Patrick Boehler

https://www.pboehler.net

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2025-06-22 16:28:15 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:53n54gjixfukqx56qyjnxmkn/post/3ls4wqhmxd22l https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/709be05a258d2759a0f21324a46fb9223f8a9c3852cd0a6cfbd74f1ba0c476a9.webp

2025-06-10 23:21:13 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbzidkams2y https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/9ab98672440b347ce6265fb8f489e8c3256cbe4ff1db4bd365f0780d34c43096.webp

2025-06-05 21:57:14 UTC

“Darum verabscheue ich das trübe Amalgam, das sich ‚Nationalsozialismus‘ nennt, dieses Falsifikat der Erneuerung, das, hirn- und ziellose Verwirrung in sich selber, nie etwas anderes als eben Verwirrung und Unglück wird stiften können, diese Elendsmischung aus vermufften Seelentümern und Massenklamauk.”
Thomas Mann, „Sieg deutscher Besonnenheit“, 1932

2025-05-12 00:51:48 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j53elsjlcag3iuran5ezcy32/post/3lowquqlups2b https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/7832536563a2f56ab8b46fb72287b1f98a18aac2ff6852545f3d1512fdc4d59a.webp

2025-05-08 18:03:52 UTC

Lighthearted pope humor of different flavors before the model training kicks in https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/96e8d2c864b61c9ae3edae37ec9ef4d4d70554fa10a945fb16eb43b98bb43036.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/04a94faef8701bb18af195450d564d8015ea2c1601d7211183c3180fbf17fede.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/cd1407b0dc3b779c9383396c54056ca2edf4920bd5c6f16960edb3be60b17245.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/6b2cbd7af999b032fbbd0e6cc55bd38bfc698225b1f2485c416e64327456e87b.webp

2025-05-06 21:43:46 UTC

Global Censorship Trends: Insights from Network Measurement, Circumvention, and Advocacy https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/global-censorship-trends-insights-network-measurement-circumvention-and-advocacy

2025-05-05 23:45:01 UTC

Joining the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore this Wednesday to share how AI transformed our audience research workflows. I'll showcase work with North Korean fishermen, Chinese migrants & Iranian youth - proving research repositories with confidence ratings help avoid false certainties. Last tickets: https://lu.ma/gxdhtufs?tk=FMBVM5

2025-05-03 18:06:26 UTC

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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqroftjlkjq74wa6x4bqw6gf/post/3lobwekgptc2e https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/0eb4225f28249d34b35a6116ea8b97f9758b2d4d6c23dde372d6e143df4a17d3.webp

2025-05-01 15:00:37 UTC

Data vs intuition in media is a false binary. Research improves odds but doesn't guarantee success, while emotional resonance remains undervalued. Understanding both might help us build media that actually connects with people. https://www.pboehler.net/16-needs-paradox/

2025-05-01 14:54:09 UTC

Why should every peso that a Mexican iPhone owner pays to a Mexican app creator make a round trip through California and come home 30 centavos lighter? Why accept that for every 1,000 rupees someone pays in-app to India’s Dainik Bhaskar newspaper, the paper only gets 700 rupees? https://on.ft.com/3GBYqT1

2025-04-14 15:51:27 UTC

The irregular, winding streets of ancient Pompeii weren't primitive or unplanned—they were sophisticated designs that integrated the city better than rigid grid layouts. Modern urban planners could learn something https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/136268286/Publisher_version.pdf

2025-04-05 20:59:34 UTC

Testing crossposting through @openvibe.social
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3bynly7ikhpx43zkf5h2iue/post/3lllx54k3622g https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/4567fe70e8273c7d0f760eb3da49a0881148f22b80b441df27d3cbc11e7b0bfd.webp

2025-03-31 17:47:27 UTC

True editorial independence isn't the freedom to publish whatever we deem important—it's the unburdened expression of new information that improves someone's ability to navigate their life better. https://www.pboehler.net/15-independence/

2025-03-29 13:45:54 UTC

Sadly, the best way of getting funding in media research is telling people what they want to hear and make them feel good about it too https://on.ft.com/3YbtDSP

2025-02-23 12:17:43 UTC

This month's newsletter is out a bit early (amid a busy week in Taiwan) and it's a longer one: a conversation with Candice Fortman that gets into the heart of journalism. It's on idealism, the business side of things, and real-world utility. https://www.pboehler.net/candice-fortman-journalism/

2025-02-19 05:13:08 UTC

“In Munich, the Czechoslovak delegation were kept in an adjoining room to await details of when and how they would surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler. On Tuesday, the Ukrainians were not even in the same country.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/ukraine-and-europe-made-to-sit-outside-as-us-and-russia-sharpen-their-carving-knives

2025-02-13 22:48:53 UTC

In Taipei until the end of the month for RightsCon, and separate workshops and discussions on media strategy, research, and funding. I'll be sharing some takeaways and resources in my early March newsletter. If you're in Taipei and these topics are of interest, I'd be happy to connect.

