Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy https://truthout.org/audio/silicon-valleys-billionaire-cults-are-coming-for-democracy/ #Fascism

@ntnsndr both

Garbage President 🗑
Art by Tinkicker, Can-al Fest, St Mullins, County Carlow, Ireland

#trumpisapieceofgarbage #trash #trump #protestart #fucktrump #Tinkicker #irish #mastodaoine #TrumpVisitIreland #art #streetart #ArtFestival #carlow #ireland

4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes.

Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on.

A Judge ruled she needs to file a worker’s comp claim. For rape.

They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth.

Elsie’s story must be told:

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-08-25/lawsuit-workers-comp-sexual-assault-navy-ship-22658787.html

#uspol #rape #rapeculture #fascism #freepress #pentagon #navy

🎯 We will be migrating to a new server because https://toot.community will be shutting down. We are considering hosting our own instance (seems like overkill) or moving to https://mastodon.nl Does anyone have a good suggestion for other options?

And FYI - If you have an account there and haven't yet migrated to a new server, don't procrastinate. https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2

"A decade or more ago there was a robust ecosystem of libraries and museums sharing items from their collections on the open web, but now they’re all on Instagram and other walled gardens. I think that’s wholly inconsistent with their institutional missions. I hope they come back some day."

— Alan Jacobs at https://social.ayjay.org/2026/07/30/a-decade-or-more-ago.html

Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/2117239/bill-gates-proposes-major-limits-on-ai-development?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

BREAKING: Human rights pressure group Amnesty International issues statement confirming that the UK is a paradise where all rights are respected at all times. Click here for the full story

BREAKING: Bluesky users say outages are a feature rather than a bug, a nostalgic reminder of the twitter "fail whale" of old. Click here for the low-down.

Beim „Migrantischen Streik“ bleiben laut Veranstalter etwa 160 Läden in Magdeburg geschlossen. So soll auf die Gefahr durch die AfD aufmerksam gemacht werden. https://taz.de/!6207343

Just learned of @Bonfire's “Telling” feature!

https://bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

How come no one's talking about this? You can embed Fediverse replies even on static blogs!

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I'm Gonna Cause A Ruckus" Pin. This is how you look asking a seemingly innocent question knowing damn well it's going to create an absolute clusterfuck of drama.
https://collabs.shop/to1sgw

@sundogplanets it's hard to stop people from downloading videos if you want to. If yoh mean "no button for it" Vimeo or something might have a solution where you can add a password?

@sbamueller @AwetTesfaiesus Ist diese Tatsache real trennbar von ihren Effekten? Einstiegsdroge in das teuerste & ungerechteste Gesundheitssystem der Moderne, z.B.

Letztendlich ist Schmerz auch ein biochemisches Warnsignal des Körpers. Das schnell übertünchen zu können, verhindert sicherlich eine Menge ernsthafter (aber evtl. unintuitiver) Verbesserungsversuche.

Dear friends,

Please gather around for a long post about #WSocial and how they are responding to critiques.

I have noticed a trend: W Social leaders and staunch supporters are describing any critical posts about the company as "targeted disinformation." Its CEO said they will soon have a technical solution in place for this. Oh?!?

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mtqufy6g4s2r

I suppose the "targeted disinformation" claims are about recent posts by the likes of me and @pallenberg about troubling hate speech that is allowed on W Social.

Claims backed by hard evidence, in the form of screenshots and video captures. (I am increasingly doing screen recordings of problematic posts and interactions by W Social people because they have a tendency to delete evidence - like an infamous comment on a video by the Instutute for Remigration).

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Discrediting sources, renaming evidence as "disinformation" and creating a victim narrative has a long, storied history.

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But I'm digressing. I speak up about W Social because:

1. Mainstream media runs PR fluff about them;

2. Horrid hate speech on the platform is completely unmoderated.

W Social is currently showing the limits of free speech absolutism. Its CEO wrote: "We don’t need W to become another echo chamber."

Reminds you of something?

Atmosphere user @echna.bsky.social astutely remarked that "W Social is on an X speedrun, without ever having been like Twitter."

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/echna.bsky.social/post/3mtqlknzork2t

Bluesky, #Blacksky, and #Northsky have mechanisms in place to report hate speech - and I am super thankful for that.

As of today, I cannot report to W Social posts by their users that contain hate speech.

The W Social moderation list's only purpose is to make a distinction between verified users and bots.

Compare it with Blacksky's moderation list and be amazed (see screenshots).

What's the big deal about the lack of content moderation on #WSocial?

Well, I am haunted by some posts by their users.

A repeat offender (routinely posting racist and xenophobic posts) recently commented "Awesome news" to a newspaper article about a Palestinian family drowning in Sussex.

His profile is still up and he's followed by W Social's CEO and its co-founder Ingmar Renzhog (yes I have evidence of this, via a video capture - so even if they unfollow him or delete his account, well, I have proof of my claim).

I agree with "Echna" that W Social is on an X speedrun, allowing racist, transphobic and xenophobic posts. Evidence:

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mth3hwhvzs26

Instead of addressing these critiques head-on - and moderating hate speech - the W Social co-founders are lamenting being subjected to a "targeted disinformation" campaign.

Oh ok?

IMHO free speech absolutism ultimately only coddles far right extremists and is a very dangerous thing.

Would you call this disinformation?

Special thanks to my #GoToSocial account for allowing this message all in one go, without having to break it up in a hundred-post thread.

TL;DR: W Social is taking a dark turn real fast.

#SocialMedia

And a shout-out to Acemagic, who sent over a review unit to test some of these things. It’s running a pretty spartan Ryzen embedded unit … and it did totally fine. (It’s also somewhat cheap.)

https://tedium.co/2026/08/26/self-hosting-third-place-strategy/

OK, I did another attempt at a self-hosting rig, and I tried to make it as normie as possible: It runs Linux Mint, is managed by a basic web interface for Docker containers, and hides behind Tailscale.

Here’s what I learned:

https://tedium.co/2026/08/26/self-hosting-third-place-strategy/

new @tedium

@WizardOfDocs @rockario they're also very inexpensive, I can give you some the next time you're here, you'll just need an allen key to attach them.

@sundogplanets have you considered sharing URLs to unlisted cloud storage with files? Or sharing between school-provided accounts which have cloud storage?