My last piece of content that I made was on June 9th, 2023. It was partially an essay about the end of Twitter and the end of Reddit but it also originally contained a section about me talking about how I was giving my newsletter another shot after some time
The Death of Internet Communities 1.0 First it was Twitter and now Reddit. There are more and more fun places online seemingly ruining things for their own short-term gain. If you aren't aware here is a very brief explanation and places you can go to learn more
Content Moderation
Today Techdirt released their second game, Moderator Mayhem. It is a “game that lets you see how good a job you would do as a front line content moderator,” Mike Masnick writes, “for a growing technology company that hosts user-generated content”. Not only does the game have you moderate content,
Casey Newton
I was listening to a recent episode of the podcast Hard Fork, and a specific part of it really resonated with me. It was where Casey Newton was talking to his co-host, Kevin Roose, about NPR’s decision to leave Twitter after getting a “state-affiliated media” badge. You know what
Mastodon
People signing up for Mastodon will no longer have to worry about what server to go to. Instead, Mastodon will now be defaulting to a server they operate. Eugen Rochko, Mastodon’s Founder and CEO, explained his reasoning for this saying that “[m]aking the onboarding process as easy as
Content Moderation
Shortly after Substack announced their Twitter competitor Substack Notes Nilay Patel interviewed Substack’s CEO, Chris Best, to talk about it. In it, Patel asked Best if the statement “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America” would be censored on Substack Notes. Best refused
Apps
Nick Heer writing on Pixel Envy: Here are three relatively recent interactions I have had with independent software developers:In November 2020, I suggested a separate display of the optional external_url property for JSON Feeds in NetNewsWire. I was not sure how to program this, but I thought it
Apple
Jarrod Blundy writing at HeyDingus: Tonight, I noticed something curious about Apple’s latest post to their official Newsroom, a blog of sorts where the company makes public statements and press releases. The post regarding the opening dates for their two newest retail stores is categorized as a ‘Quick Read’
Audio
Craig Smith wrote a very interesting post for Freesound. In it he explained how took tape with sound effects ranging from the 30’s and 80’s and restored them. The kicker is that one of those recordings was the Wilhelm Scream. The biggest issue he had was a lot
Matt Taibbi
I have been eating popcorn all weekend as I read more and more about the dispute between Substack and Twitter. If you haven’t been following the Twitter and Substack drama, you can check out a great timeline of events from The Verge. I’ll give you a small summary
Mehdi Hasan
Along with the full interview of MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan interviewing Matt Taibbi, Tech Dirt goes into even more detail about the errors and inaccuracies Taibii brought with his reporting on the Twitter Files. Mike Masnick writing for Tech Dirt: Hasan came prepared with facts. Lots of them. Many of
Daniel Jalkut
Daniel Jalkut on Red Sweater’s blog: A few weeks ago, I found myself staring at the about box for the app, and this default shade of blue stood out to me: There’s nothing particularly wrong with it. It is, after all, the default color for all links. But