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🗞 Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe steps down as W3C CEO; Ralph Swick appointed Interim CEO ift.tt/V1GKpUP

@duncanmak @rauschma That's what I think, too: that a well designed standard would have worked better than React-centric and idiosyncratic JSX…

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i maintain the identity associated with the bits I was born with, and also, am very good with computers

that is to say, I'm a cis admin

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> _“When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about significantly changing the present by doing something small, but hardly anyone thinks that they can significantly change the future by doing something small”_

🏆 🤯

reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/co

@thomasfuchs

You are wrong. There are legit use cases for where the alternatives (banks, cards, cash, etc) are worse.

qoto.org/@tripu/10853508405125

It's like saying you don't see a point in glasses and contact lenses just because you happen to have good eyesight but keep on seeing ads everywhere, optician's shops, and people around you spending money on all that.

@thomasfuchs

> _“If you’re in a developed country, and you’re happy with your banking system, and you’re not a sex worker, and you have zero concerns about your country being taken over by fascists, you probably don’t need cryptocurrency and shouldn’t worry about it. If other people say they do need it, don’t call them liars and say you know with certainty that nobody has ever used crypto for anything besides Ponzi schemes and monkey pictures.”_

astralcodexten.substack.com/p/

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@thomasfuchs Just because you haven’t found a use for it (and like me get inundated with bullshit crypto scams) doesn’t mean it isn’t being used in productive ways. They just aren’t very sexy or meme-able.

ibm.com/topics/smart-contracts

@slothrop

fwiw, for [my blog](blog.tripu.info/) I use [Docusaurus](docusaurus.io/), which I think is veeery similar to , and supports “personal blog” as [one of its use cases out of the box](docusaurus.io/docs/blog) (sidebar, authors, dates, feeds, etc).

/cc @neil

If ever there was a reason to make , and mandatory in certain cases:

> _“Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust. […] There's no ethical case for permanently attaching computers to people's nervous systems without giving them the absolute, irrevocable right to nominate who maintains those computers and how.”_

pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/uns

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Kind reminder that commentary about the — or about any other event (past, present or future) of any kind — is always like this.

vectorbelly.com/electrical177.

@admitsWrongIfProven

I'm glad you liked it!

I usually trust that high-profile Twitter accounts will be somehow always preserved for posterity.

afaik, Catalan is widely used by public administrations and by private media companies. Whoever is accusing the central government of suppressing the Catalan language has the onus to prove it, I'd say. I don't know one way or another. My own experience visiting Barcelona etc tells me that most captions, documents, etc are in both Spanish and Catalan. In fact, sometimes they're in English and in Catalan — and not in Spanish.

@admitsWrongIfProven

Most MSM have taken sides from the beginning, yes.

I wrote a long piece about the back then, in case you want to dig deeper:

tripu.medium.com/referendum-e5

@gnramires

Hum, thanks for the idea. I'm sure that would be a fun project, but I want to have detailed political and geographical data on the map.

@admitsWrongIfProven

It's complicated.

My take: that particular attempt at secession didn't succeed, but separatists are anything but sitting idle: they're constantly pressing to gain privileges, lying, distorting public opinion, and frankly breaking the law every so often.

Nobody's “oppressed” in .

The criminal separatist leaders are being handled exquisitely well by the government: they are raised to the level of legitimate political interlocutors, some of them were pardoned, and now a few others will see their sentences reduced by virtue of this change in the law.

It's all very disgusting, IMHO.

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