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- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 week ago:
See this comment here, or this direct link to the repo: last updated 6–7 moths ago
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 week ago:
I meant their special viewpoints by it. Their ownership structure is a co-op (Genossenschaft), so absolutely decent by all I can tell.
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 week ago:
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>
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 (cum grano salis)**
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 week ago:
Reminiscent of dumping on the Washington Post because Bezos.
As things have turned out, I don’t think that’s misguided.
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 visibility, lack of readership recognizing the value of independent journalism.
The crucial thing is that with everyone who does recognize its value—and the harm caused by a corporate-dominated media landscape—and who therefor starts to make a conscious effort to read independent sources more often, point others to them and support them financially (which I do, for the record), those issues improve in tandem.
- Submitted 1 week ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 2 weeks ago:
Fuck every Axel Springer Publication, which includes Politico
- Balcony solar is powering apartments from Berlin to Barcelona. So why not in Australia? [Mostly because of regulation]reneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that “We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon”.
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.
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 4 weeks ago:
Ah true, I misread
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 month ago:
the cloud is just a landlord for your data (source)
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 1 month ago:
This is so fascinating that the factory lector was/is a thing
The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers’ culture. (El lector – paywall)
This article has some marvellous historical photos, really worth a look
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Gut health is important, but the serotonin and dopamine from there won’t ever cross the blood–brain barrier, so the effects of the gut on mental health (which are very real) are mediated through other things.
- Comment on Trump Gives Big Tech Friends an Early Christmas Gift With Order Against State AI Regulations 2 months ago:
So Republicans call “AI moratorium” something which is actually the opposite of a moratorium: a ban of regulation on “AI”.
Not that it is surprising they employ double-speak, but just to set things straight.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 3 months ago:
And not to forget: FUTO is evil.
- Comment on FUTOs VM Setup for newbies 3 months ago:
Keep organizing and slowly things will get better
- Comment on FUTOs VM Setup for newbies 3 months ago:
Not to forget: FUTO is evil.
- Comment on xkcd #3154: Physics Insight 4 months ago:
Poincaré?
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 months ago:
That’s a really good idea, I will from now on inspect disused garnments for parts that one can use for patches
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 months ago:
Anyone know some good offers for nice (nerdy) patches? There are nice embroidered patches on Etsy, but at 7 USD per patch they’re a bit expensive for repairing of everyday items (let alone for vanity projects like a GNU/Linux-themed biker cut-off).
- Comment on A domain I like has expired, how do I go about registering it for myself? 6 months ago:
I think the general term for this is “domain sniping” or “catching”. From this, I also found this paid service, catches.io; can’t tell if it or dropcatch is better. They both only charge you when they are successful in catching the domain for you, which is good.
In general, I second the notion that one probably can’t get around paying for a professional, paid service, since one is up against professionalized scoopers (godaddy and the like), who have put a lot of optimization (down to the placing of their servers) into trying to get an edge over legitimate buyers and competing scoopers.
- Comment on Expanding storage on simple home server 6 months ago:
If you don’t yet have a USB adapter for using NVMe SSDs over USB-3 ports, I’d suggest to buy such a thing first, since they not just make for a simple yet (decently) fast storage expansion solution, but are very useful in all sorts of situations.
- Submitted 7 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
What hardware do you currently run and what software do you intend to use?case?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 8 months ago:
That’s very cool indeed, although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.