2025-02-08 18:03:31 UTC

Important reminder: Voters rejected the status quo -- they didn’t embrace fascism. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o1gSdFWIUpw41O5zbaxedVsr6Xik5XpPd9FwqvXYu40/edit

2025-01-29 03:26:26 UTC

Few things are more dystopian than the dancing robots at China‘s national Spring Festival Year gala https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFX7XVbSSHy/?igsh=b2syeWk4MTNhaDJo directed by Zhang Yimou, of course.

2025-01-28 17:25:27 UTC

The US media dev funding freeze is hitting newsrooms globally directly or indirectly; thousands of journalists won't be able to do their jobs. Check-in slots for affected colleagues in my newsletter: https://www.pboehler.net/13-sharing-motivations/ Remember that you're more than your job.

2025-01-19 20:58:21 UTC

Your 'creator economy' runs on oligarch whims. They harvest your data and let algorithms dictate your reach - amplified or buried at their profit-driven whim. The fediverse isn't just an alternative, it's escape from digital feudalism. No billionaires parsing your data or controlling your reach.

2025-01-19 20:00:56 UTC

I’m not mourning TikTok. The creator economy needs sustainable foundations, not walled gardens. We should be exploring decentralized alternatives that put creator autonomy, community ownership first. Sustainability means building systems that can't be bought, banned, or controlled. 🌱

2025-01-17 19:24:16 UTC

In writing my next newsletter came across this compelling definition of "news value" as a compound of social significance & audience relevance = “related to meaningful events that can prompt communication among users.” https://informationr.net/ir/25-4/paper882.html

2025-01-15 17:32:19 UTC

Watch Duty is often called an "app" not "journalism," yet they exemplify journalism's best: identifying vital need (real-time wildfire info) & serving it through verification, clear writing & context.

2025-01-06 16:21:59 UTC

The media execs we need: Equal parts digital strategist & institutional leader. Too rare? Yes. Impossible? No. Some thoughts on overcoming that dichotomy and survey results among peers: https://www.pboehler.net/12-kafka-newsroom-2/

2024-12-18 00:56:27 UTC

The App Freedom Index is a much-needed initiative aimed at promoting transparency within the global app ecosystem.
Virtual launch, Dec. 19: https://applecensorship.com/news/join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-app-freedom-index-afi-advancing-transparency-in-the-app-ecosystem

2024-12-06 17:56:16 UTC

1-question survey on leadership if you work/worked in media (totally anonymous unless you want to me quoted in the newsletter)
Describe your ideal media leader - what qualities and vision would inspire you to do your best work?
- https://wib3nexo1ke.typeform.com/to/vuPiD7Kn

2024-12-06 12:42:44 UTC

If you want to connect, don't have a human assistant coordinate. It's almost 2025 - abusing someone’s time for your scheduling either shows you're digitally out of touch or think you're above managing your calendar. It’s not that hard and will increase the likelihood you get a meeting.

2024-11-29 21:07:30 UTC

Exile media donors: stop looking at social following, engagement, page views when assessing newsrooms you fund. There is so much fraud I don't know where to begin, making such ecosystem analysis and impact reports meaningless; eg: I just bought 13k real pv in a really closed region for 37 USD.

2024-11-29 21:04:19 UTC

Check out the Nostr tracking token remover bot: https://github.com/f321x/nostr-tracking-token-remover
It automatically replies to your posts with tracking-free versions, stripping out tracking from the url. Great idea.

