Tootfinder

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds…

YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts
YouTube users on mobile can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds.

Create RSS feeds from any Google News webpage, search result or topic
(World, Technology, Business, Sports).
Just copy and paste the Google News URL below to get started.
https://rss.app/rss-feed/google-news-rss-feed

Google News RSS Feed
Instantly create Google News RSS Feeds from any Google News webpage, topic or search result with RSS generator.

YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds…

YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts
YouTube users on mobile can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds.

Designing Usable Controls for Customizable Social Media Feeds
Frederick Choi, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19615 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Designing Usable Controls for Customizable Social Media Feeds
Personalized recommendation algorithms deliver content to the user on most major social media platforms. While these algorithms are crucial for helping users find relevant content, users lack meaningful control over them. This reduces users' sense of agency and their ability to adapt social media feeds to their own needs and values. Efforts have been made to give users more control over their feeds, but usability remains a major barrier to adoption. Drawing upon prior work in designing teachabl…

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

Boris (@bmann.ca)
On stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations. #EuroSkyLive

NLKI: A lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA Tasks
Aritra Dutta, Swapnanil Mukherjee, Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19724

NLKI: A lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA Tasks
Commonsense visual-question answering often hinges on knowledge that is missing from the image or the question. Small vision-language models (sVLMs) such as ViLT, VisualBERT and FLAVA therefore lag behind their larger generative counterparts. To study the effect of careful commonsense knowledge integration on sVLMs, we present an end-to-end framework (NLKI) that (i) retrieves natural language facts, (ii) prompts an LLM to craft natural language explanations, and (iii) feeds both signals to sVLM…

I hadn't used the Bandcamp (fan) app until fairly recently, and it's wild the stuff up there - the feeds and messages are excellent and have really suggested me some great stuff.
Also, another Bandcamp Friday next week - October 3.
https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?

Upcoming Vandenberg SFB
rocket launch schedule,
featuring today's and upcoming launches.
Our page offers detailed insights into each mission, including trajectory, crew details, mission objectives, rocket specifications, launch location, and booster landing updates.
Watch live Vandenberg SFB video feeds and stay informed about the latest developments.

Vandenberg SFB Rocket Launch Schedule: Today & Upcoming - Space Launch Schedule
Vandenberg SFB Rocket Launch Schedule: Live Video Feed, Trajectory, Location, Booster Landing Information Today & Upcoming - Space Launch Schedule

Btw. I know there hasn't been much new work on #ThingUmbrella over the past month. That's because I've been spending _a lot_ more time on my multi-faceted toolchain for note taking, asset management (images/videos, incl. auto-creation of different versions) and also aimed as generator for blogs/websites, feeds, visualizations (e.g. incl. those on the current

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design and Art in its many forms.

@…
It just occurred to me that I should probably let you know about this entry if you didn’t already know about it :
The 27th Annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival will be held on September 27 and 28, 2025.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Rain or Shine, at Forster Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, Massachusetts.
It’s garlicky!

North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival
Feeding Others Feeds Your Soul

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

On Website Technicals (2018-12) - Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-19.html

On Website Technicals (2018-12)
Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet.

Torus feeding and outflow launching in the active nucleus of the Circinus galaxy: #BlackHoles don’t suck, they get fed! https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2541a/

@…
https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/mss#rss-feeds

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

"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm

I knew these systems but I didn't know how they worked. Until now:
https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/115426247045556610
related DEFCON talk:

https://rss.app/feed/f3CziQcxkWmepRE6

RSS Feed Generator, Create RSS feeds from URL

Warum Feeds wichtiger sind, als viele denken – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4427-Warum-Feeds-wichtiger-sind,-als-viele-denken.html

Here's a quote from HuffPost:
"According to Bluesky analytics site VQV, the official White House account quickly became the platform’s second-most blocked profile, with around 95,000 users smashing the block button to presumably preempt their feeds being filled with AI slop and divisive rants.
"The only account with more blocks on the platform is Vice President JD Vance, who’s been blocked by more than 167,000 users since joining in June."

