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The Clown Show Is in Town: Small Crowds Gathered in Miami for Trump Arraignment

A low internal sense of self and a need to be wanted are what ties Trump & Trumpers together.

Outlandish costumes scream "Here I am, look at me" and Trump's penchant for grandiosity (ie inflating crowd size) lead me to believe -

These people were not shown love as children. The effects of this are seen in their actions as adults.

NEED ME...SEE ME!
#Trump #news #Politics #GOP #USA

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/arraignment-day-protests-over-trump-classified-document-case-ramp-up-in-miami-17190166


We've been on Mastodon for 6 months now! Time for a re-#introduction to the new folks here:
We are a trustworthy, nonprofit #News source, sharing the knowledge of academic experts on many topics.

Our team of editors identifies researchers studying topics that are timely, important or just plain interesting, and helps them write understandably for the public.

We give away all this #journalism for free.

If you know people who'd be interested in us, please boost

https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different


If you tweet or toot articles that are behind paywalls, you aren't spreading important information; you're doing unpaid marketing for media companies.

#paywall #news #SocialMedia


Happy #Newstodon Friday!

For this week's story, we'll share Michelle Pitcher's interview with #prison journalist Jason Walker, who bravely reports on conditions inside even though it puts his life at risk.
https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-journalist-shows-why-we-need-a-free-press-even-behind-bars/

If you know anything about prison #journalism, you know both how courageous Jason is, and how hard Michelle had to work to get inside to report this story.

(Edit: Repetition)
#JournoLife #HumanRights #media #Texas #news
#TexasNeedsAnObserver
Prison journalist Jason Walker, a Black man with short hair and a short mustache. He has a serious expression on his face and is wearing a collared prison shirt, sitting behind a visitation window in this photograph.


https://t.me/United24media/8479
⚠️🇺🇦"We must throw Russia out of the sky": Foreign Minister Kuleba asks friends of Ukraine to speed up the decision on training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighters #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive


Majority of Melatonin Gummies in the US Inaccurately Labeled

The vast majority of melatonin gummies sold in the US may contain up to 347% more melatonin than is listed on the label, new research shows

Investigators found that consuming some products as directed could expose consumers, including children, to doses that are 40 to 130 times greater than what's recommended

#usa #health #medicine #news #sleep #remedy #otc #fda

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/991215


You're Not Immune To Propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2fnWIlDZg

This video hits hard, we're all immersed in propaganda without even realizing its influence on us, so when someone points it out you're in shock of how you didn't see that before.

#YouTube #educational
#propaganda #news #media
#capitalism #neoliberalism
Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text reads "You are not immune to propaganda" with the drawing of a person staring directly at the viewer.


A few absolute shockers in the list of websites the Washington Post has revealed are used to train Google's generative AI tools. Apparently including the likes of 4Chan, Breitbart, and RT.

From WaPo:

"Meanwhile, we found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian state-backed propaganda site; breitbart.com No. 159, a well-known source for far-right news and opinion; and vdare.com No. 993, an anti-immigration site that has been associated with white supremacy.

"The top Christian site, Grace to You (gty.org No. 164), belongs to Grace Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in California. Christianity Today recently reported that the church counseled women to 'continue to submit' to abusive fathers and husbands and to avoid reporting them to authorities."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

#technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #Google #tech #news @technology @politics #trans #lgbtqia #lgbtq


Hello everyone. I'm new here, part of the #TwitterMigration. Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm mostly interested in #lgbtqia topics, #books, #writing, #computers, #StarWars, and US and world #news in general.

#introduction


‘Greedflation’: profit-boosting mark-ups attract an inevitable backlash

Some companies seized on widely reported disruptions to raise prices and increase margins at the expense of consumers

#news #finance #economy

https://www.ft.com/content/731e38d9-821d-4a6d-b9fd-22a5c6c0c0fd


Good news for everyone here who uses Flipboard on Android: you can now connect your Mastodon account and flip through feeds.

Besides seeing posts from Mastodon feeds, you can also boost, like and reply to them from within the Flipboard app. You can also add content from Mastodon to your Flipboard Magazines, and vice versa: share content from Flipboard with your followers on Mastodon.

