Online hatred spiked after the Bondi massacre: Meta knows why
The royal commission will turn its attention to the role media has played in the rise of antisemitism, including an explosion of hate on social media. ⌘ Read more
UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
Article URL: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-set-announce-social-media-34119132
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527766
Points: 9
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
Hello World! testing an offline-first PWA Yarn.social / Twtxt client :)
Young teens risk mental health harm after one year of social media use
A study that tracked teenagers for a decade found a decline in their wellbeing from time online – but it also provides a critical window for intervention. ⌘ Read more
Young teens risk mental health harm after one year of social media use
A study that tracked teenagers for a decade found a decline in their wellbeing from time online – but it also provides a critical window for intervention. ⌘ Read more
Britain Is Weighing a Social Media Ban for Children. How Did It Get Here?
Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more
Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more
Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
Six months in, many teens are already back on platforms they were supposed to be blocked from. The ban’s benefits may fall to the next generation. ⌘ Read more
‘Busting out the dance moves’: Katter the life of the party in Melbourne
The member for Kennedy in Queensland was spotted in Melbourne – and dancing on social media – and naturally, we were curious. ⌘ Read more
Was Australia’s teen social media ban effective?
It’s been six months since Australia’s teen social media ban came into effect, but is it working? ⌘ Read more
Polymarket and Kalshi Say Influencer Partners Can’t Deny Election Results, Actually
Social media posts questioning the integrity of LA’s mayoral election were labeled “paid partnerships.” Then Kalshi and Polymarket told creators to delete them. ⌘ Read more
Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026
Article URL: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441519
Points: 9
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Exclusive: Aussie teens react to new social media ban
Australia’s landmark social media ban for under-16s came into effect this morning, but young Aussies say it’s already failing. ⌘ Read more
No Babies? Blame Capitalism
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/birth-rates-capitalism-socialism-germany
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429940
Points: 5
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
They are looting your life savings
Article URL: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116705256401454865
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429343
Points: 6
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
eSafety commissioner admits hesitancy about social media ban
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has admitted she was “not really keen” on the government’s under-16s social media ban. ⌘ Read more
ANU’s $100 million drama: Effect on staff revealed in fiery Senate hearing
There were nine reported incidents at the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences during the Renew ANU rollout. ⌘ Read more
Fear and Social Pressure Are ‘Overarming’ the U.S.
Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-us
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052
Points: 4
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power. ⌘ Read more
Push to include AI chatbots in Australia’s under-16 social media ban
Cyber experts concerned about unregulated AI chatbots linked to a series of mass tragedies in the US are pushing for them to be included in Australia’s under-16 social media ban. ⌘ Read more
Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more
Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more
Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more
Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted. ⌘ Read more
Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats
I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure. ⌘ Read more
Partiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its Platform
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app. ⌘ Read more
Senator accused of trying to turn moment into social media post
Labor Minister Tim Ayres has accused Independent Senator David Pocock of trying to turn a moment in a Senate estimates hearing into a social media post. ⌘ Read more
Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-social-media-ban-16-bfaa7b01163b61b5d53c4ecfa870d133
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353497
Points: 13
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
India is now Australia’s No.1 source of migrants. It’s a profound shift, and a positive one
As immigration is blamed by some for everything from fraying social cohesion to housing shortages, it’s instructive to see how migrants are pulling their weight in modern Australia. ⌘ Read more
Ebola and hantavirus see record-breaking spread of conspiracy theories
Conspiracies concerning the recent outbreaks have been spreading like wildfire due to a combination of AI and social media. Before the pandemic, consp… ⌘ Read more
Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298837
Points: 17
# Comments: 10 ⌘ Read more
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true. ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online. ⌘ Read more
‘STAGED’: Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The word “staged” exploded on social media following the attack, as both right and left-wing influencers and anonymous accounts spread unfounded conspiracy theories. ⌘ Read more
Kacey Musgraves films ‘crazy’ UFOs over Arkansas and Tennessee
The American singer-songwriter had a close encounter with something in the sky recently while flying to Nashville. Writing on social media about her e… ⌘ Read more
via @ranoya@ranoya
via @ranoya@ranoya
‘Aliens are real but I haven’t seen them’, Obama says, then backtracks
Former US President Obama recently made a comment about aliens that whipped social media users into a frenzy. Speaking recently on a podcast with host… ⌘ Read more
As @pluralistic@pluralistic wrote: “AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
Rare ‘snownado’ snow devil captured on camera in Colorado
Footage of the unusual phenomenon was recently uploaded onto social media by local resident Mandy Campbell. Colorado residents were left reeling last … ⌘ Read more
Baixamos uns dados do GeoSampa e experimentamos um pouco com #OSMnx e #GeoPandas + #Folium
Trying an experiment. Created a Github repo for mu over at https://github.com/prologic/mu as a social experiment to see if we can maintain a tailored Github docs-only repo of a project, see if it gets any interest 🤔
If you search for #py5 on the #InternetArchive you might find it mentioned in the #Processing Community Catalog 2021 commemorating 20 years of the Processing community projects and their developments!
https://archive.org/details/processing-community-catalog-2021/page/n401/mode/2up?q=py5
(There is a page by @hx2A@hx2A and another one by me!)
“Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education” by @danmcquillan@danmcquillan
https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html
(via @catarinac@catarinac)
Ok mais logo faço aqui um fio com os pormenores, mas pra já deixem-me mostrar-vos o setup que desde há muito quis ter para escrever no computador, inspiradíssimo no OmmWriter, usando só ferramentas livres.
O editor é o FocusWriter, a banda sonora é do @mads100tist@mads100tist e os sons do teclado vêm de uma biblioteca caseira que alinhei, usando samples do snd.dev
«Our online catalogue comprises the largest media art collection in the Netherlands. Search through more than 3,500 works of art, from video-art pioneers from the 1960s to up-and-coming talents and well-known contemporary artists working with the latest technologies. New works are continuously added. The works are available for screenings, exhibitions and research.»
Via @ranoya@ranoya
Got a nice conspiracy theory for you:
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115670290552252848
Actually wait I just thought about this and realized that the precise timing of the ACTUAL GitHub seed bank, by which I mean the Arctic Code Vault, on 2020-02-02, makes it more or less a perfect snapshot of pre-Copilot GitHub. Also precisely timed before we all got brain damage from COVID. This is the only remaining archive of source code by people with a fully working sense of smell
(Bonus points because the Arctic World Archive is located in Svaldbard and that’s the name of the AI in Stacey Kade’s “Cold Eternity”.)
Waiting for @prologic@twtxt.net to make it back from his luxurious vacation, to engage on Australia’s teen-under-16 social media banning technical, parental, and philosophical discourse.
Critical AI Literacy & “Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia.”
(via @adolfoneto@adolfoneto)
Australia’s red-tipped bananas go viral after cheeky social media post
Red-tipped bananas are not new to Australian consumers, but they have gone viral on social media this month after an inquisitive post from two bewildered British backpackers. ⌘ Read more
Good to see so many folks starting to come back to our little non-social social ecosystem 👌 Good to also see twtxt.net starting to peer with 7 other pods in the greater network too! 🥳
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html
AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.
And someone commented on that with:
I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.
They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.
Fascinating and scary.
@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔
LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞 
@prologic@twtxt.net just create an account on mastodon.social, wouldn’t that work?
French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more
Louvre heist suspect is social media star and former museum security guard, reports say ⌘ Read more
Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞
Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌
Poachers are killing families of spider monkeys, kidnapping their babies and selling them to Americans on social media ⌘ Read more
$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
A popular YouTuber named Theo Browne offered $20k to the Open Source FFmpeg team if they remove their social media person, who Theo calls a “motherf***er”. ⌘ Read more
Muito feliz de ver ontem o @adorilson@adorilson receber o maior prêmio da comunidade brasileira de #Python na #PythonBrasil2025, muito merecido, o sujeito é uma força inesgotável para ajudar as pessoas! #TremeaFerri
São alturas como esta que me convencem da incapacidade do design conseguir abordar qualquer problema de ordem social. Enquanto designer, sinto-me bem distante do que vejo ser o discurso da área.
A sério, “happisodes”? :blobfacepalm:
@prologic@twtxt.net hmmm:
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://meet.mills.io/ws/Yarn.social/l3oVrknUnjZo2zSQoGlOX3.
Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.
Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!
Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏
Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? 👋
Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.
High-spe … ⌘ Read more
British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
Fisher says his visa is “legit” but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country. ⌘ Read more
British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
Fisher says his visa is “legit” but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country. ⌘ Read more
British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
Fisher says his visa is “legit” but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more
Satellite images reveal ancient hunting traps used by South American social groups
Satellite images have revealed an ancient system of elaborate, funnel-shaped mega traps likely built by hunters and pastoralists to catch prey in the high altitudes of northern Chile. ⌘ Read more
Is Social Media Rewiring Childhood Brains? ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: 2025-09-30 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem
The first time I DJed for a Contra Dance1 was at Inman Park’s
famous Trolley Barn.
At the time I was DJing in the way other social dances are normally DJed: I had
a laptop, I played a song, everyone danced.
No fancy mixing, or effects: the most technical thing I did was loop 32 bar
sections of music to stretch it out until the caller was ready to end the dance.
This time around, returning to … ⌘ Read more
Apple Hosts Unusual Colorado Event to Showcase Latest Hardware
Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company’s recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.
