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Jaw Harp, because why not?
This is really cute and also way cool!
The theme song is different in every single episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood #film #cinema
YouTube video by Treehouse Detective
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September 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Alternatives include CC Signals, a new Creative Commons License "for the age of AI", due to launch in alpha in November.
creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/i...
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to inc...
creativecommons.org
September 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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The new RSL Collective lets publishers add code to a site's robots.txt file to require AI companies to pay royalties or add attribution to license the content.
It will be interesting to see if the AI companies honor it. It should help that big publishers have signed on.
rslcollective.org
September 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Federal agencies are sharing data even when they’re not supposed to, EFF’s @cooperq.com told @kqednews.kqed.org. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE… it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further dragnet surveillance.” www.kqed.org/news/120556...
How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.
www.kqed.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🧵 So much of today’s art world lives online—artist sites, digital exhibits, small galleries. CARTA is a collaboration of 40+ museums & libraries with #InternetArchive to save the web we built before it disappears.

Learn more on our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/10/c...

#communitywebs
September 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling

youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4
Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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September 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Big yikes!
Not only ignored, but verified!
This FreeVPN Chrome Extension was taking screenshots of every website users visited, and had over 100k downloads.

What did Google do? Gave them a verified badge. The moral of the story is that Big Tech cannot be trusted to curate these things - do the research before downloading.
September 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras

www.404media.co/this-company...
This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...
www.404media.co
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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NEW: A newly uncovered "infostealer" malware has the notable and "gross," as @selenalarson.bsky.social put it, feature of taking screenshots and webcam photos of a person after it automatically detects them looking at porn. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/steale...
Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn
A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim.
www.wired.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I have suggested in the past that it would be a good idea to leave Substack if that's where you have your newsletter.

But now?

Now I'm just telling you to flee.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Hey Firefox users.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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this
August 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Newer Bluesky friends—"skeeps," if you will—don't miss the Gift Links/Gift Articles feed. Very useful for accessing paywalled articles.

bsky.app/profile/davi...
August 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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We gotta dig in on this or it’s all lost
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
August 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Learn how to make links prettier! ✨

You will need to use the third party client deck.blue. You can log into it with your Bluesky account and an app password

#sky-tan #tutorial
October 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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ICYMI: The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has created a free online guide for non-fiction authors working with factual material, covering themes such as copyright, defamation and ensuring good relationships with interviewees 👇 #BookSky
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain creates free guide for authors working with factual material
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August 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.

#affordablehousingUK

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Remember the “Name Three” test.

When told lots of people are doing a thing, if you can’t name three individuals doing it, or three examples of it happening, then it’s probably not.
August 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM