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FDA's Top Vaccine Official Resigns, Claims 'Truth And Transparency Are Not Desired By The Secretary'
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official who helped drive the government's COVID-19 vaccination program, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned Friday.John Oyewale (The Daily Caller)
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It can be tempting to try to regulate frustration by venting them on social media. But
I believe we have to speak to each other, even if it's difficult. Language like this only serves to take people away from each other. I really don't think it's helpful for anyone: one self, people who agree with you or people who don't.
He told her that he felt safe with Trump because he trusted Trump. He thought Trump was going to get him in the country through Covid. I can’t relate to a person like that. I just can’t. I can’t sit down and have a conversation with him because they are frankly so fucking stupid that they really ought to be put into some kind of health clinic to help them deal with whatever it is that is making them so stupid.
Med sædvanlig tonedøvhed vil Troels Lund Poulsen ("Trolex") købe flere F35 fly fra USA, som vi kan bruge som skulpturer i rundkørsler landet over når Amerikanerne på et tidspunkt slukker for software og reservedele.
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Troels Lund Poulsen vil købe flere F-35-kampfly fra USA
På trods af USA's tvivl om støtten til allierede vil Troels Lund Poulsen købe endnu flere F-35-kampfly.DR
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I am continuing my journey AWAY from Meta and Google.
This post describes all the alternatives I have chosen, along with links to longer articles I've written about why people are leaving Google and Meta, including with longer lists of alternatives.
skepticallibrarian.com/2025/03…
#technology #meta #google #politics #society #Spotify #Brave
My Journey Away from Meta and Google
I am continuing my journey AWAY from Meta and Google. My Facebook account is deleted and I have no other Meta apps that I use. I'm using Bluesky and Mastodon now. I've been using Gmail since 2004, the year it came out.The Skeptical Librarian
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It is small, but federated (ActivityPub). Some of the instances have plugins for integrating BlueSky as well (friendica.world and my-place.social both do). The interface is built as more of a Facebook replacement complete with groups and a calendar). Oh, and you can add rss feeds right into your newsfeed (I now subscribe to your blog in my feed!).
Down side so far... it is a little slow. But that might be my instance/server being overseas.
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Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment, thereby helping Putin destroy this USD 291,000,000 donation.
This US administration is our enemy, and the sooner our politicians realize that, the safer we are.
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The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out
US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has.Viktoria Lytovchenko (online.ua)
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@BobHorowitz I find much joy in the fact that breaking an alliance only works once, and when the 50 allies have finally replaced everything American, Trump will have zero power, and Ukraine will be given zero limits to their attacks on Russia.
The Biden escalation management days are gone.
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@BobHorowitz
NATO is effectively dead today but not actually, more like in a deep sleep. Everyone but the US would step in so for now it’s alive, but without the US it lacks punch.
The next president could restore the pledge but what is dead is the US focus of NATO. The soft power of the US. European software companies will grow as lower ethical standard US companies will face EU regulation. Etc.
The US earned this position in Europe in WWII and smartly kept this lead. The circumstances to create it cannot be repeated. Trump cannot have our cake to threaten to eat and actually eat it.
What is definitely dead is the divide and rule of Europe by anybody.
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@taatm @BobHorowitz
Can we acknowledge what it took to defeat Germany — only one of EU countries? Germany came frightfully close to the atomic bomb before the US snatched von Braun et al.
All of Europe provides excellency in research and engineering.
France made the first supersonic passenger plane.
As far as I know Zeiss is unmatched anywhere in laser optics for high end chips.
Finland has impressive capabilities.
Europe not only can match what the US has, Europe can exceed the US.
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@taatm @BobHorowitz
Much of the "ahead" is based on a myth. Apparently US famously failed to protect their aircraft carriers in NATO exercises from EU U-boats. How long do you think US fighter jets last if their landing spot sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
The US army is scattered around the world and the US can't just redeploy them without huge gaps in their own defense.
Having more hardware is not the whole story.
"@BobHorowitz Me alegra mucho el hecho de que romper una alianza solo funciona una vez, y cuando los 50 aliados finalmente hayan reemplazado todo lo estadounidense, Trump no tendrá ningún poder y Ucrania no tendrá ningún límite para sus ataques contra Rusia.
Los días de gestión de la escalada de Biden han quedado atrás."
Why the fuck don't we just give Zalensky his nukes back already? There's a fucking war going on! We could end it tomorrow. Give him a dozen MIRVs.
