@paolog.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Previously (since 2019-03-26) paolog on mastodon.social. Profile picture: me resting on an interactive installation in the Austrian pavillon at Venice art […] [bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@paolog on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
A small grey car parked on the street drifted over with snow, making it look sleeker. Other cars in the background are covered in snow, and there's an apartment building beyond, windows lit from within.
NB Miata (not mine) with Zagato vibes. #nb #miata #weirdcarmastodon #blizzard
> Il fact-checking è stato un fallimento, ma nessuno vuole dirlo.
Walter Quattrociocchi, https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/25_gennaio_08/fact-checking-fallimento-51e1f695-cc69-4517-b241-7b6e588a5xlk.shtml
> La verità, nella sua accezione più ampia, è spesso ambigua, contestuale e soggetta a […]
Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world […]
Decentralised social media isn't just a tech experiment, it's critical infrastructure for a resilient democracy. Bertelsmann Stiftung's latest report explores how open protocols like ActivityPub can break tech monopolies.
How do we scale? The report calls for better usability & lower entry […]
Hacker cinesi rubano dati di cinquemila agenti Digos in un attacco informatico alla rete del Viminale
Tra il 2024 e il 2025 un attacco informatico per mano di hacker cinesi ha colpito la rete del Viminale. L'obiettivo era il furto di informazioni riservate su circa cinquemila agenti della Digos […]
Calling all Nordic meteorologists:
Nordic Meteorology Meeting #NMM26 will be held for first time ever in Faroe Islands.
They have negotiated some good transport deals + reductions for ECRs.
It's a fun crowd and some nice excursions. Come + join us […]
Tiktok USA e la censura della parola “Epstein” https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/01/tiktok-usa-e-la-censura-della-parola-epstein/
So I setup navidrome and I’m assessing it as a replacement for Plex. I love the web access but there really isn’t anything as good as Plexamp for mobile.
Please share links to your favorite iOS navidrome or subsonic apps.
So far the best I found was the TestFlight for Narjo, but it still has […]
We're also #hiring a coupled climate and ice sheet modeller for a 3 year position @dmidk.bsky.social
Come and work with me + colleagues on the @icelink-project.bsky.social developing #ECEarth + #Pism in both Greenland + Antarctica
Job based @dmidk in Copenhagen
🇩🇰🇬🇱🇦🇶🇪🇺🌍
#AcademicJobs #FediHire […]
The headline is so good that it almost doesn’t matter whether this is entirely true, partly true, or entirely imaginary: "Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest" HT @overholt ] [ […]
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.
And what I learned in the process.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
Cover des White Papers "Reinvent Social Platforms". Text: Journalismus into the Fediverse! Media Lab Bayern. SWR X Lab. Bild: Hand, die ein Smartphone hält, auf dem analoge und digitale Blumen zu sehen sind, die aus dem Screen wachsen.
🔊 Es hat ein bisschen gedauert, aber jetzt ist das Ding da:
Unser #WhitePaper zum Projekt #ReinventSocialPlatforms. 🙌
Unsere Erkenntnisse aus 6+ Monaten Recherche, Analyse und Prototypengebastel.
Themenfeld: #Fediverse, #SocialMedia, #Journalismus, #Medien […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
The implicit theory behind the open social web was that platform quality would determine outcomes. Build something that’s better, and in combination with the incumbent getting worse, this would lead to such difference in quality, user experience and safety that at some point people would switch from X to alternatives like Mastodon or Bluesky. This theory held up for a while in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 it started to falter, as Musk aligned himself with Trump, the signup waves to the alternative platforms effectively stopped. In early 2026, this theory is now really over, because X has fundamentally changed. Mastodon and Bluesky are not in competition anymore with the platform X, because X has changed. It changed from being a platform to the power structure for the neo-royalty, with the public square shambling along as a zombie, animated by everyone who still treats X like it’s 2015. You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem.
New from me: X is A Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/115899705825865675
I compared the interactions of this post, cross-posted two days ago on the three microblogging platforms:
- Mastodon (where vice president Virkkunen has 3,1K followers): 19 boosts, 4 quotes, 42 favorites
- Bluesky (2.3 K […]
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech?
Ogni icona di Facebook, Instagram o X sui siti istituzionali è pubblicità gratuita per giganti privati che: Rafforzano monopoli, Tracciano i cittadini, Costringono all'uso di piattaforme proprietarie
Le alternative esistono: Mastodon […]
„How come people are now able to develop stuff without suffering like I did? There's no way, right?“
Data journalist Rodrigo Menegat Schuinski knows how to code. Still intrigued by vibe coding, he decided to give it a shot to find out how useful it can be for newsroom projects.
Read all about […]
# **Contro la casa di vetro. Opacità, schedatura e potere nell’età digitale. 17° Convegno Nexa su Internet& Società a Torino Lunedì 15 dicembre 2025**
Lunedì 15 dicembre 2025
ore 9.00 – 18.00
Sala Conferenze “Luigi Ciminiera”
DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, 5° piano
Corso Castelfidardo 34/D […]
#Hacktivism italiano, #Fediverso e critica ai social: un dibattito con gli autori di "Server Ribelli" e "Scritture Digitali".
La storia dell'hacktivism italiano (Indymedia, Hack Meeting) e la "cattura" operata dai social network commerciali, evidenziando la loro non neutralità. L'esperienza di […]
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements | MIT Technology Review https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/ai-chatbots-can-sway-voters-better-than-political-advertisements-mit-technology-review/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@flashnews/115658824257807734
"Ad oggi i costi di idrogeno grigio [prodotto da combustibili fossili] risultano essere i più economicamente competitivi e si aggirano sui 2 €/kg; mentre il costo livellato di idrogeno blu [
prodotto da combustibili fossili ma […]
RE: https://aus.social/@phs/115656665465740246
Seems like the time to drop Minio as a metalhead.club media storage has come. I've seen this coming, but not so quickly.
#Minio #selfhosting #s3 #mastodon
How to quit #Spotify
by @brianmerchant
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
«Un miliardo e 200milioni di euro di presunta frode fiscale che, tra sanzioni e interessi, secondo i finanzieri del Comando di Monza, lieviterebbe a ben tre miliardi ... aperta, in base alle tempistiche di legge, è la “trattativa” tra l’Agenzia delle Entrate e #Amazon ... per sanare la posizione […]
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. […]
[Original post on social.coop]
The social web is rapidly flooding with fully synthetic AV content, also known as AI slop.
The videos are short and effective – and they can be quite dangerous.
In this report (which is not 8 or 16 seconds, but almost 9 minutes long), Silja Thoms and DW's Fact Check Team explain what the […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@flashnews/115556666743412458
L’amministratore delegato di Stellantis tenta di replicare su scala europea il ricatto che ha funzionato per molti anni in Italia: posti di lavoro contro leggi ad hoc e denaro pubblico! «Stellantis potrà effettuare maggiori investimenti […]
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/115504180673061063
My first quote!
