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Whelp it happened to me. #Covid #vaccine only for 65+. I am privileged to just be able to pay for it, but it's drugs or food for a lot of folks in Ohio, so basically the feds totally left us fucked.
Vital stats: Insurance: Medical Mutual of Ohio Hospital system: Trinity Health
News: Mother Jones | House Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Calls Her Indictment for Protesting a “Political Prosecution”
The alleged conspiracy includes actions such as “bang[ing] aggressively” on an ICE agent’s vehicle and “etching a message into the body of the vehicle, specifically the word ‘PIG.’”
Abughazaleh called the indictment from the Trump administration an attempt to stop anti-ICE protests. “This is a political prosecution, and a gross attempt to silence dissent,”
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@aseelfromgz, @casey, and I were able to carry out two verification calls today (out of the four scheduled) and we’d like to welcome two new members to Gaza Verified.
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
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PS. We’ve rescheduled the two calls we couldn’t hold to tomorrow and we’ve rescheduled all calls tomorrow to start at the earlier time of 1PM Gaza Time instead of 4PM as Internet access appears to be better earlier in the day, especially after the switch to Daylight Savings Time.
How many times can you swap the SOM before the slot gets worn out? Is that a concern at all with these tests or can you do this basically forever without consequences?
Barcode Industries has announced a limited time flash sale on its cinematic sound design instrument ARKE Shadowscapes, offering a 60% discount on the Kontakt 6 library featuring ominous and haunting atmospheres for creating tension and suspense.
"Only when this hollow, stupid, deadly world is destroyed, only when the 'home for all' here on earth has been realised, only then will our mission be accomplished! Well then! What we are building is: a new world!"
Thought of him because of: www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrge… Recently he has become a little bit better known again in Germany.
A programming note and context: Fediverse Report will now appear on Friday (instead of Tuesday), for some personal planning reasons as I fit this in with my other work. Fediverse Report will also shift in a slightly different direction, where for the foreseeable future I’ll give more context and thoughts on the shifts in the state of social networks and the open social web. It is becoming increasingly clear that the future of the open social web is getting intertwined with how the Trump administration is (and will) interact with the open social web. The Trump administration is putting an increased focus on Bluesky to troll. Erin Kissane wrote an excellent overview of the situation this week that I highly recommend.
Kissane highlights the risk that the Trump administration will suppress Bluesky in some way, echoing my own writing on the subject. Furthermore, the arrival of the White House social media accounts on Bluesky places Bluesky moderation in a tough position, with no good options to take. For Kissane, that leads her to conclude: “On the individual level, people seeking private social networking may be better off, for now, finding a trustworthy Mastodon server and maintaining their connections with accounts on Bluesky via network bridges.“
I agree with Kissane’s assessment, and for me this also points to how intertwined the futures of the fediverse and the ATmosphere have become. Bluesky is currently top-of-mind for the Trump administration in a way that the fediverse is not, but any potential actions by the administration will impact not only Bluesky, but the fediverse and the wider open social web as well. It is impossible to predict if these second order effects are beneficial or harmful for the fediverse, since that depends strongly on both the details of any action of the administration against Bluesky, as well as how people on Bluesky will respond in practice.
For now, it means that I’m shifting my writing for Fediverse Report to include this larger political context of the open social web.
The News
During the recent FediForum, Ben Werdmuller gave the keynote speech about “why the open social web matters now”, and the keynote and transcript are now available online. Werdmuller makes the point that we’re seeing a shift into authoritarianism in multiple places, with the US being the most high-profile. He points out that the first step towards dealing with the threat is to have open information ecosystem, and that ecosystem is in decline both on social media (with all Big Tech companies capitulating) and in a decay of journalism. Werdmuller makes a distinction here between social media and social networks, where social media is for scale and broadcasting, and social networking are for trust and collaboration.
Werdmuller then describes how social communities can be build, which starts from a private community, that then connects with other peer communities. All these groups have their own secure (encrypted) spaces. This archipelago of connected places ( 🙂 ) can then step into the public network (the fediverse) and share their messages with the broader world.
What stands out to me is how the process described by Werdmuller is pretty much opposite to how development on both the fediverse and the ATmosphere has happened so far. Development on both networks have started from the ‘big world’ social media approach, by creating public microblogging platforms. The assumption seems to be that over time, once there is an initial group of people who use these public network, private networks will emerge. In the case of ATProto this is fairly explicitly visible, the protocol does not support private data currently, and the developers are only now starting to work on this, once the public version of the protocol is deemed to be completed. For ActivityPub and the fediverse there is more possibilities for people to build such private communities, but there has been little interest in building it out. Mastodon does still not support the possibility for local-only posts for example, posts that are only visible to people on the same server, even though community forks of Mastodon (such as glitch-soc) do support local-only posting.
In the keynote, Werdmuller suggests a radically different approach, saying: “For the open social web to thrive, we need to go back to real communities with real-world use cases and solve their problems better than anything else. Not the needs of individuals within them, but of the interconnected communities themselves.” It is important to be specific here, not by helping abstract groups like ‘journalists’ or ‘organisers’, but specific concrete individual communities. Werdmuller urges to be specific in the solutions as well: “Open source or federation are not solutions in themselves. They’re characteristics of a solution. We need to be concretely meeting needs. Not what you think their needs are or what they should be, but what you’ve learned they are from getting to know them deeply.”
NLnet has completed their latest grant round, and with it, there are a number of ActivityPub-related projects that have received a grant. With the latest grant round, NLnet further cements their crucial role in the ecosystem, funding a large number projects and platforms (as well as this newsletter!).
NLnet funds five existing projects for further development:
Microblogging platform GoToSocial gets a grant for performance as well as additional moderation features. GoToSocial also states here that the goal is to get to a 1.0 version at the end of 2026.
