Macron prépare la guerre… contre le bon sens
Émoi dans les médias de grand chemin et vives réactions sur les réseaux sociaux : pas de doute, le récent discours du Chef d’état-major des armées n’a laissé personne indifférent. Il faut dire que, au cours de son allocution donnée dans le cadre du 107ème Congrès de l’Association des Maires de France, le bougre n’y va […] ⌘ Read more

New Research Finds America’s Top Social Media Sites: YouTube (84%) Facebook (71%), Instagram (50%)
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them
“do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results?

YouTube 84%

Facebook 71%

Instagram 50%

TikTok 37%

WhatsApp 32%

Reddit 26%

Snapchat 2 … ⌘ Read more

This is what this looked like visually 😳

#NonFictionNovember #bookstodon

#MárioViegas #Abril

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Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from 404 Media: The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. The Kremlin once called its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles “invincible.” Joe Biden said the missile was “almost impossible to stop.” Now Ukrainian … ⌘ Read more

Great things happening over at the Xhitter.

Adobe Bolsters AI Marketing Tools With $1.9 Billion Semrush Buy
Adobe is buying Semrush for $1.9 billion in a move to supercharge its AI-driven marketing stack. Reuters reports: Semrush designs and develops AI software that helps companies with search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of next year, would allow Adobe to help marketers better … ⌘ Read more

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IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant
An anonymous reader shares a report: The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without obtaining a warrant, according to a letter signed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and shared with 404 Media. The country’s major airlines, inc … ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 46

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NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net honestly, I though it was a nail at first. Like this, but bent. LOL.

Sorry better verison

New beginnings, new horizons. New pod logo 🤟

LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞

EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped
“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”

Over the course of
the last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, while
continuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentage
growth rates than they had in years prior. … ⌘ Read more

That’s a very entertaining talk about mining and analyzing radio station playlists: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-radiomining-playlist-scraping-und-analyse It’s in German, not sure how good the English translation or subtitles are.

#Menestrel é uma nova tag mensal para celebrar a música em suas formas mais conceituais: os álbuns. E para abrir com chave de ouro, estreia-se com o tema #debut - que mais?

É suposto ser sobre “os primeiros trabalhos de seus artistas favoritos”, mas eu quis não só escolher isso, como também um album que, lá por ser o debut da banda, não deixa de mostrar o melhor que a banda tem para oferecer.

Não é que os álbums que se seguem na discografia de Ashram sejam menos excelentes que este “Ashram” (sim, é um self-titled - e quem sabe se #selftitled não é um tema de um próximo menestrel…), mas este, lá por ser o primeiro, não fica nada atrás em excelência… e é provavelmente o que eu ouço mais vezes, talvez por ser também o álbum com o qual conheci a banda - e o único que tinha para ouvir até sair o próximo…

Na foto mostro o album na sua re-edição em digipak (limitada a 1000 unidades), com a qual substitui a edição original em jewel case, porque esta tem uma faixa extra (Fourth).

Uma edição mais recente (de 2013) também com esta faixa ainda existe em stock na editora*, aproveitem!

Mas que é isso, Ashram? Bem, Ashram é um trio Italiano de música neoclássica, e em vez de os descrever… ouçam! O disco começa assim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJsvsWWIuQ

#début

• https://www.mandalia-music.com/produit/ashram/

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Impôts sur la fortune : distractions avant une dévaluation
Un article de Henry Bonner Les élus, les médias et même la plupart des entreprises veulent plus d’aides, de subventions et de programmes de la part du gouvernement. Au lieu des coupes de budgets, ils préfèrent les taxes ou les dettes. Ainsi, après un récent vote des parlementaires, le gouvernement prépare une taxe sur les […] ⌘ Read more

The November 15 edition
Teenagers test-drive the social media ban: ‘idk what to do’ | Anthony Hopkins on life epiphanies | Why many are fleeing NYC | Forest bathing’s deepening appeal ⌘ Read more

Only Half the Homes in America Have Cable TV Anymore
Pay television penetration in American households fell to 50.2% in the third quarter and is projected to drop to 50% or lower by December, according to Madison and Wall, a technology and media advisory firm. Fifteen years ago, nearly nine in ten households subscribed to pay television services.

