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Yeah, if you're not an Ernest P. Worrell fan you won't recognize the last half of that one, ha.

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Hardly a surprise but mildly interesting: wapo.st/3PKP5uA - if you give a thumbs up to a contract, it could be binding.

y'all remember when we did bird! at the [location] callouts and got like twenty or thirty people posting their bird sightings

can we keep doing that occasionally but with a hashtag? I suggest #birdCallOut

I like hearing about y'all's birds but also I want people to be able to avoid this mess if they so choose 😅

My latest Rhetorical Tricks column is on the propaganda power of nostalgia--I explain what the research says about why nostalgia can make us watch, buy, click and turn fascist:
resolutesquare.com/articles/3e

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I'm jumping the gun on this, but of the 31k surveyed so far, yes it does look like the Fediverse is a community of "old" people. 🧓

Honestly, I'm okay with it.

mastodon.art/@jsstaedtler/1106

I know this has been #Meta’s directive for a while in other apps, but we’ve seen post-2016 that every platform is weaponized as a new political attack surface. Especially if #Threads takes off in part because it mimics #Twitter’s function, we shouldn’t be surprised if a growing percentage of the interactions mimic Twitter in form (i.e. coordinated harassment, brigading, etc)

These problems aren’t solved by leaning into other communities

#socialmedia #tech #Facebook

theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334

Like Twitter, Threads wants to be a public square, but with less angry discourse, according to Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri. pcmag.com/news/threads-we-dont

Show HN: Open-source in-browser code editor/executor with REPL, 10+ languages
L: github.com/logicboard/logicboa
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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