Link. Trump playing cards was such a dumb move even the craven sense weakness.
Daily Archives: December 20, 2022
Configurable Mastodon UX with Steampipe running against Mastodon API.
Link. “simple control for boosts that enables me to see my home timeline with or without boosts”. I want option to also show only root posts.
Ghana gone bad: “Ghana’s leaders have become addicted to the cycle of debt and bailout — this is the 17th time the IMF has helped them out of debt”
Link. Government made very bad investment decisions.
Where to send people with Twitter Files delusions.
Link. Caveat: I am following Musk’s Twitter Files ravings from a distance and only scanned this article. Sharing it because I think it’s a good reference to have at hand.
“WordPress Plugin that allows you to embed Block Protocol blocks into posts on your WordPress sites just as easily as you insert any other block.”
Link. 1990s style semantic markup automation with human readable structured descriptions.
“former president Donald Trump planned even before the 2020 election to declare he had won even if he actually lost, and how he executed that plan”
Link. He’d been good about making each small step seem possibly undirected.
“In contrast to the ‘Native American elevated alcohol consumption’ belief, Native Americans compared to whites had lower or comparable rates across the range of alcohol measures examined.”
Link. Alcohol is abused widely.
“Internet America. … more real to most Americans than all the stop signs, livestock, and boarded-up storefronts.”
Link. I’d expected this ever since Asimov’s Solaris, but it became true so gradually it went unremarked. “Internet America is the place where our myths become dogma.”
“Within 48 hours we were getting threats in email and on other platforms as well as on Twitter”
Link. Musk aimed his minions at them. Because they hurt his feelings.