Notices by Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

It's a pretty spectacular detonation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsUTgpsN3A

SpaceX Starship Raptor 3 Engine Explosion 🚀 💥

So, SpaceX has delayed their really big spaceship launch yet again. (Maybe until after their trillion dollar IPO 🤔) Perhaps the recent Raptor 3 engine test has something to do with this... 🤷

https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/spacex-starship-engine-test-successful-223457474.html

For those feeling whipsawed by current events...

It all begins to make sense when you realize today is just another day of market manipulation.

@rbreich

Otherwise known as the "pump and dump cycle"

Please read with a great deal of skepticism any analysis that takes as a premise that this is anywhere close to being over...

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

h/t @jeeynet https://framapiaf.org/@jeeynet/116359059101502550

@evan @carnage4life

Well, as far as Threads is concerned, their implementation of federation has been intentionally hobbled from the start. Early they attributed this to development concerns, but those rationales have long since been proven to be nonsense.

@evan @carnage4life

Agreed. Certainly many people have decided to accept these TOS terms. Just saying that for a lot of people here it is a valid reason not to be on those platforms.

When you raise concerns about cross platform interoperability, there are legitimate reasons, other that cultural, to decide to avoid the corporate platforms.

@evan @scottjenson @carnage4life

Just dropping in to point out that the reason many people do not open the gates to multiple social media platforms is their respective Terms Of Service. When all platforms except Mastodon essentially claim a license to all content and employ people's posts and data for LLM training that is a very good reason not to participate on their platforms.

@cwebber @mttaggart

Similar ideas expressed in this essay by @minaskar

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

h/t @repepo https://fediscience.org/@repepo/116339289260094252

Video: Sen Chris Murphy | Blasts Iran War

We have still not yet had a single hearing... We have not had a debate on a war authorization. We have not had a vote to allow senators to weigh in up or down as to whether they want the United to be at war again in the Middle East.

I don't think we have had a moment like this where the United States has been unquestionably at war with a foreign power... [and] haven't had a hearing in the Foreign Relations Committee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wiN3-hJ98

@evan @hamishcampbell @_elena

The real benefit to the corporate and oligarchic owners is that the existence of Bluesky inhibits the growth of a truly open, defensible and powerful public social media.

Everyone who participates on that platform is effectively working against the interest of building a strong alternative to corporate domination of the public's access to information.

@evan @hamishcampbell @_elena

Actually think the most likely scenario is that they continue to operate at a loss and are funded by crypto VC interests, or outright billionaire oligarchs, with the purpose of coralling liberal voices and managing their reach through increasingly restrictive algorithmic manipulations.

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@AkaSci

Whew. That was crazy.

For about 10 minutes they lost comms with the spacecraft.

They rebooted the ground communications system, and are now talking with the spacecraft again.

Apparently the astronauts could hear mission control, but mission control could not hear the astronauts. Some bidirectional data comms were never lost.

☝️ Artemis is off to the moon.

Continue to watch this NASA feed for live mission coverage. This YouTube channel will continue live 7/24 for the next 10 days throughout the mission.

A great account/thread to follow for more detailed information on Artemis is here from @AkaSci

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116331848604533047

Video: Artemis II Launch | Live Stream

https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs

#artemis #nasa

Has anyone else noticed that Mastodon search has been broken since March 24?

Any information on this available?

@MastodonEngineering

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/116325493057586704

Wow! This is precisely the kind of promotion of the successful No Kings 3 protest that is needed. People need to feel the power of this movement and well produced video reports like this are a key component in building support.

Spread this video far and wide!

#NoKings #NoKings3 #WeThePeople

One for the history books...

How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?

A tale of two social networks.

Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.

Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/