BREAKING NEWS šØ
After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels.
Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces as well.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublicaās first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
Honestly 3 things that could make pixel fed better from what Iām thinking š could be
A. Livestream feature š„
B. Let us upload videos instead of just photos š
C. Some type of way to make cash š°??
"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence
https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now
In these troubled times, itās nice to finally have a feel good, happy story āØā©
"Unprecedented" growth: Facebook blocks links to Instagram alternative Pixelfed
Pixelfed is growing rapidly after Meta changed content moderation. It's now noted that Facebook is blocking links to Pixelfed.
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes leaves WaPo after someone above her killed a cartoon - the first that's happened in 16 years, she says.
The cartoon shows a bunch of oligarchs kneeling before and handing sacks of money to #Trump
Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
A former Boston Globe & Reuters reporter who is now homeless gives a gutting, beautifully written, and clear-eyed firsthand account of what it's like to be homeless in America right now.
This is the best article you'll read today, easily. The ending is chilling.
#LongReads #Journalism #News #AmWriting #Housing #Homelessness
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Investors Appear to Think Bluesky Crypto Firm Is the Bluesky Social Network
"The social media platform Bluesky has grown from 12 million to more than 20 million users since the election
"The Canadian crypto company Bluesky Digital Assets Corp has seen its stock take off, in a manner of speaking, over the past week as investors buy up what they almost certainly think are shares of the other Bluesky, the social media platform that has been scooping up X-iles and recently hit 20 million users. First spotted by Bloomberg, Bluesky Digital Assets Corpās stock value has increased eightfold since the beginning of November."
BREAKING NEWS šØšØ
Another submarine telecom cable has been cut in the Baltic Sea.
This time itās a cable between Sweden and Lithuania.
Yesterday, the news broke that a cable between Finland and Germany had been cut.
I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but the reality many Americans voted for.
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm āfetal demise.ā
Sheās one of at least two Texas women who died under the stateās #abortion ban.
#News #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #Government #Law #Safety #Family
š¢ Big News!
Today, weāre announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.
Read more in our announcement here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/
For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news:
And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!
Big congratulations to @jay.bsky.team and the whole @bsky.app team š
With over half a million new users in the last day, Bluesky is demonstrating the power of open social networking and micro-blogging.
Thanks to @snarfed.org you can join in and post to Bluesky by following @bsky.brid.gy
We love to see new social grow, hopefully more to come!
#Bluesky #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia Technology
NEW: More than 4 million people have been using explicit deepfake bots on Telegram, a WIRED review has found.
We identified more than 50 Telegram bots built to create nude images and video. After sending questions to Telegram about their harm, the company removed the bots
NEW: Details of people's therapy sessionsāincluding reports, video and audio recordingsāhave been exposed by a healthcare company.
These included people mentioning sexual abuse and highly sensitive subjects. The exposed database has now been closed down
My letter to the NYT on its abdication of endorsements in NY races, with others.
Russians start fire at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ā Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has reported that the Russians have started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).
Source: Zelenskyy on Telegram; Yevhen Yevtushenko, Head of the Nikopol District Military Administration
Quote from Zelenskyy: "Enerhodar [the town where the ZNPP is located - ed.
"how much the reporting of #Trump necessarily edits & parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect... presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from [Trump] made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disserviceā
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_ohio_speech_bloodbath_media_broadcast_live.php
