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Another #Palestinian journalist killed by #Israel. Will any of them get justice?
https://www.

‘Kind, principled’: Colleagues remember Gaza journalist killed by Israel
Ahmed Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.

This week on #ProFed: two new developments in the web client.
ProFed is not a microblogging system. The web client is optimized for professional social networking - which means some things work differently than in Mastodon or similar systems.

#emfcamp was excellent. Didn't go to any talks or workshops, just chats, meetups, dancing, puzzles, volunteering, and wandering admiring the art. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen ❤️
Maybe see some of you in 6 weeks for #OSHCamp? https://
oshug.org/event/oshcamp2026

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117310473736123069
But they’re not fascists or anything.

I consider myself a geography wizz but had no idea there was a French island within a short ferry ride of Canada.

Je viens de rédiger une nouvelle idée de POC : « Champ de recherche enrichi avec CodeMirror et conceal" »
#idee

With Magic's The Hobbit set now out, thought I'd drop the full artwork for The Five Armies Clash! scene.
A huge thanks to my art director, Cassie Murphy.
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
© 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC
https://www.rucach.com/project/…

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771
Thanks @… for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning o…

Woody biomass is being framed as a #green alternative to coal, but the hidden costs include repeated fires, explosions, and deforestation in #SoutheastAsia.
My new deep dive for @…

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

RE: https://social.coop/@kdwarn/116957620027224361
Oh look, it’s Mozilla… being Mozilla.

Destroying rare books to stave off large language model collapse seems like a far cry from recursive self-improvement for generative 'AI'.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117281708855474056
Image with no alt text here appears to be a satellite image of a data center.

Stickering has begun at #emfcamp #emf2026 with some additions to the fleet of breadmakers. Quality quality control available, find me in my wide brimmed blue hat while stocks last (supply chain included #oshcamp)…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatica_coop/116963284226426714
Mira, de esto no veremos llorar a la hostelería, porque implica soluciones de alto alcance social, no como prohibir fumar en las terrazas.

This week on #ProFed: emoji reactions are done. By far the biggest rabbit hole yet - the kind with Monty Python killer rabbits and three dragons inside: FEP-c0e0, Pleroma and Misskey, all disagreeing with each other.
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Je viens de rédiger une nouvelle idée de POC : « Champ de recherche enrichi avec CodeMirror et conceal" »
#idee

Some news - I'll be speaking at the virtual tbd/Con organized by Gazzetta next week
My focus - the scale of #digital #surveillance and censorship in #Tibet, a relevant topic due to the information bla…

Register to join
we want talks that end with open questions. technical depth, social critique, and wild prototypes welcome.

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"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."

Are we trading one #environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? The reality on the ground at #Japan’s biomass plants include dangerous

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

This week on #ProFed: first full round trip through the web client.
I followed my Mastodon account from the ProFed web client, published a test post that showed up in Mastodon. Then I wrote a reply back in Mastodon that appeared in the ProFed timeline.
Now the ProFed web client can do these tricks, not only the Desktop Mastodon client, where I did the first round trip a while ago.

That time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time.

I've done most of these at one time or another.
Also a Robert Owen statue on Corporation St (or at least there was, by the Coop Bank).
Four ways to discover the radical north-west | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-ways-dis…

#Climate groups, rightly, spoke out when #COP was in countries with horrific #humanrights records like #Azerbaijan

Looking forward to seeing many wonderful folks at #EMFCamp ☀️ I'll be hosting:
🌎️ ClimateAction.tech meetup: 4pm Friday
🛠️ Chat about maintaining things: 11.15am Saturday
& i'll be at the 💻️ Society for Hopeful technologists meetup on Sunday. 🌳 I'll be prioritising people all weekend, so message me if you don't see me, and let's meet up!

RE: https://social.coop/@kdwarn/116957620027224361
Every time that I try to point out the contradictions at Mozilla, I fear that people will see me as a contrarian or relate me to some bigots such as Lunduke, however... this makes it very easy to point out why I distrust them so much.

RE: https://social.coop/@kdwarn/116957620027224361
I’m very happy to have left Firefox quite a while ago.
(Fuck you, Mozilla!)

Quarrel for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.
Bilbo and the dwarves quarrel over some much needed food at the house of Beorn.
Art Director: Cassie Murphy
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
© 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC
#MTGxTheHobbit

Are there any movements, groups, or volunteer-heavy organizations you are part of that you think work particularly well? Do you have an idea of what makes them work well? Any public statements of goals or values, or guidelines for people engaging in the community, that you feel contribute to successful functioning? Please share!

