Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

'The group originally met through collaborating on #Nostr, an open, “apolitical” social networking protocol that has been receiving the bulk of #Dorsey’s attention since #Twitter’s sale to Elon #Musk and his stepping down from social network #Bluesky’s board. However, the team will experiment with other tools, too, like #ActivityPub' 👀
From: @joanpla
https://mastodon.social/@joanpla/114869406168784743
Glyn Moody
@glynmoody@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#Twitter Is Dead, #X Is #Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/twitter-is-dead-x-is-elons-personal-propaganda-platform-where-grok-checks-his-feed-before-answering/ "This means supporting #opensource models or systems that enable much more user control, and which prevent any single entity from controlling the information ecosystem." #ai
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

⁂ Article

Why do people keep doing pointless self harm – news aggregation

There are hundreds (over the last 20 years likely thousands) of news, aggregation sites. It’s a common #dotcons model to enclose the “commons” people see free content and think I can capture that. The problem is news content looks like it’s free, but that’s because it’s “free” to spread, but it’s VERY expensive in human (and thus money) to produce the content. This side is never addressed in these failed tech projects.

We currently have #traditionalmedia all round the world pushing to be […]

jbz
jbz boosted
activity timestamp 6 days ago

🐣 France is investigating X over algorithm enabling ‘foreign interference’ • Semafor

｢ The magistrate said Friday that the probe will examine whether the platform broke French law by manipulating algorithms and illegally harvesting user data. The investigation follows a January complaint accusing X of spreading “massive amounts of hateful, racist, anti-LGBT+, and homophobic political content designed to distort France’s democratic debate.” ｣

semafor.com/article/07/11/2025
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

I mean seriously… what did they expect from an AI owned by a sig-heiling Nazi.

“The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi.”

For the media’s next trick they will be surprised when the new political party owned by a Nazi billionaire calls itself a “workers party” but hates communists and socialists alike.

Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

Archive link: https://archive.is/2025.07.09-012609/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/
#grok #musk#AI #chatbot #twitter#X
Yehuda TurtleIsland.social
@Yehuda@turtleisland.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

...not lead to any corresponding reaction by X users to start using other platforms out of protest is a clear indication that the dynamic out of which the #Fediverse and #Bluesky have grown in the past year is truly over.

People who continue using a platform where the owner openly manipulates core functions to favour fascist messaging should not be assumed to have any further ‘red line’ that would finally drive them to leave.

#Twitter#X#Grok#ElonMusk#Mastodon
https://connectedplaces.online/growth-narratives-on-the-new-social-networks/
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp last week

Dear @EUCommission,

X’s AI (in other words, X Corp.) is spewing blatant antisemitism. Will you do something about it or is your defense of the Jewish people limited to your members legitimising, censoring criticism of, arming, and profiting financially from the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people?

gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok