Notices by Pepijn (pepijn@mastodon.online), page 3

Is anyone maintaining an overview of #podcasts with a presence on #mastodon or the #fediverse?

I know only two: the amazing classic @plastisphere and the, for me, new @starrytimepod

Do drop good podcasts in the comments!
#podcast #radioshow

Are the people in Palestine considered "brown"?

@aral

@mike Thanks for reply 1-13 and the high level overview.

I'll comment in multiple post. 1/x

To be clear: it's not the 11K but specifically the "verified quality" and "promoted by the editorial board" publishers I question. For those Flipboard acts as a seal of quality & honesty.

The proces you describe appears to be done with an intent to be objective (right?) but appears to ignore a step where you differentiate between honest publishers and websites created for lobbying.

@mastodonmigration

2. Unlike something like The Christian Science Monitor or the other 25 websites / publications in Flipboards curated "first 27 to federate" the The74 is a lobby tool created to promote a specific agenda*. It's not about being left or right but about honestly: are they a lobby group, a PR platform or a news-outlet.

*It was funded from the start by the -now defunct I think- "PEJ": https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/partnership-for-educational-justice-edjustice/

https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/in-2015-the-74-media-was-overwhelmingly-funded-by-litigious-union-busting-partnership-for-ed-justice/

@mike @mastodonmigration

4. And naturally everyone is free to publish what they want. And as a user of #Flipboard I'm fine with the range of serious news-organisations all the way to corporate PR firms.

The majority do not get a vetted quality seal though.

With this small subset of verified publishers it is different: to give these a seal for "quality and journalistic integrity", while including a platform that is not that, undermines my trust in the others & flipboards quality seal itself.

@mike @mastodonmigration

3. While the74 published a Code of Ethics and a variety of newsarticles it is consistently the first site to turn opinion pieces from anti-union, pro-school-choice* organisations (American Federation for Children etc) into "objective news". And with the74 as an stepping stone a biased press release becomes objective news via platforms as Flipboard.

*in US context: moving funds from public systems to private -conservative Christian- systems who can exclude kids.

@mike @mastodonmigration

5. I know I can just mute* and move on. And the74 was muted as I know it was founded to create news instead of reporting it. That's nothing to do with bias and all with dishonesty.

However. What I contemplate is whether to mute the entire flipboard.social domain as I'm afraid with this imo flawed vetting it will be vector for other fake news that I myself don't recognise.

*"@mike 11. Of course, users have choice and can decide to follow or mute any publisher they’d like."

@mastodonmigration

@mike And again thanks for the reply. It's appreciated.

@mastodonmigration

@mike @mastodonmigration Any feedback from your team?

Interesting concept.

The list of publications is kinda weird: it's a bunch of relatively neutral broad information outlets and then chunked in there is a US christian conservative anti-public school lobby group (the74 / American Federation for Children). Is the idea of flipboard to smoothly legitimize this stuff?

@mastodonmigration @mike

Remember when many of us were bored at home due to the first #covid lockdown in march 2020?

#Dog and I did a colab reenacting "The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)". Just found it again and still have troubles making out the original.

That said. Dog will never be as cool as this gentoo penguin radio operator (National Geographic, circa 1980)

Bought a box of second hand LEGO Duplo / Quattro / Primo (big lego, bigger lego, biggerest lego #bricks🙄) and it came with this friendly #covid virus cell :-)

There's also lots of tubes and everything has eyes 👀 I like how having a baby is an excuse to buy lego "for the child".

This is from #LEGO #Duplo #Quattro and #Primo (the last two lines are not sold anymore, there's probably a good reason but actual lego designer who sold it was outraged at that 😀)

First load of 20+ yr old #lego / #duplo washed. Never before did our dishwasher look this happy 🙂

The #bricks look as new. Makes me wonder how many kids will eventually play with this over the decades to come.

Unfortunately I don't remember to whom I promised this but here goes..

See attached a photo showing a #Christiania #cargobike can easily hold two folded #Brompton #bicycles and has room to spare for one medium sized #Danish-Swedish farm dog. @mastobikes #mastobikes