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I love this idea: both that robots would be fascinated with early web design, and that they built an actual website for the fictional restaurant using the aesthetic! @annaleen Automatic Noodle https://www.automaticnoodle.website/ Looking forward to the book!

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When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

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The irony of calling someone "weak" because they...didn't give into your bullying?

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Took a first look at @kagihq maps. I had to see if they were using OpenStreetMap as a base (they are, with Mapbox on top of it) and if it renders buildings with multiple height sections (it does). 👍

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A classic found in my Pocket exports: When Researchers Used IHOP to Determine if Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake #pancakes #kansas #ihop

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Sincere question: Does anyone here actually _like_ any of #Disney's live-action (or photorealistic animation, in the case of the Lion King) remakes? * Which one(s)? * Do you like it as much, more than, or not as much as the original cartoon, and why?

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New datacenters should be required to support themselves using renewable energy.

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[Uspol, offshore wind farms] The article is mostly about a project in Maine, but also mentions one in California that needs to coordinate with NOAA regarding a recently designated marine sanctuary. Which makes me wonder: On one hand, we have a president who hates renewable energy and wind […]

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I look back on the 3 musketeers of web design in the 1990s: Jeffrey Zeldman, David Siegel, and Jakob Nielsen. Each had a distinct web design philosophy (and if you read till the end, you'll discover which one I believe 'won' in the long term). I focus in particular on 1997, which is when Flash […]

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In Neverwinter, jello eats you!

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There are too many bad ways to mistype #DuckDuckGo

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Due to the reprehensible behavior of our fascist president, our worthless quisling governor, and the soulless ghouls at Fox News, there has been a tremendous amount of harassment directed at AB Hernandez, a trans girl competing in the state track & field championship tomorrow. If you're in […]

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The old landline phone's text-to-speech for caller ID sometimes comes up with utterly bizarre pronunciations, like "sur-vee re-zir-ich" (Survey Research)

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New software review on my website! Ecosia (Search and Browser) ★★★★☆ Non-profit search provider that uses renewable energy and partners with environmental organizations. AKA 'the search engine that plants trees.' https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ecosia/ #software #search #webBrowser […]

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[Uspol, "efficiency'"] A telling paragraph: https://18f.org/announcement-of-legal-challenge/ > From streamlining federal permitting to making it easier for everyday people to file their taxes, our interrupted projects—already funded and underway—were exactly the type of technology […]

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Hot take: stop using words ending in "ism" to discuss politics. Labels are convenient shorthand, but they don't mean the same thing to everyone. That ambiguity totally interferes with earnest conversations. And it's shamelessly abused by malicious pundits to create false equivalences.

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SoCal community invited to help map goldspotted oak borer infestations in June > A tiny beetle is causing big problems for Southern California’s oak trees. Goldspotted oak borer larvae tunnel beneath the bark and feed on the tissues that transport the tree’s water and nutrients, slowly starving […]

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Welp, Amazon canceled its Wheel of Time adaptation. My thoughts: 1. Dammit, just when it was getting really good, and all the main characters are finally set on their paths! 2. At least I don't have to argue with myself over re-subscribing to Prime for a month when the next season doesn't […]

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I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess. There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make […]

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Flash vs. the Measles: The Show Must Go On! "A producer sabotages a rival's play by faking a measles outbreak among the cast, forcing a quarantine. The solution: the Flash plays every part at once!" Ah, the 1940s, when people still understood what quarantines are for. #measles #TheFlash […]

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A quotation from Orwell > Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your […]

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Interesting: a crowdfunded project to help trans individuals in places where getting proper HRT treatment is difficult (or impossible) by providing syringes, needles, wipes and sharps disposal kits for those taking the DIY route. No medication, just the equipment to use it safely. HRT Harm […]

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So I imported my Pocket history to Wallabag using the csv files. Did I mention I've been using Pocket for more than a decade? I _really_ should've curated that export first.

