#roundabout — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roundabout, aggregated by home.social.
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#ChicagoPublicMedia is launching #chicagocom, a #communityplatform powered by #NewPublic’s #Roundabout, to foster #neighbourhood engagement. The platform, featuring a non-algorithmic feed and pro-social reaction buttons, will be moderated by paid community stewards. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/can-public-media-build-its-own-social-media-chicago-public-media-teams-up-with-new_public-to-try/?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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"For chicago.com, #ChicagoPublicMedia is teaming up with New_ Public, a nonprofit working to reimagine online public spaces. Chicago.com will host the network, which will be powered by #Roundabout, the local community platform incubated by New_ Public over the past year. The partners will launch five neighborhood pilots this fall, and will recruit paid, contract “community stewards” to moderate conversations in each neighborhood.”
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/can-public-media-build-its-own-social-media-chicago-public-media-teams-up-with-new_public-to-try/ -
#TuneTuesday #mistakenlyrics #yes #roundabout
Yes "Roundabout"
Always heard "When marmots come out of the sky..." rather than "mountains".
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"The Imjin Parkway project helps vehicles—and pedestrians—get to where they need to go much smoother.
"There’s so much detail in these panels, but don’t get distracted by them as you drive [or bike] through. Go for a walk in the area instead to appreciate them.”—Erik Chalhoub, #MontereyCountyWeekly #MontereyCountyNow
https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/the-imjin-parkway-project-helps-vehicles-and-pedestrians-get-to-where-they-need-to-go/article_612d84dd-1e35-47ac-93ec-d88ed1e74db0.htmlFrom Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) - "A collection of helpful advice and practices to help different vehicles navigate the district's #roundabouts”:
https://www.tamcmonterey.org/roundabouts
https://www.tamcmonterey.org/for-large-vehicles
https://www.tamcmonterey.org/tips-for-vehicles
https://www.tamcmonterey.org/for-bikes-pedestrians#MontereyCounty #infrastructure #roundabout #bike #walk #drive #skate #scoot
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Boundary Circus, London E2
A roundabout, in the middle of one of London's earliest municipal housing estates.
#BoundaryCircus #London #Shoreditch #roundabout #bandstand #MunicipalHousing -
🎮 Ah, the thrill of pretending to navigate Kirkland’s notorious roundabouts from the comfort of your keyboard! 🌪️ Because nothing screams "cutting-edge gaming" like simulating real-life #traffic jams in a #pixelated #roundabout. 🚗💥 Remember, kids, every lane change is a bonus point loss, just like in real life! 🤷♂️
https://kirklandroundabouts.com #gaming #simulation #fun #realism #HackerNews #ngated -
Run Away to the Circus
The circus had pitched up in a field at Cashel, near Junction 8 on the motorway, with big top flying the flags of half a dozen nations. I was taking photos of the circus when these two kids sped across the frame, probably headed to the shop at the nearby garage. I wonder if they went to the circus while it was there. We passed through a few days later, and the tent was gone. Moving on to another town. -
Facilitating change: Four lessons, involving communication, size, and culture, from the devolution of the British roundabout
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2012/02/british-roundabout
#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #lessons #culture #British #roundabout
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#FotoVorschlag 'Tunnel und Unterführungen' / 'Tunnels and underpasses'
Wer Tunnel mag, dem empfehle ich Norwegen, hier sogar mit Kreisverkehr. Während unserer Tour haben wir das Land umbenannt in "Tunnelwegen".
If you like tunnels, I’d recommend Norway – here, they even have roundabouts. During our trip, we renamed the country to ‘Tunnelway’.
#photography #fotografie #streetphotography #tunnel #kreisverkehr #roundabout
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#roundabout : a horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride
- French: rotonde
- German: das Karussell
- Italian: rotonda
- Portuguese: rotunda
- Spanish: rotonda
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I've always thought that for the fedi to be widely used and remain decentralized, we would need most people on a locality based server. Like NextDoor. I'm hoping #Roundabout will get us there with the basics of a mastodon style (news feed) server but add on some calendar and group functionalities only available to its members. I think firefish did some of this.
But then we'd also have every government, business and org (especially media) run their own server for staff.
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A #BMW #driver in #Yorkshire got several months #prison (as well as a long stay in hospital and quite a few broken bones) after trying to evade #Police and crashing into a #roundabout (he was also found to be #driving under influence of #alcohol and #drugs)
Nolte that Press report says "no previous *driving* offences" in his record (which strongly suggests he might have had other previous)
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/26036826.drink-driver-hit-142-mph-police-chase-york/
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Facilitating change: Four lessons, involving communication, size, and culture, from the devolution of the British roundabout
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2012/02/british-roundabout
#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #lessons #culture #British #roundabout
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Spending a snowy afternoon with some Chinese Republicans
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Facilitating change: Four lessons, involving communication, size, and culture, from the devolution of the British roundabout
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2012/02/british-roundabout
#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #lessons #culture #British #roundabout
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"Long Distance Runaround" is a song by the #progressiveRock group #Yes first recorded for their 1971 album, #Fragile. Written by #lead singer #JonAnderson, the song was released as a #Bside to "#Roundabout", but became a surprise hit in its own right as a staple of album-oriented rock radio. On Fragile it #segues into "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)".
