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  Hey fediverse, happy: - #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com - #FairTradeMusicFriday https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day - #FaircampFriday #music #musicians #friday #SupportArtists

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  "First, it was just one missile, but then another, and another, until the system reported that a total of five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched." Happy Stanislav Petrov Day, fediverse! (From 2018) https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov #OnThisDay #otd #history #StanislavPetrov #ColdWar

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  Here's @_elena@mastodon.social sharing success stories from the fediverse and reasons to be hopeful for this year's #FediDay. https://fair.tube/w/csFcmJcnMtHufq5JBr8sid https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/WUERER/ More videos from the event: https://berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117326037771580837 https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/ #fediverse #FediDay2026

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  Hey fediverse, happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk #EarthWindFire #DoYouRemember #21stNightOfSeptember

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  "The dopamine loss is different from ordinary dips in mood or motivation, Meyer said. It reflects an actual reduction in the density of nerve terminals, not simply lower dopamine output from nerves that remain intact. Whether that’s reversible is still unclear." https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/long-covid-brain-fog-symptoms-dopamine-nerve-terminals/ via https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/117274431859625905 #news #health #covid #LongCovid

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  Happy #LaborDay! "Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would [...] strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe. In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May_Day "The ruling class did not want to have a very active labor force connected...

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  "There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github." Happy 12th birthday, ActivityPub! https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/fbdd0aca-87ae-4d58-83b2-ee95dde2e229 #ActivityPub #fediverse #anniversary #SocialMedia #standards

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  "These two figures are not communicating with one another. The lady receives an amatory message, and the gentleman some racing results." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-vision-of-isolating-technology-from-1906/ #technology #essay

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  Hey fediverse, happy: - #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com - #FairTradeMusicFriday https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day - #FaircampFriday Great day to support your favorite artists, and find new ones! #music #musicians #friday #SupportArtists

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  Interesting to see the fediverse and the Atmosphere starting to take up similar shape, as with FASPs, fediverse servers will be able to connect to shared infrastructure. https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/building-shared-infrastructure-for-the-fediverse/ via https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M1KV6AVGVKJMXZ1309NW20S0 #fediverse #FASP #SocialMedia #atmosphere

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  "As backlash against surveillance grows, governments overseeing cities, townships, and counties around the US are dropping their Flock contracts at a record pace — a retreat so widespread that some say it could affect the company’s viability." Let's hope! https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-alpr-surveillance-major-trouble-cancellations #news #TechNews #technology #surveillance #flock

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  Hey fediverse, happy #LibraryCardSignUpMonth! https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card #libraries #LibraryCard #books #bookstodon

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  Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van #internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge #PacketRadioVan #arpanet #history #OnThisDay #OTD

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  "Meta on Wednesday reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to its products over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms. In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating federal child privacy and states’ consumer protection laws, the states announced." It's a start!...

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  Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist. Learn about dog whistles. And microaggressions. Get a Black person on your moderation team. None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will matter if we can't make this place welcoming to everyone. #fediverse #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #racism #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

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  Quick, Bluesky is down, tell your friends about your favorite fediverse server! Don't confuse them with techy jargon, unless they care about that stuff. Just tell them why you picked the server you're on, and that they can sign up and follow and talk to people on other servers. https://downdetector.com/status/bluesky/ #fediverse #bluesky #atmosphere

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  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@RogueAI/117077335536360796 Oh no. #RogueAI

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  "When [socialist/left-leaning candidates] talk about policy, they don’t just focus on blaming Donald Trump for every problem; they talk about issues that their potential constituencies tell them are important." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/socialist-wave-democratic-party.html?unlocked_article_code=1.31A.V8gz.x0v03C9L-WmJ&smid=url-share #USPol #politics #ElectoralPolitics #socialism #DemocraticSocialism

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  Hey fediverse, happy Friday! And happy: - #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com - #FairTradeMusicFriday https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day - #FaircampFriday It's a great day to support your favorite artists, and find new ones! #music #musicians #friday #artists #SupportArtists

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  RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117046865381030769 This is an excellent guide, and I love this tool that lets you experience the fediverse as a assistive technologies user. https://alt-text.social.lol/check-up Awesome work! #accessibility #AltText

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  #accessibility #AltText #ImageDescription

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  I created https://alttexthalloffame.org three years ago, and I hope it's still inspiring people today. https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/112417737043903901 https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/why-i-made-alt-text-hall-of-fame/ #AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #accessibility #ImageDescriptions #anniversary

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  The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl@w3c.social." Happy birthday, web! Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-f...

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  Nice! "Mastodon is currently considered *the* alternative to Twitter. SURF [the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research] and Universities of the Netherlands are therefore jointly exploring how a Mastodon environment for education and research in the Netherlands can take shape." https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education #fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

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  "The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to activities that could disrupt ICE’s operations, according to federal documents, contractors and former Homeland Security Investigations agents." Stay safe out there! https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-surveillance-internet-critics-e3b22f49 via https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-news-t9s06mvmz/-/a-ck392XZ2SKOHX8twp7xQNg%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0 #news #Soc...

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  In an interview with The Verge, Bluesky's CEO sees a common goal between the fediverse and the Atmosphere/Bluesky, can see them co-existing side by side "long-term". "We have not talked to Threads. We’re definitely talking to Mastodon and ActivityPub. They definitely feel we’re very aligned. Our missions are very aligned." https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneider-interview-ai-atproto-atmosphere #interview #technology #SocialMedia #bluesky #atmosph...

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  Worth perhaps noting that the number of "daily likers" on Bluesky fell under one million for the first time since March 2025, as all metrics continue to decline. https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

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  A bundle of 150 games created by the United Videogame Workers union to support videogame industry workers in the US and Canada impacted by layoffs. "Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI." https://itch.io/b/3802/game-industry-hardship-fund https://kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-hardship-bundle-necrosoft-games-layoffs-unionization-2000720782 #videogames #unions #layof...

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  Has there been a conversation around why the fediverse:creator meta tag only allows one person to be listed? https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30748 #fediverse #FediverseCreator #mastodon

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  "LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to [@404mediaco@mastodon.social's] own tests." https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/ #news #technology #linkedin #AI #LLMs #slop #enshittification