Das ist doch ganz was völlig anderes. Die sind Fake News! Die werden nicht gecancelled, sondern - ähm - von ihrem schändlichen Tun abgehalten.
</sarcasm>

Billionaires: “Look what we made us do”
https://social.coop/@foolishowl/117304598655539415

So, I can't eat any fresh greens when I #travel home to #America next week?
This is the type of advice I used to get when traveling to places like #India or

As newsrooms obsess over the latest #Trump blunders, what happens to the rest of the world? Hundreds of #international #journalists are losing their jobs due to

International journalists' opportunities are shrinking
As Donald Trump wins more attention from U.S. news media, one loser has often been international reporting.

And last but not least for my work on the Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.
Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning.
Art Director: Cassie Murphy
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
© 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC
#MTGxTheHobbit

Other than that major search engines have been trash for a long time, is there a reason that the Elon Musk's fascist copy of Wikipedia shows up in search results near and sometimes even above the original Wikipedia page in DuckDuckGo (which is mostly Bing under the hood)?

Ventilateur ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 : le clone AliExpress Š 35 € n'a pas tenu 90 jours
#AliExpress

I just shared a recording of an event that they told me it is only for attendees, strictly off-the-record, and not to be shared with anyone.
The platform they used to share this? Merely an unlisted #YouTube link. Yeah, that's #secure 🙄

Airtable alternatives available from Agaric: https://agaric.coop/blog/airtable-alternatives-available-agaric

This week on #ProFed: visible progress again after weeks of backend work.
The immediate trigger was getting timeline entries to render differently by type - but the restructuring opens up much more. Like e.g. moving away from the traditional microblogging view towards something that better fits professional use.

So, #Google will no longer let you see even basic details - like hours - unless you login. Which, of course, I can't since I have no account.
#enshittification #bigtech

A few more Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit card illustrations to share!
First up The Sackville Bagginses.
Art Director: Cassie Murphy.
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
© 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC
#MTGxTheHobbit

Je viens de publier « Septembre 2026 - je code avec des open weights pour 10 Š 30 € par mois »
#LLM

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117078681673596187
All cops. ALL COPS.

Only in #Japan - the government and a company both respond to my requests for interviews/comments, but the leading local environmental group on this topic? Nope...too "busy"

Dšin Ironfoot for Magic the Gathering's The Hobbit set.
This one was a promo card for HMV stores so it seems to be a bit hard to find a good image online but I found this photo.
Art Director: Cassie Murphy
This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast
© 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC
#MTGxTheHobbit

Looking for an Airtable exit before it is priced out from under you or becomes unusable?
https://agaric.coop/blog/airtable-alternatives-available-agaric

Huge thanks to the hackerspace courier network (via @…) for getting a #emfcamp badge backboard that i was missing, to #oshcamp for me!
So it's only fitting that I'm going for a Ca…

Je viens de publier « Qu'est-ce que je dois faire signer Š mes clients pour être autorisé Š analyser leurs données confidentielles avec un LLM ? »
#LLM

A quick note: recent posts have been in German by mistake. Back to English from now on - sorry for any confusion.
This week on #ProFed: down the emoji reactions rabbit hole. Reactions federate compatibly with both Misskey and Pleroma, including their derivatives. Misskey allows multiple reactions per user per post - ProFed doesn't, to keep things predictable for everyone else.
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Support Sudanese people still working for the promise of Sudan's 2018 revolution.
https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Black Anarchist Resistance: Sudanese Solidarity - Open Collective
Donate to support the revolutionary survival and liberation work of the Anarchist Group in Sudan.

So, a #Japanese industry association decided that a great English name for their website would be
"industry"-ass.co.jp

This week on #ProFed: security review.
I found a minor issue and took it as an opportunity to systematically check for more security issues. A few small things have been addressed already, more to follow.
The fixes also clean up the architecture in a few places – so the end result is both more secure and cleaner.

#CommonplaceBook reading, abundance, maybe some hopeful green shoots. Read to the end for a picture of me weeding out the less good green shoots.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/08/com

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/117230253355448553
Here is your paint job @…

The decline of U.S. foreign bureaus is being framed as an economic necessity, but the reality on the ground shows a devastating loss of independent investigations in developing nations.
My new deep dive for The Objective (@objectivejournos.bsky.social) looks at the systemic crisis facing #freelance #journalists

International journalists' opportunities are shrinking
As Donald Trump wins more attention from U.S. news media, one loser has often been international reporting.

