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jon, 2 months ago to random

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Day 20 March – Bruxelles – Essen – Rosendaal – Kapellen – Charleroi – Berzée

Today I’m crossing these borders
Essen 🇧🇪 - Rosendaal 🇳🇱
Former 1000mm tramway - Zandvliet 🇧🇪 - Bergen op Zoom 🇳🇱

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#10/51.3791/4.4934

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-2024-extra-day-20-march-bruxelles-essen-rosendaal-kapellen-charleroi-berzee/

jon, 1 month ago to random

Trying to help a friend get from Madrid to Paris 8 June. And I want to 😭

€122 for the best timed TGV train to Paris €97 is the cheapest
Cheapest flights from €43
Other flights €54 - €74

fheinderyckx, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to twitter

The steady flow of publications announcing the imminent demise of Twitter/X is now almost exclusively naming Bluesky and Threads as alternatives. Why are people losing interest in Mastodon and why do they not understand that going from one (commercially) owned platform to another is missing the point entirely? Latest example: the opinion piece by the otherwise well-inspired Paul Krugman. (@pkrugman ?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opinion/twitter-x-elon-musk.html
#Twitter #TwitterMigration

shoq, 3 months ago to random

Something I dislike about all social media is that I can’t reply to or CC someone and start and interesting conversation w/o automatically enrolling those I started with. It forces them to mute the conversation thread if they’re not interested in engaging. There are several solutions that are unlikely to appear in Activity Pub anytime soon. I dislike that about the experience. There is such a backlog of needed features or tweaks, proposing new ones can feel like carping.

fheinderyckx, 11 months ago to threads

Intriguing how everyone's aware by now that Threads can't be launched in the EU because it is not compliant with privacy rules, but no one outside the EU takes the clue that Meta keeps sucking every scrap of users' digital footprint and that sensible users (not just the European Commission), should deem this utterly unacceptable and stop using any of Meta's services.
#Threads #Meta @EU_Commission #privacy #GDPR

fheinderyckx, 1 year ago to random

Nothing beats a fresh look at the past to make sense of the present. “The Gutenberg Parenthesis” by @jeffjarvis is high on my Summer reading list. E-book offers generous portion as a free sample.

PART I: The Gutenberg Parenthesis
1 The Parenthesis
2 Print's Presumptions
3 Trepidation

PART II: Inside the Parenthesis
4 What Came Before
5 How to Print
6 Gutenberg
7 After the Bible
8 Print Spreads
9 The Troubles
10 Creation with Print
11 The Birth of the Newspaper

#Journalism
#History

fheinderyckx, 10 months ago to mastodon

I am floored and fascinated by the near-literary quality of many of the descriptions of images that people carefully craft when appending pictures to their posts on Mastodon. Some of them will reveal a detail that had escaped my attention. Others will help me understand a subtle joke I had missed. Others still are true poems. ALT are their own microblogging world that reveals itself as you hover on a picture. And I hover, and hover.

#AltText #inclusivity
#Mastodon #netiquette #tootiquette

fheinderyckx, 5 months ago to communicationscholars

Must read: @jeffjarvis leans on Arendt, Kornhauser, @ICAHDQ, @Chanders, Carey, @snurb and many other brilliant minds to argue masterfully that we must shift focus from a crisis of disinformation to one of believing and belonging: “The danger is in not belonging, and filling that void with malign substitutes for true community: joining a cult of personality or conspiracies, an insurrection, or some nihilistic, depraved perversion of a religion.”
https://medium.com/whither-news/journalism-belief-belonging-07a8dabe35e4
@communicationscholars

jeffjarvis, 5 days ago to random

The Post is forced to cover its own journalistically dubious boss, who issues traditionalists' favorite slander against critics, calling @davidfolkenflik “an activist, not a journalist.” He projects. Gift link:
Post publisher draws more scrutiny after newsroom shake-up https://wapo.st/4e8aPu5

fheinderyckx, 5 months ago to Netflix

Finally:
“Starting today [Netflix] will publish What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report twice a year. This is a comprehensive report of what people watched on Netflix over a six month period1, including:

• Hours viewed for every title — original and licensed — watched for over 50,000 hours2;
• The premiere date3 for any Netflix TV series or film; and
• Whether a title was available globally.”
  https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report

