Patrick Boehler

https://www.pboehler.net

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2026-05-03 20:48:00 GMT

#tbd/con is a free virtual conference for people who have more questions than answers about AI. Sept 23-24, 2026.
5 circles: thought, information, security, practice, garage.
Attend, pitch, or review: www.gazzetta.xyz/tbd-con/

2025-11-15 16:32:23 GMT

Weird is beautiful
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2025-11-05 02:51:12 GMT

🎉🎉🎉

2025-10-06 20:26:13 GMT

What a bs Bari Weiss profile by the Journal https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-news-7e18f95e?st=ABPhpk&reflink=article_copyURL_share intellectual dishonesty shouldn’t be that easily camouflaged

2025-09-27 21:49:18 GMT

Original post: https://kolektiva.social/@Mungencakes/115277336650337955 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/79d52a24a8498e085d915b62461fea9487c386fec36085bccd688a8391d812d5.webp

2025-08-17 10:56:36 GMT

Social media's rage-bait engagement-based business model has been horrific for societies globally, but what if AI chatbots suck-up-bait is even worse?
It's less trackable, has a huge impact on how we see ourselves and the world, and on our ability to challenge our thinking.

2025-07-27 23:16:12 GMT

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Yes!

2025-07-19 12:04:52 GMT

This gathering on protocols for publishers (ATProto, MCP, …) in August might be of interest of New York-based media thinkers: https://pfp.unternet.co

2025-07-18 20:32:03 GMT

This gathering on protocols for publishers (ATProto, MCP, …) in August might be of interest of New York-based media thinkers: https://pfp.unternet.co

2025-06-22 16:28:15 GMT

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:53n54gjixfukqx56qyjnxmkn/post/3ls4wqhmxd22l https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/709be05a258d2759a0f21324a46fb9223f8a9c3852cd0a6cfbd74f1ba0c476a9.webp

2025-06-10 23:21:13 GMT

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbzidkams2y https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/9ab98672440b347ce6265fb8f489e8c3256cbe4ff1db4bd365f0780d34c43096.webp

2025-06-05 21:57:14 GMT

“Darum verabscheue ich das trübe Amalgam, das sich ‚Nationalsozialismus‘ nennt, dieses Falsifikat der Erneuerung, das, hirn- und ziellose Verwirrung in sich selber, nie etwas anderes als eben Verwirrung und Unglück wird stiften können, diese Elendsmischung aus vermufften Seelentümern und Massenklamauk.”
Thomas Mann, „Sieg deutscher Besonnenheit“, 1932

2025-05-12 00:51:48 GMT

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j53elsjlcag3iuran5ezcy32/post/3lowquqlups2b https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/7832536563a2f56ab8b46fb72287b1f98a18aac2ff6852545f3d1512fdc4d59a.webp

2025-05-08 18:03:52 GMT

Lighthearted pope humor of different flavors before the model training kicks in https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/96e8d2c864b61c9ae3edae37ec9ef4d4d70554fa10a945fb16eb43b98bb43036.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/04a94faef8701bb18af195450d564d8015ea2c1601d7211183c3180fbf17fede.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/cd1407b0dc3b779c9383396c54056ca2edf4920bd5c6f16960edb3be60b17245.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/6b2cbd7af999b032fbbd0e6cc55bd38bfc698225b1f2485c416e64327456e87b.webp

2025-05-06 21:43:46 GMT

Global Censorship Trends: Insights from Network Measurement, Circumvention, and Advocacy https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/global-censorship-trends-insights-network-measurement-circumvention-and-advocacy

2025-05-05 23:45:01 GMT

Joining the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore this Wednesday to share how AI transformed our audience research workflows. I'll showcase work with North Korean fishermen, Chinese migrants & Iranian youth - proving research repositories with confidence ratings help avoid false certainties. Last tickets: https://lu.ma/gxdhtufs?tk=FMBVM5

2025-05-03 18:06:26 GMT

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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqroftjlkjq74wa6x4bqw6gf/post/3lobwekgptc2e https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/0eb4225f28249d34b35a6116ea8b97f9758b2d4d6c23dde372d6e143df4a17d3.webp

