So I’m back blogging! And I haven’t used wordpress.com in ages, but I wanted to share my running list of WTF moments over the past week of using the site and service, both at work (we j…
Month: August 2018
👓 My podcast diet: August 2018 | a.wholelottanothing.org
I listen to several dozen podcasts, usually when doing boring tasks like errands, dishes, or car trips, on the order of 5-8 hours per week, and mostly at the expense of time I used to spend listeni…
👓 Scientists have accidentally created a completely new form of carbon | The Independent
'We now have the recipe for how to make these structures'
👓 QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning | Hapgood
I have been talking about Pinterest as a disinformation platform for a long time, so this article on QAnon memes on Pinterest is not surprising at all: Many of those users also pinned QAnon memes. …
👓 Accessibility concerns large and small dominate conference discussions | Inside Higher Ed
Administrators and professors alike wonder how their institutions' progress in making course content available to all students compares with others, as advocates continue their push.
👓 Are Targeted Ads Stalking You? Here’s How to Make Them Stop | New York Times
Ever been haunted by an online ad for an item you researched or bought? Targeted ads were designed to follow you around everywhere. Here’s how to banish them.
👓 Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works | Washington Post
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so it doesn’t enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and false news, including conspiracy theories shared by prominent users like Alex Jones and Infowars.
In an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday, Dorsey said he was experimenting with features that would promote alternative viewpoints in Twitter’s timeline to address misinformation and reduce “echo chambers.” He also expressed openness to labeling bots — automated accounts that sometimes pose as human users — and redesigning key elements of the social network, including the “like” button and the way Twitter displays users’ follower counts.
Lip service, to be sure…
Reply to Kartik Singhal about Webmention
Kartik Singhal (Twitter)I found an upcoming solution to this problem -- webmentions! See: https://t.co/1hcg4hAgJ4
— Kartik Singhal (@k4rtik) August 16, 2018
Let me know if you need help finding resources. I see you have a Hugo site and I’m pretty sure someone has set it up for Webmention use before. https://indieweb.org/Hugo
👓 Update on webmentions | qubyte.codes
In a recent post I wrote that I had integrated webmentions, and some of that has since changed. Time for an update. I was using Netlify form handling as an easy way to handle webmentions, but unfortunately they inject an additional input into forms. This input is required by Netlify to name the form...
All things as sad, depressing, and deplorable as this belong in museums where they’re part of our history instead of our present.
Scale model of the Manzanar internment camp
A scale replica of Manzanar
The entrance to the hapa.me exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum
A massive Hello Kitty statue inside the Japanese American National Museum
Exterior of the Japanese American National Museum
A massive Rubik’s cube outside, but it only moves along one axis
A donation Thursday. Painfully depressing stories here… I hope I see some better ones soon.
A massive Rubik’s cube outside, but it only moves along one axis
Exterior of the Japanese American National Museum
A massive Hello Kitty statue inside the Japanese American National Museum
The entrance to the hapa.me exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum
A scale replica of Manzanar
Scale model of the Manzanar internment camp
All things as sad, depressing, and deplorable as this belong in museums where they’re part of our history instead of our present.
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Photo taken at: Japanese American National Museum