2024-11-29 12:32:03 UTC

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I love this! Thank you

2024-11-29 01:43:51 UTC

两年后，我们如何看待白纸运动 https://www.youtube.com/live/vBfXFARTbmM?si=7gXZ9tgpI-ExotXS

2024-11-28 23:34:37 UTC

Read this https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/

2024-11-25 09:09:29 UTC

Exiled media: Using/managing mirror services to distribute blocked sites? Kaleidoscope is researching creation, monitoring & usage pain points. Leave email in survey for results. Anonymous participation. Not using mirrors but interested? Let me know.
- English: https://forms.gle/12qTtqB3kBLtGNf68
- Russian: https://forms.gle/6c3kg1541YvPs2Cz5

2024-11-23 16:29:31 UTC

Journalism awards should go to journalists who actually excelled in revealing information that was of service to real people. If awards keep going to people who have perfected the performative donor narratives and not actually been of service, not only the award committees get discredited but the entire profession. There is a long term cost to hypocrisy.

2024-11-20 02:29:29 UTC

Interesting solution to deal with link rot perma.cc could be interesting also for newsrooms linking to harmful content/platforms like X if the snapshot mirroring removes the traffic from the source

2024-11-15 20:22:21 UTC

Journalists: Hush Line is a refreshingly straightforward and simple setup for anonymous tips and messages, and it runs on @torproject.
If you want to give it a try, message me here: https://tips.hushline.app/to/gazzetta

2024-11-05 21:14:51 UTC

感謝《 #田間》電子報編輯簡恒宇的訪問。我們上週在台北談到新聞界可以如何重新思考業界獎項： https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/p/20241105
新聞獎制度尤其是評判標準和評選過程上需要改革，以確保它們對新聞業和社會所提供的價值。
《田間》為理解全球華文媒體產業變遷與挑戰的重要資源，若您對這個議題有興趣的話請訂閲。

2024-10-22 20:35:39 UTC

Heading to Taipei and Chiang Mai soon, interested in meeting folks working on internet freedom and media research/strategy. We are working on a few projects that may be of interest. Grateful for introductions and happy to just reconnect over coffee .

2024-10-21 19:59:28 UTC

The Tor project has a new job opening for a User Support Specialist in Farsi
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/user-support-farsi-specialist/

2024-09-20 01:14:49 UTC

Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/translation-chinese-universities-install-software-to-identify-and-punish-students-who-circumvent-the-great-firewall/

2024-09-19 19:40:11 UTC

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This is super interesting! How does it work, select sources?

2024-09-18 18:13:06 UTC

I'll be facilitating a conversation "circle" at the Global Gathering in Estoril, Portugal next Friday, Sep 27. This three-day event is all about collaboration building and knowledge sharing among digital rights activists.
The conversation theme is "supporting disrupted media" and brings together journalists, technologists, and digital rights activists to brainstorm how to keep independent media relevant and resilient.
From the gradual fragmentation of the internet to shutdowns to donor fatigue, the current challenges require massive rethinking in how journalism is practiced. I'll share some ideas, and I'm really curious to learn about others.
If you're attending, I'd love to see you there. If you're hosting a related conversation there, count me in.

2024-09-17 23:03:48 UTC

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Totally agree. It’s never perfect, can just push for greater systems transparency

2024-09-17 23:02:42 UTC

“But we argue that it's time to stop conflating the flailing response of news and information providers to those fundamental market shifts with a loss of faith in the key role of independent journalism to functioning democracy. Indeed, we should stop scolding audiences as uninterested in democracy just because they may no longer choose to pay for news products that they don’t find relevant to their lives or easy to access.
Those market shifts, along with powerful technology, have provided people more power to choose what information they get and how they get it. The choices remain overwhelming, and the news industry’s struggle to invest in user experience and monetize its content has diminished its standing. But that didn’t alter this essential truth: High quality journalism that informs and helps people make choices for better lives is as crucially important today as ever — and is finding business success. So, that side of the story deserves a greater share of the airtime.”
https://www.poynter.org/onpoynt-report/

2024-09-17 11:04:25 UTC

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That’s exactly the point. There are tons of free VPNs that operate freely in China but just do data harvesting, the ones supported by this program have no logs policies and are externally audited.

