@laurenshof (and no that doesn't mean welcoming puppy-killers or fascists)

@laurenshof Mastodon always feels like the most echo-chambery place I'm part of on the internet.

Don't get me wrong, I really like that. But it's not necessarily what's needed for an alternative to BigTech platforms.

I'm still haunted by Naomi Klein's Doppleganger book and how we live in […]

@laurenshof "The federated social graph is a space nobody designed and nobody governs, without rules or onboarding or any mechanism for communicating what the space is for."

Users' experience of Mastodon is not guided by instance moderation but by interaction with each other.

"Mastodon was built as open infrastructure at the federation level and community at the instance level."

Really nice blog by @laurenshof on how the Mastodon community defines itself and why the protocol cannot (currently) change that.

This is a super useful reflection for those thinking about […]

Lessons from when Amazon and Google were cool | Eliot Bendinelli From Cory Doctorow's endorsement of Amazon in Little Brother to building the future of tech

Remebering when I believed Google was cool and when Doctorow supported Amazon

bndy.org/posts/lesson-from-when-a...

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

Slightly misleading title but Linkedin apparently scans chrome extensions to profile you.

I guess what you give the platform wasn't enough?

Another good reason to use #Firefox :firefox:

https://browsergate.eu/

There's been some noise around ADINT (advertising intelligence) recently so I wanted to share some thoughts: bndy.org/posts/adint-reminder-sur...

TLDR; ADINT is the latest reminder that online targeted advertising is broken. It has transformed the internet into a […]

Also, this is going to sound weird but... I really enjoy my last EP

I usually never listen to what I've produced after release. But this one, I launch a track to check that everything works and end up listening to the whole thing. I just really dig it 😁

Anyway, feel free to check it out if you […]

RE: social.anartist.org/@fairplayer/116170031483...

Just integrated my faircamp site with Fairplayer 🚀

Major streaming platforms don't have artists' interests at heart and it's showing. I don't know what @fairplayer plans are for the future but anything that is open source […]

The other day my TikTok feed served me a video of someone promoting an AI generated song.

So an algorithm pushing a song created by another algorithm, using a human for promotion.

People are becoming algorithm slaves and won't question it for a sec.

#musicproduction #AI #algorithms

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys | Wiz Blog Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.

Oh well, turns out I'm 2 days late 🙃

www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-da...

Humans Welcome to Observe The OpenClaw/Clawdbot explainer: personal AI agents, security nightmares, and robot religion.

Good write-up by Charlie Guo: www.ignorance.ai/p/openclaw-moltbook-and-...

Reading about MoltBook and the only thing I can think of is that this is an AI-coded site that 150,000 AI agents with unrestricted access to their users data connect to.

Sounds like a fantastic target to hack

just listen to real music made by real people

Adam Neely exposing how AI companies feed into techno-authoritarianism was not on my 2026 bingo card.

I know it's a 1h30 music. I know the angle is Suno/music production and that might not be relevant to you. But the section from 59:00 is spot on and absolutely worth your time.

GenAI is the […]

I love mastodon, where else can I read a cool blog post someone shared, check the rest of the author's site, find out they make music and listen to their last album for an hour?

@tg is who I'm talking about and I really enjoyed this album! https://goader.bandcamp.com/track/lead-smoke-silence

Now's The Time To Start That Blog | Matthias Endler I was listening to a podcast recently where som…

Love this simple and straightforward post by @mre

I also started writing a blog last year and it's been super fun to write, even if only for myself.

https://endler.dev/2026/personal-blog/

The news are looking pretty gloom these days. So how about some music instead?

I just released my last EP, and even if the lyrics might be dark at time, hopefully it can bring you joy.

distrokid.com/hyperfollow/bendy2/shape...

#music #musicproduction #newmusic #musicrelease

Did I release my latest EP on my faircamp before every other platforms?

Yes I did.

https://music.bndy.org/shape-3-ablaze/

My co-workers @llas @dario and the @fsfe volunteer Jithendra wrote an article for Tech Policy Press

"Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly"
www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-marke...

"We must listen to small developers and community projects […]

Apple user nightmare come true: getting locked out of your Apple ID account and all your devices because your tried to redeem an Apple card bought in a store.

I'll be honest, even as a non-Apple user this is terrifying. Also why I think it's not worth putting all your eggs the same (Big Tech) […]

Some of the bangers I read in return:
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World , Naomi Klein. A must read on tech, society and the political divide
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad: The most human and clear analysis of the Palestinian genocide
- Down and […]

Looking for book recommendations for my upcoming 2 weeks break, what's the best thing you've read these last few years?

Je cherche des recommendations de livres pour les vacances. C'est quoi le meilleur bouquin que vous avez lu ces dernières années?

#reading #books #livres #reco

Also I wrote this little thing on AI a while ago and why I'd rather fight it.

That's where the difference with the emergence of the internet and AI differs, the people building those things had widely different intentions and I probably would not have opposed the adoption of the internet […]

I guess that's more a reflection about aging than technology

I was reading this piece about AI making its way into education in China and the one I kept thinking is how a new generation is already growing with LLMs the same way I grew with the internet when my parents didn't.

I'm mostly on the side of caution with "AI", mostly because of who is building […]

This is probably the most requested feature from Bridgy Fed users - so happy to finally roll this out!

https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115181802471981556

Medasin's "Always in hurry" is one of my favourite album of all time and you should absolutely listen to it: https://tidal.com/browse/album/278403634?u

And now he just released the goofiest and craziest thing I've hear in a while and I'm absolutely addicted. So you know what to do […]

You should absolutely start your day by drawing a fish: https://drawafish.com/

(thanks @whitep4nth3r for the discovery)

If you're ever read an #RFC and seen a reference to RFC 2119 (which defines language for requirement levels like MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD etc.) you have to listen to this: ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-liste...

This is what I'll hear in my head every time I read an RFC […]