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Guido Calogero (1904-1986)
L’armonia tra studio storico-filosofico, riflessione etica e commento d’attualità garantisce agli scritti di Calogero una profondità che li rende capaci di parlare a un nuovo pubblico, anche a distanza di anniwww.rivistailmulino.it
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ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods
One of the Fediverse’s most-repeated selling points is the following premise: YOU OWN YOUR DATA. It’s a wonderful sentiment, the idea that you can pack up everything and take it with you. The problem is, most platforms on the network can, at best, redirect your followers to a new account.
What if we had an easier way to represent data ownership and give users total control of it? Buckle up, because we’re diving into some big ideas.
ActivityPods is a combination of two W3C standards: ActivityPub, and the Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web.
How does Solid work?
When I first came across Solid’s W3C spec many years ago, I really struggled to understand it. The document is full of extremely dry language, and was too intangible for me to understand at the time.
After messing with my own Solid pod and playing with some demos, though, something clicked for me. Here’s my best attempt to keep things simple.
What are Solid Pods?
In Solid’s world, everyone’s personal data lives in a Pod. This is your personal data locker, where your media, files, and personal data all live together. One Solid Pod belongs to one person.
Looking at my Solid Pod data in Solid Filemanager
Conceptually, your Solid Pod looks and works very similarly to Google Drive, iCloud, or Nextcloud: to the user, it just feels like a big folder with your stuff in it. In fact, using a Pod that way is not out of the question, but the technology serves a much bigger purpose.
User Data and Solid
Like I said earlier, data in a Solid pod can take a few different forms:
- Documents: Notes, Spreadsheets, Manuscript files, Presentations
- Media: Pictures, Video, Audio
- Data: Metadata in various formats
What’s interesting about this involves how Solid apps can work with these things. Instead of relying on a relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL to store data, these apps read data straight from files in your pod. The data is specifically formatted in such a way that Solid apps can read it.
A recipe for Homemade Pizza in Umai, a cookbook app.
Noel De Martin made a really great demo app called Umai that demonstrates how a basic Solid App works. This app is relatively simple: look up a recipe online, copy and paste the URL, and save it to your pod. On the application side, your saved recipes show up right away.
The cookbook folder.
Metadata for the Pizza recipe.
On the Solid pod, the data for each recipe resides in a folder, with a little bit of data for each entry. The application side knows to look for these, and is able to use that data natively. In a nutshell, all Solid apps store this kind of data in your Pod. The user gets to decide which apps, if any, can access that data, and can take away that access at any time.
So, that’s basically it. It’s a fancy data storage system that lets you connect documents and data with applications that can read or manipulate them, and you get the final say of which resources can be accessed by whom. ActivityPods then adds another layer: federation.
How does ActivityPods work?
ActivityPods extends the concept of a Solid Pod to include a few new things: an inbox, an outbox, methods for digitally signing posts, a SPARQL endpoint for querying RDF metadata, and a dispatch system.
Each pod has a singular WebID / Identity to begin with, and ActivityPods marries that WebID to a Fediverse Actor. A user then logs in to their social application through their Solid Pod, and grants permissions for the very first time.
Source: ActivityPods blog
What ActivityPods effectively provides are automated mechanisms. They constantly check the contents of the Solid pod, and are notified whenever a change gets made.
Let’s say you’ve just made a post with your Fediverse app: a document representing a post is written in the Pod, then a dispatch mechanism acts as the user’s outbox and sends the activity out. Meanwhile, the corresponding inbox mechanism waits for replies.
What this could mean in practice is that editing a Fediverse post may be as simple as editing a corresponding file, while a mechanism pushes out an Update activity through your Outbox to make changes on the network.
ActivityPods App Experience
So far, the app experience for ActivityPods is pretty limited: the mypod.store instance only allows users to use one of three apps: a meetup app, a mutual aid app, and Mastopod.
Mastopod is basically a proof-of-concept app capable of rendering a basic timeline, dispatching posts, liking statuses, and following people. What’s remarkable is that it was hacked together in less than a week with the existing framework that ActivityPods apps use, SemApps.
