Amazon, Cartier slap Chinese social media influencer, 8 others with lawsuits over trademark infringement, false advertising
The legal action reflects more signs of trouble for merchants belonging to the ‘made in China, sold on Amazon’ community. ⌘ Read more
China-India border: state media marks second anniversary of Galwan Valley clash in lead-up to new talks
CCTV military channel publishes three-minute video salute to four dead PLA soldiers on social media, drawing 4.36 million views on Weibo by noon on Thursday. ⌘ Read more
‘Charming danger’: Chinese social media meltdown as 290 million view post about a poisonous tree flower popular with photo enthusiasts
Chinese selfie lovers have been told to avoid the poisonous oleander plant after a blogger fell sick within hours of touching it. ⌘ Read more
Suspects confess to killing and dismembering UK journalist and Brazilian guide, media report says
Reporter Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been missing for a week in the Amazon rainforest, sparking an ongoing search and investigation. ⌘ Read more
SCMP picks Catherine So as chief executive, tapping Hong Kong media and tech veteran to run one of Asia’s oldest English newspapers
Liu, who has led the newspaper for five and half years, fundamentally transformed one of Asia’s oldest newspapers into a 21st-century information product that reacted to news events and responded to readers’ preferences in real time. ⌘ Read more
China parenting: rock star Zheng Jun in child abuse scandal claims son’s 1,000 kowtow ‘punishment’ was ‘Buddhist ritual’
A Chinese rock star who punished his son by offering him the choice of sitting in an uncomfortable position for an hour or being physically beaten and then recorded the incident and posted it on social media is under fire for alleged child abuse. ⌘ Read more
Foi então hoje, enquadrado no festival literário “Lamego Cidade Poema”, o lançamento da colectânea “Lamego 2022, o Antes e o Depois”, na qual participei com um pequeno conto de Ficção Científica.
Foi então hoje, enquadrado no festival literário “Lamego Cidade Poema”, o lançamento da colectânea “Lamego 2022, o Antes e o Depois”, na qual participei com um pequeno conto de Ficção Científica.
Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
Watch now (51 min) | Yelled at by Gates. Spit on by Ballmer. NT 5, DEC Alphas, Office for Mac, Windows Media Player for Mac, and more. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Cai a máscara ao governo PS!
Em resposta ao PCP Ministro da Cultura afirma: «Não é desejável acabar com precariedade na Cultura»
Diana Ferreira, deputada do PCP responde: +**
Cai a máscara ao governo PS!
Em resposta ao PCP Ministro da Cultura afirma: «Não é desejável acabar com precariedade na Cultura»
Diana Ferreira, deputada do PCP responde: +
⌘ Read moreI don’t use social media anymore, mostly for privacy reasons, but one of the things I miss about it is being able to interact directly with creators I enjoy.
Olá @Norte_2020 , sei que é feriado e tal, mas…
Olá @Norte_2020 , sei que é feriado e tal, mas…
R to @mind_booster: 5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.
What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.
What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.
⌘ Read moreThe Media Hates This Man ⌘ Read more
Brainwashed by the Media ⌘ Read more

Connection Established!

#!/bin/sh
# Validate environment
if ! command -v msgbus > /dev/null; then
printf "missing msgbus command. Use: go install git.mills.io/prologic/msgbus/cmd/msgbus@latest"
exit 1
fi
if ! command -v salty > /dev/null; then
printf "missing salty command. Use: go install go.mills.io/salty/cmd/salty@latest"
exit 1
fi
if ! command -v salty-keygen > /dev/null; then
printf "missing salty-keygen command. Use: go install go.mills.io/salty/cmd/salty-keygen@latest"
exit 1
fi
if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
export SALTY_IDENTITY="$HOME/.config/salty/$USER.key"
fi
get_user () {
user=$(grep user: "$SALTY_IDENTITY" | awk '{print $3}')
if [ -z "$user" ]; then
user="$USER"
fi
echo "$user"
}
stream () {
if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
echo "SALTY_IDENTITY not set"
exit 2
fi
jq -r '.payload' | base64 -d | salty -i "$SALTY_IDENTITY" -d
}
lookup () {
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
printf "Usage: %s nick@domain\n" "$(basename "$0")"
exit 1
fi
user="$1"
nick="$(echo "$user" | awk -F@ '{ print $1 }')"
domain="$(echo "$user" | awk -F@ '{ print $2 }')"
curl -qsSL "https://$domain/.well-known/salty/${nick}.json"
}
readmsgs () {
topic="$1"
if [ -z "$topic" ]; then
topic=$(get_user)
fi
export SALTY_IDENTITY="$HOME/.config/salty/$topic.key"
if [ ! -f "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
echo "identity file missing for user $topic" >&2
exit 1
fi
msgbus sub "$topic" "$0"
}
sendmsg () {
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
printf "Usage: %s nick@domain.tld <message>\n" "$(basename "$0")"
exit 0
fi
if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
echo "SALTY_IDENTITY not set"
exit 2
fi
user="$1"
message="$2"
salty_json="$(mktemp /tmp/salty.XXXXXX)"
lookup "$user" > "$salty_json"
endpoint="$(jq -r '.endpoint' < "$salty_json")"
topic="$(jq -r '.topic' < "$salty_json")"
key="$(jq -r '.key' < "$salty_json")"
rm "$salty_json"
message="[$(date +%FT%TZ)] <$(get_user)> $message"
echo "$message" \
| salty -i "$SALTY_IDENTITY" -r "$key" \
| msgbus -u "$endpoint" pub "$topic"
}
make_user () {
mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/salty"
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
user=$USER
else
user=$1
fi
identity_file="$HOME/.config/salty/$user.key"
if [ -f "$identity_file" ]; then
printf "user key exists!"