The decline has prompted major media companies to shed cable asset … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
MARK SHERMAN,  Supreme Court Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Epstein Trump pedophilia story has taken over the media, so I want to focus on some other major stories getting very little media attention. This is some good news, surprising in a way, given the MAGAt majority that dominates the Supreme Court. The good news is that the C … ⌘ Read more

‘We never thought anyone would be that crass’: Media code designer roasts Meta
Facebook will not be able to simply remove news from its platform again, according to Australia’s former competition tsar, who designed the original bargaining deal. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan address media after Liberals agree to dump 2050 target; party remains open to carbon-neutral future
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target but open to carbon-neutral future; Sussan Ley to address media
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target but open to carbon-neutral future; Sussan Ley to address media
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target but open to carbon-neutral future; Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan to address media this afternoon
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Liberals agree to dump 2050 target but open to carbon-neutral future; Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan to address media this afternoon
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan set to address media after finalising Liberals’ emissions position; Hanson Young says ‘National Party have killed the Liberals’
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and around the world. ⌘ Read more

Meta, Microsoft respond to government’s rebooted news tax
The tech giants have reacted to the push for them to hand over millions of dollars from their domestic revenue to local media companies, or pay a higher amount in financial penalties. ⌘ Read more

‘We’re not asking for sympathy’: Scammers pose as family businesses on Perth social media noticeboards
Community noticeboards for suburbs across Perth have received an uptick in the number of posts from the “family businesses”, which all claim to be doing it tough and make emotional pleas for work. ⌘ Read more

Researchers Surprised That With AI, Toxicity is Harder To Fake Than Intelligence
Researchers from four universities have released a study revealing that AI models remain easily detectable in social media conversations despite optimization attempts. The team tested nine language models across Twitter/X, Bluesky and Reddit, developing classifiers that identified AI-generated replies at 70 to 80% ac … ⌘ Read more

Kyle and Jackie O escape charges over mushroom trial commentary
It was a day of mixed news for the nationally syndicated program with the Australian Communications and Media Authority serving them with a notice of intention to impose conditions on their radio licence. ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 45

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Prečo mám rád slovenčinu, prečo mám rád Slovensko
Národný inštitút vzdelávania a mládeže, Ministerstvo kultúry SR, Matica slovenská, Spolok slovenských spisovateľov, Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied, v. v. i., Úrad pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí, Vydavateľstvo SPN – Mladé letá a vydavateľstvo Albatros Media Slovakia, s. r. o., vyhlasujú 34. ročník celoštátnej literárnej súťaže s medzinárodnou účasťou _Prečo mám rád slovenčinu, prečo mám r … ⌘ Read more

Denmark to ban social media for children under 15 – DW ⌘ Read more

Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media’s corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. … ⌘ Read more

I have now permitted the following media types:

image/*
audio/*
video/*
text/*

@bender@twtxt.net yeah it wasn’t so much of a browser thing, more of a security/abuse thing. If you upload large media, we downsize/downscale it, etc.

Allowing 16-year-olds in may be the toughest part of social media ban
Face scans aren’t accurate enough to tell 14 from 17, and most 16-year-olds don’t have government-issued photo ID. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net all I can say or, rather, express is…

Denmark’s Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial int … ⌘ Read more

A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed Again Until November 2026
Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI won’t launch in May of next year as planned. Kotaku: The highly anticipated sequel is now set to arrive in November 2026. On Thursday, Rockstar announced on social media that the long-awaited next entry in its open-world blockbuster franchise would need a bit more time, delaying the game an additional six months from … ⌘ Read more

Lessons from Ireland inform US debates on school choice
Across the U.S., some parents have been calling for changes in the education system, including greater transparency around curriculum decisions—a topic that has received national media attention. ⌘ Read more

Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
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Democrats set historic records on election night. Here are six of the firsts they accomplished
Kira Lerner ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Last night was very good news for the preservation of democracy in the United States. That’s getting a lot of media coverage, and that is also good news. But there were a number of important nuances to the Democratic victories that aren’t getting enough coverage. Happily, the British newsp … ⌘ Read more

43% of Gen Z Prefer YouTube and TikTok To Traditional TV and Streaming
A new Activate Consulting report reveals that 43% of Gen Z now prefer YouTube and TikTok over traditional TV or paid streaming. With global media revenues surging and traditional TV viewership collapsing, the average person now spends over 13 hours a day consuming content across platforms, effectively living a “32-hour day” th … ⌘ Read more

Louvre heist suspect is social media star and former museum security guard, reports say ⌘ Read more