Indieweb Movie Club - It's a wonderful life (1946)
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People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
In addition to a $20 per month ChatGPT account, I also have a full Gemini account because I bought a snazzy new Pixel 9 Pro which comes with one year of Gemini included. So far that's just meant that I get pop up dialogs all over the place telling me I can use Gemini with Gmail, Google Drive and whatever else. Honestly it's just annoying. I do not want these apps to do my writing for me. Please. That imho is not a valuable use of AI. I can write for myself thank you very much.
Last day of the year and last chance to #donate to worthy causes for 2024!I post a lot about the #indieweb but I’m not asking you to donate to that.Starting this series of non-profit #donation posts with asking you to consider donating to the #independentArts.Choose an #arts organization local to you or one that friends or family are directly involved in.For example: @theatermitu.org (@theatermitu @instagram.com/theatermitu)Theater Mitu is an independent theater arts organization, space, and community that supports numerous artists, shows, and incubates and produces new work!Donation link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/theater-mitu/the-decade-ahead-10-more-years-of-mitu-in-brooklyn#TheaterMitu #NewYork #NYC #Brooklyn
2024 in photos
Here’s one photo from each month in 2024
After his death at 100 on Sunday, the news has been full of talk about Jimmy Carter. It's not polite to say it's exhausting and boring, and seems pointless. Then I happened to hear Jimmy Carter himself, on the latest episode of the Fresh Air podcast, and that was fantastic and totally worthwhile. It had been a long time since I listened to him, and I've grown a lot since then. Listen to the person, much more interesting than people talking about the person.
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Tintin and the fascists
As a child, I freaking adored Tintin, the Belgian comic strip about a boy detective and his little white dog, Snowy. There was something intoxicating about the mix: international adventures, a growing cast of recurring characters, conspiracies, humor, hi jinx. Even the...
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Predictions for tech, 2025
You know what they say: predictions are like resurgent nationalist movements. Everyone’s got one.
I missed the deadline for Nieman Lab’s always-excellent Predictions for Journalism this year, so I thought I’d share a few more bite-sized predictions about various topics I’ve...
Micro.one will not have source feeds
Off and on for years I had been trying to figure out what a more slimmed down version of Micro.blog would look like. Maybe text-only blog posts, no photos? Maybe only short posts, or only long-form posts? Maybe some limit with podcasting? But taking away certain features und...
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Tech pace layers
Ryan Barrett takes Stewart Brand's Pace Layering and adapts it to model technology progress:
"I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the holiday break to bang out a rough draft. Thoughts?"
My thoughts are that this is helpful. It's also a good way to think about where you want to be in the stack as a person: product is this kind of messy, unstable squiggle of a progress line, whereas the underlying CS, standards, and components provide relative stability. It's as much of a guide to where to orient your tech career as it is to how the whole system works.
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Adactio: Journal—Words I wrote in 2024
Braintrust query: I'm kind of stuck with my little feed reader in Bluesky. It works, but a few hours into it, at 10PM last night, we start getting rate-limit errors from bluesky. If it really is a rate limit, shouldn't reset after a while?
Still looking for WordLand testers who write good bug reports and use WordPress for writing on a regular basis, even daily.
Having fun this morning working on a couple animated GIFs for the Micro.one website. Using Gifox for the basics, which I really like so far. Simple, clean design. And Acorn 8 can now edit animated GIFs as layers, great for quick resizing or edits.
Tag Overload
Sad to say the current WordLand testers are not using it enough to help break in the software. It's a good product, and for people who do a lot of writing in WordPress, I think it would be very useful, maybe even transformative. But I can't open it up until I'm fairly sure it...
Words I wrote in 2024
People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people’s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn.
I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I’m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool...
“Did you ever re-subscribe to The Washington Post?”
“No. And I never will.”
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
Algorithmic timeline endgame
Nick Heer blogging about the report of Meta’s plans for AI-generated social content:
Imagine opening any of Meta’s products after this has taken over. Imagine how little you will see from the friends and family members you actually care about. Imagine how much slop you will...
Untitled
📗 Want to read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe ISBN: 9781478006510
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Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements, From Homes To Brothels
[Thanos Pappas at CarScoops]
There are a few different levels to this story about the VW Group's terrible cybersecurity:
"According to a new report from Germany, the VW Group stored sensitive information for 800,000 electric vehicles from various brands on a...