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Frame of preference
aresluna.org · Jul 08
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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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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HP Lovehandles
(@thickurt) ·
Jul 09
🔁 @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.
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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David Penfold :verified:
(@davep) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @eunews:
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
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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libramoon
(@libramoon) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @aaron.rupar:
"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bill-obbb-climate-policy-provisions
‘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
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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Fediverse Report
(@fediversereport) ·
Jul 08
Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down?
I look at how this narrative came to be, how it reflects a specific time period, and how this period might just be over now
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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Phil Giammattei
(@phil) ·
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!"
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