Je viens de publier la description d'un nouveau projet : « "Créer un POC de RAG sur des livres avec résumés hiérarchiques (Node.js, pgvector, pg_search) »
#RAG

@…
Hallo Stefan. Ich arbeite an ProFed, was so was ähnliches,wie vutuv werden soll. Nachdem mich jemand auf vutuv aufmerksam gemacht hat, habe ich die JSON-Sachen angeschaut, die du da ausgibst, als Webfinger, Actor, etc.
Ich habe nichts gefunden, wo du den CV auch föderierst. Ich haben dafür eine Erweiterung "definiert" - naja erst mal im e…

Looking for tiny ways to resist a major expansion of fascism this past week, as the US government declared the volunteer-run anarchist collective Autistici/Inventati a "global terrorist organization" without any trial or judicial process and the cowards at PIR.org took down one of their domain names (autistici.org) almost immediately, and then their Italian bank Banca Etica shut down their account and seized their money, with all of that they will not be maintaining noblogs and oth…

Living in #Japan has, for some reason, made me realize that most North #Indians are just as bad as white expats at recommending #SouthIndian restaurants or food.

#CommonplaceBook far too much AI stuff but also maybe a bit of hope. https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/07/commonplace-book-far-too-much-ai-but.html HT

J'ai découvert les fonctionnalités de Goreleaser
#TIL #Golang

The Chinese government relies on dancing ethnic minorities to project normalcy. Last year, it brought dancing #Uyghurs to #Japan.
For #MekongReview, my latest unpacks the propaganda of '

Xinjiang week - Mekong Review
Uyghur dance performances are invariably showcased by Chinese officials in an attempt to show that everything in Xinjiang is ‘normal’. It’s a move that, through its absurdity, creates even more unease.

The city of Saint Paul is destroying an encampment of unhoused people at Pig's Eye Park today— or trying to, i don't know how many people might come out in defense of it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117212125460262316
Dropbox was understandably distracted while letting their customers get hacked— their co-founder & CEO was very busy giving a million dollars to openly fascist DHH (whose new foundation lists no…

This week on #ProFed: the heatwave is taking its toll, so progress is slow.
I've finally consolidated the data structures for ActivityPub objects and activities. But I haven't managed to push through with these changes to the web client. Again nothing visibly, sorry.
Next week I promise - maybe I shouldn't.

RE: #journalist

Longtime political cartoonist Ted Rall appears to have used genAI for the art on a couple of his recent cartoons. (Such as a more extensive crowd scene than usual, with extra arms and such on the background characters.) Sad to see somebody want to use a machine to rip off their own art style.

folks at #oshcamp - where else do you hang out? what are the spaces, online or offline, the events and communities, where you find inspiration? Let's make a list!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117206447110464617
And Facebook and state governments managed, via this lawsuit settlement, to get age verification requirements (read: a massive attack on privacy) without the considerable annoyance of going through …

Je viens de proposer une petite contribution Š "incus-apply" : #incus

dev: resolve relative disk device sources by stephane-klein · Pull Request #67 · abiosoft/incus-apply
Thanks for this great project. I've been using incus-apply for a while now and it fits my needs perfectly. As a long-time docker-compose user, I'm used to declaring bind mounts with relativ...

It is a terrible icon of capitalism's self-corruption that Elon Musk was the first trillionaire.
It is a fitting coda to capitalism's gross failures that Elon Musk will be the last trillionaire.

'#Xinjiang Week' in #Japan, at the #Osaka #WorldExpo was being framed as a celebration of local culture & inn…

Xinjiang week - Mekong Review
Uyghur dance performances are invariably showcased by Chinese officials in an attempt to show that everything in Xinjiang is ‘normal’. It’s a move that, through its absurdity, creates even more unease.

This week on #ProFed: out of the WebFinger rabbit hole, and quite a lot done.
Profile links in post headers now point to the ProFed profile page - for local and remote accounts alike. For remote accounts there is a "view on ..." link to the original profile. And boosts are fully working now too. The latter was a rabbit hole of its own.
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RE: https://social.coop/@mlncn/117157313395207437
First we recognize the calamity for small not-for-profit groups trying to do good work, in an environment dominated by rent-seeking capitalist corporations that care nothing about anything good.
Then we red…

Downtown Minneapolis in half an hour! And also (with a press conference) Thursday afternoon.
Support the https://mn15.org !

