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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!)

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#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


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/


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


Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler

#news #faith #Diwali #Hinduism #Buddhism #Jainism #Nazi #Swastika

https://apnews.com/article/religion-germany-race-and-ethnicity-europe-2c28b5892381cd4148dfde5bc4fbb004


University of Arizona professor is dead because no one took antisemitic threats seriously enough

The danger an antisemitic student posed to UA professors was known and reported. But no one took the threats seriously enough to prevent a campus tragedy.

#news #antisemitism #hategroups #shooting #schoolshooting

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/11/22/ua-professor-thomas-meixner-murder-failure-stop-antisemitism/69668645007/


Content warning: Increase in hate speech on bird site


For all the talk of Mastodon being better about harassment it doesn’t seem like it has any features ppl who deal w/ tons of harassment have been asking Twitter for:
* Mass blocking capabilities
* Ability to block/limit anyone who likes a specific post or follows a specific person
* Ability to see only notifications from mutuals, etc.

Can you even limit ur replies to mutuals only on here? Doesn’t seem like you can?
#tech #technology #twitter #twittermi #twitterefugee #media #news #journalist


Seemed rude at first. But now I am aware of a particular soft drink manufacturer and bottling company in the UK.

#news #broadcast #clearly #drinks #clearlydrinks



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


Content warning: We are very happy to announce the avail-ability of the new stable version of Friendica. With this release the “Siberian Iris” cycle is closed and we start a new one, the “Giant Rhubarb“. 20 people have contributed directly to the code of Friendica “Giant




This 9-foot Atari video game joystick claims the record as the world's largest


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The giant controller, created Mary Flanagan of Dartmouth College, is nearly 14 times the size of an original classic Atari joystick. It made it into the Guinness World Records 2022 as the biggest.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#Japan breaks #internet #speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer


Source: https://www.engadget.com/japan-breaks-internet-speed-record-200136933.html
As with many of these experiments, it could be a long time before this performance has a meaningful impact. While the four-core #fiber would work with existing networks, the system could easily be very expensive. It's more likely to see initial use with internet backbones and other major networking projects where capacity matters more than cost.
#news #science #experiment #backbone



How Hackers Used #Slack to Break into #EA #Games

A representative for the hackers told Motherboard in an online chat that the process started by purchasing stolen cookies being sold online for $10 and using those to gain access to a Slack channel used by EA.
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The hackers then requested a multifactor #authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA's corporate #network. The representative said this was successful two times.

Once inside EA's network, the hackers found a service for EA developers for compiling games. They successfully logged in and created a virtual machine giving them more visibility into the network, and then accessed one more service and downloaded #game #source #code.
more here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack

#security #hack #hacker #news #details #story #cookie #login


Human Rights News - 2021-01-31 09:52:28 GMT
Amnesty International: "Facial recognition technology risks amplifying racist policing and threatens our right to protest. People should be able to go out about their daily lives without being tracked by facial recognition.

Call for a ban this form of mass surveillance: https://banthescan.amnesty.org/ 📢

[:tw:https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355810631828426756 — #humanrights #news #bot]
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Human Rights News - 2021-01-30 13:52:35 GMT
Amnesty International: "Saudi Arabia has imprisoned women like Nassima al-Sada who demanded women's rights and equality. Now it is hosting the #G20 and claiming that women's empowerment is top of the agenda.

Call on Saudi Arabia to free her now: http://amn.st/6019Hba5v #W4R20 📢✍️

[:tw:https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355511587499597828 — #humanrights #news #bot]
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Human Rights News - 2021-01-29 10:52:23 GMT
Amnesty International: "As activists we need to protect our mental health and wellbeing. But what do we mean when talking about stress, burnout, anxiety and depression?

Read more: http://amn.st/6007HZqHF 📢

[:tw:https://tweets.newsbots.eu/amnesty/status/1355099125533044736 — #humanrights #news #bot]
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