Will anyone want to buy weaponry from the US in the future? They're a rogue nation dumping on their former allies and can no longer be trusted.
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Related.
As part of the AUKUS agreement with the US & the UK, Australia has signed up to buy nuclear-powered AUKUS subs. The cost is "up to $368bn" and delivery is a long-term thing.
But Australia may never receive its subs because US production is down and America will almost certainly keep them for themselves.
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Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?
The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the wavesBen Doherty (The Guardian)
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@Carbs @BobLefridge
Regarding AUKUSA, I have said it before, and I will say it again: Australia will get nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
They could have had some of the finest submarines in the world. They won't get anything because every single sub produced in Europe will now stay in Europe.
Maybe there won't be any submarines for the land downunder. Trump’s #3 in the Department of Defense is an AUKUS skeptic. Elbridge Colby says selling submarines to Australia would be ‘crazy’.
It's like America has suddenly gone onto a war footing.
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@Carbs @ParadeGrotesque @randahl
Trump pick for Pentagon says selling submarines to Australia would be ‘crazy’ if Taiwan tensions flare
Nominee for undersecretary for defense policy says Aukus deal to deliver Virginia class submarines could leave US sailors ‘vulnerable’Ben Doherty (The Guardian)
@BobLefridge the AUKUS "deal" is the biggest scam our politicians (Morrison) led us into.
Australia has already made its first payments to the US: AUD 800M
For??????
For subs that we MIGHT (or not) receive in 40 years and it'll be obsolete technology.
This is the dumbest "deal" ever.
Oh wait, it's actually a great deal for the US and for Morrison that has now went to work in the US for a company with AUKUS ties.
@BobLefridge
Other countries are certainly having those discussions:
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace TridentBen Quinn (The Guardian)
It doesn't really matter what you buy in the USA, because if Trump doesn't like something, it will be destroyed or made more expensive. Today it's weapons, tomorrow tools and the day after tomorrow something else. At best, you can only buy things for which you don't need spare parts and for which you can do without a warranty. The USA is effectively no longer of economic interest.
@BobLefridge The irony is that everyone will want to buy Ukrainian in the not so distant future.
This war will end, but Ukraine's defense industry will not. Ukrainian arms sales will fund the rebuilding, and Ukraine will become the 21st century's arsenal of freedom.
The USA defense industry? Any bright young engineers will be looking to move to Ukraine or other European countries.
@BobLefridge Ukraine already had quite a defense industry, producing missiles, armored fighting vehicles, and various aircraft.
The Moskva, which the Ukrainians famously sank, was actually built in Ukraine.
Unfortunately, a lot of capabilities have been lost due to the war. But what remains is a lot more than just drones.
Trump is making anything from the US military industrial complex a high risk purchase and such is hurting business.
The EU military industrial complex says thank you very much for the boost.
Luckily enough the French have improved jamming on their Mirage Jets and for sure Mirages will do the F16s jobs very soon.
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@mc @martinvermeer
What this also means: US weaponry doesn't gets the latest necessary updates, either.
Certainly US military could collect data through the US weaponry used by the Ukrainians and improve their own systems.
And I'm sure that the Ukrainians shared all their collected data about Russian tech (and shared captured equipment) with the US, why should they continue that?
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@wvs @mc @martinvermeer indeed. It was such an obvious win for everyone but Russia that the US supplied weapons and Intel with Ukraine and got so much intel (and destruction of major enemy) back.
But noooo. Now there's a bunch of quislings in the White House.
The Ukrainians are pretty sharp. I bet they'll reverse-engineer it and make the jets usable pretty fast.
@mc @Uair @martinvermeer
If the Ukrainians ask nicely, French companies can rip out the unsupported parts of the F-16s and replace them with French made systems.
They have done so in the past for other countries in the middle east, who bought F-15 and F-16 but replaced part of the electronic systems with equivalent French equipment.
Don't ask what might happen, if the orange urges Microsoft to to the same with Windows.
Europe will be back in the early 70s. Let's fax again 😹😿
It's a ...king shame that Europe failed all the time to stay/become independent.
@alikatze
linux o.s.'s exist and are also good in some cases.
i'm more worried about google-apple smartphone duopoly.
@alikatze That wouldn’t warp is back in time; quite the contrary, it would remove the Necrosoft death knell on innovation. Finally counter the “embrace, extend, extinguish” subversion.
Getting rid of Necrosoft would rapidly propel the EU beyond the current IT wasteland, and light a big fire under the EU IT ecosystem.