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Immer wenn ein Deutscher #roundabout in einen deutschen Satz falsch benutzt hineinfickt, dann möchte ich das Wort in eine Granitplatte meißeln und sie ihm ins Kreuz dreschen.
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#roundabout : a horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride
- French: rotonde
- German: das Karussell
- Italian: rotonda
- Portuguese: rotunda
- Spanish: rotonda
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Destroying Autocracy – December 04, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
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You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start next month.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the open web. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.
This is why the OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed 4 Opens protocol that treats publishing as a flow, a conversation.
Unlike the more vertical stacks (ATProto is a good example), ActivityPub doesn’t force a worldview. It doesn’t tell you, “this is how your network must be structured.” It doesn’t enforce hierarchy or lock you into one interpretation of identity, authority, or workflow. It’s a KISS path – here’s a shared language, verbs for publishing and receiving, express objects, updates, relationships. The rest is up to the commons.
This flexibility is exactly why the OMN can become a part of this flow.
Why the OMN works with ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to p2p
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
DDEV has:
Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in Ukraine
TechPolicy Press shares:
How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Law
The EU’s Digital Omnibus Must Be Rejected by Lawmakers. Here is Why.
Singapore announced an:
Issuance of Implementation Directives to Apple and Google Under the Online Criminal Harms Act
The MIT Press Reader has:
The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
The Guardian reports:
Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDF
Neutral
TechPolicy Press reports:
What the European Commission and Civil Society Both Get Wrong on the Digital Omnibus
Why Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change That
EuroNews asks:
Which European countries are building their own sovereign AI to compete in the tech race?
Numerama reports:
TechCrunch reports:
Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models
Wired reports:
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the states. Activists Are Fighting Back.
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing
EDRi has:
Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire
404 Media reports:
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Pariah States
DarkReading reports:
Tomiris Unleashes ‘Havoc’ With New Tools, Tactics
DPRK’s ‘Contagious Interview’ Spawns Malicious Npm Package Factory
Student Sells Gov’t, University Sites to Chinese Actors
TechPolicy Press reports:
The Gulf’s AI Rise and the Risk of Entrenching Authoritarianism
The Register reports:
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
Big Media
Axios reports:
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Big surprise.
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate
Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok
BleepingComputer reports:
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Big surprise here. But, if you’re amoral enough to use it, you deserve all the privacy invading ads you get.
Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic
Nature reports:
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Wow.
The Guardian reports:
The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be
National Review reports:
Meta Researchers Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Bombshell Court Filing Shows
Wanna-be Big Tech
OMG Unbuntu has:
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Cybersecurity/Privacy
TechCrunch reports:
European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B euros
DarkReading reports:
New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic Workflows to Create Patches
Bleeping Computer reports:
Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
The Register reports:
Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse
Fediverse
Coywolf has:
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
Ben Werdmuller shares:
Sean Coates explores:
The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
Great and important stuff.
Ploum asks:
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
Wouldn’t the fix to this would be to show a larger version of a user’s profile image with text posts?
RSS
Planet Codigo has:
Mi solución RSS con software libre y autogestionado
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
TBD
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Roundabout #RSS #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #Threads
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No this isn’t four buses stuck in a roundabout in Oslo last year. This is today EDIT: yesterday. #oslo #transit #roundabout https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/NJ87P5yxUQ
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Driving in Portugal a couple of weeks ago was the first time I had really experienced frequent roundabouts...
...and wow are they addicting!! So many times where you can just fly on through what would have been a slow stop-and-go at a stop sign or a several minute wait at a light.
I really hope Japan picks them up!
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It appears that in #Norway, four buses entered a #roundabout with perfect timing to cause an impressive #deadlock that prevented any bus from leaving the roundabout. o.O (you might need a translation engine for the source) https://www.ao.no/vet-ikke-hva-jeg-er-mest-imponert-over-at-de-klarte-a-komme-seg-inn-i-situasjonen-eller-at-de-komme-seg-ut-av-den/s/5-128-1200136
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Facilitating change: Four lessons, involving communication, size, and culture, from the devolution of the British roundabout
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2012/02/british-roundabout
#facilitation #FacilitatingChange #lessons #culture #British #roundabout
