🔗 More than 75 Lee Enterprises newspapers affected by cyberattack - U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Dozens of newspapers owned by Iowa-based news media company Lee Enterprises were affected by a cyberattack starting on Feb. 3, 2025, disrupting the publication of print and e-editions.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch — one of Lee Enterprises’ more than 400 daily, weekly and specialty newspapers across 24 states — reported that the media conglomerate had experienced a “cybersecurity event.” The company alerted its newspapers that it had been working with third-party specialists to investigate the disruption and restore the systems

🔗 You Don’t Have to Monetize The Things You Love:

The push for endless growth and scalability comes from multiple places. There’s the capitalist imperative: anything worth doing should generate profit. There’s the social media amplification effect: if something isn’t documented and shared, did it really happen? Finally, there’s the efficiency trap: why do something for ten people when you could do it for ten thousand?

These forces combine to create a kind of growth obligation — a sense that remaining small or finite is somehow a moral failure. It’s a bullshit mindset that misses the whole nature of human experience and satisfaction.

Running one’s own site always seems like a good idea. Until it’s not. 🙄

This van is pretty rad.

I guess maybe “The comments are a place to show how smart I am” is better than “The comments are a place to be an asshole,” but if so, it’s not much better.

Sometimes I think maybe it is even worse.

Either way, it is a gross and all-too-common pattern/behavior. Part of it is the result of social media platforms that incentivize attention-seeking over community, but I see it happening frequently enough on Mastodon to make me think that algorithms focused on driving engagement at all costs are not solely to blame.