‘NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court’
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction – despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims.

State Senator Andr … ⌘ Read more

Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US ‘Extraordinary’ Artist Visas
The O-1B visa, a work permit reserved for individuals deemed to possess “extraordinary ability” in the arts, has become the pathway of choice for social media influencers and OnlyFans models seeking to build careers in the United States. Immigration attorneys told the Financial Times that influencers now make up more than half their … ⌘ Read more

Did you miss today’s event on #PublicDomain ? Or you didn’t, but want more? Don’t miss Natick FOSS’s upcoming event, on the 8th of January, where #PublicDomainDay will be celebrated!

2:45PM NY time
7:45PM GMT

https://natickfoss.org/archive.html#UpcomingMeeting

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Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK - Thanks to Google’s Algorithm?
Reddit “has overtaken TikTok as Britain’s fourth most-visited social media service,” reports the Guardian:

The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three in five Brits online now encounter the site, up from … ⌘ Read more

Discos em 2025:

Quando defini que ia comprar apenas 12 discos em 2025, achava que estava a ser muito exigente. Afinal, acabei por só comprar 7 (ainda que a minha wishlist tenha crescido). O “concerto do ano” para mim foi Marilyn Manson em Lisboa, e durante o ano ouvi 386 discos da minha coleção - o que também significa que ainda não a acabei de organizar. Dos discos lançados em 2025, há menções muito especiais para dois que incluem música feita por mim: idiossINcracias vol. I, que é um disco entre o meu projecto #kokori e Floating Ashes, e 25.12, que é uma compilação onde kokori também participou com uma faixa. Três discos que comprei são de Marilyn Manson, um oficial e dois bootlegs, e o oficial (o single “In The Air Tonight”) não foi o mais interessante dos três, mas sim o “I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies”, disco duplo de lados B. O IdiossINcrasias vol. 2 tem uma excelente participação de Casa Ukrania, de quem também comprei um disco. 20 anos depois do lançamento do “Clear Hearts Grey Flowers” de Jack Off Jill, foi re-editado com um lado extra ao vivo, onde se pode ouvir-me a cantar os parabéns à Jessicka (com toda a audiência). Quanto ao streaming, parece que ouvi 689 artistas diferentes, 53% deles pela primeira vez. E tenho um novo tote bag!

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A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests
A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate programme BBC Question Time found that the broadcaster’s flagship political debate show relies disproportionately on journalists and pundits from right-wing media outlets, particularly those connected to The Spectator magazine.

Research … ⌘ Read more

Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies
Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers along with six others.

After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disast … ⌘ Read more

France Targets Australia-Style Social Media Ban For Children Next Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for legal checks and is expected to be debated in parliament early in the new year. … ⌘ Read more

👉 TOP 10 - EDIÇÕES 2025

ÁLBUNS MAIS DESCARREGADOS NO BANDCAMP DA ADC
🎧 🛒 https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com

1. V/A - 25.12
   
2. Orquestra Popular de Paio Pires - 150 A Morte do Borrego
   
3. IdiossINcrasias - Vol 1 (Floating Ashes + Kokori)
   
4. Resonant - Ecos (de estilhaços planetários endossomáticos)
   
5. The Dreams Never End - Alma Partida
   
6. Turning Point - Porque a Lua se Quebrou
   
7. V/A - ADC Sampler 2024
   
8. Sci Fi Industries - Initial States
   
9. IdiossINcrasias - Vol 2 (Herr G meets Fuel2Fight + Primata)
   
10. Carnal Depression - Carnal Depression
    

#kokori #ADC

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Well, just a very limited subset thereof:

1. inline and multiline code blocks using single/double/triple backticks (but no code blocks with just indentation)
   
2. markdown links using using [text](url)
   
3. markdown media links using ![alt](url)
   

And that’s it. No bold, italics, lists, quotes, headlines, etc.

Just like mentions, plain URLs, markdown links and markdown media URLs are highlighted and available in the URLs View. They’re also colored differently, similarly to code segments.

I definitely should write some documentation and provide screenshots.