exit 1
fi
# Check for msgbus env.. probably can make it fallback to looking for a config file?
if [ -z "$MSGBUS_URI" ]; then
printf "missing MSGBUS_URI in environment"
exit 1
fi
salty-keygen -o "$identity_file"
echo "# user: $user" >> "$identity_file"
pubkey=$(grep key: "$identity_file" | awk '{print $4}')
cat <<- EOF
Create this file in your webserver well-known folder. https://hostname.tld/.well-known/salty/$user.json
{
"endpoint": "$MSGBUS_URI",
"topic": "$user",
"key": "$pubkey"
}
EOF
}
# check if streaming
if [ ! -t 1 ]; then
stream
exit 0
fi
# Show Help
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
printf "Commands: send read lookup"
exit 0
fi
CMD=$1
shift
case $CMD in
send)
sendmsg "$@"
;;
read)
readmsgs "$@"
;;
lookup)
lookup "$@"
;;
make-user)
make_user "$@"
;;
esac
Critical Race Theory course being taught at Peel high school
INTERFERENCE: Freeland’s office “pressured” legacy media to change critical stories
Only 14% of Canadians “strongly approve” of Trudeau’s pandemic response: poll
Why everyone should be concerned about Ontario’s critical race theory bill
Leslyn Lewis says she’s running on principles and respect for others
First Nations chief warns MPs as Emergencies Act inquiry begins
Conservative leadership race turns nasty between Poilievre and Brown
Trudeau, Freeland met with Ukrainian neo-Nazi party cofounder
Doug Ford tells Ontario school boards to drop masks as ordered
B.C. premier John Horgan all insults toward Victoria protests
Media’s Climate Lies Revealed ⌘ Read more
One down! More to go.
BREAKING: Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s super yacht, one of the biggest in the world, seized in Germany - Forbes
Internet Explorer… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
Microsoft built Internet Explorer for both Solaris and HP-UX. Outlook Express and Windows Media Player are here too! ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net they are everywhere. 
daedalOS - the crazy Desktop environment in the browser
Complete with emulators, terminals, media players, live desktop wallpaper… and DOOM. All in a web browser. It’s both disturbing and wonderful. ⌘ Read more
As I read “No Social Media Club”, I wonder what it would be like if I don’t share so much on my blog, what it would be like if I had never started sharing anything on the internet in the first place? 🤔 I somehow don’t have an answer to this… ⌘ Read more
Nominally, my seen/read list for 2021, but I missed a lot of short readings. I may try to write more about these things this year. http://a.9srv.net/media/2021
Future of Yarn.social
What?Today I’m going to talk about Yarn.social’s future, a roadmap into where we’re going and thinking. I’ll also write a little about it’s history of where we came from and highlight how Yarn.social is different and in my opinion better.
For those of you new to my blog or Yarn.social; Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform, a microBlogging platform. It was originally crea … ⌘ Read more
Some of our most popular technologies are becoming a means of mass coercion that open societies cannot survive. ⌘ Read more
An ageing rose cries. My first graphical media twt!
I know I’ve mentioned this in various social media, but I just want to reiterate how much internet reality drama means to me. It’s insanely entertaining.
How NFTs Will Kill Netflix
The Balkanization of media will continue, until it doesn’t ⌘ Read moreWeb3 is a scam. Case in point. The complexity of systems increasing the points of failure. From this article.
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On the blog: Tweets from 11/08 to 11/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/12/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Tweets from 11/22 to 11/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

