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Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…

Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Shooting Spread Rapidly on Social Media
First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

I always find it interesting to compare my work with other developers' work. In this case I built a migration utility for Mastodon written in Python. After I posted to the "Support Post Migration" thread on Github someone else posted with their solution.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

@… I feel like you misread what I posted 😅

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Am Wochenende hat mich ein berührender Brief erreicht. Er kam von einem Follower auf Mastodon, der hier kaum eigene Texte postet, sondern vor allem mitliest.
Er schreibt, dass ihm manche Posts aus der Seele sprechen würden. Auch das ist Interaktion per Mastodon, auch wenn sie nur in eine Richtung geht. Aber jeder Post kann die ganze Welt erreichen und deswegen liebe ich das Fediverse.
Ganz anders als die Algorithmen gesteuerten Plattformen mit ihrer Reichweitenlüge.

Die Reichweitenlüge | Digitalcourage
Millionen Follower, null Wirkung: „Social Media“ verkauft uns ein volles Stadion – und schaltet dann das Mikro stumm

Me on Wednesday (pasted verbatim):
“low maintenance on the 4xe Jeep, too, but I do expect their servers to require me to do some stupid update and brick it at some point because they're terrible.”
Stellantis on Friday: pushed update that bricked probably thousands of Wranglers.
Fortunately, mine seems fine so maybe I was safe from the update in Canada. Or mine was late so didn’t get it before they cancelled.
Friday of a long weekend. They don’t have a rollback pla…

Auf dass auch das Fediverse informiert sei: Ralf Hoffrogge postete bei Meta dies: "Linkskommunismus Open Access - die Dissertation von Rhena Stürmer kann man jetzt frei im Netz lesen:" https://www.wallstein-open-library.de/9783835359406-jenseits-des-bo…

Qantas says 5.7M customer records stolen in a July breach of a third-party platform have been released online, and it is assessing the extent of the exposure (Jason Gale/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…