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Thanksgiving is over so you know what that means
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Thanksgiving is over so you know what that means
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Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool
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Yup. This realization completely changed the way I use social media. I was being manipulated into engaging with and propagating bad takes. It hijacks human tendency to believe something that is repeated often enough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusor...
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yup. This realization completely changed the way I use social media. I was being manipulated into engaging with and propagating bad takes. It hijacks human tendency to believe something that is repeated often enough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusor...
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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When I worked on social features for online games, my favorite test for whether we were taking player safety into account was the "Ex-boyfriend Test", as in:
If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?
If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?
Bad actors will SQL inject you, but they will also find ways to take your “good faith” features and abuse them: location services, community tagging, voting, auto-moderating with mass reporting.
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When I worked on social features for online games, my favorite test for whether we were taking player safety into account was the "Ex-boyfriend Test", as in:
If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?
If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?
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A better world is possible
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
October 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A better world is possible
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here's my take: I think humans are really fucking good. inherently. I think we are amazingly kind and giving. and everything about the world we live in is an attempt to stop us from being that. I think our societies step in to stop us from being good. I think our culture punishes us. but we ARE good
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
here's my take: I think humans are really fucking good. inherently. I think we are amazingly kind and giving. and everything about the world we live in is an attempt to stop us from being that. I think our societies step in to stop us from being good. I think our culture punishes us. but we ARE good
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It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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This and the removal of lead from fuel are probably two of the greatest achievements of the last few decades.
I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
Let's All Remember When We Saved The World
To remind ourselves we can do it again.
everythingisamazing.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This and the removal of lead from fuel are probably two of the greatest achievements of the last few decades.
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this. if this wasn't true, they wouldn't be spinning info so visibly desperately at every opportunity
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
September 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
this. if this wasn't true, they wouldn't be spinning info so visibly desperately at every opportunity
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made this for my server, feel free to use it for yours too
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
made this for my server, feel free to use it for yours too
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they didnt pay the guy who snitched on luigi and they arent paying this one either
September 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
they didnt pay the guy who snitched on luigi and they arent paying this one either
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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!
Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer?
That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!
Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer?
That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!
July 14, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!
Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer?
That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!
Did you know you don't have to write every thought you have on the computer?
That's right - believe it or not there are many cases where the thrill of likes and reposts do not outweigh the potential real world consequences, regardless of how unlikely they are!
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JENNY HOLZER "IN A DREAM", 1991
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
JENNY HOLZER "IN A DREAM", 1991
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I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too.
In 1973 a man wrote to E.B. White expressing his fears about the bleak future of humanity. This was White’s response:
August 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too.
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HORIZON ZERO DAWN (2017)
The U.S. Army is testing a fully AI controlled ground vehicle near Russia.
It's called the ULTRA and runs on Overland AI’s proprietary OverDrive software, a system that’s designed to give AI full control over ground vehicles on the battlefield.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-u-s-army...
It's called the ULTRA and runs on Overland AI’s proprietary OverDrive software, a system that’s designed to give AI full control over ground vehicles on the battlefield.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-u-s-army...
The U.S. Army Is Testing AI Controlled Ground Drones Near a Border with Russia
The OverDrive is made to let ground vehicles navigate tough terrain with minimal input from humans.
www.404media.co
August 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
HORIZON ZERO DAWN (2017)
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed"
If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous
If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous
we are going to need to keep up this 'yelling at payment processors' energy for more than just today
Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks
As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact
Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks
As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact
July 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed"
If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous
If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous
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When it happens, you're probably not even going to learn about it directly before you feel it in the air. You'll just hear car horns and cheering in the streets. You'll feel confused, annoyed. You'll check your phone. Huh, 41 new texts.
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When it happens, you're probably not even going to learn about it directly before you feel it in the air. You'll just hear car horns and cheering in the streets. You'll feel confused, annoyed. You'll check your phone. Huh, 41 new texts.
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Serebii Update: New key art for Pokémon Legends Z-A www.serebii.net
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Serebii Update: New key art for Pokémon Legends Z-A www.serebii.net