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.

This is very cool, those awesome crazy Danes have launched a #UStech free platform for finding and promoting live music events in Copenhagen. Check out how to use it here
And the best thing is you can follow it in your #Fediverse feeds.
#DigitalSovreignty
https://floor.tips/p/Workshop-learn-to-use-floor-tips-and-find-your-next-dancefloor-nFpfCdj56CbjAjMr92c5jJ

Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds https://therecord.media/dutch-court-meta-violated-european-law-social-feeds

MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan, Haotian Zhang, Haoshuo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Jialing Tong, Haoxuan You, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Hyunjik Kim, Chao Jia, Zhenbang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Mingfei Gao, Zi-Yi Dou, Wenze Hu, Chang Gao, Dongxu Li, Philipp Dufter, Zirui Wang, Guoli Yin, Zhengdong Zhang, Chen Chen, Yang Zhao, Ruoming Pang, Zhifeng Chen

MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
Unified multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both understand and generate visual content hold immense potential. However, existing open-source models often suffer from a performance trade-off between these capabilities. We present Manzano, a simple and scalable unified framework that substantially reduces this tension by coupling a hybrid image tokenizer with a well-curated training recipe. A single shared vision encoder feeds two lightweight adapters that produce continuous embeddi…

Butterflies -- in total five red admirals (although I didn't get all of them into one photo), one small tortoiseshell, and two cabbage whites -- feeding on the same field thistle on my croft in yesterday's sunshine. I'd like to pretend this was a common sight, but it's not; still, it is a comfort that one can still occasionally see this many butterflies active at the same time.
There were also two dragonflies around, but I failed to photograph either.

Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Omar El Malki, Marianne Aubin Le Qu\'er\'e, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Modern social media feeds use predictive models to maximize engagement, often misaligning how people consume content with how they wish to. We introduce Bonsai, a system that enables people to build personalized and intentional feeds. Bonsai implements a platform-agnostic framework comprising Planning, Sourcing, Curating, and Ranking modules. Altogether, this framework allows users to express their intent in natural language and exert fine-grained control over a procedurally transparent feed cr…

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.

My front yard garden in stormy dusk light. There's only about 30 square metres (320 square feet) of bed space but it feeds us very well. #permaculture

me and who

The collapse of First Brands (it’s not just you, few had heard of them) is *probably* not the pin that pops the current bubble, but it’s entertaining. Wall Street will reliably engage in lethal/suicidal business practices given the chance.
But that bubble-popping pin is incoming.
Matt Levine: https://newsletterhunt.com/em…

I want to read RSS feeds on my Browser natively

During their latest tour stop, Massive Attack shocked fans by integrating facial recognition into the show itself. Live video feeds captured audience faces, processing them through recognition software and projecting the results as part of the visual experience. https://www.

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

@… another bug report/suggestion, two actually.
#1: comma separated tags/categories in RSS feeds aren't interpreted as separate tags, but as one big long tag
#2: possibly add hashtag search to bridgy web. you can retrieve a list of posts matching a searched hashtag from most instances (iirc), it might be nice to set this up for …

Want followers for your blog, website, or podcast? Enable your feeds and don't force people to create accounts on third-party sites.
It's sad to find an interesting podcast and discover that it's only available on Apple Podcasts.
No feeds? No party.

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a stand…

Big #AI is paying #ThirdWorld contract workers paltry pennies a day to sort through the most disturbing #data that feeds #FirstWorld

This is very cool, those awesome crazy Danes have launched a #UStechGiant free platform for finding and promoting live music events in Copenhagen. Check out how to use it here
And the best thing is you can follow it in your #Fediverse feeds.
#DigitalSovereignty
https://floor.tips/p/Workshop-learn-to-use-floor-tips-and-find-your-next-dancefloor-nFpfCdj56CbjAjMr92c5jJ

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

As we transitioned from the caravan back to bricks-and-mortar, we stayed here a few weeks, and very nearly signed a six-month lease to allow us time to house-hunt in #Canberra. (Thankfully, an almost perfect apartment found us just before the deadline.)
The staff were lovely and everything, but man, that place had a vibe.

Is the signature Trump's? Epstein birthday book feeds speculation. (Matt Viser/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/trump-epstein-signature/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p41#a250910p41

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

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:...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
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

"The Arab world is becoming more pragmatic, more secular, and more modern.
Israel could have been part of that story. It could even have become one of its leaders. Instead, Netanyahu, whose entire political existence feeds on fear and division, keeps Israel chained to its past. He preserves the old Israel, a nation always searching for the next enemy. A region being reborn now faces a state growing old."

The showman, the reconciler and the cynic – why this trinity must succeed
Netanyahu will kick and scream, but Trump and Blair can drag Israel into a brighter future for the Middle East

🤠 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 […]

Was Flash from "The Dukes of Hazzard" non-binary?
"Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards)."
https://dukesofhazzard.fandom.com/wiki/Flash

Flash
Flash is a pet dog owned by Sheriff Rosco Coltrane. She is a slow-paced Basset Hound and Rosco's loyal companion, who hates Hogg but loves the Dukes. She first appeared in the first official third-season episode "Enos Strate to the Top" (the season opener "Carnival of Thrills" was held over from the previous season), although she was not formally "introduced" in that episode. Flash's favorite food is "doggie num-nums," a type of dog treat that Rosco feeds her. Flash, unfortunately, passed...

I love looking at Streetwear fashion photography... does anyone have any links to some?
I realise that there's a few feeds on Instagram, but I'm not interested in any Zuck platforms thanks.
#Streetwear #Fashion #Photography

The best part about @… is that every search has it's own RSS feed.
Give them a try. https://feedle.world

Irgendwie ist die Anzahl der Leute in meinen Feeds, die grade aus USA nach DE ziehen bzw. zurückziehen, in den letzten Monaten stark nach oben gegangen. Woran das wohl liegt…

It would be cool if we could subscribe to torrent RSS feeds for the @… library.

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.

I've blogged about how I'm using #FreshRSS to get full-text #RSS feeds – and about crowdsourcing configs that will allow folks to subscribe to more things thanks to the web scraping feature!
https://tzovar.as/fulltext-freshrss/
(Responses to this toot will also become blog comments)

This could be the start of a script for a Seinfeld-like show updated to 2025...
“I was still charged for that session, Jerry!” <laugh track>

Sadly, though, it’s only for pets 8kg and under. I have a very laconic, but nonetheless very anxiety-prone #MaineCoon cross who’d still need to fly as cargo. 😿
#cats h…

Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-ad…

Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of 'AI slop' in your feed | TechCrunch
Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.

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.

Imagine cooking for an entire sorority as a professional chef & using the video of meal prep as a content creator.
▶️ How a TikTok-Famous Chef Feeds a Sorority | On the Job | NYT Cooking
https://youtube.com/watch?v=efIDPoDs5ew&si=POso_Z-Ilrc-WqT-
…

“RSS feeds remain one of the last open and decentralized distribution mechanisms on the modern web. Platforms like Spotify and YouTube are increasingly moving toward exclusivity and closed podcasting ecosystems. Supporting browser-side XSLT helps keep RSS accessible and human-friendly, especially for independent creators.”
https://lwn.net/Arti…

Today I looked up at one of those early October brilliant blue skies that grace New York.
One might say that I looked up from my phone, from the other kind of Bluesky which feeds me all the madness of the world.
These days I’m trying keep both skies balancing each other with a practice of writing back to the social media posts I encounter.
From sky to screen to sky. It’s a form of play that helps me reclaim my attention and connect to my sense of being.

Another Blue Sky
A series of prose poems written in response to social media posts on Bluesky.

