Best Of
Re: Free Jewels
Trying again to explain briefly, why we can move to better services, that are Free, Open source and protecting vulnerable, marginlised, isolated or impoverished people and communities. 
Some services even use voice recognition to generate a text version of a podcast:
"The speaker discusses the difference between centralized control, where companies like Instagram and Facebook own and control user data, and decentralized systems like PixelFed and Mastodon, where users own their own servers and have more control over their data. They mention examples like Wikipedia that operate on a donation basis. The speaker also highlights how data on centralized platforms is monetized and used for advertising, while decentralized systems prioritize equality and community. They encourage exploring alternative ways of connecting using free and open-source software."
https://audio.com/lobster/audio/connectingtofree
Why is this important? Because there is more freedom for the three jewels, for the supporting infrastructures and ... well you may find your own advantages. 
Audacity free audio hosting
https://www.audacityteam.org/
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Microexpressions
It's hard to read somebody who has had botox...no surprises there 
Shoshin1
Re: What does a seeker after truth really seek?
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates
Jeroen
Re: The Other Elephant In The Room
From the article
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in parliament that “something unfortunately went tragically wrong” with the airstrike. “We are investigating the incident and will reach conclusions, because this is our policy,” he said
What a load of crap..
All the killing of innocent Palestinian men. women children and babies by the IOF are deliberate acts...
The US, Israel’s staunchest ally and weapons supplier, described the images from the aftermath as devastating.
....Then shipped more weapons to Israel...
France, a European ally of Israel, said it was outraged by the Rafah strike. “These operations must stop,” the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, posted on X. “There are no safe areas in Rafah for Palestinian civilians. I call for full respect for international law and an immediate ceasefire.”
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, posted: “Horrified by news coming out of Rafah on Israeli strikes killing dozens of displaced persons, including small children. I condemn this in the strongest terms.”
..And they continue to support Israel and supply them with more weapons...
After criticism of the Rafah strike, the IDF said it had not anticipated civilian casualties, and had bombed an area outside the latest “evacuation zone” to where Palestinians have been ordered to move, although that claim appeared to contradict a previous “safe zone” map from 22 May
Several rightwing Israeli journalists celebrated the Rafah attack in appearances on Israeli television and on Twitter, likening it to this week’s Jewish bonfire festival, Lag B’Omer. Commentator Yinon Dromi retweeted another user’s post which showed a fire in Rafah, adding her own: “Happy Holidays.”
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue
Shoshin1