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"To kolejna próba cenzurowania sztuki, a zwłaszcza teatru w Polsce. Nie ma na to naszej zgody" - pisze w oświadczeniu Teatr im. Wilama Horzycy w Toruniu. Chodzi o sztukę "Śmierć Jana Pawła II", której zdjęcia z repertuaru festiwalu teatralnego domaga się radny PiS.

As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike.

Differentiation in the Fediverse is starting to play out in more and more pronounced ways. For most users in the Western world, it is tightly linked with Mastodon. But the Japanese Fediverse community is growing extremely rapidly, mainly using Misskey. It has grown in less than half a year from 75k accounts to 325k accounts.

Three of the world's biggest social media giants — Twitter, Meta and TikTok — rank highly among the most hated brands in America, says a new poll. Here's why.

Training data can be used "regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise."

What mechanism governs federation with non group based instances? I set up some magazines for Running and Cycling on kbin.social, and I've noticed that there is quite a lot of activity of those hashtags from general mastodon instances....

The health ministry says making the pill more easily available "removes an important barrier".

Exploring Transgender Law and Politics Catharine A. MacKinnon...

Using Twitter is still a necessary evil for many of us, me included. But given the pace of alternatives suddenly emerging, those days are numbered. I fully expect Twitter to be obsolete by the end of the year, a $44-billion boondoggle that’ll resemble little more than a glorified Parler or Gab. Yet another ‘unscheduled rapid...

It has been an interesting week in the fediverse, with some events that will play out over longer timeframes. Conversations about defederation, but also a growth in tech projects that go beyond microblogging, and the continuation of developer organisation. Besides that, it took around a month for Mastodon to add another million...

For the first time, this is an in-depth review of historical CCTV systems that were used with nearly all Chernobyl robots back in the 80-s.

Calckey Plugins are an overlooked component of the platform. Mostly because documentation is scarce about them. No more! Here's my first post in a series on plugins, introducing the concept and providing a guide to ensure users can make informed decisions about installing plugins they find in the community....

> Heidi Siegmund Cuda interviews Pekka Kallioniemi, the Finnish creator of ‘Vatnik Soup’ - a Twitter series and website where he identifies pro-Russian actors and propagandists from around the world

Defederation has come up in multiple different contexts recently in the Fediverse. Even more so, the way other protocols are developing is setting up more significant questions about future choices regarding federation as well.

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™

Stacy Horn set out to create something new and very New York. She didn’t expect it to last so long.

In some cases, to run malicious code remotely, too

"Leon zawodowiec" to klasyka kina akcji, jednak relacja pomiędzy tytułowym mordercą a 12-letnią Matyldą od początku budziła kontrowersje. Po latach Natalie Portman wyznała, jaki wpływ miała na nią ta rola.