This week on #ProFed: I fixed the bug in the message bus.
Finding the bug was less of a problem. But the solution, that meets all the requirements at this foundational level, was the real challenge.
As a bonus, the message bus is now slightly more efficient and uses fewer resources in most situations. Not a game changer, but still good.

Je viens de publier les spécifications d'un projet d'un outil d'archivage centralisé des conversations multi-sources (Mattermost, Signal, OpenCode, Claude.ai, etc.) vers S3.
https://notes.sklein.xyz/Projet 39/

Any thoughts from the #fediverse on Ellipsus (#Google

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RE: https://social.coop/@mlncn/117157328949985382
Today's court time has been pushed back to 3:30pm. No overflow room was provided on Tuesday, but after about 30 people individually asked, the court officer will probably be making sure one is available today…

Je viens de découvrir le projet #RSS #IndieWeb

This can't be real - the "contact" button on the webpage of a department at #Indonesia's best public #university merely leads you to their #Instagram page.

This week on #ProFed: the web client now has RSS feeds. Not everywhere yet – authenticated feeds are a harder problem. Every approach I've considered so far is either tooc unsafe, too complicated for regular users, or not supported by most RSS readers.
Ideas very welcome. Are you maybe aware, how other applications do that? Are there any other applications at all, that do that?

« Pourquoi je me suis désintéressé des projets portés par Canonical Š partir de 2014 »
#Canonical

So, are all the people angry at #Google #maps for predictably renaming #LakeOntario actually going to stop using it, or just complain and make excuses, just like they've done with basically every other

Are the #Twins wildly celebrating what they are certain is their last win of the season, or what the heck is up with all these fireworks in Minneapolis?
Neighborhood dogs want to know.

Got a CSO press release on the #Nepal #Tibet glacier floods disaster that really went out of its way to avoid mentioning Tibet at all, or anything about what is happening on that side of the border, such as the information blackout being imposed by

The #Prairieland defendants are now political prisoners and if you truck with politicians at all, promising to pardon every one of them is the entry to being taken seriously as standing with people opposing the ongoing murderous #ICE invasion of the US.

This week on #ProFed I just have a few UI improvements.
1. Post timestamps are shown in human-readable form: "now", "5 days ago", with the exact time to the minute on hover.
2. Posts have an action menu with the permalink and delete option for the moment.
3. The reply button now works.
The bigger topic this week: trying to improve the

There's a #newsletter I like, but had gotten steadily shittier over the past year as the writer has been using too much #AI and reducing the quality.
Last week, he turned on payments and my reaction was - I would have paid for the pre-AI version, but not this.

People should always be able to search by keyword rather than navigate menus.
Especially if we (who make human-computer interfaces) do not want people to turn to life-destroying chatbot interfaces.
Are #KDE and #Gnome or others working on a standard way to do that in each program?

Follow-on to last post, to save the world's ecosystems we need to take fossil fuels offline NOW, wherever we can reach and however we can stop that infrastructure. The price will rise and solutions will fill in.

Met & know many western #Japan experts who are surprisingly ignorant about #Taiwan, the country that #Japanese are most likely to travel to.
Surprised to learn the same can be said about western

i agree with some of the critiques aimed at Cory Doctorow on here, but he is a pretty effective communicator and the main thing he has been trying to communicate for like a year now is that every country in the world that is not the United States needs to ditch anti-circumvention laws immediately, to the benefit of basically everybody, and this one hits most of his high points (and generative "AI" not at all) plus it made me realize me why i instinctively skipped most of the popula…

Worth #reading this piece - a level-headed take on #China and how its changed.
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-op…

App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before moving to the U.S. in 2015. This was my first visit since the pandemic. Almost a decade away from the place where I got married, had kids, started a few companies, and sold one. It may be hard to make money in Ch…

https://jensorensen.com/2026/07/29/more-e-commerce-chaos/
…reminds me that the legal right a corporation has to a brand is rationalized by the claim that it helps people make informed purchasing decisions. There is rarely much connection between the name on the box and …

I had to ask an intermediary to get in touch with a #Philippines #laborunion to get photos to share with their global affiliates. This was after they ignored (or didn't see) all my emails. Entire process took 10 days.
Of course, no captions, wonder how long it will take me to get those...…

Israel is really running the playbook of the 1700s and 1800s US genocide of Native Americans, step by step, against Palestinians today— letting paramilitary settlers attack and occupy and then intervening militarily on the side of the settlers.
https://electronicintifada.net/bl…

I support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.
Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and…

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.