Category «Social Media»

The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied

Joan Westenberg: “For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—locked behind closed doors, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

How to spot AI slop on Pinterest and why it’s such a big problem

ZDNet: “For years, Pinterest has been dubbed the go-to social media site for inspirational mood boards, tracking lifestyle, fashion, and beauty trends, and finding niche and popular consumer-based products. Recently, however, the site has been plagued with an onslaught of AI slop, making it difficult for users to decipher what’s real, human-made content or fake. …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Search Engines, Social Media

List of job sites, organizations, informational resources for current, former federal employees

Via the Special Libraries Association General FedFam – FedFam is a member organization that supports federal workers. They have a free newsletter that provides news items and helpful links for this tumultuous time. They also have a Facebook group. Partnership for Public Service – Scroll down to “Federal employees, we are here for you.” Federal …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Social Media

Social Security News

Social Security News. A service of Hall & Rouse, P.C./© Charles T. Hall. Includes primary documents from DOGE and OPM, emails and chats from/to Social Security employees, author commentary, and articles from reliable media reporting on the fast moving actions to fire, using illegal terminations, as many staff and leadership as possible, around the country. …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Copyright, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, HIV/AIDS, Legal Research, Social Media

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

The New York Times – no paywall: “It was driven with a frenetic focus by Mr. Musk, who channeled his libertarian impulses and resentment of regulatory oversight of his vast business holdings into a singular position of influence. Without ceding control of his companies, the richest man in the world has embedded his engineers and …

Subjects: Courts, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media, Transportation

Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech

Joan Westenberg – Here’s What I’m Using [this is a long comprehensive read, and very useful especially for researchers, librarians, government, academics, journalists]: “…Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and other tech companies operating on American soil can talk a big game about their sovereignty, independence, and encryption. But talk may be all it is; there can …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

LinkedIn is a weird, workaholic wasteland and a total gold mine for Microsoft

Sherwood: “LinkedIn may not be the first platform you think of when you think about our modern obsession with social media. But the site’s strange mix of job postings, constant spam, professional advice you didn’t ask for, humble and not-so-humble bragging, as well as the occasional actually useful bit of professional connection or networking has …

Subjects: Legal Research, Microsoft, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 22, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 15, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 15, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy, Social Media