The Future?
The developers behind ActivityPods are hard at work on their 2.0 release, and a big part of the work involves making this new platform fit into ActivityPub’s world. The goal is to provide everything a developer needs to build a Fediverse app, with the backend doing all the heavy lifting.
It’s an exciting time, and we may soon start seeing apps that bring entirely new experiences on top of this technology: apps that respect user privacy, and give them total control of everything in their Pods.
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"there is one class of AI risk that is generally knowable in advance. These are risks stemming from misalignment between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model in a particular way and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed."
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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
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The Problem With Counterfeit People
Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.
By Daniel C. Dennett
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"Edtech brokers are significant emerging actors in education because they are gaining the authority and capacity to shape the future direction of edtech in schools"
"edtech brokers play a role by connecting technical products to the specific social and political contingencies of different local settings." @BenPatrickWill
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Edtech has an evidence problem
Edtech brokers have begun producing new evidence and measurements of the impact of technologies in schools. Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash Schools spend a lot of money on edtech, and most of t…code acts in education
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TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English
"I said “delve” was overused by ChatGPT compared to the internet at large."
"In Nigeria, “delve” is much more frequently used in business English than it is in England or the US. So the workers training their systems provided examples of input and output that used the same language, eventually ending up with an AI system that writes slightly like an African."
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TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English
Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphonesAlex Hern (The Guardian)
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Mentre le famiglie cercano i parenti nell'obitorio dell'ospedale Nasser, una donna abbraccia il corpo della nipote di cinque anni. #WorldPressPhotoOfTheYear #Palestina #foto @informapirata @alephoto85 @scuola
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Il Giano bifronte della cultura italiana - Jacobin Italia
A ottant’anni dall’attentato mortale, la figura di Giovanni Gentile suscita ancora nell’opinione pubblica italiana reazioni polarizzateGiulio (Jacobin Italia)
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È stata rilasciata la versione 2.3.0 del plugin #ActivityPub per #WordPress. Il post di @Matthias Pfefferle
Ecco alcune delle nuove funzionalità:
- Supporto per attributi alt
- Assegna priorità agli allegati in base al formato del post (articolo => tutto, audio => audio, video => video, ...)
- Miglioramento dei widget JS
- Migliore gestione predefinita dei contenuti in base al tipo di oggetto
- Ora puoi aggiungere/rimuovere la possibilità di utilizzare ActivityPub per ciascun utente
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Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be
There were some really cool demos at FediForum last month, but the one that really opened my eyes was Emissary. It’s a newer project developed by Ben Pate, and it does something totally new: composable interfaces.
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Emissary FediForum demo
The secret sauce behind Emissary as a project is brilliant in its simplicity: it gives you a server and a bunch of tools, and gives you the power to build whatever interface you want on top of it. It’s very reminiscent of Hubzilla, but it makes customization a first-class citizen.
Deep Customization
There’s a lot of moving parts here, but it’s pretty easy to summarize: instead of simply giving you the power to customize how Emissary looks, you’re also given the power to customize how it works.
Examples from the FediForum demo. Left to right: a social reader view, a to-do list view, and a social profile view. All of these were developed using Emissary’s powerful templating system.
Emissary offers comprehensive documentation, and a bunch of different template types that can assist in building whatever app comes to mind. From the layout and widgets to the timelines and data types.
By following this method, is possible to turn Emissary into whatever platform you want. It uses a special JSON templating system, and the frontend processes everything with a toolkit based on HTMX. For developers, this means that you don’t need to write a frontend in a special custom framework – instead, Emissary uses the principles of HTML for development.
