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Welcome to program 379 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:45 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:53 MFSK32: Social platform Bluesky welcomes X users
  7:29 MFSK64: Germany assumes sabotage after data cable damaged*
10:44 MFSK64: This week's images*
27:33 MFSK32: Closing announcements

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From AP via TechXplore.com:


What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming
fleeing X users?

November 16, 2024

Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social
media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before
billionaire Elon Musk took it over in 2022. While it remains
small compared to established online spaces such as X, it has
emerged as an alternative for those looking for a different mood,
lighter and friendlier and less influenced by Musk.

What is Bluesky?

Championed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an
invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February.
That invite-only period gave the site time to build out
moderation tools and other features. The platform resembles
Musk's X, with a "discover" feed and a chronological feed for
accounts that users follow. Users can send direct messages and
pin posts, as well as find "starter packs" that provide a curated
list of people and custom feeds to follow.

Why is Bluesky growing?

Bluesky said in mid-November that its total users surged to 15
million, up from roughly 13 million at the end of October, as
some X users look for an alternative platform to post their
thoughts and talk to others online. The post-election uptick in
users isn't the first time Bluesky has benefited from people
leaving X. The platform gained 2.6 million users in the week
after X was banned in Brazil in August—85% of them from Brazil,
the company said. About 500,000 new users signed up in one day in
October, when X signaled that blocked accounts would be able to
see a user's public posts.

Across the platform, new users—among them journalists,
left-leaning politicians and celebrities—have posted memes and
shared that they were looking forward to using a space free from
advertisements and hate speech. Some said it reminded them of the
early days of Twitter more than a decade ago.

Despite Bluesky's growth, X posted after the election that it had
"dominated the global conversation on the U.S. election" and had
set new records.

Beyond social networking

Bluesky, though, has bigger ambitions than to supplant X. Beyond
the platform itself, it is building a technical foundation—what
it calls "a protocol for public conversation"—that could make
social networks work across different platforms—also known as
interoperability—like email, blogs or phone numbers.

Currently, you can't cross between social platforms to leave a
comment on someone's account. Twitter users must stay on Twitter
and TikTok users must stay on TikTok if they want to interact
with accounts on those services. Big Tech companies have largely
built moats around their online properties, which helps serve
their advertising-focused business models.

Bluesky is trying to reimagine all of this and working toward
interoperability.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-bluesky-fast-social-platform-users.html

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From Deutsche Welle:

Germany assumes sabotage after Baltic Sea data cable damaged

November 19, 2024

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday that the
damage to an undersea data cable running from Germany to Finland
was likely due to sabotage.

The damage to the C-Lion1 cable was first reported on Monday with
officials saying the 1,173-kilometer (729-mile) line had been
cut, although the impact would probably not be noticeable for
most people.

Sweden's Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin also reported
on Monday that a second undersea cable had been damaged,
according to the French press agency AFP.

The incident occurred in the same maritime region where the Nord
Stream pipelines were sabotaged in 2022 following Russia's
invasion of Ukraine earlier that year.

'Can't all just be coincidences'

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Europe would
remain united in light of the hybrid threats following the cut in
the fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea.

"We are now also experiencing this in Germany ... with cyber
attacks, with the surveillance of critical infrastructure,
parcels suddenly exploding when transported on planes and
yesterday ... a data cable between Finland and Germany which
probably also affected Sweden," said Baerbock. "These can't all
just be coincidences."

What else did Germany say about the damaged Baltic Sea cable?

"No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also
don't want to believe in versions that these were anchors that
accidentally caused damage over these cables," Pistorius said
before a meeting with EU defense ministers in Brussels.

"Therefore, we have to state, without knowing specifically who it
came from, that it is a 'hybrid' action. And we also have to
assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage," he added.

While Pistorius was unable to produce any evidence for his
suspicions, his Estonian counterpart Hanno Pevkur also said it
was not a "natural cause" based on their preliminary information.

A joint statement from the German and Finnish Foreign Ministers
on Monday evening said: "Our European security is not only under
threat from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, but also
from hybrid warfare by malicious actors."

Additional reporting by Teri Schultz.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-assumes-sabotage-after-baltic-sea-data-cable-damaged/a-70818736
 

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This week's images ...


From the Microscopic Photo Competition: The crystalline pattern
of a big cotton padded jacket. https://tinyurl.com/2b4zbozm ...

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Banded demoiselle damselflies perching on a blade of grass.
https://tinyurl.com/27karzm4 ...

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A fruit seller opens early in the morning as smog covers Lahore,
Pakistan, November 14. https://tinyurl.com/277b5kz8 ....

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The Xiling Gorge Estuary, in the Yangtze River, at sunrise in
Yichang city, Hubei province, China, November 10.
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The sunrise sky and a ship on the forth as seen from Kirkcaldy
Prom, Scotland. https://tinyurl.com/239h3eq4 ...

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Looking like an abstract painting, Chris Fukuda's photo of the
Beaver Supermoon taken from the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New
Jersey. https://tinyurl.com/26ownd64 ...

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Last of the autumn colors at the Westonbirt Arboretum in
Gloucestershire, England. https://tinyurl.com/26oz2ryu ...

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At the Morton Arboretum near Chicago, the "Winter Radiance"
display pays tribute to the big bluestem prairie grass native to
the Midwest, using "eco-friendly" LEDs.
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Our art of the week is a geometric icon design by Dalius Stuoka.
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