#Netflix #audience #streaming @communicationscholars

fheinderyckx, 6 months ago to TwitterMigration

My university (@ULBruxelles) joins the ranks of responsible institutions suspending their activities on X/Twitter. Let's hope they'll soon start using their new, shiny Mastodon account!
#TwitterMigration #ethical

jeffjarvis, 3 months ago to random

I eagerly await Vice: The Movie.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/vice-clever-irreverent-executives-helped-kill-it

fheinderyckx, 10 months ago to random

Dan, Jeff: Are you having coffee together or something?
@jeffjarvis @dankennedy_nu

fheinderyckx, 9 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

“Never has the power to control public discourse been so completely in the hands of a few profit-seeking corporations with no requirements to serve the public good.” writes @Julia. “To prevent those who would hijack algorithms for power, we need a pro-choice movement for algorithms. We, the users, should be able to decide what we read at the newsstand.”
A must-read (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion/social-media-algorithm-choice.html?unlocked_article_code=mT6ntAeiTg4MF3WsZFYZS5Gnpaxv1np12nE0KSei5IFsZ7aQkrlt5T2Z5OKGqoZUhzMe6BKTpIuRK68nJTtGy0nvdlrw5xKZyaiM86GDnl-FebhmJbRWoFug2vBc2aypC3D6pPF6PzDes7N--Bhl_QTsZEeiFFrNsrD_7gLm5wwCUdZ-EEijhFwIeUcVuVEdvwfyhzvhsXeth9Q78ayqTL5GY2lkFdSlcPElS1E3v-MbnYEFOd3OxGTl4UTm-EqtIImZsr_VFtGASplfk6hiMWwEhe3GHHM7JSD1oQvZnrr4igss9odWmTGy_2aJWBdB_4y61Y7P-B7xVppRbHBszOagXV8qVA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#algorithms #socialmedia #MustRead

fheinderyckx, 1 year ago to communicationscholars

During #ICA23, using Mastodon was pleasant and relevant, but shockingly intimate and quiet given that the conference attracted a record number of attendees. I don't miss the Twitter storms, the live tweeting, and the permanent constest for the wittiest post. In the past, I convinced myself that live tweeting forced me to pay attention, but instread, it was a major source of distration. Goodbye Twitter, hello mindfulness!
#commodon @communicationscholars

fheinderyckx, 21 days ago to news

Breaking news is when I really miss Twitter. I have learned about the surprise announcement of the 4 July general election in the UK many times from many channels long before it appears in any form or shape in my Mastodon feeds. It's all right. Maybe Mastodon isn't meant to play that role. But if it is, there's still a long way to go.
#news #breaking #mastodon

fheinderyckx, 1 month ago to Signal

I'm a huge fan and active advocate for @signalapp . I tell everyone to give up WhatsApp and adopt Signal. But I had to reinstall on my phone and not only did I loose all conversations on my phone: I seem locked out of my groups where nothing comes in, even for the group I admin. All is fine on my laptop and desktop, but disaster on the phone. I followed all the instructions on the support pages, to no avail. This is really unexpected and hugely disappointing. #Signal

fheinderyckx, 2 months ago to random

“Maybe people believe in conspiracy theories because they have hundreds of life-or-death decisions to make every day, and the institutions that are supposed to make that possible keep proving that they can't be trusted. Nevertheless, those decisions have to be made, and so something needs to fill the epistemological void left by the manifest unsoundness of the black box where the decisions get made.”
@pluralistic, Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

fheinderyckx, 3 months ago to Bulgaria

John Naughton: “The existential challenge for societies today is whether they are capable of reining in tech power. (…)The question is whether liberal democracies are up to the job. The significance of the DMA is that it’s the first time we’ve really had a proper shot at it. So this is a critical experiment for democracies; and there’s a lot hanging on the outcome.”
#EU #DMA #Regulation #BigTech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/painful-day-for-tech-titans-as-eu-finally-sinks-its-regulatory-teeth-into-them

fheinderyckx, 3 months ago to ai

AI researchers are calling on organizations to provide basic protections and more equitable access for independent testing of Generative AI models.
If you agree, please sign and share the letter:
https://sites.mit.edu/ai-safe-harbor/
#AI #Research @communicationscholars

fheinderyckx, 2 months ago to random

“tech makes finding these conspiracy fantasies easier than ever, and […] tech makes forming communities of conspiratorial belief easier, too. But the vulnerability to conspiratorialism [is] a function of corruption – of life in a world in which real conspiracies (to steal your wages, or let rich people escape the consequences of their crimes, or sacrifice your safety to protect large firms' profits) are everywhere.”
@pluralistic,
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

fheinderyckx, 2 months ago to random

Consumers: We're sick and tired of being the product, of being data harvested, and being constantly assaulted by marketing.

Content providers: That's our business model, else we'd have to charge you a subscription.

Consumers: Fine! I recongnize that quality content comes with costs, and I'm willing to pay my fair share.

Content providers: Swell. Here's your invoice. We'll keep harvesting your data and flood your with ads though.

#BigTech #BusinessModel #SurveillanceCapitalism

fheinderyckx, 1 month ago to journalism

Harrowing but incisive reality check on quality newspapers in the US, by @jeffjarvis :
“These three newspapers [New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal], which in the winners-take-most market of media today capture two thirds of subscription revenue, each have wonderful journalists doing good and important work. But they are betrayed by their institutions, which are losing trust and refuse to ask why.”
https://buzzmachine.com/2024/04/26/the-times-is-broken/
#journalism #newspaper #democracy

fheinderyckx, 1 month ago to privacy

A few months ago, I added this image to my homepage for anyone to see, at a glance, where I stand when it comes to social media sites. Feel free to reuse!
#privacy #TakingBackControl