Contrary to other attempts to build this kind of thing in the past, Emissary lets developers write timelines and activity data as templates. Here’s how you can define a simple to-do list item:
Template Definitions
This part exists at the top of the template, and simply defines what it is, and provides some instructions for how it’s used by Emissary.
templateId:"test-todo-item"
templateRole:"todo-item"
socialRole:"Note"
model:"stream"
containedBy: ["todo"]
label:"To Do Item"
description:"A single item in a to-do list"
icon:"check-badge"
Schema
This part defines the actual fields of the object itself. Every single property is defined as a type, with additional fields nested in the actual data itself. Here, the data
property includes dueDate
and complete
.
schema: {
type:"object"
properties: {
label: {type:"string", maxlength: 64}
summary: {type:"string", maxlength: 256}
data: {type:"object", properties: {
dueDate: {type:"string", format:"date"}
complete: {type:"boolean"}
}}
}
Actions
Here, the allowed actions are defined. Each action is built up of multiple steps, which are tasks that can be mixed and matched to make something happen. Let’s look through it.
actions: {
create: {
steps: [
{do:"as-modal", "steps": [
{do:"edit", "form": {
type:"layout-vertical"
label:"Add Task"
children: [
{type:"text", label:"Name", path:"label"}
{type:"textarea", label:"Details", path:"summary"}
{type:"text", label:"Due Date", path:"data.dueDate"}
]
}}
{do:"publish", outbox:true}
{do:"trigger-event", "event":"refreshPage"}
]}
]
}
view: {
steps:[
{do:"include", "action":"edit"}
]
}
edit: {
steps: [
{do:"as-modal", "steps": [
{
do:"edit"
form: {
type:"layout-vertical"
label:"Edit Task"
children: [
{type:"text", label:"Name", path:"label"}
{type:"textarea", label:"Details", path:"summary"}
{type:"text", label:"Due Date", path:"data.dueDate"}
{type:"toggle", path:"data.complete", options:{true-text:"Complete", false-text:"Not Complete"}}
]
}
options: ["delete: /{{.StreamID}}/delete"]
}
{do:"publish", outbox:true}
{do:"trigger-event", "event":"refreshPage"}
]}
]
}
delete: {
"steps": [
{do:"unpublish", outbox:true}
{do:"delete", "title":"Delete Task?"}
{do:"trigger-event", "event":"refreshPage"}
]
}
discuss: {
steps: [
{do:"as-modal", "steps": [
{do:"view-html"}
]}
]
}
}
The Create
action adds a popup modal as a step, which then has the Name
, Details,
and dueDate
values. After it’s filled out, the activity gets published to an outbox
, which is the standard method for dispatching in ActivityPub. The page refreshes, and now it’s possible to edit or delete the item, or add a comment.
When we put it all together, we get something that defines what data is available, what actions are taken in processing that data, how it all looks, and what interactions are available to users. As someone who had messed around with PHP, Rails, and Node apps over the years, I cannot begin to tell you how wild this is.
Federated Music Demo
The latest demo Ben showcased is an attempt to create an alternative to Bandcamp. It’s called Arcadium, and is designed around letting artists customize the look and feel of their band pages. It includes support for streaming audio, links to other services, a custom home page, and events.
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It’s an incredible example, and as of this writing, has a little over two weeks of active development time. The idea that this kind of thing is possible so quickly is nothing short of astonishing.
Ben continues to work on Arcadium, but is also seeking insight from Fediverse musicians looking for another Bandcamp alternative. Tapping into an existing community and building for their needs would be a great idea, as we’ve already seen Bonfire do with Open Science Network.
Who is this for?
It could be argued that Emissary is for power users and developers, but I think that’s only part of the picture. Emissary is based on IndieWeb principles, and a big motivation for the project involves giving people the power to shape their Web environment into whatever they want. It’s a powerful, intoxicating idea, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
I’m going to download Emissary and tinker with it. Should my efforts bear fruit, I hope to write some guides in the near future!
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Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child
Facebook’s chatbot eventually apologized and said it doesn’t have “personal experiences or children.”Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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"Meta and Lavender"
"A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?"
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Meta and Lavender
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2].Paul Biggar
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Milano University Press, casa editrice universitaria ad accesso aperto, è nel Fediverso con il nome @milanoup [attenzione: precisazione di seguito]
⚠️ l'account indicato nella prima versione del messaggio era solo temporaneo. Abbiamo corretto
«MilanoUP è la casa editrice Open Access dell’Università degli Studi di Milano che pubblica i risultati della ricerca senza costi per lettori e autori»
Grazie a @mcp per la segnalazione
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PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta
The long-awaited developer offering from the Pixelfed project took a big step today! PubKit is a suite of tools designed to help people build the next generation of Fediverse applications. For now, it can be broken down into four components:
Faker
Faker brings the power to create placeholder Actors, with mocked-up data, allowing developers to see what interactions actually look like on their server in real time.