2025-05-01 15:00:37 GMT

Data vs intuition in media is a false binary. Research improves odds but doesn't guarantee success, while emotional resonance remains undervalued. Understanding both might help us build media that actually connects with people. https://www.pboehler.net/16-needs-paradox/

2025-05-01 14:54:09 GMT

Why should every peso that a Mexican iPhone owner pays to a Mexican app creator make a round trip through California and come home 30 centavos lighter? Why accept that for every 1,000 rupees someone pays in-app to India’s Dainik Bhaskar newspaper, the paper only gets 700 rupees? https://on.ft.com/3GBYqT1

2025-04-16 12:52:02 GMT

Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who don’t have power https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/which-types-of-people-arent-big-fans-of-impartial-news-people-who-dont-have-power/
Worth noting that when journalists first championed impartiality, they too lacked power. It was both marketing and a shield allowing them to critique the powerful who owned or bankrolled their publications

2025-04-14 15:51:27 GMT

The irregular, winding streets of ancient Pompeii weren't primitive or unplanned—they were sophisticated designs that integrated the city better than rigid grid layouts. Modern urban planners could learn something https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/136268286/Publisher_version.pdf

2025-04-05 20:59:34 GMT

Testing crossposting through @openvibe.social
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3bynly7ikhpx43zkf5h2iue/post/3lllx54k3622g https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/4567fe70e8273c7d0f760eb3da49a0881148f22b80b441df27d3cbc11e7b0bfd.webp

2025-03-31 17:47:27 GMT

True editorial independence isn't the freedom to publish whatever we deem important—it's the unburdened expression of new information that improves someone's ability to navigate their life better. https://www.pboehler.net/15-independence/

2025-03-29 13:45:54 GMT

Sadly, the best way of getting funding in media research is telling people what they want to hear and make them feel good about it too https://on.ft.com/3YbtDSP

2025-02-23 12:17:43 GMT

This month's newsletter is out a bit early (amid a busy week in Taiwan) and it's a longer one: a conversation with Candice Fortman that gets into the heart of journalism. It's on idealism, the business side of things, and real-world utility. https://www.pboehler.net/candice-fortman-journalism/

2025-02-19 05:13:08 GMT

“In Munich, the Czechoslovak delegation were kept in an adjoining room to await details of when and how they would surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler. On Tuesday, the Ukrainians were not even in the same country.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/ukraine-and-europe-made-to-sit-outside-as-us-and-russia-sharpen-their-carving-knives

2025-02-13 22:48:53 GMT

In Taipei until the end of the month for RightsCon, and separate workshops and discussions on media strategy, research, and funding. I'll be sharing some takeaways and resources in my early March newsletter. If you're in Taipei and these topics are of interest, I'd be happy to connect.

2025-02-08 18:03:31 GMT

Important reminder: Voters rejected the status quo -- they didn’t embrace fascism. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o1gSdFWIUpw41O5zbaxedVsr6Xik5XpPd9FwqvXYu40/edit

2025-02-08 14:30:09 GMT

I know many in this space are hopeful about what’s happening but let me tell you as someone who has seen and rallied against the rot, you are just getting new rot and so many people will suffer more and longer because of this spineless, entitled, deeply pathological behavior.

2025-01-29 03:26:26 GMT

Few things are more dystopian than the dancing robots at China‘s national Spring Festival Year gala https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFX7XVbSSHy/?igsh=b2syeWk4MTNhaDJo directed by Zhang Yimou, of course.

2025-01-28 17:25:27 GMT

The US media dev funding freeze is hitting newsrooms globally directly or indirectly; thousands of journalists won't be able to do their jobs. Check-in slots for affected colleagues in my newsletter: https://www.pboehler.net/13-sharing-motivations/ Remember that you're more than your job.

2025-01-19 20:58:21 GMT

Your 'creator economy' runs on oligarch whims. They harvest your data and let algorithms dictate your reach - amplified or buried at their profit-driven whim. The fediverse isn't just an alternative, it's escape from digital feudalism. No billionaires parsing your data or controlling your reach.

