This #DeepSeek #AI fuss feels like coordinated #propaganda to me. It seems like an awful lot of hype all at once. How convenient that it drives adoption of untested tech.
[#]China #infosec
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Americans are now spending more time alone than ever, @DKThomp writes. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
“if two of the 20th century’s iconic technologies, the automobile and the television, initiated the rise of American aloneness, the 21st century’s most notorious piece of hardware has continued to fuel, and has indeed accelerated, our national anti-social streak. Countless books, articles, and cable-news segments have warned Americans that smartphones can negatively affect mental health and may be especially harmful to adolescents. But the fretful coverage is, if anything, restrained given how greatly these devices have changed our conscious experience.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/?gift=oca7ztDUcOY1799kH9SL4Oxh1f0rFPbdcs_z3fFCBRA
[#]GiftArticle #GiftLink #psychology #ChildDevelopment #sociology
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I’m hoping @benroyce or others knowledgeable on the subject can explain the rationale behind blocking Threads and Bluesky? I have started following and boosting content from both sources when the content is good. Is that bad for Mastodon users in the fediverse? We obviously do not want to encourage reliance on Meta and other platforms of dubious ownership, but what’s the harm in federating?
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A poll for cat owners:
[#]CatsOfMastodon
Where should pet cats live?
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Worth watching: a 25 year old Syrian woman celebrates the fall of #Assad with friends and family. “We are coming out into the light. It is the rebirth of the Syrian people.”
[#]Syria
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhk5ZORX30
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“Career Justice Department lawyers say they intend to outlast second Trump administration.”
Report from inside the ‘deep state’: We’re not going anywhere
https://wapo.st/3ZuOUrJ
[#]DOJ #law #lawfedi #RuleOfLaw #GiftArticle #GiftLink
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Pie for breakfast. 🥧
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Massive #China hack of US #telecoms still ongoing. #DOJ wiretaps, US politicians and other government targeted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/chinese-hack-telecom-white-house.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE4.Ck4j.jBGUcoBokx0Q&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[#]SaltTyphoon #Espionage #Surveillance #hacking #geopolitics #GiftArticle #GiftLink
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Greetings newcomers to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse ! I am aiming this post at those who have recently left #X and are looking to fill their feed.
[#]FediTips - follow a lot of hashtags, whatever your interests might be. Then as a second step, follow the individual accounts who post about topics that catch your eye. Following hundreds of accounts will populate your feed in a way that feels like old school #Twitter. It is completely normal to casually follow and unfollow according to your preferences.
For my fellow Americans seeking to digest the events of the week, the major hashtags are USpol and USpolitics (not actually tagging to avoid disrupting feeds).
GiftLink and GiftArticle are used to share news behind paywalls.
For more calming content some popular hashtags are:
Photography
SilentSunday
Caturday
DogsOfMastodon
Bloomscrolling
Welcome to the Fediverse.
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“Thirty five years ago today, the Berlin Wall did not fall.
Thirty five years ago today, some people made history, amidst other people making history, thanks to some prior cooperation, and some good thinking about what freedom means.”
[#]BerlinWall #TimothySnyder #Germany #Deutschland #Poland #Unions
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-berlin-wall-never-fell?publication_id=310897&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=7ejni
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“Whether you vote is a public record, but who you vote for is private. Spread the word!”
[#]USpol #voting #VotingRights
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Under a L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission
“The crisis of homelessness is pushing American psychiatry to places it has not gone before — like sidewalk injections of antipsychotics.”
[#]LongRead #psychiatry #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Unhoused #Homeless #LosAngeles #LA #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/health/los-angeles-homeless-psychiatry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk4.kCLQ.knsntKNjp-vA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Good advice here from Ezra Klein.
Ignore the polls.
“So give yourself a break. Step off the emotional roller coaster. If you want to do something to affect the election, donate money or time in a swing state — ideally to a state party or down-ballot race, where your efforts will go further — or volunteer in a local race. Call anyone in your life who might actually be undecided or might not be registered to vote or might not make it to the polls. And then let go.”
[#]USpol #Polling #Polls #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/polls-harris-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R04.m_k_.RiuLvHJxnGbR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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“Walz’s former students describe him as a sometimes goofy teacher who subscribed to a particular philosophy around China: The oppressive Chinese Communist Party should be treated with great suspicion and scrutiny; but the regular, everyday people living under that repression should be treated with empathy, just like everyone else.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/05/what-really-happened-on-tim-walzs-trips-to-china-00179326
[#]China #USpol #HarrisWalz #Walz
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Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/iowa-prairie-farming-environment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk4.ouet.uBuwLW3aeyOb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[#]rewilding #PrairieStrips #ecology #prairies #agriculture #farming #environment #climate #GoodNews #GiftArticle
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Potential #famine in #Sudan. Heartbreaking stories of war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opinion/darfur-sudan-famine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.ykeK.vPOXbgHHMpCg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[#]Darfur #GiftArticle #GiftLink
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I saw someone else do this so giving it a try - an #introduction by someone who’s been here awhile to welcome all the newcomers joining.
If you want to follow relatively serious analysis of #news #geopolitics #InternationalAffairs and #InternationalRelations, I boost a lot on those topics. Lately it’s been a lot of #USpol #USpolitics because American #democracy is on the ballot soon. We are ultimately in a global fight for survival due to the #ClimateCrisis.
I will also post and boost random things that bring me #joy or capture my interest, so not always serious. Tend to my teenagers and #garden in my spare time.
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Black-eyed Susans in full bloom
[#]bloomscrolling
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This is a good example of Prof. #TimothySnyder’s lesson number 3 for defeating #fascism.
Conservatives should be conservative and see the danger of #Trump.
Thank you #DavidFrench.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opinion/harris-trump-conservatives-abortion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.3JgS.qEZl1LtHJ87K&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[#]Harris2024 #USpol
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“Live and let live” is a core American value.
Keep the government OUT of
[#]Project2025 #USpol
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