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• Joe Crawford

“📣 YouTube removed your content” (A Google Mystery)

A few weeks ago, on Wednesday, May 21, 8:56 AM I got this email: Hi Joe Crawford, It looks like an external link you included in CSSBattle for DECEMBER 5 (2024) Logo-i-zer & ArtLung Lab didn’t follow Community Guidelines. To help keep our community safe, we removed your content from YouTube. External link: https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/create.php REVIEW AND...

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For a web browser that has been abandoned, Arc sure has a lot of new updates. 🤪 I think its demise is overstated.

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• Joe Crawford

18th Anniversary on Meetup

Wow this is depressing. Happy anniversary from Meetup 18 years ago, you made the decision to join Meetup and pursue your passions. Since then, you’ve attended 57 events, joined groups, and hopefully met some great people along the way. Happy anniversary from all of us at Meetup. We’re thrilled that you are part of our...

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Ghost compatibility notes

ActivityPub in Ghost has been in beta for a while, with plans to officially ship to everyone in the summer. I started my own test ghost.io blog to troubleshoot compatibility problems. Until now, Micro.blog and Ghost hadn’t played well together on the fediverse. Here are some...

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From Facebook on this day in 2015. "There should be a required college course called Introduction to Assholes. The student would learn how not to be manipulated by jerks."

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BTW, I asked ChatGPT if I moved to NYC in 2009 or 2010. It answered in an instant. "You moved to NYC in 2010." I asked how it knew. It used my blog as the source. We have arrived in the future. This is exactly the kind of query I've been begging Google to support for decades. They could have figured out where my blog is, or let me tell it where it is. Famously they once asked if I had misspelled my mother's last name in a query. How fucking clueless can you get.

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Molly White is documenting the very problematic Looksmaxxing GPT. Now she reports that OpenAI is not going to do anything about it.

I was already thinking that the GPTs experiment is mostly clutter in the ChatGPT sidebar. If OpenAI is not willing to curate it, I wish they’d scrap the whole feature.

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In honor of the Knicks' very successful season, I temporarily put the paper bags fans at the top of the home page.

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Jay Rosen gave a brilliant short talk in 2008 about the role of links in the web, and how journalism would have a hard time translating their self-contained worlds with the idea of the web, which is there is no container other than the whole world. Lots of important ideas in ...

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Suggestion to WordPress devs

Below is a screen shot of a post written by Doc Searls as viewed in Bluesky. It's jarring. The big picture of Doc gets in the way.

Doc's post as viewed in Bluesky. His picture dominates. Imho it shouldn't.

I realize no one designed this, but it also is reality, it's how a lot of people see Doc's writing.

Here's my suggestion. When the user specifies a featured image for a post, set the og:image element in the head section of the page. When they don't specify such an image, omit that element. That's how we did it in the Baseline theme, and I, as the writer, am happy with the result. I suggest doing the same for the theme used in Doc's site.

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BTW, I asked ChatGPT if I moved to NYC in 2009 or 2010. It answered in an instant. "You moved to NYC in 2010." I asked how it knew. It used my blog as the source. We have arrived in the future.

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Krugman is right, living in NYC is amazing. When I lived in Manhattan betw 2010 and 2019, I had it great but toward the end I yearned to live in the mountains, the year before Covid hit (that was a bad time to be in Manhattan, btw). Now I yearn to again live in the city. Fun...

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• Ben Werdmuller

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

[Ava Kofman in The New Yorker] Curtis Yarvin is a pathetic little man: "As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to self-identifying as a king, one might expect to find Yarvin in an exultant mood. In fact, he has spent the past few mont...

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Your butt still stinks

Human beings spend far to much effort feeling better than some people or feeling inferior to others.

This is understandable, I guess, as far as evolution is concerned, up to a point, but I think we've been past that point for a long time now. Now, evolution brought us to a point where in order to survive as a species we have to get over this need to rank people and work together.

So if you feel other people are better than you, get over it. Same thing if you feel better than others. You aren't and they aren't.

Your shit still stinks and as the great Republican philosopher Joni Ernst so eloquently put it, she's going to be dead pretty darned soon and so will you.

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It's already June 2! It seems like just yesterday it was June 1!