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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, 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 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

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, 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 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

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, 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

“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/

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/

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

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

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, 3 months ago to Brussels

Full-time academic position in Brussels (domain: Communication) — deadline extension until 21 March.
Full vacancy:
In French: https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8512.pdf
In English: https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8511.pdf
#academic #job #communication #university #Brussels @communicationscholars

jeffjarvis, 3 months ago to random

They're not isolationist. They're Putinist. They're authoritarian. They're fascist....
The Isolationist G.O.P., Again https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/opinion/gop-senate-ukraine-aid.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

"Dicey"? Oh, hell, Washington Post, you can do better than that....
The dicey push to impeach Secretary Mayorkas https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/mayorkas-impeachment-politics/

Gargron, 4 months ago to random

With @grishka at our #FOSDEM stand!

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

Number of books sold needed to break even in 1880s: 1,000. By 1914: 1,500. In the '40s: 2,500. In the '50s: 5-10,000. Today?
Figures from The Book Trade in the Gilded Age, Donald Sheehan (1951).

fheinderyckx, 4 months ago to random

In France, @cnrs (Europe's largest public funding agency for fundamental research) unsubscribes from Elsevier's Scopus database, as a step towards relying exclusively on open solutions (whenever these solutions become available).
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/cnrs-has-unsubscribed-scopus-publications-database
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #CNRS

jeffjarvis, 5 months ago to random

I was once dumped from the BBC for saying "crap," which I thought would be preferable to "shit," but apparently not....
Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/06/swearing-is-becoming-more-widely-acceptable-linguistics-experts-claim?CMP=share_btn_tw

claesdevreese, 5 months ago to Health

Not new. Still relevant.
2024: take holidays 🌈 😎 🏝️ ⛷️

“The frequency of annual vacations by middle-aged men at high risk for CHD is associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality and, more specifically, mortality attributed to CHD. Vacationing may be good for your health.”

#academicchatter #lifehack #vacation #health

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11020089/

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