Should have done it decades ago. We didn’t, but there’s no day like today to make the leap forward.
The USA CANNOT BE TRUSTED
#boycottusa #Canada #Denmark #Mexico #Panama #Greenland #theCommonwealth #NATO #Europeanunion #Gaza #Ukraine #NO-CDN-F35-DEAL
short:
if e.u. increases military spending, 0 dollars should go to u.s. made weapons or military technology.
e.u. needs nucular strategy, which includes offensive weapons. emphasizing defensive weapons.
"le terrible" looks cool !
france24.com/en/europe/2025030…
As faith in the US wavers, can France’s nuclear umbrella deter Russia?
A pillar of French sovereignty and source of national pride, France’s nuclear deterrent has long served as a symbol of the country’s independence from Washington.Benjamin DODMAN (FRANCE 24)
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This is the end of anyone buying US military anything, or should be. #Canada is still buying F35s, and that order should have been cancelled yesterday.
"Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment"
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@Greengordon
Be reasonable. Most yankees aren't enemies any more than most Russians are my enemy.
We're all caught up in forces far beyond our control.
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“Be reasonable” he says, while the US is considering erasing my country.
@Greengordon
Donald trump is.
Americans, mostly, are just as pissed about this shit as you are.
And don't worry. The confederacy of sewer clowns is too incompetent to pull that off. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Gripen E-series | Saab
Gripen E-series is a true swing-role fighter with outstanding capabilities. The fighter is developed to counter and defeat the most advanced threats in a modern battlespace and to continuously evolve in order to keep up with new challenges.Start
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"Dinamarca ha donado 19 aviones de combate F-16 a Ucrania, y ahora Trump ha ordenado que Estados Unidos ponga fin al apoyo a sus equipos de interferencia a bordo, ayudando así a Putin a destruir esta donación de 291.000.000 de dólares.
Esta administración estadounidense es nuestro enemigo, y cuanto antes se den cuenta nuestros políticos, más seguros estaremos.
So Donald is not only stopping aid on a macro financial scale but even has his eyes on such details as stopping software support.
And still nobody comes to the conclusion that the US president is controlled by the Russian secret service. How ignorant can Americans be?
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Seriously--not for long. The clown car running this shit these days are already self-destructing big time.
I promise we'll apologize when we get our shit together.
Yup, the damage is done, that ship has sailed. Europeans cannot trust the USA any longer.
The only thing that would restore trust is a massive campaign to remove Republicans and trumpists collaborators from power.
Hey, do you know what people do all the time with closed proprietary electronics?
Hack the crap out of them, and install open systems on them. Yes, it may be a late time, but never late than never. Lets crack these things open and liberate them from foreign control.
Any deeply held oath to #UpholdAndProtect the Constitution clearly needs to be considered in terms of protecting corporate profits and one's annual bonuses.
And to stop buying new American weaponry in the foreseeable future.
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Once trust is lost on the US products, will take forever to be rebuilt.
Why nobody seems to grasp this simple concept ?
its Europe's own stupidity to interfere in conflicts based solely on a "trust me bro" assurance
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*not to mention giving away billions in aid + weapons, ammo, tanks and equipment
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If we take this line of reasoning to the extreme, the US would withdraw from NATO and attack us along with the Russians, with or without nukes, from the front or the back.
I believe that they would withdraw their troops from Europe beforehand so that they would not be caught up in direct combat.
All this is pure speculation.
Europe urgently needs to arm itself!
NON US weapons
Is the only reason that the majority of #Americans don't see that #BigHands is obviously a #Russian asset, is because they don't want to feel really bad and stupid about voting for him even though the evidence has been pretty obvious for a really long time.
And even if there weren't any evidence going back so many years, everything he's doing right now is in #Putin's advantage. Weakening the Canadian and American economy. Ruining the #dollar. #nato
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@gimulnautti Kanske men det är redan på gång...
svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbott…
F 21 i Luleå skickar Jas-plan till Polen i Natoinsats
F 21 i Luleå skickar sex till åtta Jas 39 Gripen, samt stridspiloter och markpersonal på ungefär 110 personer till en Natoinsats i Polen.SVT Nyheter
@gimulnautti Stämmer!
Ryssland har vid flera tillfällen kränkt Polens och NATO's luftrum.
Det är passande att återgälda tjänsten.
@gimulnautti @martenbjorklund
USA verkar stoppa Gripen från att vara med i utvalet av nya plan i Colombia just på denna grund, yes.
