The production quality of #Netflix has been on a downfall for some time now, but it feels like they also became the place-to-be to consume all sorts of conspiracy theory bs. Platforming #TheLiverKing in one of their newest „documentaries“ proofs this fact. Disgusting.

🚨 Today, noyb has sent a cease and desist letter to Meta regarding its AI training plans in Europe.

👉 If Meta doesn't comply with the request, noyb could file an injunction – or launch an EU class action in the future.

All the details 👇
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-sends-meta-cease-and-desist-letter-over-ai-training-european-class-action-potential-next-step

Imaging attending a Startup School event by #YCombinator, where Elon Musk will speak about Business and Startup advice, and you did not enter that room by accident. Crazy.

Also, love the domain for the event, cause yeah, AI is sus af.

https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not banning conversion therapy.
We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different to reach the million.
Aside from that, we are nearing the threshold in the following countries:
Belgium
Slovenia
The Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@louie Quantum Foam, The Living Seas, Purple Swath, and Briar Rose are in my rotation. Love all of them!

#SoundCloud changes policies to allow #AI training on user content

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/soundcloud-changes-policies-to-allow-ai-training-on-user-content/

#music #privacy

@marsh931 Beautiful Art, great pull 😊🙌

Figma Sites will contribute to a more exclusive web.

They already dominate the web design sector and they must grow. How? By finding a new target group. One that probably doesn't know anymore how bad Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, et al were for accessibility.
https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-sites/

I see #Figma has decided to reincarnate FrontPage, but worse:
https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-sites/

Sample 1, with 269 axe issues:
https://www.config.new/

Sample 2, with only 184 axe issues:
https://www.practice-type.com/

No mention of #accessibility in the announcement, so I guess none expected?

Anyway, get ahead of this, folks. We’re going back to 1999!

#a11y

For @creativerly I wrote over 7,000 words about apps that make it even more joyful to interact with @Mastodon and #Bluesky. No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, apps to cross-post, edit and update threads, or other things, I hope I got you covered.

https://creativerly.com/the-tools-for-decentralized-social-networks-how-to-interact-with-mastodon-and-bluesky/

@andypiper Ah thank you for sharing those, definitely going to look into them. I totally forgot about Sill, such an awesome service.

@vladcampos yeah, it is a super cool idea, simple but super useful.

@can Lovely, great to hear that.

As with most of my posts in this realm, I will continue adding new #MastodonApps and #BlueskyApps as I stumble across them. So, make sure to revisit the post every now and then.

For @creativerly I wrote over 7,000 words about apps that make it even more joyful to interact with @Mastodon and #Bluesky. No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, apps to cross-post, edit and update threads, or other things, I hope I got you covered.

https://creativerly.com/the-tools-for-decentralized-social-networks-how-to-interact-with-mastodon-and-bluesky/

The CEO of Fiverr sent out the following email warning to employees that AI is coming for their jobs

“It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person - Al is coming for you.”

Shopify, Duolingo and now Fiverr.

@can haven‘t used it myself, but Mailcoach looks solid: https://www.mailcoach.app/ and they are based in Belgium 🇧🇪

Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025? https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/

(No. Not even close.)

@macstories

@can @sputniakmusic @librelingo oh love to see it 🤩🙌 I have been learning Italian, so if it ever will be available for that too, I will definitely try it out.

Bookmarked for now, thank you for sharing ✌️

@smeikx @autofreitag Ohja sehr gerne, das klingt supi, vielen Dank fürs Teilen 😊🙌