Further improvements to the connector that addsActivityPub to CMS platform Drupal.
GoActivityPub is a set of libraries for ActivityPub in Go.
Flohmarkt is a marketplace platform on ActivityPub that people can self host.
NLnet also funds a new project, with Mirlo. Mirlo is an existing platform for artists to sell their music and merch. The grant from NLnet is to add ActivityPub support to Mirlo and to turn it into a federated, self-hostable platform. This makes the platform fairly similar to Bandwagon, which is also a place for artists to sell their music. Both platforms will likely gravitate towards one ‘main’ instance, with the possibility for artists to self-host their Bandwagon or Mirlo instance, that federates with the other platforms. The main part to watch here is if there will be interoperability between Bandwagon and Mirlo. While ActivityPub allows for the possibility of interoperability between different softwares, it does not guarantee it, and it requires active efforts from developers to make it happen. If and how this interoperability will evolve here, with both Bandwagon and Mirlo tapping into a new market of artist music sharing, is worth a keeping an eye on.
Some updates
The Links
A short video explaining ActivityPub Fuzzer, “a program designed to emulate data across the Fediverse to enhance interoperability between social media platforms”.
A reflection on how to name and describe the new type of app of Newsmast, which combines news articles with the fediverse.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! Next week I’ll dive deeper in to the developments regarding open science and the fediverse, with work by Bonfire and connecting ORCIDs with the fediverse.
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/israels…
If you thought the psychotic moron in the White House couldn't get more dangerous, take a look at the insane Truth Social post President Donald Trump fired off Wednesday night in which he said the United States will begin nuclear weapons tests for th…
We bought these little goldfish for our backyard pond this summer, tiny, barely an inch long. Since last year a few frogs froze there over winter, so we decided to bring everyone inside this time.
When we pulled them out, those “tiny” fish had tripled in size. So now these underwater monsters live in the aquarium, staring at us like landlords checking rent.
During the rescue operation, one bullfrog was gently relocated to the nearby stream. It was… not pleased. I like to think it’ll thank me in spring.
The image shows a wooden pier extending out over a body of water, likely the sea. The pier is covered and has a roof made of dark gray shingles. There are support posts along the side of the pier, also wooden. People are walking along the pier in both directions. A sign reads "UNDER THE PIER SHOW". The sky is overcast and gray.
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The image is a photograph of an interior space with a quirky, retro-futuristic aesthetic. A person is seated on a pale yellow armchair with a wide, rounded back. A single, orange lampshade is suspended from the ceiling by a thin cord, casting a warm glow. Behind the chair, a wall is painted a vibrant teal color, and a window reveals a blue sky with scattered clouds. Text is visible on the wall, reading "KEEP GRANNIE WARM" and "SAVE THE PLANET." A control panel with dials labeled "COLD," "WARM," and "CARBON FOOTPRINT" is also present.
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Für US-Regierung gedacht: Manager von L3Harris hat Zero-Days an Russen verkauft
Der Rüstungskonzern L3Harris arbeitet auch an Zero-Day-Exploits für die US-Regierung. Der dafür zuständige Manager hat sich damit aber persönlich bereichert.
hah! Went to see Greenday live for the second time a little while back, and realised it was 20 years since I saw them the first time, give or take a month or so.
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A British citizen is being held prisoner in a foreign and hostile country (let's be honest, and not a sucker) and the Foreign Office is all 'FO' as usual.
Vendetta è un film del 2022 di genere azione e thriller, diretto da Jared Cohn. Un ottimo cast per una pellicola incentrata sulla vendetta di un padre per l'uccisione della figlia. Scopriamo nella gallery trama e cast del film.
The image depicts a complex, futuristic aircraft design. It appears to be rendered in a digital painting style with a muted, somewhat distressed color palette dominated by shades of green, brown, and orange. The aircraft is large, with numerous protrusions, vents, and appendages extending from its body. There is a large cockpit area visible at the front with multiple windows. The background shows what seems to be a stylized, abstract pattern in shades of blue and grey, resembling a futuristic cityscape or a chaotic environment.
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Hoping that people without PEC will sell out those with, to stop massive hikes of their own insurance payments.
It's basically their only move. Pit people with a little, against those with less, while the people with the most rob both groups blind.
As we've seen with recent government expenditures ($40B for a bailout, money for private jets, etc etc), the government could afford the continuation of rebates, they just choose not to.
why don't you adopt a universal health care system that way it doesn't matter what pool people are in?
I know we have a lunatic in Garage arguing that we should go the other way but he is just a bad echo of Trump and should be assiduously ignored as a total non entity.
With Trump’s cognitive decline and rising dementia, coupled with diminished physical health, he’d be a prime candidate for insurance company’s high risk pools.
Yes. Plus the more you segregate insured based on risk the harder you make it to predict costs and the less sense insurance makes for insured. The point of insurance is to prevent unpredictable problems from bankrupting the insured. If that unpredictable problem is going to result in my not being able to afford coverage and I'm going to go bankrupt anyway, why should I buy insurance?
We pay for flood dike maintenance, like the whole city, but only about 15% are in the dangerous zones. That is so unfair! (It isn’t, I don’t want them to be in a high risk pool filled with water.)
La Asociación 25 de marzo ha convocado una concentración protesta en respuesta a la derogación de la Ley de Memoria Histórica y Democrática de Extremadura.
Viviamo in un Paese dove la disuguaglianza sociale non è mai stata così ampia, con il 5% dei ricchi che detiene il 47,7% della ricchezza nazionale, mentre il 50% più povero si deve accontentare di un misero 7,4%; un Paese
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