Ignoring how stupid this whole concept is, why is the payout based on news articles in the first place. Why would someone bet $900,000 again in the future if it’s possible for someone to force a bet in their favor through threats.

It’s like betting on whether Schrodinger’s cat is alive or dead, but you can’t open the box and the payout is based on what different journalists say about it.

“The attempt by these gamblers to pressure me to change my reporting so that they would win their bet did not and will not succeed,” Fabian said. “But I do worry that other journalists may not be as ethical if they are promised some of the winnings.”

He said that journalists are in a unique position to “exploit their knowledge for insider trading on the platform.”

That might be a good way to go about it, and it’s easier to moderate too

A few universities have “confessions” pages on facebook/reddit. I think a key requirement for your platform would be to set up some ground rules and have manual approval for each post.

Even then, you might start to see soapboxing and hate mongering in the longer posts that moderators don’t have the capacity to deal with.

The other solution would be to keep the person anonymous to readers, but not anonymous to the moderators, to prevent one person or entity from sending in a bunch of harmful posts. However, that comes with its own problems like data leaks harming legitimate users

Slowly unsubscribe from things that aren’t worth your time, and remove apps and shortcuts to disrupt your unconscious muscle memory.

You can also fill that time with other things, it doesn’t necessarily have to be other social media :)

Definitely do not pay for a bloatware remove tool… That sounds like paid malware.

Also be careful with any advertisement that says it will remove bloatware. It’s likely also malware

There are some popular open source / source available scripts that are more reliable. Someone else mentioned one in this thread

Fingerprint readers and touchscreens can be hit or miss for Linux support.

I think this is a list of supported readers. When you get a shortlist of devices you want to purchase, compare its fingerprint reader with this list: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

Isn’t upscrolled similar to TikTok? If so, there is already a fediverse platform like it, made by the Pixelfed developer

https://loops.video/

Is this what you had in mind?

I didn’t know there was an RSS community for Bellingcat

Sure, but I don’t think we can produce enough from our current greenhouses. Definitely not enough to also sustain all the meat/dairy people consume. Also not all crops grow nicely in greenhouses

There wouldn’t be much to lead soon after that, once all the crops die off

Thanks!

Some extra info:

Summary

• The Rainbow, Jordan and Frisby valleys in British Columbia’s rare inland temperate rainforest are home to endangered species and ancient trees.
• Two logging companies hold licences to log in the old-growth valleys, while the government agency BC Timber Sales has operating areas there.
• A 2019 proposal to permanently protect 10,500 hectares in the three valleys as a provincial park has gained renewed interest as Revelstoke city council announced in February that it supports increased conservation of the critically endangered inland temperate rainforest.

This website/source is questionable. I looked at the science section, and it feels like grocery store checkout aisle tabloid content.

There are probably better sources about this story

I love the new branches :)

I think people are more likely to join platforms like this if they have lost trust in the other platforms, which also makes them more distrustful and cautious in otherwise normal interactions

We could all have more patience with one another 😄

I did want to read some comments discussing the contents of the article. I’ll pop back later I guess

That’s an excerpt from the piece, from one author section, not OP. While it is possible that the author used AI for their section, it’s also a common style for this kind of publication (which is why LLMs often emulate it).

I agree that the original author should know better

They usually do decent reporting, and they’ve been around for a few decades now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus

Its one of the few smaller independent Canadian outlets that I follow the RSS feed for. So many other “Canadian” sounding outlets are actually owned by large american conglomerates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia_Network

Supposedly Amnezia is an anti censorship tool, however Facebook has a terrible track record with recommending VPNs. The previous one turned out to be spyware

Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company that was purchased by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms), who changed the company’s name to Facebook Israel.[1] The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.

Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founded Onavo in 2010. In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo’s analytics platform to monitor competitors. This influenced Facebook to make various business decisions, including its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.

Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook was forced to pull Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple’s policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnezia_VPN

Thanks for sharing! I cross posted it to !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz