@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„Jeffrey Epstein was a warlord. We have to talk about It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy“ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/#<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPolitical fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…
@jake4480@c.imI love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhile I think it's good that more mainstream publications do more on the #fediverse the Search Engine/Hard Fork episode on the #forkiverse is a bit ... well it could have done with a bit more research. And "oh look how yanky it all is but we didn't read the manual to run this ser…
@cdarwin@c.imThe mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.
@anildash@me.dmlol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialIn Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream - @Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIEEE Spectrum: Two visions for the future of AR smart glasses #AR/#AI
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGrok Is Pushing AI 'Undressing' Mainstream (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-pushing-ai-undressing-mainstream/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p143#a260106p143
@axbom@axbom.me
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBundesabwärmetagung: Abwärme aus Rechenzentren soll zum Mainstream werden
Das Energieeffizienzgesetz zwingt Rechenzentren, ihre Abwärme anzubieten. Doch die Nutzung ist komplex. AWANetz soll nun mit Know-how und Kontakten helfen.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialHow do we steer EV charging so that it strengthens, rather than strains, the power grid? One of the clearest answers emerging from global leading practice is the use of smart pricing to guide smart EV charging.
What can China learn from Europe and vice versa? I discuss this with Chi Gao
htt…
@anildash@me.dmlol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://
@krasse_eloquenz@literatur.socialDas Etikett „Bestsellerautor“ ist ein Garant dafür, dass mir ein Werk sprachlich und inhaltlich missfallen wird. Kenne nur wenige Ausnahmen. Manchmal vergesse ich es, kaufe ein solches Buch und erlebe eine unschöne Überraschung, setze das Buch wenige Tage später irgendwo aus.
Das Phänomen ist in Fachkreisen* als „Fluch des Literaturstudiums“ bekannt.
Zum Glück bin ich bei Musik herrlich unkritisch und fast schon mainstream.
*Bei mir zu Haus’.
@cdarwin@c.imWe are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.
CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers against taking some of what they read in the paper’s columns at face value.
And all across the country, local news is on a ventilator;
the right-wing Sinclair network is taking…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Doja Cat:
🎵 Aaahh Men!
#NowPlaying #DojaCat
https://mixhypeedits.bandcamp.com/track/doja-cat-aaahh-men-top40-mainstream-115-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qGvxAKXbajPFRb9ybIMOD
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSo yeah, as @… is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.
BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialTikTok öffnet die KI-Spielwiese: Bild- und Textgenerierung, “Smart Split” und Avatare drängen in den Mainstream. Innovation? Oder nur mehr digitaler Datenmüll im Feed? Der Autor bleibt skeptisch: “Die Gefahr ist, dass Leute KI-Inhalte zunehmend abschalten.” #TikTokAI #Kreativität
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn analysis details how right-wing influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance to target critics, spread false claims, and reshape media (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html
Even as the crypto industry gains mainstream acceptance, at least $28 billion tied to illicit activity has flowed into crypto exchanges over the last two years from hack…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKristi Noem impeachment goes mainstream among House Democrats (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/kristi-noem-impeachment-minneapolis-portland-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p78#a260109p78
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Electronic Women
Hannah Peel delves into the stories and sound worlds of five female electronic pioneers. Tonight, Laurie Anderson, who brought the avant-garde into the mainstream in the 1980s.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkcz
@fgraver@hcommons.socialI bought my first modem at a post-Christmas sale in December 1992, and spent a few shot months discovering BBS’s and the text-based net before getting Mosaic and discover WWW in 1993. It opened up a whole new world! https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11565105…
@gwire@mastodon.socialI just noticed that theguardian.com is preferring to send image/jxl if it's in the Accept header (which it is in Safari). I don't think I'd noticed it on a mainstream site before?
Apparently this has been supported by fastly for more than a year now.
https://www.…
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine Update: January 4, 2026
Dylan Combelick is retired US military analyst and Russian linguist living in Ukraine.
He provides unparalleled insight and understanding that mainstream media avoids like the plague.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and support Ukraine, support journalism, support truth!