Fetch
Fetch is, more or less, the Webfinger tool we all know and love. Instead of rendering an Activity, though, it instead shows you the JSON of what that Activity looks like.
Bouncer
Bouncer gives developers the ability to look at HTTP Signatures, which are used to sign messages, and determine what’s different from one implementation to the next.
Radar
Radar lets developers create a temporary inbox, allowing them to see how new Activities come in, and what the data behind them looks like.
The best part of this thing is that, like Pixelfed’s other efforts, PubKit aims to be 100% Free and Open Source. They even included a pricing page as an easter egg, to drive the point home.
I might need the Growth plan, honestly.
We just signed up for the Beta to test it out with our own clearly-real-and-not-fake app, Womp Triangle, and are excited to take a deeper tour once we get in. According to Dansup, PubKit intends to open up to the general public within the coming month. For the time being, though, he was nice enough to share a few screenshots.
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L'inchiesta di Nicky Hager sul sistema di spionaggio ospitato dal Government Communications Security Bureau della Nuova Zelanda
Il giornalista investigativo Nicky Hager afferma che un documento di intelligence statunitense trapelato vecchio di dieci anni indica l'identità delle apparecchiature di intelligence straniere ospitate dal GSCB all'insaputa dei politici.
[articolo segnalato da @smaurizi ]
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Nicky Hager on spy system hosted by GCSB
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager says a decade old leaked US intelligence document points to the identity of the foreign intelligence equipment hosted by the GSCB without the knowledge of politicians.RNZ
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La settimana scorsa, l’ispettore generale dell’intelligence e della sicurezza ha rivelato che un’agenzia straniera ha condotto un’operazione di spionaggio in Nuova Zelanda per quasi un decennio, senza che i ministri lo sapessero.
Nicky Hager, che era membro del gruppo di riferimento dell'ispettore generale per l'intelligence e la sicurezza, ha utilizzato le informazioni trapelate da Edward Snowden per identificare le misteriose apparecchiature di intelligence.
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In un articolo di commento pubblicato venerdì mattina sul sito web della RNZ, Hagar afferma che i documenti indicano l'uso di un sistema chiamato #APPARITION che doveva essere installato nella base nel giugno 2012, la stessa data delle apparecchiature di intelligence straniere discusse nel rapporto dell'ispettore generale. rapporto Nicky Hager afferma che APPARITION raccoglie dati sulla posizione per le operazioni di cattura-uccisione.
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Alla scoperta di Mastodon e della piattaforma bologna.one, in dialogo con Fabrizio Massari
La parola, dunque, a @Victor Van Dort , 54 anni, che nella vita lavora per una multinazionale italiana di sistemi informatici. Come passatempo, però, ha cominciato qualche anno fa a interessarsi a Mastodon, un nuovo social basato su un codice aperto, e ha creato una sua istanza personale chiamata bologna.one, che si occupa di pubblicare contenuti a proposito della città.
Grazie a @Chiara [Ainur] [Айнұр] per la segnalazione sul suo profilo
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BICICLETTATA ANPI - uMap
uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.u.osmfr.org
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"TVs have ceased being rectangles designed to let you watch ad-supported programming that costs a lot to make and have started to become rectangles designed to collect information about you so that you can be fed cheap content and targeted ads."
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The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated Garbage
TCL's new AI-generated movie "Next Stop Paris" is the next evolution in the algorithmification of TV.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Sembra che che anche Ghost possa entrare a far parte del Fediverso!
#Ghost è una piattaforma di blogging e newsletter, un'ottima alternativa a Medium e Substack!