Plus att USA nu stoppar funktioner i F-16s radarsystem. Materiell från USA visar sig inte vara att lite på nu när USA valt en Putin-älskare till president.
Who the hell is going to buy their weapons after something like this?
The stockmarket knows, just look at US rates going down and European going up!
the *paths are also destroying the agency that used to protected the americans. Soon something will happen on the US soil and be used as a pretext for a war.
Edit: but the empaths which are a disease for them...
I guess, in hindsight, it was a major mistanke to buy the F35's. Hopefully, the politicians will stay away from buying more weapons from the US. @anderspuck what is your take on this?
I'm doing my best to de-USA-ify everything in my life that might be used against me.
If you drive a Tesla, you're a fool. Musk can see and hear what you're doing. He could order it to be reprogrammed and bricked, or worse, have the throttle set to full just as you approach the cliff edge.
I drive another American brand, but have disconnected it from the internet and no longer perform any software updates. I really don't trust any of them.
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Is this an end of support, like no security updates for windows XP, or is it a remote bricking?
Anyway, Norway should stop the switch to F35 and put in an order JAS gripen.
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@kimwulff @Anders @BobHorowitz
It might not be better in 4 years or ever, but it is possible to have a President we trust for 4 years.
Yes also, this could be the end of American democracy. Hopefully not.
The Netherlands have always been very pro American, too much so maybe when it came to nukes in the 80s. Very thankful for the US effort in WWII and even before that: we were the first nation in the world to acknowledge the US as an independent nation. We even import more from the US than we export to it (makes Trump happy). A very, very old friendship and even though we're a small country, we always added a pro American sound to EU contemplations/decisions.
Now? Our former Commander of the armed forces (highest ranking officer for all forces combined) called what Trump is doing to Ukraine TREASON, just plain and simple. Before Trump, a person in his role/ connection to NATO would NEVER EVER have used words like that.
Yup. It's not just defense. I see more and more stories of folks in the EU looking to move away from US cloud and other tech services. That move will happen and it's very hard to reverse.
I am saying it once more.
If #academia and #highered do not QUICKLY develop a coordinated strategy of resistance, then MAGA will pick them off one by one.
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a professor of classics at Columbia. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”
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Trump administration demands Columbia overhaul academic courses in extraordinary ultimatum
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to o…Jake Offenhartz (AP News)
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What could this look like?
The most direct way for #highered and #academia to hit back is through military contracts and biotech.
Basically, R1 schools would need to halt all cooperation with the government and starve them of tech transfer and technical competencies they need to maintain national security and compete with rivals.
Ask Americans, would they like to see China vault head ahead of them and assume the mantle of global hegemon because Trump wanted to own the libs?
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There is a collective action challenge here.
Can faculty move without support of administrative leaders?
Can administrators move without support of trustees, regents, etc.?
I don’t claim that this is an easy strategy to implement, and I don’t imagine we can bring every major institution into perfect alignment.
I AM saying that we’ll all be destroyed on the tarmac if we don’t plan and execute a proactive strategy/mission very soon.
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I can't like this hard enough and one thing to do could be for AI researchers to make *very* clear in this RFI that closes in 24 hours that they will NOT be participating in any federal-related, federal-involved AI research until they stop harassing universities.
federalregister.gov/documents/…
(also, fascists doing RFIs is just so weird. I think it's code for 'tell me which grift you prefer.')
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Something like this.
Stop imagining that we are merely supplicants.
The tech and knowledge produced by academia are drivers of economic growth and a crucial wellspring of America’s hard power.
If they wish to be the boss, we need to show them the value and power of labor.
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The approach to this point has been “institutional neutrality” and “let’s keep our heads down,” both of which are hopelessly naive in the face of MAGA’s Kultutkampf.
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@Bredroll Appeasement doesn't work, it never has.
If I were a student, I would unenroll and demand my money back. There are lots of universities all over the place, find one that isn't going to make people look at your degree like it's toxic.
Professors, unless you're ancient enough to have tenure...take an ethical stand and walk. If tenured, talk about how bad this is to everyone...classes, administration, media outlets.
Administrators, as a rule at the top echelon, you are overpaid vichy yes men to whomever has the biggest checkbook. Quit, go on a retreat, try to find the soul you probably once had.
They should shut the university down, and use their endowments to pay facilities staff to keep up the buildings until the regime backs down or is overthrown. Fuck all of this appeasement.