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialBöhmermann zu AI ist nicht neu, aber gut gemacht - hallo Mainstream.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThis is an interesting take on the shift in the mainstream media bias, the mechanisms by which it changes, and feels well-founded based on my anecdotal experience, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdFtVGYrvk
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"So here is what we should all be doing instead: embracing the Big Ball of Mud. Let us be honest; in an age where mental health concerns are finally gone mainstream, I find accepting such truth after 25 years a deliverance for the software engineer in me. Our projects are like hourglasses glued to a table, so we should just breathe."
@cark@social.tchncs.deAus meiner Sicht ist der #DIday von @… eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, das #Fediverse für den Mainstream-Diskurs relevanter zu machen – und damit die Gesellschaft…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialChris Packham:
“Why are we unbelievably pulling back on rapidly and forthrightly addressing the greatest crisis to ever threaten our species, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss?
“Climate denialism has been a mainstream thing again, thanks to the well-oiled machines of the rich, powerful and influential lobbyists from the fossil fuel and other industries.
"We have declared war on our one and only home, we’ve set or house on fire."
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialFesttägliche Filmauswahl für familiäre Abende, dafür ist der Mainstream-Streamingdienst sehr gut geeignet (mit dem der neue TV natürlich auch gut verdrahtet ist), unterfüttert von Metacritic.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deZu sagen das Stolpersteine nicht ins Stadtbild gehören, wäre eine Aussage welche zu recht ein Skandal auslösen würde. Aber zu sagen das Menschengruppen nicht ins Stadtbild gehören oder dieses unschöner machen, eine Ideologie welche das letzte mal dazu führte, dass wir schlussendlich Stolpersteine brauchten, ist in der deutschen Mainstream-Politik längst angekommen.
@timbray@cosocial.caWhat a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
@grumpybozo@toad.socialFWIW: Germany had only been a nominal liberal democracy for a dozen years and had a judicial class trained in the system of the Kaiser and Bismarck, no matter what the Weimar Constitution said.
Also: the vilest sorts of anti-semitism had been mainstream German beliefs since before Luther, who was awful. https://
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caTrump big mad again cuz Ford used Reagan’s words.
Hilarious.
The weirdest thing about all this is this is all fighting amongst varying shades of right wing capitalists…
My question is… where are the social democrat alternatives to all this? I hear it amongst real people… but it is basically absent from mainstream politics.
Maybe the people need to change that.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #theAmericanFascist
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Doja Cat:
🎵 Aaahh Men!
#NowPlaying #DojaCat
https://mixhypeedits.bandcamp.com/track/doja-cat-aaahh-men-top40-mainstream-115-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qGvxAKXbajPFRb9ybIMOD
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity"
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/the-guru-of-the-ai-apocalypse
@vartak@mastodon.online@… Great. But why? There enough Linux installation tutorials out there. And anyone starting with the mainstream distros like Fedora/Ubuntu should have no problems using the GUI installers. I suspect the tutorial that is needed is not how to install Linux, but rather how to install anything that wasn’t already there when you bought your computer.
@villavelius@mastodon.onlinePlan S – Quo Vadis?
#openaccess
https://blog.scielo.org/en/2025/11/19/plan-s-quo-vadis/
(Versions in Portuguese and Spanish also available)
@barijaona@mastodon.mgIl y a eu :
- la disparition des pages Facebook "Gen Z Madagascar" et "Madagascar Aviation",
- l'apparition de dizaines de fausses pages Gen Z,
- la prise de contrôle et l'instrumentalisation de Twitter par Elon Musk.
Malgré cela, convaincre de ne pas utiliser exclusivement les grands réseaux sociaux mainstream comme moyen de diffusion des informations reste un défi.