Hanno già un'ottima integrazione con le email. Aggiungere #ActivityPub sarebbe fantastico:
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Dopo aver visto il post di @johnonolan su threads, Renaud Chaput, CTO di Mastodon, ha offerto aiuto per l'integrazione di ActivityPub e O'Nolan ha accettato!
Il #fediverso sempre più un'unica grande rete libera!
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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.Jeremy Scahill (The Intercept)
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Is genocide legal if you re-label it?
No it is not. 😔
@pluralistic 's enshittification is coming for our whole lives:
"The other day I went to a store to buy a dress. My shopping experience was regrettably enhanced by technology. .."
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I Hate Technology - Aftermath
The website where I pay rent is down. My vape is out of battery. Too much of my life has been disrupted by technology.aftermath.site
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Last week, I was browsing Goodwill's book website and saw that a book I wanted was at a location in our very city. My roommate went to that location to buy it on my behalf, only to be told that they don't sell books in the store anymore, just online.
At least the shipping was free... but I had to wait four days for the book to get here, which makes no sense. One day to get to the local post office; one to head out from it; how hard is that?
Two layers of bullshit.
L'applicazione di terze parti per Android Fedilab consente di utilizzare Mastodon.uno, PeerTube.uno, Pixelfed.uno, poliverso.org ecc. ecc. è ora gratuita su Google Play e continua a esserlo anche su F-Droid.
Se non l'avete ancora provata, questo potrebbe essere un buon momento:
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(In precedenza era a pagamento su Google Play e gratuita su F-Droid).
#fediverso #Android #Mastodon #App #Fedilab
Mastodon Uno Social - Italia
Mastodon.Uno è la prima comunità generalista italiana. Con oltre 70.000 iscritti è il più grande nodo Mastodon italiano. Anima ambientalista a supporto della privacy e del mondo Open Source.Mastodon ospitato su mastodon.uno
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@informapirata se per questo sarebbe preferibile sempre usare webapp e mai affidarsi a degli store centralizzati per quanto etici possano essere, ma ovviamente quelli di fedilab hanno capito che per aumentare il bacino di utenti nel fediverso e non ridursi in una riserva indiana serve esserci nel play store e con un'app gratuita.
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Under the AI ACT's harm approach to fundamental rights impact assessments (perhaps a result of the "lobbying ghost in the machine of regulation"), fundamental rights can be violated with impunity as long as there is no foreseeable harm.
Do AI systems have politics? Predictive optimisation as a move away from the rule of law, liberalism and democracy
In predictive optimisation systems, machine learning is used to predict future outcomes of interest about individuals, and these predictions are used to make decisions about them.Zenodo
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La guida per principianti al Fediverso, scritta da Sean Tilley per gli utenti di thread
«Se stai leggendo questo articolo, è probabile che tu sia completamente nuovo all'idea del Fediverso e ne senti parlare solo ora. Qualcuno potrebbe aver provato a spiegartelo nei commenti, dicendo “è come la posta elettronica, ma social!”, senza lasciarti nemmeno lontanamente dedurre cosa significhi. Non preoccuparti: siamo qui per aiutarti ad approfondire i concetti, passo dopo passo, senza complicare nulla.»
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Mappatura delle comunità Fediverse
“Le persone spesso pensano che il Fediverso riguardi la tecnologia. Non è quello che abbiamo riscontrato", afferma Michael Foster, co-fondatore di Newsmast. "Circa un milione di persone hanno partecipato alla condivisione delle conoscenze negli ultimi sei mesi, in un'ampia gamma di comunità, dagli animali domestici alla politica."
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Il team di comunicazione dell'Università di Innsbruck amplia ulteriormente l'utilizzo del servizio di microblogging Mastodon e ora apre il servizio anche a tutti gli oltre 5.000 dipendenti dell'Università
L'accesso è collegato al sistema di login dell'Università ed è aperto a tutte le unità organizzative e a tutti i dipendenti dell'Università di Innsbruck. Il team di comunicazione consiglia l'utilizzo della piattaforma soprattutto in contesto accademico.
