alten' Wörtern stehen und bisher noch nicht vom Bot selbst gefunden wurden.
Wenn Ihr Fragen habt, immer her damit.
#Linguistik

Would be nice if someone familiar with @… apps sets up a tar pit solution to protect hosted applications like mastodon
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674

Want to grow your own food sustainably? Aquaponics combines fish farming with plant growing in a brilliant closed-loop system—fish waste feeds the plants, plants clean the water.
Lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs thrive easily, while strawberries, peppers, and even carrots can flourish with the right setup. No chemical fertilizers needed.

Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

I had a single "YouTube" category in the feeds classified in Freshrss. I decided to separate the channels related to GNU/Linux and Selfhosting from the rest. 84% are in the first category.
It's not a thirst for knowledge, it's an addiction... It's just that I know so little...

There's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …

Can they be trusted to get/do anything right?
The SSL certificate of Transport Canberra's real-time feeds is currently expired. This has resulted in an outage of the MyWay real-time data feed, impacting the availability of real-time data across Transport Canberra bus and light rail services.
#TransportCanberra

I want to read RSS feeds on my Browser natively

A notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

All live feeds for the return of #Crew11 today have already been set up: https://www.youtube.com/live/X0398ExPsK8 and https://www.youtube.com/live/IakRgsTYUDY and https://www.youtube.com/live/qRVoblm2Nxw - and see https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-live-coverage-of-crew-11-return-splashdown/ for a refined timeline and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/ for updates.

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S. #UnitedStates

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Source: Threads plans to add podcast previews to let snippets of shows play directly in user feeds; it is focusing on live events, seeking to attract podcasters (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Algorithmen im #Wahlkampf:
> Um die Integrität zukünftiger Wahlen zu gewährleisten, braucht es einen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Diskurs über die Rolle von #SocialMedia-Plattformen in Zeiten digitaler

Algorithmen im Wahlkampf: Studie der Universität Potsdam und der Bertelsmann Stiftung zeigt eine unausgewogene Sichtbarkeit von Parteien in Social-Media-Feeds junger Menschen
Nie zuvor konnten Politiker:innen so unmittelbar in den Alltag von Wähler:innen vordringen. Doch was insbesondere junge Menschen auf den Sozialen Medien über Politik in ihren Feeds sehen, entscheiden Plattform-Algorithmen. Die Studie „Digitalisiert, politisiert, polarisiert?“ zeigt:...

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115707916929806365
If I get accepted, New Year’s Eve will be my last day on your web feeds.

Fed up with not being able to visit the "Live Feeds" tab without instantly encountering explicit pornography.
It's because of the porn that many people didn't stay on Masto after leaving X, but went to BlueSky instead.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.

End-of-Year Threat Intelligence Sightings Forecast
This report presents an analysis of Threat Intelligence (TI) Sightings aggregated from several key data sources, including social platforms, code repositories, and specialized TI feeds. The primary objective is to visually track historical trends per source and provide a short-term adaptive forecast for a defined period (in days).
#opensource

🦠 Beyond the usual suspect: Nitrogen feeds algae blooms, researchers find
#water

Beyond the usual suspect: Nitrogen feeds algae blooms, researchers find
Nitrogen is a bit of a conundrum. In its gaseous form it's the most abundant element in the atmosphere, but few organisms can readily use it. And while all living organisms contain nitrogen, a new University of Vermont study finds that even tiny amounts of nitrogen can fuel cyanobacterial blooms and disrupt lake ecosystems.

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware

Was machen wir denn eigentlich mit BlueSky?
Würdigen wir, dass die überwiegende Userschaft gewisse Neuankömmlinge in einer #Blockorgie gekickt hat?
Empören wir uns, dass sich im zentralistischen Netzwerk zweifelhafte Charaktere tummeln, und beenden das Bridging vom #Fediverse? (BTW,…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.

Ich habe gestern einmal feed2toot durch den Fork feed2toot-oauth ersetzt. Das ist ein Drop-In-Replacement, das ursprüngliche Projekt steht seit 2021 still.
https://pypi.org/project/feed2toot/

feed2toot
Parse rss feeds and send new posts to Mastodon

I want a #Mastodon client that drip-feeds me posts from prolific posters. I've followed two accounts that boost cool stuff but they are doing 40 posts a day. After finishing up my timeline I refresh and there are a dozen more posts. That's not sustainable for a healthy social media diet (for me - YMMV!). I'd like something that would hold back posts for 2 hours and then only show me…

„Ist das noch echt – oder nur plausibel?“ Wenn man sich fragt: Ist der Text korrekt? Mit Substanz? Ist das ein echtes Bild? Was ist mit dem Video? KI-generierte Inhalte fluten unseres Feeds und unsere Inbox. Stephan Scheuer vermeldet zunehmend Zweifel (statt des versprochenen Produktivitätsgewinns). Vertrauensverlust. Persönliche Beziehung und Vertrauen gewinnen wieder stark an Bedeutung. #handelsblatt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nine Inch Nails:
🎵 The Hand That Feeds
#NineInchNails
https://shrimpy5.bandcamp.com/track/nine-inch-nails-the-hand-that-feeds-shrimpy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4L5r9XNiWJ7cbqcIiNvVes

As "professional" media fails to deliver on its promise of informing the populace, the Kremlin lies grow even more audacious.
With such scarcity of reporters on the front lines, it is easy for the Kremlin lies to find fertile ground.
Foreign media outlets repeat the lies without question, so the Kremlin doubles down and feeds even more outrageous lies.
In the so-called "information age" we find ourselves encumbered with outrageous stupidity.
The So…

Total Lies Create False Progress, While the Field Shows that Attacking Costs Far More Than…
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-communit…

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular in favor of “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” CEO Steve Huffman says.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-communit…

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular in favor of “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” CEO Steve Huffman says.

If you’re rich, I don’t like you. If you’re rich and help the poor, I still don’t like you. If you’re rich and wish you weren’t, I can understand that, but it doesn’t change anything. Giving to the poor doesn’t undo the system that made you rich in the first place. It’s charity dressed up as justice, and it only makes you look generous while the structure that feeds your power stays firm.
If you really wanted to help, you’d walk away from the corporations, the profit, and the comfort b…

🤠 Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds […]

"How a DoorDash for Good Program Is Rescuing 250 Million Pounds of Food Across America"
#US #USA #America #Food<…

How a DoorDash for Good Program Is Rescuing 250 Million Pounds of Food Across America | Happy Eco News
A DoorDash for good platform is rescuing 250 million pounds of food with 25,000 volunteers. Learn how Food Rescue Hero turns everyday drivers into climate fighters and feeds the hungry.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Kind of ironic, given they’ve not actually stopped whinging about it for the past decade. #auspol https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115478102222542658

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (Tulsi Rauniyar/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nepal-discord-gen-z-protests-vote-prime-…

The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord
The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware

Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero