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’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
’s decision to show where accounts are based is positive step in transparency, which has let troll and spam accounts proliferate since ’s purchase. And yet scale of deception suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the , Musk may have revealed platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/
https://archive.ph/erSsG

The Framework Saga – When the laptop you love, backs the wrong crowd

Framework built its reputation on openness and repairability, but when “open” starts to include the far-right, things get messy. Their sponsorship of DHH’s Omarchy project raises uncomfortable questions about where ideals end and ideology begins. It’s a reminder t

https://schulz.dk/2025/11/06/the-framework-saga-when-the-laptop-you-love-backs-the-wrong-crowd/

Why far-right techno-billionaires are obsessed with LORD OF THE RINGS... And why they're all wrong!
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Por qué los tecnomillonarios de extrema derecha están obsesionados con EL SEÑOR DE LOS ANILLOS... ¡Y por qué están mal!

https://youtu.be/1hiKvi6BDcw?si=UkLN7PEJghjqoAXh

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.

The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades.

The Berlin-based researchers found that as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 1990s to topics such as integration and migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate.

The overarching result had crucial implications for democracy, said Teresa Völker, a political sociologist at Berlin Social Science Center and co-author of the study. “Political communication by …

Someone just shared an interesting Bluesky post. It's a quoted post about the importance of Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, suggesting that people donate.

https://bsky.app/profile/urocklive1.bsky.social/post/3m2xldynllc2d

In less than 24 hours, the post had been shared more than a thousand times. Do we really want to keep our own bubble in the ? I know about the bridge, but that's not enough.

Yes, also has several problems. But the numbers don't lie; Bluesky is doing a better job of providing an alternative to the dangerous far-right tool still used by millions: .

Are there people here who acknowledge that? I'd like to hear your perspective on how your network reacts when you talk about it here.

P. S. I cannot forget to mention the weak positioning of the @wikimediafoundation in terms of its social media …

Siding into fascism - The “international rules-based order"

"A US professor who studies fascism says Australia’s history of the White Australia policy, Indigenous displacement and treatment of asylum seekers makes it vulnerable to fascism."

“Fascism begins with immigrants and national minorities, and it moves quickly to political opponents.”

"All the remaining democratic countries are going to face surging anti-democratic, ultranationalist movements...We shouldn’t be surprised if, very soon, there are no more democracies, or very few."

"Undoing fascism is very, very hard."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/usa-american-fascism-expert-warning-australia-you-guys-are-probably-next

Johann Chapoutot: Fascisme, nazisme et régimes autoritaires en Europe (Paperback, PUF)

Un ouvrage général, mais malgré tout pointu, sur les notions de #fascisme, #nazisme et de #RégimesAutoritaires. L'auteur parvient à couvrir, en un peu moins de 300 pages, et à l'aide d'une abondante bibliographie, les traits qui définissent ces #idéologies du début du 20è siècle. Tout comme l'a fait Philippe Burrin, dans le livre précédemment lu, il met le doigt sur ce qui distingue l' #autoritarisme du #totalitarisme, le fascisme d'autres formes d' #ExtrêmeDroite.

Cette lecture permet aussi de montrer que notre époque, même si elle présente des similarités avec cette période, s'en différencie aussi énormément. Le monde n'est plus du tout celui du tournant entre le 19e et le 20e siècle. Comme on dit, l'histoire ne repasse jamais deux fois les plats, mais elle hoquette. La détérioration de nos démocraties post-Seconde Guerre Mondiale n'a rien à voir avec les balbutiements des démocraties d'il y a …

For all our sakes, Starmer must stop fighting the far right with words and start fighting it with all the might of the state: prosecute its leaders (all of them have committed one fraud or another), ban them from public funds, punish their funders and confiscate their wealth, close their media. If he doesn't it now as PM, he will regret it later in exile.

Re new 'plans':

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/23/keir-starmer-to-launch-progressive-fightback-against-decline-and-division-fuelled-by-far-right