La sécurité minimum est d'avoir au moins un site (non en jachère !…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaYo ya odiaba Oracle antes de que fuera mainstream odiar a Oracle.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPentagon upbraids mainstream media in briefing with pro-Trump press corps (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/02/pentagon-media/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY0NjUxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2MDMzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ2NTE2MDAsImp0aSI6ImYzYmVkNzFkLWQ5ZmMtNDE4YS1iMTE3LTNjMDY4MjhhZjMyZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzEyLzAyL3BlbnRhZ29uLW1lZGlhLyJ9.O2nAKGSFi_9z7qlPC3P5jSuOKE2zfAdTDs8J6p-DYZ8&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p131#a251202p131
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialThe truth is you *can* say and *have* been able to say fuck on the internet this whole time, you just won't see anyone responding cuz the algorithms on mainstream platforms deemed your post too risky and suppressed the cunting shit out of it.
"Ooh just send it, who gives a fuck lmao" I do, I'd like people to see what I post.
@hippyjo@c.imTrump's "Peace Plan" for Ukraine is a joke without a punchline, it makes no sense, and it surely isn't funny.
Reporting from Ukraine, where the people of Ukraine have understandably strong opinions about this farce.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and give the world a chance to glimpse the truth being obscured and ignored by mainstream media:
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Pentagon denied the AP and others access to a few news briefings, claiming they're orientation events for the new press corps, which now includes Matt Gaetz (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-pre…
@anildash@me.dmLOL I stepped away from Mastodon for a couple hours and everybody is VERY MAD that I made jokes about CLIs. I use them every day, guys, it's gonna be okay. I promise I did not hurt Zork's feelings. It is, however, a factual statement that CLIs are not discoverable user interfaces and they are a poor choice for mainstream audiences; this debate was settled long ago.
@blaise@mastodon.cloudEven if you are sure you don't need extra security, you need extra security. Change messengers! The people keeping you "secure" are farming you like pigs, and the slaughter is a-comin'!
https://friendica.rogueproject.org/display/cd661f92-b4e46e05…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
DJ Snake ft. Future & Travis Scott:
🎵 Tsunami
#DJSnakeftFuture #TravisScott
https://mixhypeedits.bandcamp.com/track/dj-snake-ft-future-travis-scott-tsunami-mainstream-epic-intro-v2-70-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AvZXYluV7hMnqCXZnWpBH
@cdarwin@c.imAcquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: the Pentagon plans to host right-wing media outlets and influencers like Gateway Pundit and Laura Loomer at an in-person meet-and-greet on Monday (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
@cdarwin@c.imPorn has long been a proving ground for new technology.
When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century it was quickly deployed to print bawdy pamphlets.
Adult films were put on video in 1977, a year before mainstream Hollywood ones,
and dominated sales for some time.
When Minitel, a French precursor to the internet, was launched in the early 1980s, erotic services initially accounted for between one-third and a half of all traffic.
I…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update: Russian propaganda continues to be the most powerful asset the Kremlin has.
It is exhausting to keep track of the lies, between Trump and The "mainstream" media.
Giorgio shares the friendlink for reports he writes on the frontlines of democracy in Ukraine. He is a hero who risks his life to provide a glimmer of the truth Russia wants to hide.
Support his work, support journalism, and support Ukraine by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:…
@cdarwin@c.imAs explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imComputer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan detailed a startling find he made about his $300 smart vacuum:
-- it was transmitting intimate data out of his home.
Narayanan had been letting his iLife A11 smart vacuum — a popular gadget that’s gained mainstream media coverage — do its thing for about a year, before he became curious about its inner workings.
" I decided to monitor its network traffic, as I would with any so-called smart device.” Wit…
@cdarwin@c.imMainstream media is owned by Billionaires.
They control even small-town newspapers and TV.
Expect this belittling of your beliefs and actions:
https://bsky.app/profile/briarish.bsky.social/post/3m3koppqktc2r
@cdarwin@c.imSix million people exercised their democratic right to protest,
and Trump’s response was to giggle and express a wish to bury them in feces.
At best that’s juvenile; at worst it’s an ugly attack on the democratic spirit.
Either way, it’s bizarre, jarring, and extremely divisive.
You’d think journalists would want to talk about it.
And yet, for the most part, the mainstream media has shied away from the story.
The Sunday shows hardly mentioned it.
…
@cdarwin@c.im“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineWaar gaat het naartoe met "Plan S"?
#openaccess #PlanS #PlanU #SciELO
