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📢 Bayern München verpasst Einzug in Champions-League-Finale
Der FC Bayern München hat den Einzug ins Finale der Fußball-Champions-League verpasst. Das 1:1 im Halbfinal-Rückspiel gegen Paris Saint-Germain reichte nicht. Denn die Franzosen hatten vergangene Woche das Hinspiel 5:4 gewonnen.
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Bayern München verpasst Einzug in Champions-League-Finale
Der FC Bayern München hat den Einzug ins Finale der Fußball-Champions-League verpasst. Das 1:1 im Halbfinal-Rückspiel gegen Paris Saint-Germain reichte nicht. Denn die Franzosen hatten vergangene Woche das Hinspiel 5:4 gewonnen.

Der Biologe Bernhard Kegel beschreibt, wie sich #Tiere und #Pflanzen an den #Klimawandel anpassen.
Lebensräume verschieben sich polwärts und verändern die

Die Zukunft der Natur – Wie sich Tiere und Pflanzen an den Klimawandel anpassen
Die Klimaerwärmung hat Auswirkungen auf die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt, an die viele gar nicht denken. Tiere werden kleiner, manche ändern ihr Verhalten. Ameisen scheinen aggressiver zu werden. Eingespielte Rhythmen geraten aus dem Takt. Ob Fisch oder Vogel – vieles ist im Wandel.

"Face Š l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience"
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/03/01/face-a-l-ia-generative-des-enseignants-optent-pour-l-objection-de-c…

Face à l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience
Quelque 2 800 enseignants et chercheurs ont signé un manifeste contre l’intelligence artificielle générative, qu’ils considèrent être un gouffre énergétique alimentant des usages incompatibles « avec les valeurs de rationalité et d’humanisme » de l’université.

Wäre ich die Regierung im #Iran, würde ich auch mit einem "FUCK YOU VERY MUCH!" reagieren.
Ich habe wirklich NULL Sympathie für das Drecksregime in dem Land.
Aber es gibt für sie absolut gar keinen Grund, auf irgendwas einzugehen.
Rein strategisch haben die USA den Krieg eigentlich schon verloren und der Iran weiß das.
Sie wären schön blöd, wenn sie diese Karte aus der…

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion

Opinion | Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression
Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.

In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment

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"Bei der Schweizer EU-Debatte auf X fiel auf: Die Posts der Fake-Konten waren auf SVP-Linie. Sie adaptieren die Wortwahl der Partei und verwenden den Hashtag Unterwerfungsvertrag. So bezeichnet die SVP das EU-Paket. [...] Die Analysten schreiben, dass sie Strategien identifiziert hätten, «die zur Verstärkung negativer Narrative gegen das Abkommen eingesetzt wurden»."
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Wir brauchen seriöse Medien.

3:0 letztlich zu wenig - Ein Tor fehlte Barca auf Wunder, Atletico jubelt #News #Nachrichten