EU launches TikTok, YouTube child protection probe
Lets hope it both TikTok and Youtube get that, or face the consequences.
"What use is a four-hour pause each day to hand communities bread in the morning before they are bombed in the afternoon?"
Riham Jafari,
ActionAid Palestine.
Breaking 🚨 Shell is suing us and Greenpeace UK and threatening an $8 MILLION damages claim for peacefully protesting their climate destruction.
Big Oil is trying to silence us. We will NOT back down ✊
https://www.ft.com/content/3041e388-f1a5-4bee-a756-fa58e8fd639c
On Tuesday, Amnesty Intl published a 74 page report at how Meta's lazy moderation practices contributed to the proliferation of hate speech/misinformation by Ethiopian state backed Facebook accounts with 100s of 1000s of followers, targeting ethnic Tigrayans in Ethiopia. During the 2020-2022 civil war, it led to real life polarization, massacres, mass arrests and generated consent for them all.
Know more about the horrors big tech inflicts on our corner of the world.
They sponsor Barcamp London
And behind the scenes, they're helping to organise #bclxii
Is your accountant Proactive?
♪ it ain’t what you do
it’s the way that you do it ♪
www.proactive.ly
We just released version 1.0.0 of the #ActivityPub Plugin for #WordPress https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/1.1.0
Thanks to @mattwiebe the plugin now also supports audio and video federation ♥️
Transgender people can be baptized in the Catholic Church and serve as godparents, per an official Vatican document published Wednesday. https://t.co/efKGtN19a2
A friend of mine used to send old computers to Cameroon, one of the issues seemed to be the sand gets everywhere and reduces the lifespan further.
However in the time they could be used, they made a real difference.
But yes, power and internet were also an issue.
I am guessing hey Jude, however one could argue do do do , da da da by the Police :D
We need some small portable particle accelerators so we can go bust ghosts,
Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/09/small-modular-nuclear-reactor-that-was-hailed-by-coalition-as-future-cancelled-due-to-rising-costs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #worldnews #guardian
The media is easily distracted.
That seems generous given the number of things trump is accused of.
Mr Sunak said in a statement. “There remains the risk of those who seek to divide society using this weekend as a platform to do so.”
Nice to see the PM finally speaking out against Suella Braverman.
Interesting
Agreed, the march on Saturday is about peace not about violence. I agree with the interviewee that anyone going off route or causing problems should be arrested.
I can see just stop oil pulling a stunt on Saturday or Sunday, sort of thing they would do to get publicity.
@RodneyPetersonTalent @killyourfm
I once watched a "Where are They Now?" show about very famous & successful 1960's R&B artists.
I was shocked to see how many musicians lived lives of poverty; never seeung a dime of residuals for the continuing popularity of their music.
They'd been forced to sell their catalogs for pennies to pay "debts" to a music company. Cheated in contract negotiations.
Taylor Swift was right about what it takes to be successful in music. "Get a Good Lawyer"
The Dutch public broadcast organization NPO ( (like a BBC or PBS) is now running its own mastodon instance with handles on its main domain!
Radio 1: @nporadio1
The instance itself is at https://social.npo.nl/
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.