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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web
@…, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem: audience growth.
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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/books/audiobook-piracy-youtube.html

Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

Last.fm users, give this one a vote (upper left) - https://support.last.fm/t/limit-the-number-of-artist-photo-uploads/118521
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Limit the number of artist photo uploads
As long as multiple artists share the same page then photo battles are always going to part of LastFM but, more and more, I'm seeing people simply flood the photo section with dozens of images in an attempt to drown out any possible alternatives. I propose limiting users to ONE image upload per artist. Pages don't need 100+ images, all uploaded by the same 2-3 people.

Is anyone else having issues connecting the iPadOS-version of Wordpress to blogs hosted on @…? Whenever I go through the login-procedure, it just returns me to the login screen after I’ve entered my user name and password. Very confusing (and annoying).
Alternately, is there a better blogging app in iPad for Wordpress-based blogs? In particular,…

Christiane Rösingers "Joy of Ageing" ist nicht nur als Geschenk für alternde Männer und Frauen empfehlenswert, sondern bietet auch dieses schöne Zitat zur Verwendung in Einführungslehrveranstaltungen ins wissenschaftliche Arbeiten: "die Materialsammlung ist eigentlich der schönste Teil am Schreiben: Man stellt Bücherlisten zusammen, geht in Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen, denn ausgeliehen und gekauft ist halb gelesen, und recherchiert ist halb geschrieben. ...

Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Streit über KI-Anordnungen der EU: Google erhält Hilfe von Apple
Ungewöhnliche Hilfe: Apple nimmt zu EU-Maßnahmen gegen Google Stellung. Diese könnten nämlich auch für iOS zur Gefahr werden.
https://www.…

Apple präsentiert „Trusted OS Agent“ als Alternative zu EU-KI-Vorgaben
Ungewöhnliche Hilfe: Apple nimmt zu EU-Maßnahmen gegen Google Stellung. Diese könnten nämlich auch für iOS zur Gefahr werden.

Proposal for alternative text attribute for video poster images:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12585
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Enable Responsive Images and Alternative Text for HTML Video Poster Images by scottjehl · Pull Request #12585 · whatwg/html
This proposal follows "Approach 1" in #10378 to: Add a new HTML video element posterfromimg attribute, opting a video element into allowing a child img element to govern poster image sel...

One might see needy children getting less food assistance as a horrifying outcome.
But the Trump administration has sold all this as a success story.
Those losing benefits, we’re told, were all lazy grifters who were probably defrauding the government anyway.
Or, alternatively, maybe they really did once deserve their benefits, but they have since graduated out of their undignified need for federal assistance thanks to Trump’s economic boom.
“A lot of [the enrollmen…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
His solution to the food affordability crisis is to cut programs that help people afford food.

From @…, but his Bluesky alter-ego:
https://bsky.app/profile/patrickmgarvin.bsky.social/post/3mm4zxjv4ac22