2025-01-19 20:00:56 GMT

I’m not mourning TikTok. The creator economy needs sustainable foundations, not walled gardens. We should be exploring decentralized alternatives that put creator autonomy, community ownership first. Sustainability means building systems that can't be bought, banned, or controlled. 🌱

2025-01-17 19:24:16 GMT

In writing my next newsletter came across this compelling definition of "news value" as a compound of social significance & audience relevance = “related to meaningful events that can prompt communication among users.” https://informationr.net/ir/25-4/paper882.html

2025-01-15 17:32:19 GMT

Watch Duty is often called an "app" not "journalism," yet they exemplify journalism's best: identifying vital need (real-time wildfire info) & serving it through verification, clear writing & context.

2025-01-06 16:21:59 GMT

The media execs we need: Equal parts digital strategist & institutional leader. Too rare? Yes. Impossible? No. Some thoughts on overcoming that dichotomy and survey results among peers: https://www.pboehler.net/12-kafka-newsroom-2/

2024-12-18 00:56:27 GMT

The App Freedom Index is a much-needed initiative aimed at promoting transparency within the global app ecosystem.
Virtual launch, Dec. 19: https://applecensorship.com/news/join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-app-freedom-index-afi-advancing-transparency-in-the-app-ecosystem

2024-12-06 17:56:16 GMT

1-question survey on leadership if you work/worked in media (totally anonymous unless you want to me quoted in the newsletter)
Describe your ideal media leader - what qualities and vision would inspire you to do your best work?
- https://wib3nexo1ke.typeform.com/to/vuPiD7Kn

2024-12-06 12:42:44 GMT

If you want to connect, don't have a human assistant coordinate. It's almost 2025 - abusing someone’s time for your scheduling either shows you're digitally out of touch or think you're above managing your calendar. It’s not that hard and will increase the likelihood you get a meeting.

2024-11-29 21:07:30 GMT

Exile media donors: stop looking at social following, engagement, page views when assessing newsrooms you fund. There is so much fraud I don't know where to begin, making such ecosystem analysis and impact reports meaningless; eg: I just bought 13k real pv in a really closed region for 37 USD.

2024-11-29 21:04:19 GMT

Check out the Nostr tracking token remover bot: https://github.com/f321x/nostr-tracking-token-remover
It automatically replies to your posts with tracking-free versions, stripping out tracking from the url. Great idea.

2024-11-29 12:32:03 GMT

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I love this! Thank you

2024-11-29 01:43:51 GMT

两年后，我们如何看待白纸运动 https://www.youtube.com/live/vBfXFARTbmM?si=7gXZ9tgpI-ExotXS

2024-11-28 23:34:37 GMT

Read this https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/

2024-11-25 09:09:29 GMT

Exiled media: Using/managing mirror services to distribute blocked sites? Kaleidoscope is researching creation, monitoring & usage pain points. Leave email in survey for results. Anonymous participation. Not using mirrors but interested? Let me know.
- English: https://forms.gle/12qTtqB3kBLtGNf68
- Russian: https://forms.gle/6c3kg1541YvPs2Cz5

2024-11-23 16:29:31 GMT

Journalism awards should go to journalists who actually excelled in revealing information that was of service to real people. If awards keep going to people who have perfected the performative donor narratives and not actually been of service, not only the award committees get discredited but the entire profession. There is a long term cost to hypocrisy.

