🐻 John 

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Of possible interest to folks dealing with Long Covid, the typically-excellent siderea has (possibly actionable) info and speculation from legit science sources.
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1817596.html
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1817150.html
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The result is that the most active and conscientious Reddit users & established moderators who recognise clear hatred, harassment, and violent threats / instigation of violence,

Report those items,

The bad faith sub operators file “Abuse of the Report Button” against those reports,

The good faith users & moderators get suspended.

Reddit was warned about this subversion of their reporting system two years ago.

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The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Low Power FM (LPFM) Broadcast Radio Stations

In the following sections, we provide some basic information about Low Power (LPFM) radio stations (licensed service) and the related application processes. Contents   Introduction    LPFM Filing Window Periods    Find LPFM Records via the FM Query    Low Power FM Opportunities Map    LPFM Channel Finder    LPFM Notes    LPFM Service Rules    Related Information    LPFM Documents (includes recent items)    LPFM License Process Frequently Asked Questions (separate page)

It’s great that more people are moving to Mastodon, but that influx has already resulted in far more posts with pictures that have no Alt Text description.
If you’ve just moved here, please bear in mind that there are a lot of visually impaired screen reader users here, and because Mastodon is far more inclusive than Twitter, it is considered polite to describe what your pictures show. Thank you, and welcome to a nicer social media platform. Please help keep it that way.
Honestly, I think the only thing that saves humanity sometimes is that those pursuing evil are very often just plain stupid.

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is sent to a third party for AI labeling.

BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they can use content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.

Update: https://meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper/110652053858910840

#ai #bluesky

Me: Mastodon is the best. People are friendly, there's no manipulative algorithm, and it's full of interesting content.

Journalist: Amazing, the headline of my article will be "Mastodon is social media's new hope".

Me: Also, there are no ads.

Journalist: Interesting. Let's change that headline to "Mastodon is a toxic cesspool that is already dead".

reading about Bluesky - this is hilarious. you can trap your followers forever <3