BREAKING: Brazil at serious risk of becoming utopia after Twitter ban, says think-tank. Click here.

BREAKING: Embattled Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko – who previously attended meetings under NDA with Facebook – says Facebook's Threads is "part of the fediverse"

BREAKING: Elixir has been used for Discord, Pleroma, and Pinterest; could it be used for good instead? Click here for our analysis.

TECHNOLOGY: Many Minecraft players, who already put up with arcane commands with inconsistent help and nonexistent manpages, say they're intimidated by terminal emulators.

BREAKING: New Apple Silicon to finally optimise Macs for the herculean task of opening a Misskey tab

BREAKING: Mastodon – Our advice? Mastodon't.

BREAKING: Online safety experts recommend discussing illegal activity you're involved in as much and as often and as openly as possible

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BREAKING: Mastodon is the Misskey-like Honk alternative taking the internet by storm, and which communicates over the Pleroma network. Click here for more.

BREAKING: With real-terms wages at a new low, children in poverty, rampant homelessness, record profits, and corruption at every level in politics, we have to ask an important question – has "pronoun culture" gone too far?

BREAKING: Cloudflare's "Wildebeest" fediverse software – already controversial for promoting centralisation and surveillance – is now under scrutiny after it emerges that supposedly private "direct messages" are published in the public timeline.
https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest/issues/303

BREAKING: Instance blåhaj social agrees to federate with catgirl network after exchange of 1 cuddle and 3 headpats

BREAKING: e-mail, the ActivityPub-like messaging solution, has taken the world by storm, many people online now have email addresses.

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OPINION: The number of children identifying as police officers is an epidemic, something must be done, no-one is "assigned cop at birth" — Susan Rowling-Smith

BREAKING: Amazon refuses to let press into new "state of the art" robotic warehouse, or show any photographs of its interior. An Amazon spokesman told us "You'll just have to trust us, the robots are real".

BREAKING: Austria becomes the latest country in Europe to require that programmers wear witch hats and robes, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs announced this measure earlier this evening, they say that the emergency legislation will take effect in a few days time.

BREAKING: British Museum proposes "virtual return" of priceless historical artifacts plundered from across the world, in which the artifacts would remain in the possession of the British Museum, but would be made available in the form of NFTs, in virtual reality, and "potentially also in Fortnite"

BREAKING: Leather collars are a hot new fashion trend, but what should you be looking for? Our fashion reporter applies her years of experience to the latest models. Click here for the story.

BREAKING: Today is international ☭ U+262D HAMMER AND SICKLE ☭ day, be sure to show your appreciation for local workers and/or peasants.