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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.

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

my analysis of current events

connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

Timo R. Stewartin kolumni: Suomi osti ”Daavidin lingon” ja työnsi päänsä luukkuun, josta on vaikea päästä irti Jos voisi harkita uudelleen, Suomi tuskin enää hankkisi elintärkeää asejärjestelmää Israelista. Nyt on aika pohtia, miten virheen kanssa eletään, Stewart kirjoittaa.

Tämän asejärjestelmän hankinta oli vielä paljon kolumnin asetelmaa raadollisempi kuvio. Maailmassa, Euroopassakin, on suorituskykyisiä vaihtoehtoja, mutta niitä ei edes otettu PV:n ja ministeriön harkintaan.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20188508

I mostly post at @osma.fishpool.org which is bridged from fedi. If you want me to see your like, repost or reply, follow @ap.brid.gy so it has permission to send your message over. Thanks!

Kunta- ja aluevaaleissa ehdolla olevat voisivat tehdä itselleen palveluksen ja avata yhteyden myös fediverseen seuraamalla @ap.brid.gy siltaa. Siten Mastodon, Pixelfed jne käyttäjät voisivat heitä seurata.

Seven weeks of chaos. Seven weeks of fascism. Seven weeks of International scandals.

Has Europe even been able to quit using X for political communication?

No.

What else do you expect them to be able to do?

It can't be overstated how much more dangerous the world becomes with multiple new nuclear armed states, any one of which could be overcome by local fascists. Yet this is exactly what will happen as a result of the largest nuclear state having been overcome by them.

Tänne ainakin, mutta jotain muutakin voisi päivään mahtua.
https://ukrainians.fi/fi/valoa-ukrainaan-2/

Fresh video on exactly the dilemma facing European nations waiting for their F-35 deliveries. Lockheed Martin must be required to host NATO servers in Europe.
https://youtu.be/CKNPCk-fd8I

I don't think America losing control of their data assets was among the risk analysis when Finland and so many other NATO countries decided to purchase F-35 as their next air supremacy platform.

On aika soittaa Lockheed Martinille ja SAABille ja tehdä muutoksia ilmavoimiemme tulevaisuudensuunnitelmiin.

Government support to Ukraine by type of assistance (military, humanitarian, financial) (top 8) Order: USA, EU, Germany, UK, Japan, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands

Government support to Ukraine by month, United States and Europe Approx 10 billion Euros per quarter each group, except USA nearly stopped Q4 2023 - Q1 2024, and caught up in Q4 2024 by delivering 26.8 billion Euros worth in one quarter.

Government support to Ukraine by country group, Europe and United States Europe: 132.5 billion Euro total allocated, 115.1 billion to be allocated United States: 114.2 billion Euro total allocated, 4.84 billion to be allocated

Goverment support to Ukraine, total aid including with refugee costs (top 8) Germany, Poland, Spain and Czechia have spent more towards refugees than aid in Ukraine USA and Japan have spent none towards refugees UK and Netherlands have spent more in Ukraine than towards refugees

So, Kiel Institute released their updated Ukraine support data up to the end of 2024.

USA is indeed the largest supporting country. USA also finally caught up the 6 months gap in support by delivering immense quantity of military support in the last quarter. But […]

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If you're a politician using X for your outreach today, I'm gonna just assume you're at the very minimum a closet nazi.

RUB USD exchange rate climbing sharply, up over 10% since Trump's inauguration.

Thanks, Trumputin.

Is anyone at the @EUCommission preparing for Europe needing to take over every international program US abandoned over the last two weeks? Huge cost, but also, Europe just got handed the diplomacy opportunity of the century.

@osma@mas.to Tästä on mahdollista kenen tahansa antaa lausunto lausuntopalvelussa: https://www.lausuntopalvelu.fi/FI/Proposal/Participation?proposalId=9cefc822-fe12-4b34-ae30-1e6d1a9525b8

"Lausunnot pyydetään antamaan viimeistään 17.3.2025."