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Morti sul lavoro, il monologo di Andrea Pennacchi: "Lacrime d'amianto" | LA7
Monologo sulla tragedia dei morti sul lavoro: Andrea Pennacchi dà voce a un operaio vittima dell'amiantoLa7.it
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Getting Gaza Right Is The Absolute Bare Minimum Requirement
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Getting Gaza Right Is The Absolute Bare Minimum Requirement
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Gaza is simpler than Iraq. Iraq was simpler than Yemen. Yemen was simpler than Libya. Libya was simpler than Ukraine. Ukraine is simpler than Syria.Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
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The Mixtape #5: Canned Nostalgia
Welcome to The Mixtape, our periodic playlist showcasing the musicians of the Fediverse!
For this edition, we’re going with a particular sound: things that seem like they belng from another era, even hough the may have come out recently. We’ve searched far and wide, and produced this playlist just for you.
If you enjoyed this, please think about supporting these artists and buying their music, and listening to others like them on Radio Free Fedi!
“The Tyranny of Love” – Anthony Wilson Dugale
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This one kicks off with a crackling guitar solo before diving straight into a Paul McCartney-esque ballad. It’s a sharp critique of love songs, and really nails the anguish of catching feelings and dreading it. I would love to see this as a karaoke song!
“Hinterlands (ft. Salissa Thole)” – Blue Nagoon
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There’s no proper way to say this, but Hinterlands feels like a musical 80’s synth rock adaptation of The Neverending Story to me. The heavy stadium guitars, the glamorous diamond-like synth melodies twinkling in the background, Solissa Thole’s powerful delivery with vocals.
“Rescue at Nazaré” – 12AX7
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This track goes off with a bang, and sounds like a marriage of Joe Satriani’s Surfing With the Alien with the best the surf rock genre has to offer. It’s a really fun sound, rife with shredding and distortion while reminding me of summer.
“27 Fish” – The Maxwell Silverthorn Blues Band
Alright, I’m going to be straight with you: Mike Macgirvin can shred. The guy is a legitimate great guitarist, and this track has all the hallmarks of a classic 60’s psychedelic protest song. It’s an absolute trip.
“Salt and Sand” – Jason Didner
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Jason Didner is like a version of Jimmy Buffett that lives in the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! dimension, and Salt and Sand is this man’s Cheeseburger in Paradise, but with more heart.
There’s something incredibly earnest and about Jason’s music, and this has quickly become one of my favorites of his.
“End of an Age” – Kyle Brondson
Sweet and heartfelt, End of an Age feels like an emotionally mature read of a children’s storybook, with instrumentation evocative of Randy Newman, lyrics reminiscent of Don McClean, and the soft drawl of an old country music singer. Somehow, it all comes together and makes magic.
“Beggars Can’t Be Choosers” – Futzle
This song is about being happy with what you have, and it’s a bop. It has everything: fun melodies on a keyboard synth, dreamy vocal effects, and delightful lyrics. The attitude this song brings is incredible.
“Make believe” – Bandstahl
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While this track bills itself as house music, it’s a beautiful amalgam of different eras: club beats that sound like the 90’s, vocals with elements of the early aughts, and melodies that sound like they were sampled from the 60’s and 70’s. The result is amazing.
“Looking for the Light” – Ferocious Designs
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Looking for the Light feels like it was ripped straight out of the 80’s, and it’s wonderful. A choir of voices belting out the words, echoing against loop sequences chiming, as stomp drums hammer out the beat. Absolutely fantastic.
“Good to Me” – Shannon Curtis
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This track is pure magic: soft digital drums, an angelic chorus, multi-track harmonies, and a zippy synth churning out beautiful hums. The message behind it is empowering, beautiful, and awesome. I could listen to this over and over again.
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"Saying What Can't Be Said: Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat"
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Saying what can't be said: Israel has been defeated – a total defeat
The war's aims won't be achieved, the hostages won't be returned through military pressure, security won't be restored and Israel's international ostracism won't endChaim Levinson (Haaretz)
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"Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images
Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet."
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Lavender Unveiled: The Oblivion of Human Dignity in Israel’s War Policy on Gaza
[Adrián Agenjo is an LL.M graduate from the London School of Economics and a Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University. He also works at Irídia – Human Rights Defence Centre in Spain.] The views …Adrián Agenjo (Opinio Juris)
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"Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry"
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Exclusive: Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry
Google has negotiated a deeper relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defense during the war in Gaza, a document seen by TIME shows.Billy Perrigo (Time)
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Leggendo questo post sembrerebbe piuttosto verosimile che la fruizione di #Threads dal Fediverso sia migliore rispetto a quella che si avrebbe utilizzando Threads dall'app e dal sito ufficiale!
Questo è un elemento su cui bisognerà riflettere quando Threads farà accedere al Fediverso anche gli utenti italiani.
Vale la pena continuare a defederare o anche solo silenziare qull'istanza? Oppure sarà più lungimirante tenere i porti aperti?
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secondo me il messaggio passa forte e chiaro nel momento in cui sulle piattaforme di microblogging noi veicoliamo anche contenuti diversi come foto, longformat, forum, video, streaming
Uno mostra un suo contenuto instagram (che a volte non si vede senza un account) e tu gli rispondi con una foto da pixelfed.
Commenta un libro, e tu gli fai vedere bookwyrm.
A quel punto i limiti della piattaforma gli verranno velocemente ai nervi.
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<puffo quattrocchi>Passa al Fediverso, quello vero, che è meglio!</puffo quattrocchi> 😜😛🤪
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Threads su Mastodon e il luminoso futuro del Fediverso
«Questo è il mio viaggio che è iniziato come un esperimento per vedere come sarebbe stato il mio feed di Threads su Mastodon e si è concluso con la scoperta di esperienze che sono andate ben oltre le mie aspettative.»
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Fediverse, for Threads Users
If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re brand new to the idea of the Fediverse, and are just now hearing about it. Someone may have tried to explain it to you in the comments, saying “it’s like email, but social!”, leaving you no closer to deducing what it even means. Don’t worry – we’re here to help you go through the concepts, step by step, without making anything complicated.
Table of Contents
- The Basic Idea
- Interacting with the Fediverse from Threads
- Can my Threads account connect to the Fediverse?
- So, I can’t follow anyone not on Threads?
- Is there a way to see Fediverse replies to my post?
- Do I have control over which servers my posts go to?
- Joining the Fediverse Outside of Threads
- Do I have to start my own server?
- Do you have resources for Mastodon?
The Basic Idea
What is the Fediverse?
The Fediverse (Federation + Universe) is an open communication network, built on top of the Web, where individual sites can talk to each other. A person on one site can follow someone else on another, and interact with them in a way that’s pretty similar to traditional social media.
An Easy Example
To make it even simpler: there was a time in the mid-2000’s where Facebook started to overtake Myspace in terms of popularity. For a while, it was common to have half of your friends in one place, and half of your friends in the other. Your Myspace friends couldn’t use Myspace to talk to their Facebook friends. There’s just no way to make those services talk to each other.
Tom and Mark could never follow each other this way.
At first, this seems kind of obvious. Well, duh, of course that’s not going to work! There’s no way for either site to connect or even understand each other. But if you think about it, there’s no real reason that services can’t talk to each other. They just need a common language and shared understanding to work.
That’s basically what ActivityPub is designed to do.
Wait, what is ActivityPub?
ActivityPub is what we call a federation protocol. Federation is the way that servers in this network talk to each other, and a protocol is just the shared language they use to make sense of each other. ActivityPub is just one effort to make this thing work – there have been others in the past, like OStatus or Zot, and there are other approaches currently in use, like the AT Protocol that Bluesky uses.
Left: Mastodon, Right: Pixelfed. People on either app can talk to each other!
Without getting too into the weeds: ActivityPub is designed around making different kinds of platforms capable of talking to each other.
Mastodon, for example, bears a passing resemblance to Twitter. Pixelfed looks a lot like Instagram. People on each platform can talk to each other and see each others’ stuff with very little friction. Mastodon users can even watch PeerTube videos from their timeline, and listen to Funkwhale music!