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 52

This is the last of my posts to #WeeklyPlant , ending the year with a photo of the same plant I started the year with:
https://ciberlandia.pt/@marado/113786783984418208

In 2024 I posted a #WeeklyRecord , and for 2026 I’m planning to post Weekly pictures on a different subject… you can follow #MaradoWeekly if you’re curious about what it might be!

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O StreetComplete chamou-me à atenção, mas a foto foi para o @madcap : telefone público em #Lamego

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VC Sees AI-generated Video Gutting the Creator Economy
AI-generated video tools like OpenAI’s Sora will make individual content creators “far, far, far less valuable” as social media platforms shift toward algorithmically generated content tailored to each viewer, according to Michael Mignano, a partner at venture capital firm Lightspeed and who cofounded the podcasting platform Anchor before Spotify acquired it.

Speaki … ⌘ Read more

The tt URLs View now automatically selects the first URL that I probably are going to open. In decreasing order, the URL types are:

1. markdown media URLs (images, videos, etc.)
   
2. markdown or plaintext URLs
   
3. subjects
   
4. mentions
   

I might differentiate between mentions of subscribed and unsubscribed feeds in the future. The odds of opening a new feed over an already existing one are higher.

New York To Require Social Media Platforms To Display Mental Health Warnings
Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday. From a report: “Keeping New Yorkers safe has been my top priority since taki … ⌘ Read more

👉 ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA | BALANÇO DE 2025

Em 2025, a ADC lançou 14 edições! Foi com muito prazer que participei, com #kokori, em duas delas.

É o vosso apoio que garante o propósito da ADC e permite continuar esta jornada, iniciada no já longínquo ano de 1988.

REGISTO DAS EDIÇÕES DE 2025

. ADC 2024 Sampler (Digital, Janeiro)

. Turning Point - Porque a Lua se Quebrou (CD, Fevereiro)

. Carnal Depression - Carnal Depression (CD, Março)

. Sci Fi Industries - Initial States (CD, Março)

. Orquestra Popular de Paio Pires - 150 A Morte do Borrego (Pendrive, Abril)

. Herr G meets Fuel2Fight & Casa Ukrania - O Fogo Brilha no Horizonte (Digital, Maio)

. The Dreams Never End - Alma Partida (CD, Maio)

. Floating Ashes + Kokori - idiossINcrasias - Vol. 1 (CD, Junho)

. Spray - War Songs and Other Stories (CD, Junho)

. Aftervoid - Negative Space (CD, Setembro)

. Herr G meets Fuel2Fight + Primata - idiossINcrasias - Vol. 2 (CD, Outubro)

. Resonant - Ecos (de estilhaços planetários endossomáticos) (CD, Novembro)

. Principia Parallax - Tremal Naik (CD, Novembro)

. 25.12 (Digital, Dezembro)

🎧 Posto de escuta: anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com

ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA, desde 1988, a registar sonoridades diferenciadas!

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#FridayReads #bookstodon

#NealStephenson’s #Polostan

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FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix
GitHub has disabled Rockchip’s Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims Rockchip copied thousands of lines of code fr … ⌘ Read more

Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China’s one-child policy agency – which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations – s … ⌘ Read more

‘Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes’
“In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks,” writes author Janus Rose in an article for 404 Media. Here’s an excerpt: There are lots of advantages to the cassette lifestyle. Unlike vinyl records, tapes are compact and super-portable, and unlike streaming, you never have to worry about a giant company suddenly taking them aw … ⌘ Read more

This one is a slightly more 3D looking, as well as the first one, with the tail swirled.

