See this comment here, or this direct link to the repo: last updated 6–7 moths ago

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I meant their special viewpoints by it. Their ownership structure is a co-op (Genossenschaft), so absolutely decent by all I can tell.

Good question, I’ve heard of but never looked into them. ProPublica seem to get most of their money from a charity created by billionaires, so their funding might come with some significant strings attached, but they do some pretty good journalism, it seems.

What news organization today isn’t owned by some international goliath?

Excellent question. Here are the ones I could think of; let’s collect links! (Of course, they all have their flaws.)

World at large:

• <please help me out, folks>

US-focussed:

• jacobin.com
• 404media.co
• democracynow.org
• NPR, PBS

Europe in general:

• Most public broadcasting stations (BBC and the likes of it)

Germany:

• nd-aktuell.de
• jacobin.de
• kontextwochenzeitung.de (Baden-Württemberg)
• taz.de
• jungewelt.de (with a grain of salt)
• netzpolitik.org (digital/privacy/civil rights politics)

Philippines:

• rappler.com (led by Maria Ressa, do watch this speech of hers)

Reminiscent of dumping on the Washington Post because Bezos.

Things did turn out quite badly.

The reason that quality independent journalism is so hard to find is that nobody much is paying for it. Including you, probably.

There are several interrelated reasons: Lack of funding (in part due to a lack of an advertising subsidy, which is a good thing), lack of prominence, lack of readers recognizing the value of independent journalism.

The crucial thing is that with everyone who does recognize its value—and the harm that is caused by a corporate-dominated media landscape—and who therefor starts to make a conscious effort to read independent sources more often, to point others to them, and to support them financially (which I do, for the record), those issues improve in tandem.

Fuck every Axel Springer Publication, which includes Politico

The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that “We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon”.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116041405748460511

Zulip is probably more focused toward work than TTRPGs, but it can’t hurt to try it. (I haven’t tried it personally, yet.) It is self-hostable.

https://zulip.com/

Ah true, I misread

The issue with milk, according to the ophtalmologist’s video, is that when you got pepper sprayed there’s a chance your cornea has been damaged, so that milk can give you an infection.

Thanks for the link

Source please

Love it. I will from now on imagine every song bird as singing in an Australian accent.

This is so fascinating that the factory lector was/is a thing

The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers’ culture. (El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader – paywall)

This article has some marvellous historical photos, really worth a look:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/factory-lectors-1910/

Thanks for investigating this!

Hm, interesting. The website at least doesn’t look to me like it’s Canadian:

• All prices on main page listed in USD https://namecrane.com/
• “Technical support… Closed Sundays & US Holidays” https://namecrane.com/contact-us
• No .ca domain (e.g. namecrane.ca or cranemail.ca)

Of course it could still be, and email privacy is of course endangered by many other things. However, if someone does go through the hassle of shifting everything to a different email account, I would say best make sure to get a good distance from the US right off the bat.

Yeah I’m not sure about that so I deleted the comment. But just try it out: install it and see what it shows you, and then work from that.

They’re still an American company. Better than Google, for sure, but the CLOUD Act means that when the US demands all your email, it will get it – even if the servers are located in Europe.

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Gut health is important and well worth talking about. Note, though, that the serotonin and dopamine produced there will never cross the blood–brain barrier, so the effects that the gut has on mental health (which are very real) come about differently.