People know this is insane, right?

"Thanks Mark!"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/20/meta-expose-tops-bestseller-chart-despite-companys-attempt-to-ban-its-promotion

Catch @Mastodon's CFO @mellifluousbox, currently speaking on the @eff panel "EFFecting Change: Is There Hope for Social Media?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrqHEL8QbgI

I saw an interview recently where the interviewee -- who is about my age or maybe a little older -- was talking about how #socialmedia has changed things.

He said that before social media kids were either outside playing with their friends, or inside in their rooms *drawing, or playing with a keyboard, or whatever*.

If he had just added reading and programming 8-bit machines, that would actually be my childhood.

(1/3)

One Step Closer To AI Taking Over....

Boston Dynamics presents the progress made in the movement capacity of its "humanoid robot" Atlas.

Scary, scary, scary...
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #socialmedia #Fediverse #robots #ai

"The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public interprets the nature of reality. It is not just that people making AI slop are spamming the internet, it’s that the intended “audience” of AI slop is social media and search algorithms, not human beings.

What this means, and what I have already seen on my own timelines, is that human-created content is getting almost entirely drowned out by AI-generated content because of the sheer amount of it. On top of the quantity of AI slop, because AI-generated content can be easily tailored to whatever is performing on a platform at any given moment, there is a near total collapse of the information ecosystem and thus of "reality" online. I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore.

There is a dual problem with this: It not only floods the internet with shit, crowding out human-created content that real people spend time making, but the very nature of AI slop means it evolves faster than human-created content can, so any time an algorithm is tweaked, the AI spammers can find the weakness in that algorithm and exploit it."

https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/

New evidence that #BookBans backfire.
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2024.0716

"We find that the circulations of banned books increased by 12%, on average, compared with comparable nonbanned titles after the ban. We also find that banning a book in a state leads to increased circulation in states without bans…Books with higher visibility on social media following the ban see an increase in consumption."

PS: It's not clear how much book bans would backfire without protests and publicity. But it's now clear that protests and publicity help them backfire. Keep it up.

Our Foundation was founded to protect knowledge sharing across social media.

We aim to defend and grow peer to peer learning, first-hand accounts, and credible voices across open social networks.

That's why we care so much about the open social web. It's an open social network which puts community first, letting you learn from the people around you in the digital space.

We're proud to be here.

Tesla On Life Support

It’s fair to say that Tesla isn’t doing so well. Thanks to an ageing lineup and a ket-fuelled, government-destroying, Nazi-saluting CEO, Tesla sales are plummeting across the entire globe.

Their revolutionary 4680 battery has failed to materialise and is now obsolete.

Their Cybertruck is such a sales flop that they are already pulling its manufacturing capacity
#AureFreePress #News #press #Musk #Tesla #socialmedia #Fediverse

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/this-is-how-tesla-will-die

Tesla On Death Watch

As senior executives of Tesla sell their shares and cash out...

Tesla removed as participant in 2025 Vancouver International Auto Show
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Musk #Twitter #x #socialmedia #Tesla

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/tesla-removed-as-participant-in-2025-vancouver-international-auto-show-10394725

It takes more than 50,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla fire...

"nine of the top ten #online shows are right-leaning...

right-leaning online shows have amassed nearly 481 million #followers across platforms — almost five times more than the 104 million followers for left-leaning shows...

the result of a deliberate, well-funded #strategy to colonize the digital #media landscape with #conservative voices...

right-wing personalities are frequently backed by #billionaire money"
https://www.readtpa.com/p/media-matters-report-on-conservative

In the #Fediverse there are now
504 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
447 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@CGMagazine
@citylab
@Grist
@Blavity
@GoodHouseMag

Find the whole list on:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LrlAmMaC9Ve5mb82QR8jhkMCNkS0vVAVNws7f6IOBYM/edit?gid=876665327

Built by @mho

I hadn't checked my follower count in a while, but now that I did, it looks like it's about to surpass what I ever had during my 17 years on Twitter - the magic number is 7000.

The funny thing is, even when my follower count was much lower, the activity here was far greater than it ever was on Twitter.

This is the power of the Fediverse.

Multiple Tesla vehicles set on fire in Las Vegas this morning.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #socialmedia #Tesla

#Justiz #Rechtsstaat #Gericht #Richter*in #Rechtsanwaltschaft #TeamResopal #JuraBubble #Recht #Gerechtigkeit #Socialmedia #Podcast

Tja, wer nicht sehen will, muss hören . Wir hatten Euch gewarnt!

Ab sofort holen wir unsere Video-Podcast-Folgen als reines Audio auf die einschlägigen Podcast-Kanäle. Heute Abend startet es mit dem Prolog.

Wer also von unserem - objektiv - betörenden Äußeren bislang zu sehr abgelenkt war, hat jetzt keine Ausreden mehr.

ABER:

Gut Ding will Weile haben! Daher bitte ein bisschen Geduld:
- bis die Folgen von Podigee auf die diversen Plattformen ausgespielt werden, kann es ein bisschen dauern.
- wir sind bald bei Folge 10 und der @Orkan_der_rechtspflege arbeitet für mein Gefühl eh schon 48/7, deshalb bitte das Binge-Listening ein bisschen einbremsen. Es kommen mit der Zeit schon alle Folgen und bald sind wir auch sozusagen synchron mit den Videos.

Und wo geht es dann los? Hier:

https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/1836851-m-eb7025c62545a3da330687bd83adbfd1.mp3?source=feed