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  • Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.

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  • Uh... this is day 12. Feels like 12 thousand years though.

  • NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X

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  • This seems like somewhat big news but literally no one else is reporting it.

  • Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid

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  • Some truly heartbreaking shit going on.

    In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children, said Dr. Jimmy Opigo, the program’s director.

    Medical supplies, including drugs to stop hemorrhages in pregnant women and rehydration salts that treat life-threatening diarrhea in toddlers, cannot reach villages in Zambia because the trucking companies transporting them were paid through a suspended supply project of the United States Agency for International Development, U.S.A.I.D.

    Dozens of clinical trials in South Asia, Africa and Latin America have been suspended. Thousands of people enrolled in the studies have drugs, vaccines and medical devices in their bodies but no longer have access to continuing treatment or to the researchers who were supervising their care.

  • LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed Into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda

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  • Came here to quote that same thing.

    This is insane. If anyone hasn't yet, cancel your subscriptions.

    LAT should maybe be banned here too. This is editorial not news but, if they're willing to completely reverse the meaning without acknowledgement or changing attribution, how can we trust a word in that paper? They've just discredited everyone who works there.

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    My sister (24) about contraception

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  • smash cut to nine months later*

  • Pro-Israel bot goes rogue, calls IDF soldiers 'white colonizers in apartheid Israel'

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  • Donald Trump To Be Put on Mount Rushmore Under Republican Bill

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  • I'd donate some eggs to Trump's face on Mt Rushmore (and most other places)

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • Agreed. It immediately went from being maybe the best app in the Fediverse to the 3rd best for its own service. I stopped using Pixelfed altogether until Pixelix got good enough to be a replacement.

    I honestly don't understand how getting the new app to feature parity with the old wasn't maximum priority. It at least seems like it's going to get there pretty soon.

  • Trump's funding freeze awakens the "Resistance"

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  • I really hope this is true. More depressing than Trump winning the election has been everyone being so resigned and despondent. If people don't fight for every inch, he's going to take miles and miles before everyone wakes up.

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • I think it was more that he wanted to open source the app but had built it while he was learning so it was pretty messy and he felt insecure about it. So he rebuilt the app from scratch and open-sourced it. It just isn't quite at feature parity to the old app yet. Pretty sure dark mode is coming in the next update though.

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • So far so good! Some very unscientific observations from spending an absurd amount of time scrolling local on pixelfed.social:

    The people coming from Instagram and TikTok seem way less grumpy than the microbloggers. People are having a lot of fun and not complaining about much. It's kind of a trip seeing happy, joyful people on the Fediverse to be honest. Everything in the world suuuuuuuucks right now, so it's felt like a bit of a refuge. Sometimes I'll accidentally bounce over to the global feed and oh man is the change in tone jarring.

    People don't seem to have a problem with servers like the Twitter migrants did. Folks are still talking about it a lot on Mastodon though. I've literally not seen a single post about Pixelfed being "too complicated" to succeed, whereas it was (and is) pretty common to see "this place is great and all, but..." posts in the microblogging neighbourhood. Not sure why this is but it might be because the people coming to Pixelfed are generally younger than Mastodon users. This is just a guess, but I'd estimate the average age of Mastodon users is maybe mid-40s. Most of the people pouring into Pixelfed appear to be in their mid-to-late-20s. Perhaps those folks are just more accustomed to servers through Discord and gaming? Though people are generally captioning photos and not writing out lists of things they're unhappy about and they could also just be unaware of servers altogether...

    Pixelfed is easily the most diverse "corner" of the Fediverse now. Fedi is very white but a large number coming over now aren't. Pixelfed.social has probably gone from being 75% men to 75% women in the last few weeks. Diversity is the best possible thing for the social web.

    I've seen a bunch of people on Instagram promoting Feb 1st as "Global Switch Day" so hopefully it'll keep blowing up.

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    Mexican cartel opens fire at US border guards

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  • They're just re-reporting something from Fox News.

    This story seems to be circulating exclusively through right-wing news. Just took a quick look but Newsweek is probably the furthest left reporting this. Otherwise, it's like NYPost, Daily Mail, News. com. au and a bunch of also-rans of right-wing news media.

  • "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you."

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  • Probably worth doing if you can write "eat shit" for every answer.

  • ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media

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  • Crypto chat! Crypto pics! Crypto vids! Nostr! Crypto!

  • Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”

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  • Do you post MBFC links on articles from outlets they classify as “unbiased” too, or just the “biased” ones?

    I post links if I'm unfamiliar with a source and look them up, regardless of their conclusions. Sometimes I'll do research on a news source if they don't have an MBFC entry and share that as well. I assume there are others who are like, "cool story but... who the fuck is this?" I hope it spares them the extra steps.

    If some people don't like that, I don't care. I count MBFC downvotes as upvotes. It helps people I'm overjoyed to help and pisses off people that I'm pretty okay with pissing off. I'm not letting a bunch of greasy misinfo ghouls call the shots.

    A couple minutes of research shows that (although their contributors are all over the world) their legal entity People’s Dispatch Ltd. is registered in New York.

    First, registering and operating are two different things. Human beings are not just bound by the laws of the country their corporation is registered in.

    But... so what? If the information we have shows something that's problematic then new information becomes available that addresses our concerns... that's fine. That's how shit's supposed to work. MBFC is an information source, not the information source.

    As others have pointed out many times before, the entirely flawed premise behind MBFC is that centrism correlates with credibility and/or factualness...

    etc etc etc

    Look, I've met my quota on debating weird MBFC conspiracy theorists. The reality is there are a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about posting links to webpages they haven't read. I'm not interested in someone's poorly thought out take on how they say the Guardian is quadruple Mein Kampf, or whatever. If you have links to peer-reviewed research that support those conclusions, I'd be happy to see them. You don't, though, because every bit of academic work on MBFC says those people are dead wrong.

  • Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”

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  • I used that link to look up the source. It wasn't here so I posted it here. I do the same with archive links.

    I didn't report this and don't have a problem with it. In general, the fact that they don't disclose the country they operate out of is problematic since we can't know if they're operating from a place where telling the truth is illegal.

    Edit: I should also say that it's important they've never failed a fact check. I don't really care about them having editorial bias as long as we know what it is.

  • Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”

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  • MBFC:

    Overall, we rate The People’s Dispatch as Far-Left Biased based on promoting Marxist-Leninist perspectives. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to consistent one-sided reporting that lacks context and a complete lack of transparency.

  • Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml?

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  • Yes.

    I won't subscribe, post, or comment in ml.

  • Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter | TechCrunch

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  • Thanks for being a good sport. In these trying times we have to cherish every genuine updog moment we find ourselves in.

    It's federated encrypted messaging :)