2024-11-20 02:29:29 GMT

Interesting solution to deal with link rot perma.cc could be interesting also for newsrooms linking to harmful content/platforms like X if the snapshot mirroring removes the traffic from the source

2024-11-15 20:22:21 GMT

Journalists: Hush Line is a refreshingly straightforward and simple setup for anonymous tips and messages, and it runs on @torproject.
If you want to give it a try, message me here: https://tips.hushline.app/to/gazzetta

2024-11-14 23:04:27 GMT

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2024-11-05 21:14:51 GMT

感謝《 #田間》電子報編輯簡恒宇的訪問。我們上週在台北談到新聞界可以如何重新思考業界獎項： https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/p/20241105
新聞獎制度尤其是評判標準和評選過程上需要改革，以確保它們對新聞業和社會所提供的價值。
《田間》為理解全球華文媒體產業變遷與挑戰的重要資源，若您對這個議題有興趣的話請訂閲。

2024-10-26 12:35:25 GMT

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2024-10-22 20:35:39 GMT

Heading to Taipei and Chiang Mai soon, interested in meeting folks working on internet freedom and media research/strategy. We are working on a few projects that may be of interest. Grateful for introductions and happy to just reconnect over coffee .

2024-10-21 19:59:28 GMT

The Tor project has a new job opening for a User Support Specialist in Farsi
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/user-support-farsi-specialist/

2024-10-17 12:50:04 GMT

New York friends: the very talented Yusuf Omar will be in town in a few weeks for a screening of Ahmad Alive, a first-person documentary of a young Palestinian in Gaza, Regal Battery Park, Nov. 4.
Trailer and tickets:
https://www.seen.tv/events

2024-10-12 23:03:56 GMT

Becky Pallack and I shared some inspiration on lean audience research yesterday at the #NPASummit in a session called "empathy without exhaustion."
Becky had some fantastic insights on how to get a newsroom excited about research. We settled on the credo: research can only be lean if it is intentional.
Slides: http://bit.ly/not-exhausting-slides

2024-09-20 01:14:49 GMT

Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/translation-chinese-universities-install-software-to-identify-and-punish-students-who-circumvent-the-great-firewall/

2024-09-19 19:40:11 GMT

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This is super interesting! How does it work, select sources?

2024-09-18 18:13:06 GMT

I'll be facilitating a conversation "circle" at the Global Gathering in Estoril, Portugal next Friday, Sep 27. This three-day event is all about collaboration building and knowledge sharing among digital rights activists.
The conversation theme is "supporting disrupted media" and brings together journalists, technologists, and digital rights activists to brainstorm how to keep independent media relevant and resilient.
From the gradual fragmentation of the internet to shutdowns to donor fatigue, the current challenges require massive rethinking in how journalism is practiced. I'll share some ideas, and I'm really curious to learn about others.
If you're attending, I'd love to see you there. If you're hosting a related conversation there, count me in.

2024-09-17 23:03:48 GMT

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Totally agree. It’s never perfect, can just push for greater systems transparency

2024-09-17 23:02:42 GMT

“But we argue that it's time to stop conflating the flailing response of news and information providers to those fundamental market shifts with a loss of faith in the key role of independent journalism to functioning democracy. Indeed, we should stop scolding audiences as uninterested in democracy just because they may no longer choose to pay for news products that they don’t find relevant to their lives or easy to access.
Those market shifts, along with powerful technology, have provided people more power to choose what information they get and how they get it. The choices remain overwhelming, and the news industry’s struggle to invest in user experience and monetize its content has diminished its standing. But that didn’t alter this essential truth: High quality journalism that informs and helps people make choices for better lives is as crucially important today as ever — and is finding business success. So, that side of the story deserves a greater share of the airtime.”
https://www.poynter.org/onpoynt-report/

2024-09-17 11:04:25 GMT

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That’s exactly the point. There are tons of free VPNs that operate freely in China but just do data harvesting, the ones supported by this program have no logs policies and are externally audited.

