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Misinformation has become pervasive in Taiwan's information environment. A survey by NTU found that there was a high level of awareness of misinformation and its impacts on society

Over 90% of respondents supported government legislation to regulate misinformation. 76% believed that technology companies should take a more active role in limiting its spread

https://en.tfc-taiwan.org.tw/taiwans-2025-misinformation-survey-from-political-narratives-to-scam-driven-content/

#Taiwan #FactCheck #disinformation #SocialMedia #tech #台灣 #事實查核

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Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros

#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing 

The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.

#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/21/white-house-tore-down-ai-rules-now-its-building-new-defenses/

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113d

Every time there's something in the news about Google search, Kagi zealots come out of the woodwork to troll you into submission if you dare say anything about Kagi that doesn't resonate with their view. It's weird and people should stop being weird about technology like this.

Kagi started as an AI company that wanted to slurp up the internet to provide a question "answering" service not unlike what Google is proposing to replace web search with. Perhaps they've toned this rhetoric down a bit on their blog recently but there's no evidence I'm aware of that the business has changed mission. All of this is still available on Kagi's own blog---including the fact that they used to be kagi.ai---yet somehow it's controversial to point it out. If you're looking for a web search engine that isn't likely to turn into a slop extruder, Kagi is probably not going to be the one. Try @Mojeek or Marginalia. This list might be helpful too.

#web #search #dev #tech #software #AI #Kagi #WebSearch #InternetSearch #InformationRetrieval

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114d

Gee, ya don’t say …

#Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic.

#MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/bluesky-russia-hacking-accounts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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127d

New development in Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman. A federal court in Oakland, Calif., heard a former OpenAI employee and board member say the company’s efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/mdNnjq

#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence

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127d

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116535473179185669

#Muskism #Musk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

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130d

(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.

Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:

https://misaligned.markets/tag/ai/

#AI #LLMs #tech #AIbubble #bigtech #poliecon

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In other words Ladybird is no longer a free and open source software project. It is, in an important sense, closed now.

"Proprietary" means having owner(s). If the maintainers are the only ones allowed to introduce changes, they are establishing an ownership relationship over the codebase. I.e., it's a proprietary project, and that is the sense in which it's closed.

This is the destiny of most projects that go AI, in my opinion.

https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116697078838020135
https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #web #WebBrowser #browser #tech #Ladybird #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #ClosedSource #ProprietarySoftware

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124d

The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#technology #tech #sustainability

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124d

It is ON! Japan & Europe are collaborating on Ramses, a mission to asteroid Apophis as it makes a rare, unusually close pass by the Earth in April 2029.

The Ramses spacecraft will study Apophis & see how it changes under the pull of Earth's gravity.

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Ramses_ESA_s_mission_to_asteroid_Apophis #space #science #nature #tech

Illustration of ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis, making its 2029 flyby.

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#BariWeiss, the editor in chief of #CBSNews, signaled a new direction for the nation’s top news program Thursday, replacing the executive producer of “#60Minutes” with #NickBilton, a longtime #tech #journalist & #documentarian who has NEVER worked in traditional broadcast #news.

Bilton, 49, is a former NYT technology columnist & a #filmmaker who has directed & produced documentaries on business & technology for #HBO & #Netflix.

#journalism #FourthEstate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/media/nick-bilton-60-minutes-bari-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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119d

Xbox is now XBOX

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or…

https://www.theverge.com/news/931918/microsoft-xbox-rebrand-caps

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]

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GentleOS: A Hobby Operating System for Vintage PCs

Relive the nostalgia or discover for the first time the joy of a vintage computing using GentleOS for 16-bit and 32-bit Personal Computers (PCs).

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/gentleos-vintage-pc-operating-system/

#blog #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #OpenSource #FOSS #tech

A vintage Zenith TurbosPORT 386 laptop folded open with keyboard visible and on the screen displaying GentleOS. Next to the laptop sits bold white title of 'GentleOS' with a subtitle of 'Vintage Hobby Operating System' and '8086+ 16-bit / i396 32-bit' all against a brown wood grain background.

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81d

An organization I consult with uses Dropbox and so I've been using it again recently, for the first time in years. Holy smokes. Everything is pop up this, notification that, most trying to upsell features and services I don't want. I don't remember it being so much like a used car dealership.

#Dropbox #AdWare #tech #dev #web

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On Taking Care of The Self

It is with a slow dawning that I have come to notice, day after day, the multitude of unspoken assumptions that haunt me like ghosts, ever present yet scarcely acknowledged. They're the soft, invisible mandates that require me to approve of particular narratives, to the quiet adoption of certain scripts that have become, in our present age, almost cultural orthodoxy. Among these scripts, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the well‑intentioned, if not occasionally perfunctory, messaging of […]

https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/06/on-taking-care-of-the-self

#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #SocialMedia #Gratitude #Pressure #Expectations #Mental #Physical #Health #Psychology #Technology #Tech #Adjacent #ThisIsNotAWordPressBlog

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116d

The Linux/Unix Default Home Directory Receives An Update

Learn of about the recent update to Freedesktop.org’s XDG User Directories that adds a new directory to a GNU/Linux and Unix default home directory.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/xdg-user-dir-linux-unix-new-default-directory/

#blog #linux #unix #GNOME #KDE #tech

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115d

Blur and Fade CSS for Owncast Chat Overlays in OBS Studio

Unlock a simple solution to improving Owncast chat overlay appearance using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in OBS Studio.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/owncast-obs-chat-overlay-css-blur-fade/

#blog #owncast #OBS #tech #technology @Grueproof

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113d

Resetting the Owncast Admin Password in a Docker Container

Remedy the panic, frustration and forgetfulness of the Owncast administrator password by following this Docker container step-by-step guide.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/owncast-docker-reset-admin-password/

#blog #owncast #streaming #tech #technology @Grueproof

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108d

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116643097765779658

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❝ Generative AI is catnip for hall monitors, snitches, toadies, and any other group that hates work and loves talking down to others. Put another way, it ingratiates losers who believe that learning to do or being good at something is a waste of time, because they deserve to just do what they want without any of that messy “effort.” ❞

#AI #slopware #kakistocracy #tech #fascism

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108d

Prediction markets are one of the many ways society is crumbling under the pressure to financialize everything — which crypto and NFTs were part of.

I spoke with Jathan Sadowski to dig into how tech companies are harming us to maximize profit.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/prediction_markets_want_to_financialize_everything_w_jathan_sadowski

#tech #nft #crypto #sportsbetting #kalshi #polymarket #predictionmarkets

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108d

Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

https://gizmodo.com/majority-of-americans-support-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-and-electronic-shelf-labels-2000762717

#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #business

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113d

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

"if people knew about data centers beforehand, it would give them leverage."

#datacenter #datacenters #artificialintelligence #ai #technology #tech

https://www.theverge.com/policy/930629/data-center-policy-map-interactive

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Re: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044

I love this post for several reasons, one being that it got me thinking. The Bad Tech aside, generally speaking modern software development seems hyperfocused on change at the expense of stability. git has countless features for managing changes to source code. What's the equivalent tool for managing the stability of finished software? What's the tool that tells you "Great! You're done now, congratulations!"

Surely there are pieces of software that are mature enough that we do not need to keep updating them (*) with new features. The industry seems to provide little fanfare or reward for reaching or even approaching such an end state.

#tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #coding

(*) Bug fixes, security patches, and porting aside.