2025 (@2025@rbfirehose.com)
OCCRP: Italy’s Mafia Uses TikTok to Rebrand and Reach Followers. “A new study finds Italy’s crime clans are using TikTok to rebrand themselves, turning mafia codes into emojis, viral trends, and livestream ‘matches’—some even used to launder money.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/18/occrp-italys-mafia-uses-tiktok-to-rebrand-and-reach-followers/
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"Today, students might use AI to write college-entrance essays so that they can get into college, where they use AI to complete assignments on their way to degrees, so they can use AI to cash out those degrees in jobs, so they can use AI to carry out the duties of those jobs. The best one can do—the best one can hope for—is to get to the successive stage of the process by whatever means necessary and, once there, to figure out a way to progress to the next one. Fake it ’til you make it has given way to Fake it ’til you fake it.
Nobody has time to question, nor the power to change, this situation. You need to pay rent, and buy slop bowls, and stumble forward into the murk of tomorrow. So you read what the computer tells you to say when asked why you are passionate about enterprise B2B SaaS sales or social-media marketing. This is not an earnest question, but a gate erected between one thing and the next. Using whatever mechanisms you can to get ahead is not ignoble; it’s compulsory. If you can’t even get the job, how can you pretend to do it?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-cheating-job-interviews-fraud/684568/
#AI #GenerativeAI #JobInterviews #Chatbots #LLMs #SocialMedia #TikTok
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2025 (@2025@rbfirehose.com)
PsyPost: Negativity drives engagement on political TikTok. “A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that political videos on TikTok that criticize opposing political parties and use emotionally charged or uncivil language tend to generate higher levels of engagement.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/18/psypost-negativity-drives-engagement-on-political-tiktok/
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medien (@medien@mastodon.social)
»Interenetsperre in Afghanistan: „Facebook down, Instagram down, TikTok down“« https://taz.de/Interenetsperre-in-Afghanistan/!6118767/?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia
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100D (@100D@mastodon.social)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ZPeJd-RSQ
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villebooks (@villebooks@mastodon.social)
#rewatch #listen 🎧 After journo icon Yvonne Ridley was released from Israeli prison (she was passender on the #GlobalSumudFlottilla), she interviewed renown artist Nicole Jenes, discussing her early life, career and what led her to be so passionate for issues in the #MiddleEast, as well as her and Yvonne's current work on the Flotilla missions to #gaza - enjoy this talk
Join and subscribe, you can find more #socialmedia links of Yvonne in the video description 👇🏽
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5pjOSMtZEw
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newsbeep (@newsbeep@newsbeep.org)
Trump Commutes Sentence of Former GOP Lawmaker George Santos
President Donald Trump said he was commuting the sentence of former Republican lawmaker George Santos, who was convicted…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #August #CreditCards #DonaldJohnTrump #FederalBureauofInvestigation #GeorgeSantos #moneylaundering #NewYork #Politics #republicanparty #SocialMedia #UnemploymentBenefits #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/193281/
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medien (@medien@mastodon.social)
»Grenzen von Chatbots: Auch die KI glaubt an Gott« https://taz.de/ChatGPT-kann-bald-erotische-Konversationen-fuehren-aber-was-kann-die-KI-nicht/!6120868/?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia
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2025 (@2025@www.bookandsword.com)
I’m Not on Bluesky, but the Blog Is
I’m told that Ancient World Twitter was a thing and many of the same people have moved to Bluesky. I am an open web person not a corporate social media person, but if you prefer following this site on Bluesky to following it on RSS or by email or by checking the URL every few days, there is a way. For a few months, it has been possible to follow bookandswordblog at https://bsky.app/profile/bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
I am not there! I am unlikely to see any likes or replies. I think all corporate social media funded by other people’s money will follow the same path as Facebook and Reddit and birdsite. I wonder if in a thousand years people will talk about microblogging like the Romans talked about the time they invited the Goths across the Danube then started to shake them down and enslave them without calling in the army first (or maybe like the Athenians talked about how they realized that speaking persuasively was a skill that could be taught for money). But if you want to follow this site on Bluesky, that is possible.
(scheduled 12 October 2025)
#mediaCriticism #modern #shamelessPlug #socialMedia
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Strangphotography (@Strangphotography@mastodon.social)
https://thailand-becausewecan.picfair.com/images/022477252-streetlife-at-soi-7-one-of-pattaya-s-most-famous-entertainment-streets-during-the-early-hours-of-the-morning-thailand
Streetlife at Soi 7 – Pattaya Before Sunrise 🇹🇭, Thailand
The nightlife has faded on Soi 7, one of Pattaya’s most famous entertainment streets.
A few lost souls sit quietly in a beer bar just after closing — a haunting calm before sunrise.
Captured in black and white with my Sony Alpha 7 IV, this photograph reveals the unseen side of Pattaya — raw, emotional, and filled with quiet stories.
#photography #streetphotography #travelphotography #socialmedia #Thailand #travel
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maugendre (@maugendre@hachyderm.io)
The Cloud and AI Development Act 'should embed a sovereignty provision that curtails the current “sovereignty-washing” practiced by US hyperscalers in partnership with European firms. Here, sovereignty means fostering genuine competence and capacity inside the Union, rather than relying on complex legal tricks that depend on foreign-controlled technology.'
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-defend-democracy-on-us-servers/ by Alexandra Geese, MEP (The Greens)
#EuroStack #security #independence #EU #EuropeanLaw #socialMedia #decoupling #nonAligned #EuropeAlternatives #EuropeanAlternatives #nonUS #digitalSovereignty #techSovereignty #dataSovereignty #sovereignty #privacy #dataProtection #dataCenters #energy #dataCentres #BuyEurope #BuyEuropean #Cloud #EUPol #EuropeanPolitics
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