2026-02-13 13:55:09
🪓 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…
Vom Metaverse zur KI-Offensive: Mark Zuckerberg will Feeds, die nicht nur zeigen, sondern erzeugen. Du tippst einen Prompt, bekommst eine Welt – am besten gleich durch die Brille betrachtet. Social Media wird zur Bühne, auf der die KI Regie führt. Eintritt künftig wohl mit Abo. Meta bleibt sich treu: Visionär im Geschäftsmodell, blind für Verantwortung.
#Meta
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.
Use of 'colonised' is particularly disgusting.
As a character in a David Edgar said,
"We are here because you were there'.
Not that Starmer, who feeds the migration moral panic, can give lessons here.
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
https://www.
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115707916929806365
If I get accepted, New Year’s Eve will be my last day on your web feeds.
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/…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/116015299592234843
Adding support for disabled "live feeds".
Now the issue is whether to hide the 'Local' and 'Federated' menu items in the main nav. Phanpy allows users to switch servers, so…
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/…
„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
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…
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.
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
A sloppy blog posted on how I spent $25 messing with Openclaw this weekend.
#openclaw
New database reveals how Americans use water #UnitedStates
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
Very tempted to collect a list of (publicly or otherwise funded) news outlets without paywalls, to be able to browse news feeds without getting stuck all the time.
Suggestions what to add? Geographically diverse preferably.
(Yes, I do pay for commercial media but not all of them.)
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…
🦠 Beyond the usual suspect: Nitrogen feeds algae blooms, researchers find
#water
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
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…
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
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/
@… I also think that as a stop gap it would help if both proects offered some official API to query what the latest version is and perhaps offered RSS/ATOM feeds of updates so that knowledgeable users could subscribe to that and be notified right away, direct from the source.
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
Blockchain GenAI Yegge, the world is going insane: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/217139
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing
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…
google killing their RSS reader -> people adding RSS feeds to Slack
(this is the textual version of the domino meme)
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
@… 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.
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
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…
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...
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…
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
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
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 …
I want to read RSS feeds on my Browser natively
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…
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.
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/
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
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
Lemme get this straight: the man who led the Liberals—#Australia's more conservative major party, natch—to the worst defeat in its 60 year history wants to legally suppress the internal inquiry into its risible electoral performance because… it may suggest he was in some part responsible?
And not, say, the mythical Communist fifth column the snowflake Right routinely blames for its poor s…
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
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)
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing
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-
A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S. #UnitedStates
Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!
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
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
Very literally, for half a million #Optus customers: no one is coming to rescue you. 😬 #australia #telco #TripleZero
RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing