The Tucker Carlson Show. In description: "The only solution to ending the propaganda spiral is by telling the truth. That's our job. Every day. No matter what."
On SiriusXM, The Megyn Kelley Show. In description: "No BS. No agenda."
That's just those two. Both promoted as "Top Podcasts In News." As long as truth remains relative, lies will prevail. Both Apple and SiriusXM contribute in their own profit-driven ways.
On today's #GreatestTrek, the Discovery crew is about to get the party started when Moll steals the Progenitor keg right from under them. Then an away team goes undercover to see if they can pull one over on the Breen.
Listen to the full episode at gagh.biz/greatesttrek
Coucou Masto ! Je cherche des #podcasts drôles à écouter. J'en ai plein d'hyper intéressants mais des fois je veux juste un truc qu'on peut écouter d'une oreille, avec une bonne ambiance.
Malheureusement les podcasts estampillés humour souvent c'est mood Rires et Chansons, j'aimerais éviter...
Balancez vos #recommandations !
"Mayors sign letter opposing changes to Māori wards"
Go NZ mayors!
"A Hawke's Bay mayor says the government's proposed changes to Māori wards are racist, because councils can create other wards without requiring a referendum."
NatACT First's cancellation of 3 Waters has forced councils across the country into massive rates hikes and service cuts, so they can absorb the rising costs of bringing neglected water infrastructure up to standard. The local government elections in 2025 will be a chance for citizens to reject councillors who bought into the anti-3 waters propaganda.
Political ShowerThought; if central govt sets a standard for something, it ought to fund local government to bring their infrastructure and services up to that level. If a local govt body sets a standard for themselves, it's reasonable for its ratepayers to foot the bill in full.
For example, if it's up to councils to decide whether to supply water and in what condition, they pay. But if the govt mandates they supply drinkable water, they ought to subsidise the cost of doing so.
Continuing my trend of living under a rock, I just found out there's a Nextcloud plugin that replicates gpodder.net for syncing podcast playback. It works with AntennaPod too (among others).
On today's #GreatestGen, it's been a long road getting from TNG to here! Captain Archer heads out on Earth's first Uber mission but when the Enterprise's passenger is abducted they may not earn a 5 star rating.
Listen to the full episode at gagh.biz/greatestgen
Really great ep, @GreatestTrek! The theme song sounds so professional, especially the harmonies. I love that B&A have already identified Archer as a nepo baby and Trip as Dubya, I'm glad to hear them calling out Berman and Braga for grossness towards female characters / cast, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing the Jeffrey Combs slashfic. #FriendsOfDesoto
"A plan to update the system for regulating our media content has been running under the radar for years. Some of the agencies that do it now backed the move to one single body, but this week the government dumped it over fears it could cramp free expression online."
Thoughts on this? My knee-jerk anarchist response is that democratic governance has no place in decisions about citizens' expression, online or otherwise. But...
... I'm aware that in a highly unequal capitalist society, the expressions of different people and organisations have very different scales of "reach". So maybe there is a place for regulation to create and maintain pro-democracy media environments. As always, the devil is in the details.
On today's #GreatestTrek, Book is long overdue for some action and tags along to the library with Burnham to find the final clue. Burnham is sucked into a mind maze and is left to puzzle it out.
Are there any fedi-specific podcasts that talk about different software, maybe? I couldn't find anything under #FediPodcasts. 🤔
Other than that, please feel free to recommend your favourite podcasts to me! :boost_ok: Topics I'm usually interested in:
Queer/LGBTQ+, BDSM/Kink, latest movies/shows/games talk from a feminist POV, nostalgia trips re: old franchises: shows/games. Sometimes even true crime.
Bei Bücher - #Podcasts sei man, wie auch bei Anderen, im Übrigen sehr vorsichtig: die launigen und intellektuell beschränkten Kommentare sind oftmals nervig, der Content eher limitiert. Viel Grossprecherei im Schnitt, viel sich brüstender Grosssprech. Ich nenne hier keine, aber ihr wisst wohl, was ich meine: "... die Themen, der der Roman verhandelt ..." und sich dabei mit seinem Englisch und seinem Wissen vokal brüsten. Nein, ich will keine Bonusfolge, bitte nicht.
@Bundesregierung Bitte auch mehr Automatisierung wagen, verbunden mit einer Abkehr sowohl vom Fokus auf Reiche als auch dem Mantra "Mehr Job = Mehr gut".
Unser Ziel sollte Wohlstand für alle bei maximaler Arbeitszeitreduktion sein, nicht was auch immer wir jetzt gerade machen.
Und mit Wohlstand ist selbstverständlich der MEDIAN gemeint, nicht der Durchschnitt! Der "eines der reichsten Länder…" Bullshit ist nicht mehr auszuhalten!
Wie können wir die Wachstumsbremse #Fachkräftemangel lösen und zugleich die #Zuwanderung gut ausgebildeter Menschen beschleunigen?
Irgendwie wird seit einiger Zeit so getan, als ob Zuwanderung das einzige Mittel wäre. Das man auch Ausbilden könnte (also jenseits des klassischen Auszubildenden-Verhältnisses) scheint unbekannt zu sein.
Firmen suchen beispielsweise Webdevs? Schön ... aber welche Firma, die sucht, bietet einen Kurs über Typescript, Frameworks etc an? Blend Unternehmer unternehmen nichts, andere sollen es richten --- scheint mir.
Außerdem: die Wohnungsnot ist hoch, die Preise schießen durch die Decke. Wann kommt Zuwanderung NUR dann, wenn die Zuwandernden eine NEUE Wohnung nachweisen können? Sie also nicht noch mehr Nachfrage erzeugen? Zumindest in Ballungsgebieten.
Ihr (Unternehmen, Regierung) wollt Zuwanderung des Mammons wegen und ignoriert alle Probleme, die daraus entstehen. Seit Jahren leider. Und alles wg. "Wachstum". Schaut Mal im Kalender, wann Earth-Day ist. Braucht die Welt wirklich noch mehr Wachstum?
"I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators."
"Whereas, I think if you were able to build a company or a brand or an institution, at the end of that, you’re like, “Well, I made this.” And maybe I could sell it. Maybe I could just let some other people run it. Maybe it stands for something. Maybe we could shut it down and everyone could talk about how much they missed it, but it’s more than you. And I think the platforms are not organized economically to ever allow that to happen..."
"My team is happier. We did not know that the Twitter thing would happen, but the Twitter thing happened, and our desire to publish in the boxes we controlled went up as a group. And then, on top of it, our audience saw that we were having fun. And once you are having fun anywhere on the internet, people sort of gravitate to you. So traffic has gone up."
"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."
This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.
What social democratic parties like the Greens, TPM and TOP say is that people only get obscenely rich because the state allows them to plunder - or does it for them - from funds that could be used to fund public infrastructure and services. They propose that we stop doing this, so the real wealth created by the workers and professionals of this country can be shared fairly across the population, instead of hoarded by a few hundred neo-feudalist families.
A classic example is the food situation. According to a recent article on food rescue projects in the NZ Listener magazine (May 11-17), enough food is produced in Aotearoa to feed 40 million people. Yet every week 7% of kiwis - a population of roughly 5 million - go hungry.
Yet what does the new government Seymour is part want to do? Cut funding for school lunches, while giving a tax cut to landlords, who are - compared to those struggling to get enough to eat - comfortably wealthy.
Can you recommend a good open source podcasts app for Android? Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, and I don't think I want listen to podcasts on YT Music
"Again, this is that lovely, quaint, sort of late 70s idea, that computers would be better than us at deciding things, isn't it. It's very, very old fashioned. But yeah, they let the computer weigh up the evidence."
And this is that lovely, quaint 2010s idea that computers deciding (or designing) things instead of humans is old-fashioned, instead of being the everyday dystopia they were already starting to live in.
The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.
@austin
> I think EU's end goal is a sovereign internet (esp. how they posture against big tech), it's just that they lack teeth and also incentive for alternative platforms
As I've mentioned before, there was a time when traditional newspapers being outcompeted into oblivion by network media would have seemed like good news to me. But that was when most network media were community-controlled and non-commercial. Locally-based, commercial outlets being driven out of business by corporate-owned propaganda machines, masquerading as neutral 'social media' platforms, was not the outcome I was hoping for.
As others have pointed out, in social media - like the fediverse - what people see is determined by what accounts they subscribed to (or "follow"), and what the people operating those accounts are posting. A platform stops being social media the moment the visibility of posts is determined instead by recommendation algorithms. At which point they become recommendation media.
I definitely want to see social media replace recommendation media as the dominant form in network media. But I've come to believe there's also a place for media where we can consistently find the work of professional journalists. Which means we need, as societies, secure sources of funding for entities that employ and support fulltime journalist.
The big questions we urgently need to answer, are how do we pay for that, and - closely related - how do they secure editorial independence?