An invitation was [shared on X (Twitter)](https://x.com/JHawkShoots/statu … ⌘ Read more
‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings
The commissioner insists age verification can work, despite expert warnings of deep flaws with just over two months until the start of the ban. ⌘ Read more
Trump meldet Einigung bei Gaza-Gesprächen
Israel und die Terrororganisation Hamas haben laut US-Präsident Donald Trump der ersten Phase seines Friedensplans zugestimmt. „Das bedeutet, dass alle Geiseln sehr bald freigelassen werden und Israel seine Truppen auf eine vereinbarte Linie zurückziehen wird, als erster Schritt hin zu einem starken, dauerhaften und ewigen Frieden“, erklärte Trump in der Nacht auf Donnerstag auf Truth Social. Israel und die Hamas hatten in Ägypten indirekt über den Friedensplan verhandelt. ⌘ Read more
German mayor stabbed outside home, Chancellor Merz condemns ‘abhorrent act’
Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, is reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries. ⌘ Read more
Canberrans in their 30s and 40s now the city’s loneliest, survey finds
Loneliness is rising faster among Canberra adults in their 30s and 40s, with new research showing this cohort has now overtaken younger people as the most socially isolated in the ACT. ⌘ Read more
War on America, Chicago Theater of Operations
Ruth Ben-Ghiat , Professor of History New York University - Reader Support News | Lucid Substack
_Stephan: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders, and a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She is absolutely correct. What amazes and saddens me is that millions of Americans sit at home basically reading social media … ⌘ Read more
Carsten Linnemann: CDU-Generalsekretär fordert Social-Media-Verbot bis 16
CDU-Generalsekretär Carsten Linnemann fordert Altersgrenzen für soziale Netzwerke. Der Zugang soll erst ab 16 Jahren möglich sein. ( Soziales Netz, Politik)
Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.
I think it’s finally shaping a bit better now, but… ☝️
As I’m trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I don’t accidentally create a structure that is more rigid than planned.
I already decided on a UI that I would want to use for myself, it would be inspired by moshidon, misskey and some other “social feeds” mock-ups I found on dribbble.
I also plan on building a raw HTML version (for anyone wanting to do a full DIY client).
I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.
I think I’ll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.
For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):
- Global / personal timeline screen
- Profile screen (with timeline)
- Thread screen
- Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
- DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
- Settings screen (it’ll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
- Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some “engines” might not have direct publishing support)
I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:
display_name: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback tonickif not defined
banner: Using the same format asavatarbut the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around
I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that don’t limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! 🤞
How social media fuels useless products ⌘ Read more
Scavenger’s reign is child play next to this…. https://mastodon.social/@adhd_coffee/115235689271906711
And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).
Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
The post Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https://github. … ⌘ Read more
Hello everyone! 👋
After a long while away, I’m back on twtxt with this new feed.
Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.
I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.
In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:
- Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there’s no flood of content that I can’t keep up with.
- No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it’s all backed up.
- Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
- For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!
This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your “instance”.
It’s still in the making but I’ll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.
Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com and @zvava@twtxt.net were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!
iOS 26 Battery Life Suffering? Here’s Why & How to Fix It
iOS 26 is in the wild, and aside from the mixed reactions to the Liquid Glass interface, there are also wildly different reports of battery life performance post-update. A notable number of iPhone and iPad users are complaining throughout social media and online forums that iOS 26 battery drains faster than it did before, and … Read More ⌘ Read more
@mozilla@mozilla must have some telemetry or metrics or something to know how many #32bit firefox users are out there. I bet that, as a percentage, they aren’t more than a blip. Still, there has to be several thousand machines out there, running on 32bit hardware, connected to the internet, using #Firefox as its web browser.
And now Mozilla decided to hand those users over to #chromium, by stopping 32-bit support and telling them the alternative is to install a 64bit OS instead.
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/
What #TheLEFT had to say about #vonderleyen ’s #SOTU speech?
There are several news stories going around saying that there are two no-confidence votes to Von Der Leyen about to be submitted, saying little to nothing about them, and even filing them together as if they both want or mean the same.
It might be useful to know exactly what the criticisms are, so here is a link to The Left’s comment to today’s speech. Read it in full, but here is my summary:
“acts as the guardian of the interests of the most powerful, at the expense of democracy, justice, and the future of the planet”;
Gaza: “The bare minimum is ending military cooperation and fully suspending the EU–Israel Association Agreement. This is genocide and we need to do everything to stop it”
pushing the MERCOSUR deal (they are actually light on their criticism of this treaty, but I’ll leave my rant about ot on a another toot)
the EU-US deal: “subjugation of European policy to the economic and military interests of the USA. You are sacrificing energy, digital policy, security, and climate protection on the altar of the hollow phrase of transatlantic partnership”
“Europeans’ living standards are falling, jobs are lost, authoritarianism grows, and social systems are under pressure”
@zvava@twtxt.net I never used any of the social media platforms, that’s why I’m probably ignorant.
I don’t understand the concept of a retwt. Just quote the (relevant) parts from whereever and comment on that. Or post a link instead of a quote. Sounds simple enough. :-) That’s also has the benefit that it works with every source, no matter what. Since it’s called retwt, I’d imagine this to only work (well) with whatever messages the system itself offers. But I could be wrong. What would be the benefit of having a dedicated message type or structure for “hey, look at that” messages in your opinion?
Hmm, what’s a content warning?
@zvava@twtxt.net I reckon there’s currently nobody working on v2. Which timezone are you in? Just post your questions here or head over to #yarn.social at libera.chat for a more realtime conversation via IRC.