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2014: The most extreme right-wing one-sided government in KS history is elected.
More people cared about Stan Lee’s death than care about Bill Maher alive.
– Neil Gaiman 😂😂😂
This one’s for you, @mikedotfm.
I’m producing a number to try to illustrate what I believe.
– Justice Minister Rory Stewart
This is the kind of thinking that gets you a job, and a significantly influential one, in this country. Never felt more pride in my life.
While I’m complaining about stuff: 1. I don’t like Medium.com, 2. I hate autoplay 3. I’m not signing up for your damn newsletter because you just covered up the entire screen and everything I came to your site for, you muppet, 4. I don’t want to chat either.
Same.
Replying to one of these usernames will send a Webmention to that user’s external web site.
– Manton Reece, Usernames on Micro.blog
That’s just fucking cool.
It’s too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon – to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.
Explaining his decision in a speech to Parliament, Mr Abiy said women were “less corrupt than men” and would help restore peace and stability.
Ethiopia’s PM gives half the cabinet to women to ‘restore peace’
False news is 70% more likely to be tweeted than true stories. It takes true stories about six times as long as false stories to reach 1500 people.
… hello from a Windows desktop Micro Blog app.
– Kohan Ikin (@syneryder)
Kohan is also making the app available for MacOS and Linux, by the looks of it.
Perhaps the API isn’t so bad.
Be constructive, be helpful, be kind. Make your blog posts not too long, not too short, not too stream-of-consciousness and not too terse. Remember your elementary writing classes. Have a thesis, make your argument, restate your thesis.
Compared to hosting your own blog and auto-posting it to Micro.blog, which won’t cost you and won’t make Micro.blog any revenue, posting for a hosted blog seems to decrease your ownership.
Note: Self-hosting actually costs a lot.
The iPhone XS is faster than an iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 JavaScript benchmark.
Sure, go ahead and talk about the cost of this device as if it’s just a phone.
Please keep this Twitter. Please!
– Colin Devroe on Twitter seemingly fixing the timeline
Assuming this isn’t just another experiment it’ll be interesting to see if Twitter are pressured into backing out of their bad decisions.
Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.
News To Let You Know You Are Already Living In A Dictatorship No Really It Is Happening Right Now Why Are You Reading This
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You: “Google is evil!”
Me: “OK. Offer alternatives.”
You: “Here, make a bunch of accounts, try these things that may or may not work, and spend a bunch of money.”
We have to do better than this. Stop thinking your moral indignation and niche knowledge is enough.
I care about history, but not at the expense of the future.
– Brent Simmons, Decision: Not Publishing NetNewsWire 3.x
This type of thinking is one of the reasons the 3rd party ecosystem for Apple is, frankly, invaluable.
App not installed.
– Android’s reaction as a result of an accidental tap I made.
Feels super great to be punished for an accidental tap. What an amazing OS. 😐
We can’t make a headline feature from WWDC work on time but here’s a firmware update for a product we no longer sell.
– Apple, August 2018
One of the changes it made was to stop third-parties from being able to post to Facebook as the logged-in user.
Facebook’s change to the cross-posting API kicked in for Twitter; they have now fucked up by deleting thousands of cross-posted posts.