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@Bredroll
There's been a lot more action on the streets than is being reported by the billionaire owned media.
That said, I'm an old and I protested Thatcher at some events that got pretty rowdy, and I've been at more protests in the US than I can count, and I'm not kidding when I tell you that at the last round of BLM protests, we went knowing there was a non-zero chance a cop would shoot us.
Protesting in America is a whole different kettle of fish than protesting somewhere where everyone isn't armed and the cops have don't have full immunity for torture and murder.
I am not in the middle of a university, but immediately think every university should band together to support every other university from letting a president determine the courses taught.
an obvious one would be exile. There are sadly plenty of recent examples like NAUKMA's foreign campuses (Toronto/Glasgow/NIessen/Viadrina) following the #Ukraine war.
diplomaticourier.com/posts/the….
No doubt #EU #universities & research institutes are seeing this as "a sad opportunity, but it is an opportunity all the same," to quote the head of the Pasteur Institute. france24.com/en/live-news/2025…
We have collective experience of complex international funding & collaboration models : let's use it!
French research groups urged to welcome scientists fleeing US
French officials are urging their country's research institutions to consider welcoming scientists abandoning the United States due to President Donald Trump's funding cuts, AFP learned on Sunday.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
M.A.G.A. seems to be made-up of people who feel about acadæmia roughly this: 'We only respect RealMen®, and RealMen® are interested only in money and p-s-y… Interested in knowledge? liking a school environment? you are not RealMen®, or RealAmericans®.'
Note that Mr Trump grew-up hearing his father mock his[D.T.'s] uncle John FOR BEING A PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT M.-FRIGGIN'-I.T..
The US university in which I did a graduate degree has closed its diversity & inclusion program, laid off staff, cancelled a black alumni reunion and suspended a women's history month event.
The fragility of white male supremacy in America is something to behold. I will be removing myself from the alumni mailing list.
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Most of the world, especially former US allies, are shaking their heads. But Putin and apparently 46% of Americans nod their heads as Trump implement Project 2025 faster than anyone would have believed.
"Nobody voted for #ElonMusk, who apparently sees inflicting smears and cruelty as virtuous pursuits. Nobody needs to accept the actions of a man who sympathizes with racists and wannabe vigilantes. I can hope that, when it comes to writing the history of this era (if such a thing is to be allowed) that Elon Musk is remembered as the man who inspired the start of a campaign to neuter the billionaire class."
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Impeaching Crown Prince Elon Musk
In celebration of the fabulous ongoing takedown of fabulist Elon Musk and his shitty cars, I hereby present tales of woe about a South African billionaire who thinks he’s royalty.Doug Porter (Words & Deeds)
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I have been trying to keep all the tips, tricks, and resources that I think would be useful for folks migrating from Facebook and Instagram (as well as current Bluesky users) in one place:
linktr.ee/ComeTogetherLinktree
I also created a separate resource list specific to Friendica:
linktr.ee/friendicahelp
#friendicahelp #facebook #bluesky #meta #metarefugee #instagram #fediversehelp
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Kan I huske den gang hvor vi omlagde hele medieindustrien til ukritisk at vælge hvad vi skulle se baseret udelukkende på reklameindustriens interesser, som så viste sig at føre til en meget omfattende uinformeret radikalisering af hele samfundet, hvorefter demokrati næsten holdt op med at virke, og verdenssamfundet næsten faldt tusind år tilbage til et uproduktivt og undertrykkende feudalsamfund?
Godt nok heldigt at det gik op for os mens det skete og gjorde noget ved det, hva?
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Fuck this guy.
While exploring the Fediverse I had to try Friendica and its sister Hubzilla. Today I'm going to give you a brief introduction to Hubzilla.
Under one user account you can have a Macro blog, a Website, a Wiki, a Forum. So ipso facto it has
rich formatting via bbcode HTML or mark-up.
There are also advanced privacy controls for self, groups, and all your data. Which implies you'll have to really use hashtags if you want to interact with the rest of the Fediverse. On the plus side it has several cool looking themes.
It takes federation to the next level by employing a concept called
Nomadic identity i.e. automatically syncing/backup your data on two different servers.
Lastly, I think it's great that there are so many ways to do social media in the petty oligarchy era. Thanks #muskrat !
#Fediverse #Hubzilla #friendica #Mastodon #blog #wiki #website
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FDA's Top Vaccine Official Resigns, Claims 'Truth And Transparency Are Not Desired By The Secretary'
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