I started a new substack on Mars exploration, called Mars For The Rest of Us. The first post is up, on the Martian housing crisis (for microbes). Hope to see my fellow space nerds in the comments! mceglowski.substack.com/p/is-mars-ha...
Imagine being this rich but you still can't afford to buy a vowel.
I wish they would come for this poem
Those phrases are still in currency with the old meaning, except I guess to you.
Twain never said it. The quote is from Christian Nestell Bovee
It would be fascinating to see Facebook go full 4chan! But we both understand that this stuff falls into bins, and Facebook can keep most of them intact (antiterrorism, CSEM, crypto fraud) while ditching the more ideological layers. What I'm most curious about is how it plays out in other countries.
I think there's a more charitable reading of the situation where Zuckerberg sees a perfect exit ramp from what has become a losing game, while also demonstrating some decent political instincts. People really dislike platform moderation!
My favorite family holiday tradition is watching past phone footage of a decade of NYE fireworks
Federal law requires that you now watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6L...
Blocked and reported
Wrong. Buy cast iron and devote your life to the pursuit of a mythical frictionless 'seasoning' attainable only by those who have tasted the essence of pure flavor, and instantly destroyed by dish soap
You sound extremely burdened by what has been.
I feel like this also represents a more sophisticated understanding of Trump on their part.
Demand to be buried with a stone tablet saying “Detailed descriptions of our political, phonological, and economic systems in Tomb Two”
This font is never okay
Stay safe! London Breed has cautioned San Franciscans to move one block inland; consider wearing a slightly thicker sole if going outdoors today.
Let's remember that the Secretary of Defense is very likely to end up in the de facto nuclear chain of command once the red balloon goes up.
Mandatory French re-education camps
Not really.
I'm not sure that Threads ever 'got' the Twitter dynamic. But I never used the site, and have only heard about it secondhand. What was your impression of it?
I see the situation as analogous to email->gmail. The founders of this site, for essentially ideological reasons, took pains to build a decentralized protocol. But the forces pushing for concentration are unstoppable, and it's really hard to sell "decentralized" on abstract philosophical grounds.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes Bluesky to ditch the pretense of decentralization, since in practice it is the direct opposite to what users want.
They used this to weed out the stupid ones
Wishing this site was a little less "Subaru bumper sticker".
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This is called the argument from authority.
You proved his point in two words!
2016 wants its meme back!
Since this place has API access, I'm considering adding Bluesky support to Pinboard, but I'd like to hear about people's needs. Do you want an archive of your own stuff? Something that collects stuff you like or retweet? A way to bookmark individual posts on here? I'm all ears about use cases.