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Frame of preference
aresluna.org · Jul 08
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
You'd rather be surfing waves than social media.
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The latest thought-provoking stories from across the Twitterverse.
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The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
aphyr.com · Jul 07
In my free time, I help run a small Mastodon server for roughly six hundred queer leatherfolk. When a new member signs up, we require them to write a short application—just a sentence or two. There’s a small text box in the signup form which says:
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Andrew Kuchling
(@akuchling) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:
"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."
https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess
Peeling Back The Onion
status.news · Jul 07
Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.
‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees
theguardian.com · Jul 08
Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too
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Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
euobserver.com · Jul 08
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
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Mensch, Marina
(@energisch_) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @SandraDeHaan:
😟 Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory.
CAROLINE DE GRUYTER:
"This American administration increasingly considers elections in Europe — recently in Romania and Poland, and soon in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and, as some speculate, France too — as an opportunity to get European countries governed by far-right leaders with Trumpian agendas."
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc
The Republican budget is a climate horror
publicnotice.co · Jul 08
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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Nicole Parsons
(@Npars01) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:
New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror
"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bill-obbb-climate-policy-provisions
The Tech People Want Online Summit – Open Knowledge Foudation
okfn.org · Jul 07
We’re bringing together advocates, civil society organisations, government officials and forward-thinking creators to reimagine technology from the ground up.
Growth narratives on the new social networks
connectedplaces.online · Jul 08
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?
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ICYMI (Law)
(@icymi_law) ·
Jul 09
🔁 @AnnemarieBridy:
“People who continue using a platform where the owner openly manipulates core functions to favour fascist messaging should not be assumed to have any further ‘red line’ that would finally drive them to leave.” >> This sounds right to me, and I continue to be surprised by the power of lock in on X and the willingness of so many left-leaning users to shrug and live with what it has become.
Growth narratives on the new social networks – Connected Places https://connectedplaces.online/growth-narratives-on-the-new-social-networks/
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If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool.
scottsmitelli.com · Jul 08
It's a safe bet that most of us have encountered the age-old admonition to "never judge a book by its cover" at some point in our lives. There is a deep wisdom in that advice---wisdom that seems to go completely out the window as soon as a certain type of person spots a certain type of punctuation.
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Scott Francis
(@darkuncle) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:
Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/
"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"
How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
theverge.com · Jul 08
And blowing its credibility in the process.
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