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Their special viewpoints are what I meant. 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.

Thanks!

Integrated trackball? Name please!

Fuck every Axel Springer Publication, which includes Politico

What’s much easier than dual boot on the same hard drive, see if you can install a second hard drive (not too expensive if you buy used), so that Windows can have its own little quarantine cell.

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/

Then I especially recommend Linux Mint LMDE edition. It’s built on Debian, which is known for its stability, instead of on the flashier Debian-derived Ubuntu.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Can we stop needlessly sharing Elmo’s deranged utterances? The topic of social media policy (much as anything else) is too important than to concern ourselves with his weird tweets.

Relevant 39c3 talk (but dealing with civilian sattelites): Don’t look up

For Germans (and anyone who cares about German politics), suffice it to know that Politico is Springer-Presse.

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.