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Garmin Emergency Autoland Has First Save
“Garmin’s Collier Trophy award-winning Autonomi emergency Autoland, a system designed to safely land an aircraft in the event of pilot incapacitation, made its first real-world use and save on Saturday,” writes Slashdot reader slipped_bit. AvBrief.com reports: Social media posts from flight tracking hobbyists reported a King Air 200 squawked 7700 about 2 p.m. local time today. The Autoland sy … ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 51

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‘Confused’ Waymos Stopped in Intersections During San Francisco Power Outage
“On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Independent notes that “Without working traffic lights, the driverless cars were seemingly left confused, with m … ⌘ Read more

Duas décadas. Faz hoje 20 anos - uma vida - que “Crash”, o meu segundo disco a solo, foi lançado. Um disco que fala do fim de uma vida mas também do ser partido em cacos que renasce do fim. Quase apenas coincidentemente, o disco foi gravado entre o fim da minha vida em Coimbra e o início da minha vida na “Grande Lisboa”, com tudo o que mudou com isso. O fim era o início, o disco tanto testemunho como promessa. O lançamento foi feito em Carnaxide, no meu aniversário e na noite mais longa do ano. Duas décadas - vivi uma vida inteira desde então. Há ultimamente cada vez mais coisas que acontecem ou que relembro e tenho aquele sentimento de “nem dá para acreditar que já passou tanto tempo.” Surpreendeu-me notar que o mesmo não me acontece com Crash. Não passou “demasiado tempo”, passou o tempo que tinha que passar, para que eu pudesse ter vivido a vida que vivi nos últimos vinte anos, em muitos aspectos uma “vida nova”. Crash fica assim como uma autobiografia, ou um autorretrato; uma ilustração daquilo que era #Merankorii, daquilo que era eu até então. Ouço-o hoje não com saudosismo mas com a serena convicção que fiz bem em tirar aquele retrato, lançar o registo que fiz. E talvez essa serenidade que o disco me dá também me sirva para olhar com mais vontade para os vinte anos que o futuro nos reservará.

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O #Menestrel deste mês é sobre álbuns que contam uma história. O mês começou depois de um concerto que terminou com a “Coma White”, e que me levou a escolher essa música para a #musiquinta seguinte, pensei escolher o álbum de onde essa música saiu (Mechanical Animals) para o menestrel. Mas nem para contar a história de Coma, a personagem dessa música, me bastaria pegar só nesse álbum, e a história dele está intrinsecamente ligada com o resto do tríptice. Quando foi publicado pela primeira vez, Mechanical Animals era para ser entendido como uma sequela, mas mais tarde passou a prequela, uma história contada em três actos, começando do fim (com Antichrist Superstar, passando pelo Mechanical Animals) para o princípio (com Holy Wood). Mas o menestrel não é para tríptices, é para álbuns… e se vamos pegar nesta história, então o álbum que temos de escolher é o ACSS, o primeiro (lançado em 1996), o princípio e o fim, e um álbum que conta uma história por si só.

ACSS é tem um protagonista, “The Worm”, um fraco entre os fortes, pobre entre ricos, feio ente bonitos. Na sua revolta contra o poder, ele torna-se num carismático demagogo, acabando por se tornar num adorado ídolo de revolta… apenas para se tornar naquilo que inicialmente o revoltava. (Este resumo não faz justiça à história, mas é quanto cabe num toot.)

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I ditched Alpine after I obtained the installation media, couldn’t be any more worse at this rate

Trump’s Social Media Business Is Merging With a Nuclear Fusion Company
Tony Isaac shares a report from CNN: President Donald Trump’s social media and crypto company is making a huge bet on a far different industry – nuclear fusion, a potentially lucrative albeit commercially unproven energy technology that could help power a suddenly electricity-starved economy. Trump Media and Technology Group Thursday … ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #atestados

Só quem não ouviu falar do processo de obtenção, manutenção ou renovação dos atestados é que não sabe o quão mau o sistema é. Parece ser by design: se metermos uma pessoa com um grau de #invalidez superior a 60% a ter de saltar aros, com deslocações processos burocráticos e pouco transparentes para “manter o papelinho” estamos a incentivar as pessoas a não reclamar e exercer os seus direitos. E quem disser que “ah, se precisassem deles não abdicariam” é porque não sabem bem o que é ser idoso com invalidez (talvez de cadeira de rodas, talvez cego ou surdo) sem acesso à Internet para obter informação e sem carro para transporte, ter de andar às voltinhas de capela em capela para ir buscar certificado, marcar exames, e sabe-se lá mais o quê. Parece ser by design e até pode não ser, mas o que claramente é, é desumano, e hipócrita. Desumano porque não se está a dar as condições na prática a quem pode e deve ter direito a ter uma vida condigna; hipócrita porque até se diz que sim, que os deve ter na teoria, e fica bem nos cartazes dizer “nós cuidamos dos nossos!” mas depois quando chega ao momento de cuidar manda-los ir para a fila tratar do papel, assim como que num sketch dos gato fedorento.

