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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 14, 2026
China Still Has Easy Access To TikTok Despite Trump ‘Fixes’
Remember how the Trump administration -- and folks like Brendan Carr -- spent four straight years fear-mongering about China's purported control over TikTok and its owner, ByteDance? And remember how the Trump administration (with incompetent Democratic lawmaker help) "fixed" the problem by offloading Tiktok to Trump's billionaire buddies while still maintaining co-ownership with the Chinese?...
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 9, 2026
Alabama’s TikTok Settlement Comes With An Affiliate Program For Getting Other AGs To Go After TikTok
The big Meta multi-state settlement got most of the headlines, and there's been plenty of discussion about how it's a bad deal for kids and pretty clearly anti-competitive. That's thanks to a very strange clause that encourages Meta to make its own required feature changes the "industry standard" by convincing other platforms to cut similar...
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 6, 2026
Meta’s Settlement Isn’t Tech’s “Big Tobacco” Moment
I've written a few times now about why Meta's big "settlement" with the states is a bad deal. It's Meta seeking to control how the rest of the internet is regulated in a way that, as Eric Goldman's op-ed we republished explains, is anti-competitive. It's also bad for kids (while everyone is pretending it protects...
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I'm Not Doctor Who
I'm Not Doctor WhoOct 6, 2026
#oneaday Day 851: Abandon ship?
Earlier today, the thoroughly lovely Quest 64 Official account on Bluesky (actually, in their own words, an account that has "spent nearly a decade attempting to rehab the way people view Quest 64/games in general", which is a sentiment I am 100% on board with) expressed frustration over a YouTube video they had seen cross...
clickbaitevolution of the internet
h3xe.blog
h3xe.blogOct 6, 2026
Why protocols are the future of social media and how I can log into 230+ apps with 1 account
An Intro to open social protocols.
open social webopen social
Techdirt
TechdirtSep 30, 2026
Ban Kids From Social Media And They’ll Just Chat In Public Radio Podcast Comments
Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around various restrictions. It was mentioned, somewhat in passing, on the "How to do Everything" podcast last October, where someone...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 29, 2026
EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. The EU Kids Act aims to protect children from...
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OFF TOPICS - BLOQDIGITAL
OFF TOPICS - BLOQDIGITALSep 29, 2026
The Fragmentation of AI Adoption
There is such a scattergun reaction to the capabilities of AI and what it can genuinely do for us. All I have to do is scroll through LinkedIn... On the one hand, you have people actually building tools and creating software with it, developers using it to speed up writing code, and identifying genuine problems & challenges where it can be useful such as scientific and medical research. Then you have people burning through credits saying I got Claude to make GTA V in a browser! or I made a compu...
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OFF TOPICS - BLOQDIGITAL
OFF TOPICS - BLOQDIGITALSep 26, 2026
The Nuance Of AI Detection
Back in April 2024, I wrote a piece entitled [Artificial] Intelligence, which looked at the less than delicate diversity overcorrection of AI generative outputs from the likes of Google's Gemini. Now in 2026, despite the release of the EU's AI Labelling system we are still seeing a different kind of sensitivity issue. This time it's a lack of one, from various third party AI detection tools. You see, whilst digital infrastructure is very much binary, the level of application a user / designer / ...
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Neil Turner's Blog
Neil Turner's BlogSep 25, 2026
How to: hide Substack links on Bluesky
Do you hate nazis? Do you want to boycott a platform that makes money from nazis? If your response to this is 'sure, that's why I use Bluesky instead of Twitter/X', then you should also be boycotting Substack. Substack has been tolerating far-right content since back when Twitter was still called Twitter. Indeed, there are...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 24, 2026
Teen Sadness And Suicidal Thoughts Keep Falling, Even As Kids Keep Scrolling
Over the last few years, it has become accepted knowledge that the internet — mainly social media and, lately, AI tools — was damaging the mental health of kids and increasing the suicide rate among that demographic. To hear the media and politicians talk about it, this was the biggest issue on the planet and...
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taco 'bout it
taco 'bout itSep 21, 2026
surely, we shouldn’t be worried about this infringement… right? 😰
“We feel obliged to speak up about the injustice and violation of our rights by not being allowed to promote a feminist work, specifically a work by Virginia Woolf who was born in 1882. What can we do? As a theatre we have to publicise our activities … and we have to make use of...
creeping authoritarianismfeminism
Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross PowellSep 16, 2026
All Those Metrics Bleed Your Obsessions
The internet once encouraged us to build entire identities around our weirdest, deepest fascinations. Then metrics and distribution flattened those obsessions into fungible content.
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Off Again..
Off Again..Sep 14, 2026
Trans celebrities and parasocial communities
Online communities are a key part of trans experience.. for better or worse.
transgendersocial media
Techdirt
TechdirtSep 11, 2026
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
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sCROLL jAR
sCROLL jARSep 10, 2026
On touching grass.
Smartphone, how I (literally) cannot quit you.
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Contact with Gravity
Contact with GravitySep 9, 2026
Atmospheric Community Feed Builder Proposal
A proposal to make organized community spaces on the Atmosphere for fandom
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One Thing I've Learned
One Thing I've LearnedSep 6, 2026
Take the time to verify "facts" before sharing
And why I no longer believe that covering banana stems makes bananas last longer
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Edwin's Notes
Edwin's NotesSep 5, 2026
The Atmosphere, The Universal Data Commons and the future of our digital lives
👋 Hey, I'm new here - but I've come bearing gifts (I hope)
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I'm Not Doctor Who
I'm Not Doctor WhoSep 4, 2026
#oneaday Day 819: Comments sections are self-harm
"Don't read the comments. Never read the comments." It's one of the most enduring pieces of advice on the Internet, and it's always been sound advice. And I've always thought that to be a bit of a shame. Well, let me qualify that somewhat: you shouldn't read the comments on public-facing, commercial sites. If you...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 4, 2026
Some Parents Are Treating Suing Social Media As A Get Rich Quick Scheme
There is a flood of lawsuits against social media, from a variety of different parties, all claiming some kind of harm. Would you feel differently about some of those lawsuits if you found out the plaintiffs bringing them were talking amongst themselves about how they were doing it just to become rich? Because we just...
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Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross PowellSep 3, 2026
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism
Communities are different online and off, and pluralism that thrives in the real world can turn toxic in the digital world.
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Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath OhiSep 1, 2026
Embracing open social blogging in the Atmosphere (and less traditional social media)
Protecting my creative time and mental health
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sCROLL jAR
sCROLL jARAug 31, 2026
My toxic trait
When the going gets tough, I retreat online.
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