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
#Taiwan #FactCheck #disinformation #SocialMedia #tech #台灣 #事實查核
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
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/
ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.
With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
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:
#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence
(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 🧵:
Small steps:
Recently, I moved from VS Code to VS Codium (same app sans Microsoft surveillance - see https://vscodium.com/).
This morning, I migrated from github to Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/), integrating the latter with VS Codium (this move negating MS github surveillance).
With minor issues resolved (mostly due to my own noobness with all this stuff), all good.
Fellow coders: PM if you'd like details - happy to help if able.
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/
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
I'm flat-out amazed that we can monitor the currents of molten metal in Earth's outer core, 2200 kilometers underground--but we can. Lately, part of that flow has reversed direction, for reasons unknown.
There's a whole other dynamic world inside the world we see.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/Insights_into_Earth_s_molten_outer_core_from_space #space #science #tech
#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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116577868496509025
Zuckerberg admitted creating #Facebook to stalk ivy league women. #Meta takes money from fascist #psyops that spred disinfo about Russia in #Ukraine, parseltongued #Brexit and ended in #genocide in #Myanmar and #Gaza. all the while supporting a fascist revival in USA, led by a #FriendOfEpstein and accused rapist of girls and women.
so #tech journalists should be asking:
how can a company Protect The Children when it makes stalkerware, used by fascists & the CEO supports an accused pedophile.
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]
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
Polymarket and Kalshi seem to be everywhere, but what are prediction markets doing to society?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Jathan Sadowski to dig into the ideological goal to financialize everything and the many harms that arise from that model.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/329_prediction_markets_want_to_financialize_everything_w_jathan_sadowski
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
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/
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/
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/
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