2024-09-14 00:32:08 UTC

How it started / how it’s going
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/d45dbf34d5997556f86aea5e059bef4f2989c6fe82b0b3f0216764795228263f.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/4b10a5aadbe51b0939dbf73dabdf1edd92dc2fb4ce17c20ad8e06f43161e347c.webp

2024-09-14 00:31:09 UTC

Any recommendations on good write ups of the #FediForum? Sad to have missed it. Thank you

2024-09-13 12:33:58 UTC

For less than a dollar a year, we can provide free and secure internet access via VPN to someone living under digital oppression.
Last week, the U.S. National Security Council and the State Department convened a meeting with civil society and representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft to build momentum for greater coordination and investment in countering internet censorship and fragmentation globally.
Laura Cunningham, President of the Open Technology Fund, shared the cost estimate at the gathering. It's approx. 7 cents per user per month. Through OTF, the U.S. currently supports more than 45 million monthly users in Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar and elsewhere, enabling their access to the open internet.
VPNs allow people to communicate securely, inform and express themselves freely, and contribute to global progress.
At the meeting, I shared how VPNs are an essential tool for journalists, both for reporting and for distribution and my worries about about a possible full blocking of YouTube in Russia: https://www.pboehler.net/vpn-russia-white-house/
Funding is just the beginning. There needs to be training people to use VPNs effectively, helping them identify trustworthy services, and building momentum to share and distribute access.
A Reuters report on the initiative and the surge in usage of publicly-funded VPNs: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/

2024-09-11 02:31:24 UTC

Pakistan is building a China-style firewall. Internet speeds have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, according to service providers
https://restofworld.org/2024/pakistan-internet-firewall/

2024-09-11 02:07:53 UTC

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Pugs are the best

2024-09-06 01:54:57 UTC

How China’s Internet Police Went from Targeting Bloggers to their Followers
In recent months, followers of influential bloggers have been
interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/02/how-chinas-internet-police-went-from-targeting-bloggers-to-their-followers

2024-09-06 01:43:06 UTC

The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. It adapts Marx’s 1880 Workers’ Inquiry to the phenomenon of data workers who are essential for contemporary AI applications yet precariously employed—if at all—and politically dispersed.
https://data-workers.org/

2024-09-04 22:44:02 UTC

re:filtered is my monthly newsletter, this month with some new audience research learnings, hacking news, and upcoming conferences: https://www.pboehler.net/8-information-myths/

2024-09-04 21:55:34 UTC

September 24 - Books Unbanned: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere
featuring Cory Doctorow, Leah Johnson, and Kelly Brotzman (Boston, MA and on Zoom)
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50

2024-09-04 21:54:18 UTC

Heading to DC for a day, beautiful train journey
https://m.primal.net/KeYd.jpg

2024-09-04 21:53:19 UTC

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Totally agree on current state, would love to see logic of Tor relays and bridges to be explored to circumvent censorship

2024-09-03 19:23:27 UTC

New project launch: http://GoogleCensorship.org
This platform by GreatFire will monitor censorship practices in Google Play Stores worldwide

2024-09-03 10:07:36 UTC

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This! Has anyone tried since?

2024-09-01 12:46:14 UTC

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https://matrix.org is great

2024-09-01 12:33:21 UTC

Agreeing here: “Durov and Telegram might yet be exonerated from the charges they face—and we should indeed reserve judgment as the case unfolds. But nothing about his arrest to date suggests that it has anything to do with ‘free speech.’ The narrative that global authoritarian censors are persecuting a free speech hero is pure myth-making in this case.”
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/platforms-like-telegram-accused-of

2024-08-31 18:13:19 UTC

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Interesting. Seeing one relay here for Beijing but assuming any relays would be better off run from overseas https://nostr.watch/relays/find

2024-08-30 01:37:50 UTC

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Beautiful

2024-08-30 01:37:21 UTC

Any follow recommendations on internet freedom?

2024-08-28 01:14:35 UTC

My favorite #Riga scene: this Putin portrait is the view the Russian ambassador wakes up to. Latvian know right from wrong.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/87a966f4ba950bd4606af8adedb6c1c7502668b4154736a2d50a32e970f30659.webp

2024-08-24 01:07:45 UTC

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Hope all went well. Let’s catch up soon in NY!

2024-08-22 12:11:31 UTC

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That would be amazing

2024-08-22 12:11:15 UTC

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Thank you 🙏

2024-08-22 11:45:24 UTC

Is there a go to place for all #nostriga slide decks?

2024-08-18 07:51:48 UTC

Delon est un homme devenu acteur par accident, qui a appris film par film, en avançant. Lui dira qu’il n’interprète pas mais « vit » ses rôles. https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/08/18/alain-delon-mort-d-un-acteur-de-legende-ses-films-cultes-en-six-episodes_6285260_3246.html

2024-08-13 09:08:47 UTC

Funny to see Sweden described as tiny https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/business/sweden-economy-europe-competitiveness.html only in America…

2024-08-09 22:21:46 UTC

Russia / Venezuela:
Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if a connection is affected:
Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

2024-08-09 02:44:41 UTC

Mass outages of YouTube in Russia today, this affects how millions of people get information https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/youtube-slowdown-in-russia-darkens-freedom-of-speech-outlook/article_eadc3592-dae0-5fba-a3fb-141c7c95c301.html everyone has been expecting this to happen sooner or later, but the assumption was it won’t for as long as pro Putin propaganda dominated on YouTube which is probably still the case.
Curious if that changed or if the regime now just feels sufficiently confident in VK as a satisfactory substitute.

2024-08-08 15:43:37 UTC

“The harms of surveillance aren't merely spiritual and psychological – they're material and immediate. The commercial surveillance industry provides the raw feedstock for a parade of horribles, from stalkers and bounty hunters turning up on their targets' front doors to cops rounding up demonstrators with location data from their phones to identity thieves tricking their marks by using leaked or purchased private information as convincers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
The problem with Google's monopolization of the surveillance business model is that they're spying on us. But for a certain kind of competition wonk, the problem is that Google is monopolizing the violation of our human rights, and we need to use competition law to "democratize" commercial surveillance.”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/

2024-08-08 15:35:42 UTC

Ted Cruz vs internet access https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/08/ted-cruz-proudly-pledges-to-kill-last-ditch-funding-effort-for-popular-low-income-broadband-program/

2024-08-06 13:19:24 UTC

The Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell is running a survey for a project to study the privacy expectations and content moderation experiences of people who use encrypted messaging apps. https://surveys.citizensandtech.org/216171?lang=en

2024-08-03 15:08:46 UTC

Every month, I set aside one afternoon to write and reflect about my work and the media space more broadly in a newsletter. It's very helpful as an exercise to pause and reflect. I strongly recommend it.
This month, I wrote about some similarities between audience research and investigative reporting in their purest forms. Some wishful thinking around platform and vendor data certainty, in research along with performative aspects of both fields, has made the two drift apart. In reality, they're actually quite similar.
Journalism is much simpler than we make it out to be. It only gets complicated when we seek to perpetuate systems that aren't of service. This is the real opportunity right now: to disentangle and rebuild.
https://www.pboehler.net/7-research-reporting/

2024-08-03 15:08:27 UTC

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Another reason is bad short term metrics thinking, CTR tend to be lower on illustrations.
This is great: Using Illustration To Help Investigations Stay Grounded and Approachable https://themarkup.org/premium-penalty/2024/08/03/using-illustration-to-help-investigations-stay-grounded-and-approachable

2024-08-02 21:53:01 UTC

Venezuela: VEsinFiltro documented 12 new cases of blocking against media outlets, human rights organizations and a VPN https://vesinfiltro.org/noticias/2024-08-01-venezuela_elections_censorship/ also Wikipedia and WSJ

2024-08-02 21:46:54 UTC

Turkey blocks Instagram https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=TR&since=2024-07-30&until=2024-08-03&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.instagram.com

2024-08-02 21:41:08 UTC

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Yesssss! Also illustrators are generally not cost prohibitive for a publication. Most pay more for photo subscriptions or useless syndications

2024-07-30 22:53:47 UTC

A media project I consulted with is looking for a UX frontend designer with native Chinese skills to work full time on a new b2b media venture, remotely from anywhere ideally US, (just not Chinese mainland.)

2024-07-30 14:35:01 UTC

Great opportunity for media folks to work with OTF. They are looking for experts in editorial services, and graphic design to support the adoption of censorship and surveillance resilient technologies. Check out the RFP for more details: https://www.opentech.fund/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Impact_and_Engagement_Lab_RFP.pdf

2024-07-30 12:38:38 UTC

From scissors to scraping: a good read on the evolution of content sharing: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/29/sharing-material-used-to-be-the-norm-for-newspapers-and-should-be-for-llms/ packaged content has very little inherent value, information or relationships have

