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It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs — interspersed with photos of a family picnic — with no distinction between these very different types of information. It is a design choice to use algorithms that find the most emotional or outrageous content to show users, hoping it keeps them online. And it is a design choice to send bright red notifications, keeping people in a state of expectation for the next photo or juicy piece of gossip.

A 2023 study at MIT made this discovery, which could be a boon for storing electricity.

TOS s3e20 "The Way to Eden"

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https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132439004

we're making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over European data transfers to China, though the Chinese social media giant had insisted this data was only accessed remotely.

Communities on alternative social media platforms like the fediverse and Bluesky tend to create narratives about how their networks grow. For both networks the narrative is fairly similar: Big Tech platforms and their leaders behave badly, which in turn causes users to search for more ethical alternatives. This narrative is visible in the fediverse’s understanding of the 2022 Twitter Migration and Bluesky’s explosive growth in 2024. But what happens when these migration waves disappear, even though the conditions for them do not? Musk’s continuous egregious actions have not led to new growth for the fediverse and Bluesky, indicating that our narratives of growth need updating. Meanwhile, the continuous growth of Threads shows that cultural impact might just matter more than user counts.

YouTube has an AI slop problem, with both the main site and the booming Shorts section filling up with low-effort crap shoveled in front of viewers by the millions. New policies are trying to demonetize, or sometimes even ban, accounts that take advantage of AI to mass produce garbage. But if Google is upset that it’s suddenly hosting the web’s video dross, it has only itself to blame.

An arson attack in Colorado had detectives stumped. The way they solved the case could put everyone at risk.

Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick...

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Observing media coverage of the bombing of Iran, you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a rerun of Iraq two decades ago. Mainstream outlets were all too happy to parrot the Trump and Netanyahu administrations’ line.

Alternative source: "Police will not assist in removal of south Belfast bonfire" (BBC)

Durch eine Angriffstechnik namens Taptrap erlangen Angreifer völlig unbemerkt weitreichende Zugriffsrechte. Selbst Android 16 bietet davor keinen Schutz.

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No injuries were reported after an intense night of stormy weather unfolded in central Alberta on Wednesday night, but once the storms passed, one couple was left with a strange video of something bright and shiny a few hundred metres from their home that they could not make sense of.

I can tell you to keep a go bag, and as I type this I can think about how p-cord could save your life with the right knots, since so many people have survived floods by clinging to trees and chimneys. I can tell you that life preservers are cheap as hell and worth having in your house.

Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6eE3IlAbOs