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As someone who actually used Pocket for over a decade, I'm kind of sad that it's shutting down...but then I mainly used it for the read-it-later features it began with, not the recommendation engine Mozilla turned it into, and I finally switched to Wallabag for that a few months ago. #Mozilla […]

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More on magic: I'm tired of people who pretend that technology is magic. Technology is magic, but not in the way you think. It is magic when: it is explainable, teachable, usable. Technology that excludes people, technology that elevates self-professed magicians so they can gatekeep […]

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sorry to #USPol but if you’re American and especially if you’re cis please call your senators today to oppose this travesty of an anti-trans healthcare bill https://bsky.app/profile/laurelpowell.net/post/3lprboabyk22g

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Oh, Collins and Murkowski have "voiced concerns" about the bill. That makes me feel _so_ much better /s

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New book review on my website! Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler ★★★★★ Hard to put down. And hard to pick up again. It's certainly not a _fun_ book, but it's extremely engaging, despite the bleakness of the slow-apocalypse setting and story […]

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Now, more than ever, writing clearly with a distinct voice is going to be such a skill. One of the most important things you can learn to do.

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Good on Signal! https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/ Not only are they doing the right thing, they’re publishing a clear, forceful, and occasionally amusing write-up on how and why: For Example: <quote>“Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a […]

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I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things. Places like tailors, cobblers, electronics repair are all at risk of vanishing along with the skills required to do these things. Right at a moment when we should be […]

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Protest on weekends - NOT weekdays. You're being played, as conservatives pretend to be your allies temporarily on social media, so that you will protest once again sometime during the middle of the week, while most people have work or school, or general appointments that keep them unavailable […]

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal The original web page describing the development of a 3D equivalent to the Mandelbrot set. #fractal #Mandelbrot #Mandelbulb

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"Unknown word: shawarma Replace with: warmish" I mean, I don't want to eat it _cold_ , but still... _sigh_ [Add To Dictionary]

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I....what???? "California man who used underwater scooter to evade arrest pleads guilty to investment fraud" https://www.dailybreeze.com/2025/05/16/california-man-who-used-underwater-scooter-in-lake-to-try-to-evade-arrest-pleads-guilty-to-fraud/ The article's paywalled, unfortunately #weird #wtf

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The Duck Who Loved Cash https://inphotos.org/2025/05/16/the-duck-who-loved-cash/

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Recently, there was a post going around claiming that AI isn't actually that big a deal insofar as the climate emergency is concerned. I'm always trying to make sure my arguments and facts are as precise and correct as they can be, so I gave it a read. Sadly, it turned out to be more […]

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Come to think of it, Vance is basically Thénardier if he got rich: https://theonion.com/trump-casts-cabinet-in-les-miserables-amid-kennedy-center-boycott/ #LesMiserables #TheOnion #satire #musicals

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[Wondering about low-light photography] So, one of the cool things about digital cameras is that they can mitigate camera shake by taking a series of short exposures, each with minimal movement, aligning them and stacking them, instead of a single long exposure that shows all the movement. But […]

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ProPublica: Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined. https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-diversity-initiatives-trump

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I wrote about Great Replacement Grok and the growing number of ways that AI systems are working against their own users. It's the age of adversarial AI: https://www.platformer.news/grok-white-genocide-x-adversarial-ai/

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New software review on my website! Orion Browser ★★★★★ A Mac-native WebKit browser from Kagi that's more advanced than Safari, slightly cleaner than Arc or Zen, and can run Chromium/Firefox extensions. I may be sticking with this as my main web browser on macOS […]

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I sent this to #RAINN after reading the article linked in the middle: > I'm extremely disappointed to learn that in response to Trump's attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, you've banned resources for LGBTQ people, immigrants and other at-risk people as described in today's New York […]

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New software review on my website! Postmarks ★★★★☆ A self-hosted public bookmarks/linkblogging server (think Delicious or Pinboard) that can interact with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/postmarks/ #software #bookmarks #smallInternet […]

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