"Myös jakelulistan ulkopuoliset tahot voivat […]

Lausuin sähköpostitse osoitteeseen kirjaamo.sm@gov.fi diaarinumerolla VN/27189/2023. Hyvä viite omalle tekstille voi löytyä vuoden Perustuslakivaliokunnan lausunnosta vuodelta 2009. https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/Lausunto/Documents/pevl_14+2009.pdf

Välttääkseni copypeistatut lausunnot, en […]

Passeja varten kerätty sormenjälkitieto ei kuulu poliisivaltion sisäisen valvonnan työkaluihin. Tämä lakimuutos EI OLE ok.
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000011008160.html

Weekend Update #118: The Trump Administration’s Talking Points are Straight from Moscow Also: Ukrainian attacks on Russian Refineries; Ukrainian Collapse Continues (In the Press)

Phillips OBrien outlines why the Trump-Kellogg-Rubio statements are a huge geopolitics worry quite separate from the trade wars and Musk led internal chaos.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-118-the-trump-administrations

Perhaps the most fundamental NEW feature of both fediverse and Bluesky is the availabiliy of parallel, alternative moderation policies. Fedi does it via server policies, Bluesky via composability. Either model frees participants to be more proactive than a single centralized policy would allow.

Breakthrough materials with steel-strength could make powerful planes The nanomaterials offer a conflicting combination of exceptional strength, light weight, and customizability.

This is the kind of "AI" research to be excited about. Use algorithms to do what human work could not.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/breakthrough-materials-steel-strength-light-weight

Should Europe prepare to put boots on ground in Ukraine, as first proposed by Macron? What would it look like? How many, doing what, where, organized how? What would be the precondition?
https://www.ceps.eu/these-are-the-necessary-conditions-to-get-european-boots-on-the-ground-in-ukraine/

Qwant Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

I tried a few other search engines over 2023-2024 but wasn't able to shake my Google habit. For the past week though, my search default has been https://qwant.com and I'm not looking back. French frontend to Bing, private, no ads.
#search

Bill Gates should pick up the WHO budget.

Never before has the world been in more need of competent leadership while having elected absolute clowns to operate a shit show of epic proportions. I would be embarrassed, if I wasn't terrified.

I had several very long running Yahoo Pipes things doing continuous info discovery, not because I couldn't have written the code myself, but because Pipes had all the plumbing ready. Plumbing that works is what makes software go.

Bambu Connect’s Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted <div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="279" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bambu_connect_extracted_certificate_key_source.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div>Hot on the heels of Bambu Lab&#8217;s announcement that it would be locking down all network access to its X1-series 3D printers with new firmware, the X.509 certificate and private <a class="read-more" href="https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authentication-x-509-certificate-and-private-key-extracted/">&#8230;read more</a>

When people who don't really know how to do secure software decide to enshittify their devices, it takes less than 24 hours for their efforts to be broken.
https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authentication-x-509-certificate-and-private-key-extracted/

That is such an awesome way to describe what the hell went wrong with Facebook circa 2007. The motivations were sus already before that, but until then, it kinda was the "whassup friends" site.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/113863645144061272

Elon Musk's Gesture at Trump's Inauguration Parade Sparks Online Chatter Published Jan 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM EST Updated Jan 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM EST

Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.

15:06 Uhr Elon Musk irritiert mit Hitlergruß- ähnlicher Bewegung In der Sporthalle Capitol One, wo ein Public Viewing ausgerichtet wird, betritt Elon Musk springend und tanzend die Bühne. "So fühlt sich Siegen an", ruft er und reißt die Arme nach oben. In einer kurzen Ansprache sagt er zu jubelnden Trump-Anhängern: "Dank Ihnen ist die Zukunft der Zivilisation gesichert. Wir werden sichere Städte haben, endlich sichere Städte, sichere Grenzen, vernünftige Ausgaben, grundlegendes Zeug.“ Mit der rechten Hand macht er eine Bewegung, die an einen Hitlergruß erinnert. Z 6 Link kopieren Katharina Benninghoff

Live Musk irritiert mit möglichem Hitlergruß Bei einem Auftritt nach Trumps Amtsein- führung streckt der Tech-Milliardär seinen rechten Arm nach oben aus. Trump kündigt in seiner Rede eine ganze Reihe von Maß- nahmen an, unter anderem einen nationa- len Notstand an der Grenze zu Mexiko. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog ESIDENT OF THE UNI

American media: What could Elon Musk's hand gesture have meant?

German media: We know exactly what the fuck that meant

Tuki Henna Virkkuselle eurooppalaisten digi-oikeuksien edistämiseen. Älä taivu Muskin ja Zuckerbergin painostuksen alla. Broligarkkien aikakausi saa tulla päätökseensä. T: digipalveluiden parissa koko uransa toiminut.
https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000010951646.html