2024-09-14 00:32:08 GMT

How it started / how it’s going
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/d45dbf34d5997556f86aea5e059bef4f2989c6fe82b0b3f0216764795228263f.webp
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2024-09-14 00:31:09 GMT

Any recommendations on good write ups of the #FediForum? Sad to have missed it. Thank you

2024-09-13 12:33:58 GMT

For less than a dollar a year, we can provide free and secure internet access via VPN to someone living under digital oppression.
Last week, the U.S. National Security Council and the State Department convened a meeting with civil society and representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft to build momentum for greater coordination and investment in countering internet censorship and fragmentation globally.
Laura Cunningham, President of the Open Technology Fund, shared the cost estimate at the gathering. It's approx. 7 cents per user per month. Through OTF, the U.S. currently supports more than 45 million monthly users in Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar and elsewhere, enabling their access to the open internet.
VPNs allow people to communicate securely, inform and express themselves freely, and contribute to global progress.
At the meeting, I shared how VPNs are an essential tool for journalists, both for reporting and for distribution and my worries about about a possible full blocking of YouTube in Russia: https://www.pboehler.net/vpn-russia-white-house/
Funding is just the beginning. There needs to be training people to use VPNs effectively, helping them identify trustworthy services, and building momentum to share and distribute access.
A Reuters report on the initiative and the surge in usage of publicly-funded VPNs: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/

2024-09-11 02:31:24 GMT

Pakistan is building a China-style firewall. Internet speeds have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, according to service providers
https://restofworld.org/2024/pakistan-internet-firewall/

2024-09-11 02:07:53 GMT

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Pugs are the best

2024-09-06 01:54:57 GMT

How China’s Internet Police Went from Targeting Bloggers to their Followers
In recent months, followers of influential bloggers have been
interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/02/how-chinas-internet-police-went-from-targeting-bloggers-to-their-followers

2024-09-06 01:43:06 GMT

The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. It adapts Marx’s 1880 Workers’ Inquiry to the phenomenon of data workers who are essential for contemporary AI applications yet precariously employed—if at all—and politically dispersed.
https://data-workers.org/

2024-09-04 22:44:02 GMT

re:filtered is my monthly newsletter, this month with some new audience research learnings, hacking news, and upcoming conferences: https://www.pboehler.net/8-information-myths/

2024-09-04 21:55:34 GMT

September 24 - Books Unbanned: Ensuring Access to Books for Everyone, Everywhere
featuring Cory Doctorow, Leah Johnson, and Kelly Brotzman (Boston, MA and on Zoom)
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50

2024-09-04 21:54:18 GMT

Heading to DC for a day, beautiful train journey
https://m.primal.net/KeYd.jpg

2024-09-04 21:53:19 GMT

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Totally agree on current state, would love to see logic of Tor relays and bridges to be explored to circumvent censorship

2024-09-03 19:23:27 GMT

New project launch: http://GoogleCensorship.org
This platform by GreatFire will monitor censorship practices in Google Play Stores worldwide

2024-09-03 10:09:41 GMT

💡
#note1ke7…q963

2024-09-03 10:07:36 GMT

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This! Has anyone tried since?

2024-09-01 12:46:14 GMT

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https://matrix.org is great

2024-09-01 12:33:21 GMT

Agreeing here: “Durov and Telegram might yet be exonerated from the charges they face—and we should indeed reserve judgment as the case unfolds. But nothing about his arrest to date suggests that it has anything to do with ‘free speech.’ The narrative that global authoritarian censors are persecuting a free speech hero is pure myth-making in this case.”
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/platforms-like-telegram-accused-of

2024-08-31 18:13:19 GMT

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Interesting. Seeing one relay here for Beijing but assuming any relays would be better off run from overseas https://nostr.watch/relays/find

2024-08-30 01:37:50 GMT

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Beautiful

2024-08-30 01:37:21 GMT

Any follow recommendations on internet freedom?

2024-08-28 01:14:35 GMT

My favorite #Riga scene: this Putin portrait is the view the Russian ambassador wakes up to. Latvian know right from wrong.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/87a966f4ba950bd4606af8adedb6c1c7502668b4154736a2d50a32e970f30659.webp

2024-08-26 20:50:23 GMT

On 29 August, Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) hosts a webinar on the pressing issue of harassment and violence targeting women journalists, particularly in high-risk and politically sensitive environments: https://www.mfrr.eu/protecting-women-journalists/

2024-08-26 17:51:51 GMT

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thank you so much!

2024-08-24 01:07:45 GMT

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Hope all went well. Let’s catch up soon in NY!

