An abstract digital art piece featuring the side profile of a BIPOC person blended into the forested landscape surrounding them, including golden moons, waterfalls, and a winding path. White text in front reads, "Rhizome, join now: culturehack.io/rhizome"

Culture Hack Labs launches the Rhizome Fellowship!
This 8-month journey for narrative practitioners, artists, journalists, & changemakers provides a supportive, experimental space to develop powerful narrative interventions through the Culture Hack Method. Apply now: www.culturehack.io/rhizome/

A beige background with black text reading, "Post Growth Alliance, 2025 Launch, Hack the algorithm with community." In the center is a rectangular close-up photo of a leaf in green, blue, and orange, with a cell phone overlayed.

A beige background with a light orange map of the world's continents. Surrounding the map are arrows and logos of Post Growth Alliance members. The PGA logo is in the upper left corner with teal words highlighted in white reading, "Organizations committed to thriving within ecological limits, beyond capitalism."

📢 The Post Growth Alliance (PGA) is back for 2025 with new members!

The PGA is a solidarity hub and cooperative #socialmedia service for aligned groups hosted by the Post Growth Institute. We’re excited to welcome nearly 30 organizations building worlds beyond capitalism.

MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis' The John D

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.

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The OpenFlexure stand at #FOSDEM is buzzing. Come see us in building H.

@openflexure.bsky.social

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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I wrote this to survive. I hope it helps you, too.

Also, based on what I've heard from journalists/editors, many incumbents have dedicated editors trying to wash incumbent's hands by choosing rosey-tinted sources, etc. This is specially hard now that people are editing open platforms less than they were a decade ago.

Decentralizing it was already solved years ago. What the open knowledge movement needs is more contributors. Keep editing.

At some point they’re going to go after Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. More decentralised global efforts needed.

“He who controls the past controls the future.”

They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is.

To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.

Am I crazy for not listening to a fucking word Trump is saying right now?

Just going to reiterate -

We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

A cheesecake!

People keep using Twitter(X) in the end... Come back here ( ；∀；)

We're apparently talking about automatic follow-backs again, because some people simply can't imagine social media as anything other than a chain email

I think I may have just signed my first ever fiction contract (for an anthology) which contained a long anti-A.I. clause.

(Meaning: I promised I didn't use A.I. to write my story, they promised not to use my story to train A.I., etc.)

I'm seeing more screenshots of posts from X than I am actual posts here this morning 🙄 My dears, we left X. Can we not bring it over here, please?

Darn. Sounds like an unviable business model then.

Simply incredible

i just....

it's literally the polio vaccine. how can you be on team polio

A two panel comic strip. Panel 1: A light gray human shape (like a thicc stick figure) labelled "THE WEALTHY ELITE" reaches greedily, mouth open in excitement, towards a large floating yellow ball that is labelled "A SECOND GILDED AGE" Panel 2: same as above, but behind the gray figure (who now has a sweat drop to indicate nervousness on its head) is a VERY large pink blob labelled "THE RETURN OF OUTLAW FOLL HEROES" with one arm wrapped around the gray figure, expression quietly threatening

Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!

A voting feature similar to Slashdot (higher-rated individuals provide context as votes) could work. But we also need moderation lists to have an actual impact—permabanning accounts repeatedly found to be scams/fake media, etc.

Beautiful footage….. Humpback whale calf hugs mom ✨🩵✨🤍✨🩵✨