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Per my last post, what a fantastic reminder that @kocienda is on Micro.blog.
Does that mean that any future famous business-owning government official will have a row of badges? This seems like a recipe for confusion—or perhaps clutter—rather than clarity.
— Ken Kocienda, Thoughts on Twitter Verification
Message boards have this feature. For hobbyists.
Listening to Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man (Lo-Fi), by Lunar Beats 🎵
More Robin Sloan: settling on definitions for “influencer” and “creator”. // @JohnPhilpin
Robin Sloan’s The lost thread is magical. Brilliant, up and down.
Woke up to the wonderful sight of @heyloura’s one-off amongst the falling emoji 😂
Frankly, Apple should have the balls to say okay, we’re moving to two-year macOS major version updates.
— Alan Ralph, macOS Meh
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YouTube and iMessage are the social networks very few Commenters seem to consider to be social networks at all.
I used “Writer” as the job title for a LinkedIn alert and it threw up an error saying “Please use a job title” 😂
Didn’t realise that Glass for Android is now a thing. So it’s now available on;
- the web;
- iOS;
- Android;
- and Windows.
That’s pretty cool tbh.
Now actively doing the Glass thing.
Figuring out where and when I want to publish photos has been in the hopper along with a lot of identity-related work I’ve been doing throughout 2022.
Looking forward to also using Flickr and getting back to my photoblog.
Listening to Kanagawa Waves 1831, by The Geek x VRV, Fakear & Balkan Bump 🎵
“I was able to be a Mum,” she added. “And my kids could be kids, not just carers.”
via Heating prescribed for patients in health trials
We are establishing Universal Income, piecemeal.
Zara McDermott has a rule book for her social media publishing
I’ve been thinking about doing exactly this. Wondering if it wouldn’t help a lot of people, to be honest.
Two things:
- A hello page is such a good idea.
- I miss seeing Colin’s posts. Hope all is well.
The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement.
– Leo Babauta, lowering your life’s requirements
The scope of digital life is often underplayed or entirely misunderstood by a lot of people, whether hobbyists or those who publish.
Yes, a lot of what made Twitter is clearly going to disappear entirely. But make no mistake, a lot of people will never care about ownership.
Listening to Budapest by George Ezra 🎵