2024-08-22 12:11:31 GMT

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That would be amazing

2024-08-22 12:11:15 GMT

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Thank you 🙏

2024-08-22 11:45:24 GMT

Is there a go to place for all #nostriga slide decks?

2024-08-18 07:51:48 GMT

Delon est un homme devenu acteur par accident, qui a appris film par film, en avançant. Lui dira qu’il n’interprète pas mais « vit » ses rôles. https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/08/18/alain-delon-mort-d-un-acteur-de-legende-ses-films-cultes-en-six-episodes_6285260_3246.html

2024-08-15 08:36:56 GMT

Forwarding: Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

2024-08-13 09:08:47 GMT

Funny to see Sweden described as tiny https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/business/sweden-economy-europe-competitiveness.html only in America…

2024-08-09 22:21:46 GMT

Russia / Venezuela:
Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if a connection is affected:
Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

2024-08-09 02:44:41 GMT

Mass outages of YouTube in Russia today, this affects how millions of people get information https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/youtube-slowdown-in-russia-darkens-freedom-of-speech-outlook/article_eadc3592-dae0-5fba-a3fb-141c7c95c301.html everyone has been expecting this to happen sooner or later, but the assumption was it won’t for as long as pro Putin propaganda dominated on YouTube which is probably still the case.
Curious if that changed or if the regime now just feels sufficiently confident in VK as a satisfactory substitute.

2024-08-08 15:43:37 GMT

“The harms of surveillance aren't merely spiritual and psychological – they're material and immediate. The commercial surveillance industry provides the raw feedstock for a parade of horribles, from stalkers and bounty hunters turning up on their targets' front doors to cops rounding up demonstrators with location data from their phones to identity thieves tricking their marks by using leaked or purchased private information as convincers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
The problem with Google's monopolization of the surveillance business model is that they're spying on us. But for a certain kind of competition wonk, the problem is that Google is monopolizing the violation of our human rights, and we need to use competition law to "democratize" commercial surveillance.”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/

2024-08-08 15:39:03 GMT

5G vulnerability allows for tricking phones with vulnerable basebands into connecting to a fake base station https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/07/hackers-could-spy-on-cellphone-users-by-abusing-5g-baseband-flaws-researchers-say/

2024-08-08 15:35:42 GMT

Ted Cruz vs internet access https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/08/ted-cruz-proudly-pledges-to-kill-last-ditch-funding-effort-for-popular-low-income-broadband-program/

2024-08-06 13:19:24 GMT

The Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell is running a survey for a project to study the privacy expectations and content moderation experiences of people who use encrypted messaging apps. https://surveys.citizensandtech.org/216171?lang=en

2024-08-03 15:08:46 GMT

Every month, I set aside one afternoon to write and reflect about my work and the media space more broadly in a newsletter. It's very helpful as an exercise to pause and reflect. I strongly recommend it.
This month, I wrote about some similarities between audience research and investigative reporting in their purest forms. Some wishful thinking around platform and vendor data certainty, in research along with performative aspects of both fields, has made the two drift apart. In reality, they're actually quite similar.
Journalism is much simpler than we make it out to be. It only gets complicated when we seek to perpetuate systems that aren't of service. This is the real opportunity right now: to disentangle and rebuild.
https://www.pboehler.net/7-research-reporting/

2024-08-03 15:08:27 GMT

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Another reason is bad short term metrics thinking, CTR tend to be lower on illustrations.
This is great: Using Illustration To Help Investigations Stay Grounded and Approachable https://themarkup.org/premium-penalty/2024/08/03/using-illustration-to-help-investigations-stay-grounded-and-approachable

2024-08-02 21:53:01 GMT

Venezuela: VEsinFiltro documented 12 new cases of blocking against media outlets, human rights organizations and a VPN https://vesinfiltro.org/noticias/2024-08-01-venezuela_elections_censorship/ also Wikipedia and WSJ

2024-08-02 21:46:54 GMT

Turkey blocks Instagram https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=TR&since=2024-07-30&until=2024-08-03&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.instagram.com