🇺🇦 #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

Outstanding episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social on the commute home today.@… had me laughing out loud in the first half but as ever the story behind Medusa is much darker, and much more interesting than you thought.
Here's Looking at You, Kid
File:
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3457675425.mp3?updated=1756702004
RSS:
https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

Absolute stunner of a day

SubSense: VR-Haptic and Motor Feedback for Immersive Control in Subsea Telerobotics
Ruo Chen, David Blow, Adnan Abdullah, Md Jahidul Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02594 https…

SubSense: VR-Haptic and Motor Feedback for Immersive Control in Subsea Telerobotics
This paper investigates the integration of haptic feedback and virtual reality (VR) control interfaces to enhance teleoperation and telemanipulation of underwater ROVs (remotely operated vehicles). Traditional ROV teleoperation relies on low-resolution 2D camera feeds and lacks immersive and sensory feedback, which diminishes situational awareness in complex subsea environments. We propose SubSense -- a novel VR-Haptic framework incorporating a non-invasive feedback interface to an otherwise 1-…

Getting other SM feeds set up in Micro.blog.

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 🇺🇦

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Dora Zhao, Tiziano Piccardi, Zachary Robertson, Ziv Epstein, Sanmi Koyejo, Michael S. Bernstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14434

Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms
While social media feed rankings are primarily driven by engagement signals rather than any explicit value system, the resulting algorithmic feeds are not value-neutral: engagement may prioritize specific individualistic values. This paper presents an approach for social media feed value alignment. We adopt Schwartz's theory of Basic Human Values -- a broad set of human values that articulates complementary and opposing values forming the building blocks of many cultures -- and we implement an …

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

A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs (Sebastian Modak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

🔋 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.

Sorry to the folks who had been trying to use the https://masto2rss.gedanken.uber.space/ test instance and ever got any feeds generated in the last days.
There was a bug in my error handling, which meant for subsets of folks it didn't work. That should be fixed now 🙏

My RSS reader is empty today :-: :rss:
Guess 79 feeds are not enough.
#rss #freshrss

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.

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…

FYI, here’s the exact language of 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) which spells out how media mail is exempt:
https://kind.social/@wbwolf/115103183358864928

This week's Mindscape podcast is with Petter Törnberg who has been running agent based simulated social networks to try and figure out why they're so divisive and polarizing.
His models do apparently capture these features of the networks which promote the most popular posts to everyone.
Sad to learn that simply using chronological feeds apparently not only doesn't help he reckons it makes things worse!
Maybe his agent's just aren't smart enough to follow the right people, but then probably nor are mere humans.
🤔
#socialMedia #podcast #fediverse

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.

I made a repository on #codeberg to document my own #FreshRSS settings to get fulltext feeds of different websites: #RSS

Remotely Seeing Is Believing: How Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems Evolves Through Virtual Observation
Zhi Hua Jin, Kurt Xiao, David Hyde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10749 https:/…

Remotely Seeing Is Believing: How Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems Evolves Through Virtual Observation
In this paper, we develop a virtual laboratory for measuring human trust. Our laboratory, which is realized as a web application, enables researchers to show pre-recorded or live video feeds to groups of users in a synchronized fashion. Users are able to provide real-time feedback on these videos via affect buttons and a freeform chat interface. We evaluate our application via a quantitative user study ($N \approx 80$) involving videos of cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous vehicles, per…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
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

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.

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

Spent the evening improving my #RSS setup by getting more into the possibilities of https://www.freshrss.org/:
Thanks to its support for web scraping, I've now managed to get the full text of articles, instead of just the snippets, of @… en español into my reader.
And even managed to get BBC Mundo scraped into it through the scraping, despite @… unfortunately not providing any official feeds for the Spanish-language news at all.

The fundraising letter I got from #NYPL (New York Public Library) this week has some fantastic news:
They are raising money because of “book checkouts doubling and tripling at some branches”.
People are READING!
People are continuing to read, despite the popular narrative that everyone just wants to sit scrolling video feeds and chatting with bots all day. People want books, people have the attention span to read them, and at the very least some libraries are thriving.
Have hope in people!
#libraries #books #bookstodon #GoodNews #positivity #NYC