2024-07-30 11:25:03 UTC

A federal judge in New York ruled that Customs and Border Protection can’t search travelers’ phones without a warrant. The ruling theoretically applies to land borders, seaports, and airports — but in practice, it only applies to New York’s Eastern District. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/29/24209130/customs-border-protection-unlock-phone-warrant-new-york-jfk

2024-07-30 02:28:03 UTC

I'm worried that by the time we're collectively ready to move beyond Big Tech walled gardens, most publications will already be locked into Threads as their primary platform.
While Flipboard is great at bringing publications to the fediverse, relying on volunteers to do this for their favorite media outlets (like someone in New Jersey does for RFA) isn't sustainable and doesn't grant true ownership.
Could we develop a program that:
1. Establishes nostr identities for news organizations to claim when ready?
2. Utilizes RSS feeds or alternative sources to build a following?
3. Offers support to individual journalists and newsrooms?
4. Pursues web-of-trust verification and actively recommends accounts?
This could extend to other public utilities, such as transit systems or weather services.

2024-07-27 14:57:05 UTC

Curious if in browser cached models could work as an alternative for on-premise hosting for simple republished tasks in terms of security or if that doesn’t make sense https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js/

2024-07-27 14:44:01 UTC

“The democratization of publishing has had lots of good effects for the growth of media around the world, the biggest being the proliferation of previously under-represented groups to have a voice. But amongst the worst effects of it has been the perception that it is easy to be in media, have a career in media, raise money in media, build a company in media. “ http://rafat.org/post/180621846031

2024-07-27 14:05:17 UTC

Flipboard onboarded 64 U.S.-based local and regional publications to the fediverse https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-brings-local-news-to-the-fediverse/

2024-07-26 14:23:28 UTC

Civic media can set standards if they want to. Now would be a good moment again.
#note1ge2…ud9v

2024-07-26 13:48:33 UTC

🤯 this is great!
#note1zv3…sptq

2024-07-25 12:47:11 UTC

Why critique decentralized social media protocols on platforms that harvest your data and where you have no ownership of your relationships, no say in your algorithmic discovery, and your data gets harvested?
It's pointless to bash alternative protocols while comfortably nestled in the walled gardens of Big Tech.
If you're genuinely concerned about the future of social media, direct your efforts: Invest time, thought, or resources into developing alternatives. Don't just complain—create.

2024-07-25 01:05:32 UTC

The web scraper bot for Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude hit iFixit’s website nearly a million times in a single day, despite the repair database having terms of service provisions that state “reproducing, copying or distributing any Content, materials or design elements on the Site for any other purpose, including training a machine learning or AI model, is strictly prohibited without the express prior written permission of iFixit.” https://www.404media.co/anthropic-ai-scraper-hits-ifixits-website-a-million-times-in-a-day/

2024-07-24 20:17:29 UTC

CrowdStrike sent Uber Eats $10 apology gift cards to say sorry for outage. Several people who received it found that the cards didn't work.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/

2024-07-24 20:14:06 UTC

“The Chinese internet today is unrecognizable from the internet we all know.” https://www.opentech.fund/news/otfs-nat-kretchun-testifies-on-the-great-firewall-and-the-ccps-export-of-its-techno-authoritarian-surveillance-state/

2024-07-24 16:19:23 UTC

Smol is super interesting as a content aggregator for insights on public debate on social. is anyone working on something like this for fediverse/nostr? https://smol.fly.dev/sign-in

2024-07-24 11:15:52 UTC

A good Cybercrime Treaty would recognize the perverse incentives that create the coalition to keep us from knowing which products we can trust and which ones we should avoid. It would shut down companies like the NSO Group, ban spy agencies from hoarding defects, and establish an absolute defense for security researchers who reveal true facts about defects. https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/

2024-07-23 22:40:46 UTC

malicious software that, for the first time, allowed hackers to reach directly into a Ukrainian heating utility, switching off heat and hot water to hundreds of buildings in the midst of a winter freeze https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-frostygoop-malware-heating-utility/

2024-07-23 22:28:24 UTC

Telegram user base 950m, plans to launch app store and turn into a wild west wechat https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/telegrams-userbase-climbs-to-950m-plans-to-launch-app-store/

2024-07-23 02:56:26 UTC

Jigsaw has open sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content shared through their online platforms.
https://github.com/jigsaw-code/altitude
https://medium.com/jigsaw/introducing-altitude-an-open-source-tool-to-help-online-platforms-protect-their-communities-from-0c1c5d147fae