O #PCP fez uma proposta da mais óbvia e elementar justiça. Julgue-se quem a chumbou.

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World-Beating 55,000% Surge in India AI Stock Fuels Bubble Fears
The world’s best-performing stock is turning into a cautionary tale for investors chasing outsized returns from the AI boom. From a report: Little-known until recently even within its home market of India, RRP Semiconductor Ltd. became a social-media obsession as its shares surged more than 55,000% in the 20 months through Dec. 17 – by far the big … ⌘ Read more

Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required d … ⌘ Read more

Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China To Safeguard Billions In Revenue
A Reuters investigation found that Meta knowingly tolerated large volumes of scam and illegal ads from China worth billions in revenue. Reuters reports: Though China’s authoritarian government bans use of Meta social media by its citizens, Beijing lets Chinese companies advertise to foreign consumers on the globe-spanning pl … ⌘ Read more

US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
U.S. officials excoriated the European Union for discriminating against American technology companies and threatened to penalize European tech companies in return, in a social media post on Tuesday. From a report: The pronouncement appeared to signal a rockier period for U.S.-E.U. trade relations, as the two governments work to fi … ⌘ Read more

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 50

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Fake hero, wrong suspect: Misinformation floods social media after Bondi shooting
Elon Musk’s chatbot said Edward Crabtree – a fictional 47-year-old IT professional – was the hero who tackled one of the attackers and seized his weapon. ⌘ Read more

Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia’s ban on U.S. children’s gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban gains some momentum. In wartime Russia, censorship is extensive: Moscow blocks or restricts social media platform … ⌘ Read more

Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers
“As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead,” reports the Associated Press, “and severely restrict social media access for young people.”

The Danish government announced last month that it had secured an agreement b … ⌘ Read more

Desperate vibes as under-16s crowd into Yope and Lemon8
Lemon8, Coverstar and Yope are social media hiding places for Australian under-16s, but for how long? ⌘ Read more

The great scroll off: Inside Australia’s world-first teen social media ban
How grieving parents, media campaigns, and political opportunism collided to create the world’s most ambitious - and contentious - experiment in digital regulation. ⌘ Read more

Reddit Launches High Court Challenge To Australia’s Under-16s Social Media Ban
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Reddit has filed a challenge against Australia’s under-16s social media ban in the high court, lodging its case two days after implementing age restrictions on its website. The company said in a Reddit post on Friday that while it agreed with protecting people under 1 … ⌘ Read more

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‘Missing the mark’: Reddit files High Court bid to overturn teen social media ban
The platform says banning under 16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online. ⌘ Read more

Reddit files High Court bid to overturn teen social media ban
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online. ⌘ Read more

Parece que há ainda por aí pessoas que querem oferecer uns presentes e não sabem bem o quê…

Pois…

• eu acho que bem podem oferecer um CD de #kokori ;-) (interessadx? Deixa-me uma mensagem!)
  
• a @shizamura acha que deviam oferecer uns livrinhos d’O Sarilho (vê mais em https://ciberlandia.pt/@shizamura/115696420054772976 )
  
• a @paulasimoes recomenda o apoio a causas do mundo do Software e Cultura Livres (ver imagem)

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US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry
Tourists from dozens of countries including the UK could be asked to provide a five-year social media history as a condition of entry to the United States, under a new proposal unveiled by American officials. From a report: The new condition would affect people from dozens of countries who are eligible to visit the US for … ⌘ Read more

Cat and mouse: How under-16s are circumventing the social media ban
Most kids on social media will be blocked, but here’s how the most relentless plan to stay. ⌘ Read more

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