Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)

I wonder how this might apply to Fediverse development and design.... #IEEE cc: @ieeespectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-safety-kids-ieee-standard

Sad state of things and why the open social web needs to prove new distributed models of trust and safety. https://www.platformer.news/trustcon-trust-safety-leadership-decline-2025/

@thisismissem @laurenshof @nlnet 👏👏👏

I like the framing of "cozy apps" - & long time fan of #CalmTech - & do think that is a space between mass scale social and IM's. #Signal
for me is a "Cozy app" via it's group features.

"One possibility is something called cosy media, which refers to apps or other content designed to help you connect with small groups of friends, often in a friendly, calming environment." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26735530-100-social-media-is-dead-heres-what-comes-next/#Echobox=1753469388

@Archie8 I feel seen.

As a result,…troops failed to surround a Russian position in the town of Beryslav, east of Kherson, the administrative center of the region of the same name. “The encirclement stalled entirely,” said the military official in an interview. “It failed.”

Ultimately, #Ukraine’s counteroffensive succeeded in reclaiming Beryslav, the city of Kherson & some additional territory #Russia had occupied.

#power #corruption #oligarchy

We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.

#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia

A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order & its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

#power #corruption #oligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

Abbott is not just screwing over Texans, he’s rigging the game to screw over voters across the country. Trump and Abbott both know voters are pissed. They’re reasonably worried about a coming Blue Wave in 2026. And rather than attempt to make amends for their failed leadership, they’re giving the middle finger to everyone who believes in free and fair elections.

But Abbott and Trump don’t hold all the cards.

@mike Fully with you on the need for full transparancy in block lists plus appeal process. IFTAS, an group I advise I think got the model right that others should mimic.

The fediverse and the larger open social web is such a better place because of the choices that @Flipboard has made. We are lucky to have them.
https://flipboard.com/@haveago/mind-shift-828ph9kaz/-/a-4SnPqX4ASOqHQLtNccw59w%3Aa%3A7347489-%2F0

@stux Hate to say it, but yeah, this tracks.

@thisismissem Yeah, so it would only block images with a full path link to one of those sites, or images in the opengraph preview. Maybe of some use, but not as much as web search.

@thisismissem Hmmmm.

@lndn Only on the occasional Chromebook and work servers.

@thisismissem Cool. Thanks, Emelia! 👍

Could #Mastodon and #Bluesky do this? “The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said…” https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/duckduckgo-now-lets-you-hide-ai-generated-images-in-search-results/

Ouch. I cannot name a brand that has fallen further, faster. #Tesla

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-second-quarter-ev-registrations-175134476.html

#TeslaTakedown

Cool to see that Yahoo Finance as an account is federating out via Threads: @yahoofinance

@rwg Congrats! ✊

Come see @dawn give her talk at FediCon

"Co-Own the Web: CoSocial and Cooperative Digital Infrastructures"

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🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver, Canada
🗓️ August 1–2

ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca

#FediCon #FediCon2025 #Fediverse