👓 Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It? | Motherboard

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I quit Twitter to join a kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.

The Brooklyn Neighborhood Blogger with the Paul Manafort Scoop

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A stray news tip led to the discovery that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, owns a brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost | Quanta Magazine

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When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations | The Guardian

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These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average

👓 Day 7: To AMP or not to AMP? #100DaysOfIndieWeb | Kevin Marks

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Alan made a bookmarklet to go from the AMP version of an article to the canonical one. This is useful for sharing, but as Aaron pointed out, going the other way is handy for removing ad cruft, which can be a 14GB/day download. So, here's the 'to amp' version:javascript:var url = false;var links = do...

👓 The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős | New York Times

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This week we celebrate the life of the most published mathematician in history, Paul Erdős (AIR-dosh), who was born 100 years ago on March 26. Dr. Erdős, who has been called the world’s greatest problem poser and solver, collaborated with over 500 mathematicians before his death in 1996.

“There are still a lot of Erdős’s vibrations going around,” says Ronald L. Graham, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and longtime Erdős friend and collaborator. “His impact will be felt for a long time.”

Donald, This I Will Tell You | New York Times

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Donald, you said you could shake up Washington and make it work again. Instead, you’re the one who got worked over. 
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👓 Recent Social Importer Updates | Beau Lebens

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I’ve been trying to make small improvements to the Keyring Social Importers package (and People & Places) that I maintain, and have made a number of them over the last few weeks. Here are some details of recent updates which you may have missed: People & Places Improved the labels being used for e...

📖 Read Loc 1-261 of 6508 of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu

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So you think that you control what you read, watch, and listen to? Better take a closer look…

Many will know and understand the outline of the argument here, but it’s important to read the details of the case studies so we can help break “The Cycle”, an aptly named problem.

In some sense, this is a microcosm of governments over the past 12,000+ years when looked at from a Big History perspective.

Why You Should Never Accept The First Hotel Room You’re Offered | Huffington Post

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Be courteous, but firm.
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