#Android #Flipboard #Mastodon #News

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/mastodon-on-android-flipboard-integration-is-here/


DeSantis dismissal of Russia’s war in Ukraine as a vital US interest will invite the Kremlin’s cyber & disinformation tools to amplify his message, charge his base and further sow American division. Deliberate on #DeSantis part, I believe

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #florida #uspol #Floridaman



I wish more #local #governments worked this way. If enough folks in town want it, it will happen, if they don't, than its done. No need to #steal from your #neighbors. #Michigan #news #politics


Two "He Gets Us" #Jesus ads will air during the #superbowl. The group behind the ads has given $19 million to the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom and $8 million to Answers in Genesis (Creation Museum, Ark Park). They are anti-science #ChristianNationalist who oppose LGBT and women's rights

#news #religion #hategroups #ChristianTaliban #cult #uspol

https://religiondispatches.org/behind-the-inclusive-sounding-ads-of-the-100-million-pr-blitz-for-jesus-its-the-same-old-white-conservative-fantasy/?rss=1


LastPass Sibling Company GoTo Loses Encrypted Backups to Hackers

The hacker also stole an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups by accessing a cloud storage database shared by both LastPass and GoTo.

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #Lastpass #breach #hacking

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-sibling-company-goto-loses-encrypted-backups-to-hackers


#PopeBenedict, who died at age 95, presented his case for Christ and Christianity’s transforming power as sources of truth, beauty and love in a way that even critics respected.

But his theological legacy will have to contend with the shadows of the numerous controversies that marked his time as pope and, later, as pope emeritus.

https://theconversation.com/pope-benedict-xvi-a-man-at-odds-with-the-modern-world-who-leaves-a-legacy-of-intellectual-brilliance-and-controversy-143942

#News #Pope


This is especially for folks just discovering The Conversation on #Mastodon - but anyone curious about the world will find it interesting and informative reading.

We've collected 8 of our most popular articles of the year in links, and in a downloadable PDF.

Among them:
🦟 The science of mosquito magnets
🔭 The search for super-earths
🌋 Why we can't just throw all our trash into volcanoes to get rid of it

All written by experts.

https://theconversation.com/a-sampler-of-our-most-popular-articles-of-2022-195535
#Journalism #Science #SciComm #News


What news publications have you seen set up shop on Mastodon?

I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit:

- LA Times @losangelestimes
- NBC News @nbcnews
- ProPublica @ProPublica
- VOA @VOANews
- The Intercept @theintercept
- The Conversation @TheConversationUS
- Meduza @meduza_en
- Global Voices @globalvoices
- Grist @grist
- Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete
- Le Monde diplomatique (in French) @mdiplo

(ping me if you know more!)

1/6
#media #news #journalism


This is apparently the tweet that led to my suspension from Twitter. Right as I was reinstated they announced a new policy that they apparently found me to have retroactively violated
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #news #elonmusk #tech #technews #technology
Links of my social channels
New policy saying you can’t promote other social channels


Earlier today Elon Musk said that my ban was temporary, 45 min later he denied my appeal to reinstate my account and confirmed that I am *permanently* banned. The email I just received says the decision cannot be reversed.
I have never once violated Twitters rules or terms of service. I’ve never had a single tweet flagged, my account was permanently banned with no warning and with no reason, after I reached out to Musk for comment.
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #news #technews
Email saying I’m permanently banned from twitter


TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds, study says

#TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDH ).

#news #technology #tech #security #china

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-pushes-potentially-harmful-content-to-users-as-often-as-every-39-seconds-study/


Now seems like a pretty good time to re-link my proposal from October that news organizations stand up Mastodon servers.

In the proposal, I explain why a news organization (and other organizations) might want to have their own Mastodon (or other social network service) hosted on their subdomain, e.g. follow.washingtonpost.com.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/

#news #journalism #newsmedia #mastodon #agency


Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news


Meta: 3-4% of users’ feeds is #news.

Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.

So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.

That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.

It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.

#journalism #socialmedia


Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!


source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.
#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisation