Can you believe this nonsense? Apparently, since it is insanely expensive to actually turn Bluesky into a distributed system, these folks are looking for $30M 👀 to build a second AT Protocol relay so that this VC backed corporate platform can somehow become free from billionaires. 🤦‍♂️ https://freeourfeeds.com/ So, just send your money to this illuminati of open systems and all your prayers will be answered. Or just set up an Activitypub server for a hundred dollars and actually 'free your feed'.

<p>Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is asking journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their research. In an email to journal authors sent on January 5th, Springer Nature promised that its AI tool will "maximize the impact" of study authors' research, insisting that the near-$50 package will return "high-quality" outputs for marketing and communication purposes. The publisher's sell for the package hinges on the argument that boiling down complex, jargon-laden research into digestible thumbnails for press releases and social media […]</p>

Vores kommunikation, færdsel, økonomi og sikkerhed er lænket så meget til techgiganterne, at det er blevet et demokratisk problem, siger regeringens ekspertgruppe Fælles for fællesskaberne er, at hvis du som engageret borger ønsker at tage del i dem, er du tvunget til at omfavne en kommerciel platform med en forretningsmodel, der handler om at fastholde dig på skærmen (og sælge data om dig til reklameverdenen) https://politiken.dk/danmark/art10202071/Ekspertgruppe-Ingen-dansker-b%C3%B8r-tvinges-p%C3%A5-Facebook-for-at-tage-del-i-f%C3%A6llesskab-og-demokrati (paywalled)

Highlights &#8211; As displaced families continue to pour in to NES, the DAANES estimates that numbers of IDPs will soon reach 120,000. &#8211; Critical shortages of essential supplies, food, water, medicines and accommodation for IDPs. &#8211; SNA commits attacks, robberies, arrests and extortion targeting Kurdish civilians still in Shehba or attempting to leave. &#8211; Grave [&#8230;]

Attached: 1 video The moment women and children were released by Syrian rebels from Assad’s #Saydnaya prison. This is really emotional. They are clearly scared of what’s happening so the rebels are telling them “don’t be afraid, we are the revolutionaries. Go get out.” ASSAD PUT CHILDREN IN THOSE ROOMS #Syria

Attached: 1 video The toppling of the statue of Hafez Al-Assad in the Alawite city of Latakia in the Alawite canton. The Alawites decided to renounce power, and hope to win amnesty from the new Sunni rulers. The Al-Assad family regime is officially over, after 58 years #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Syria

Attached: 1 image Hayes and Kaba talk about the importance of connecting and building solidarity with people you have deep disagreements with and who you may dislike. In order to manage this, psychologically, it's important to *also* have space of respite and comfort - 'safe spaces'. But movement work itself is not safe in this way. "Movements are struggles, not sanctuaries" they write.

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