Notices by Dan Phiffer (dphiffer@social.coop)

I wrote about why I’m divesting my social life from Meta and where I’m going next (it’s here). https://phiffer.org/after-big-social/

“ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so they could explain what they lost in their own words.”
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/
#Housing

Come work with me!
Data Integrations Engineer at @ProPublica. Remote friendly, $110-130k, union shop. https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4428186006
#FediHire

“The fracturing of the internet has been painful, but it’s also given us the chance to rebuild the media by focusing on our shared humanity.

Media companies that replace their writers with AI, continue to chase traffic by doing the same articles everyone else is doing, and focus heavily on appeasing social media platforms will continue to struggle.” —@jasonkoebler

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/declaring-platform-independence/
#Journalism #404Media

@cwebber yeah, having run SD instances at two news orgs, I can imagine why they stopped supporting it (and why their website isn't fully updated). fwiw this directory seems up to date: https://securedrop.org/directory/

@eloquence @3wordchant @flancian yes, it appears we have ~43k pushes queued. I don't actually know what you do in this situation.

A moment like this highlights an advantage to strictly chronological feeds, where maybe I don't want to see something posted 21 hours ago right next to something posted 21 minutes ago.

@elbienmaspreciado *taps the sign*

“Sports reporter Nicholas Kimball explained that they were able to put together the paper using his computer, which was not seized by police, as well as the ad sales computer.”
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/exclusive-first-look-at-marion-county

“She said over and over again, ‘Where are all the good people to put a stop to this?’ She felt like, how can you go through your entire life and then have something that you spent 50 years of your life doing just kind of trampled on like it’s meaningless?”

She died in midsentence, he said, at around 1:30 p.m.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/joann-meyer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=M1NLobrOoO5Uq2WDSdi4zoC7hTrj8BP5CWRvPD7LTVijVrj57w9zutd8aJoeHrXtyx22U9qPvH7kdatP2GIp19IeD-LJK5iAJWz33fDqIVT4V7elpCXGmYJo1lyYhiRMV6q3_6BLigvpClCPJBSUqeVjckIOPVJldwDpcv9J5kp6J9Edc9TA4XIsAzlLfSC7hzGlNAv6gY0nRcTpCJxeuYdLXJRYN0qSkvQscYMQ8zR1fC7bh62f6pN9u8nDE5xe95jGZIWsIUQTWfRGU5a7EKdu_tMk7VTvXZXVPe3NiUneerAdbkYeillvMlJmmllQNxsh-AfaWM32efWuyKtchBw&smid=url-share

#giftlink

#StochasticParrotsDay session 2 is starting up: "On Worker Exploitation, Data Theft, and the Centralization of Power", moderated by TImnit Gebru, featuring Safiya Noble (author of Algorithms of Oppression), Milagros Miceli, and an anonymous data worker." https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

#StochasticParrotsDay session 3 is starting up: “AI Hype vs. Reality,” moderated by Emily Bender, featuring Asmelash Teka, Mark Riedl, Belzie Mont-Louis. https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

I wrote about how account verification works on Mastodon for @themarkup.
https://themarkup.org/levelup/2022/12/22/how-we-verified-ourselves-on-mastodon-and-how-you-can-too