Left: watching a PeerTube video from Mastodon. Right: Listening to a Funkwhale track from Mastodon
It turns out that this is a really powerful idea! It’s possible to tear down walls between platforms, and with this new shared understanding, talk to each other natively.
Interacting with the Fediverse from Threads
The Fediverse is a big, big world: it spans nearly 20,000+ individual servers, the majority of which connect in some way, shape, or form. It can be exciting to explore, but navigating it can take some getting used to.
Can my Threads account connect to the Fediverse?
Kind of. Fediverse integration for Threads is still in Beta, and is mostly one-way at the moment. What this means is that people across the network can see your posts, and they can send likes back to you, but you can’t follow anybody or see their comments yet.
Left: The President’s Threads account, as seen on Threads. Right: the same account, as seen on Mastodon.
Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse are capable of following Threads users that have the integration turned on, provided that the Mastodon server operators haven’t blocked Threads. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of Meta being part of an open network, and some servers have blocked Threads completely.
So, I can’t follow anyone not on Threads?
Not at the moment. Fediverse users can follow your Threads account, see and boost your posts, and like them.
It’s kind of a weird choice on Meta’s part to do the integration this way, but it’s likely they wanted to prioritize broadcasting before they dug into the messier business of receiving.
Is there a way to see Fediverse replies to my post?
Actually, yes! It’s a workaround for the moment, but you can look up your profile on Mastodon to see the Fediverse replies. Mastodon.social currently lets you do this, and doesn’t require an account.
Copy and paste your Fediverse username into the search form on Mastodon, and your Threads account will show up!
Keep in mind, this is an imperfect solution. This view simply shows you the responses that specific Mastodon server knows about. There are a number of servers that either don’t connect to each other, or don’t keep every reply on hand.
Do I have control over which servers my posts go to?
Privacy controls on Threads are still a bit limited, but it’s possible to block specific Fediverse users under Settings > Privacy > Block Users in the Fediverse.
Currently, it doesn’t look like there’s a way to block entire servers.
Joining the Fediverse Outside of Threads
After opening up sharing with the Fediverse from your Threads account, you might be curious about trying it out for yourself.
There’s a lot of cool stuff to do – which is why a big part of our site is dedicated to writing about the subject. Here’s a handful of questions that we’ve seen from Threads users already.
Why would I want to try the Fediverse elsewhere?
There are a couple of benefits that makes the wider network worth exploring. Let’s dig in!
Greater User Control
The Fediverse typically provides more control to end users regarding what they see, who they connect to, and how they share content online.
While you are still beholden to the admin of your server and the Terms of Service there, you’re far less likely to see a company like Meta restricting your articles, if you’re not on their servers. You can do your community, your way.
Tons of Communities
As a network, the Fediverse is a medley of different platforms, communities, and mediums. There are thousands of servers connected to each other, featuring academics, researchers, authors, musicians, artists, comedians, and more.
Diverse Experiences
The Fediverse already has analogs of most popular social networks:
- YouTube
PeerTube
- Grooveshark
Funkwhale
- Twitter
Mastodon
- Instagram
Pixelfed
- Reddit
Lemmy
- VK
Smithereen
- Goodreads
Bookwyrm
- Twitch
Owncast
There are also a lot of platforms that don’t have a direct thing to compare to, like Hubzilla, Misskey, and Emissary.
A lot of people are out there building the experiences they want to see, while plugging into a network that’s constantly getting bigger. A huge selling point is that they can work together.
Unique Apps
Out of all the Fediverse platforms out there, Mastodon currently has the most mobile apps. There’s a huge amount of variety – just look at all these!
Do I have to start my own server?
You don’t! While a lot of people do end up running their own servers, it’s never a requirement for participating. There are lots of community-run servers for just about every platform in the space.
Do you have resources for Mastodon?
We do! Here’s a comprehensive guide on Mastodon, with a ton of tips and insights on how to use the network to your advantage.
The Newcomer’s Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer
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I have a question not listed here!
No problem! This is a living document, and we’re here to update the list as new things get asked. Comment below, or reply to us on Threads, and we’ll send a response and update this piece!
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