Interesting Links for 17-12-2022
Dec. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links
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- 2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?
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- 3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge)
- (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
- 4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention
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- 5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon
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- 6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started
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- 7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000
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- 8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
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- 9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes
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- 10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won
- (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
- 11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress
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- 12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
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Date: 2022-12-17 03:49 pm (UTC)5. An organisation can run their own Mastodon instance and have full control over the way they publish information into the 'fediverse', and that makes a lot of sense to me as it cuts out all the middlemen.
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Date: 2022-12-17 03:54 pm (UTC)5) Absolutely, and so you can trust that specific accounts are definitely from those domains, and at least somewhat verified!
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Date: 2022-12-17 04:02 pm (UTC)And from the perspective of an individual journalist, it might make sense to not post on their employer's instance (other than maybe links to articles), as it's impossible to migrate entries -- and what if they go to another newspaper and lose access to that instance? But from the viewpoint of the newspaper, it is an attractive proposition.