👓 Finally, Good News For Everyone Who Misses This Instagram Feature | refinery29

Read Finally, Good News For Everyone Who Misses This Instagram Feature (refinery29.com)
After over a year of users begging Instagram to bring back the chronological feed, the app is listening and offering a compromise.

👓 Update on webmentions | qubyte.codes

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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...

👓 Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works | Washington Post

Read Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works by Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin (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…

👓 Are Targeted Ads Stalking You? Here’s How to Make Them Stop | New York Times

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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.

👓 Accessibility concerns large and small dominate conference discussions | Inside Higher Ed

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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.

👓 QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning | Hapgood

Read QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning by Mike Caulfield (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. …

👓 Scientists have accidentally created a completely new form of carbon | The Independent

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'We now have the recipe for how to make these structures'

👓 My podcast diet: August 2018 | a.wholelottanothing.org

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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…

👓 Things that baffle me about WordPress in 2018 | a.wholelottanothing.org

Read Things that baffle me about Wordpress in 2018 by Matt Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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…

👓 Putting Stickers On Your Laptop Is Probably a Bad Security Idea | Motherboard / Vice

Read Putting Stickers On Your Laptop Is Probably a Bad Security Idea by Joseph Cox (Motherboard)
From border crossings to hacking conferences, that Bitcoin or political sticker may be worth leaving on a case at home.
I had a very short conversation at the IndieWeb Summit 2018 in Portland with Nate Angell about the stickers on his laptop. Who knew he was such a subject area expert that Motherboard/Vice was using his material?

Of course this also reminds me that if academics, journalists, and publications/outlets were using webmentions when they credited creative commons articles, photos, audio, or other content, then the originator would get a notification that it was being used. This could also tip the originator off that their licensed content is being properly used.

👓 Hundreds of Researchers From Top Universities Were Published in Fake Academic Journals | Motherboard

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How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.

👓 With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set | Vanity Fair

Read With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set (The Hive | Vanity Fair)
Axios is hiring Felix Salmon and Courtenay Brown to spearhead its foray into coverage of the public markets.

👓 Let’s Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word | Weekly Standard

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But if there is …
His track record is terrifically clear, I have no more hope for him, or anyone who can’t bring themselves to speak up against him.

👓 Put your multiple personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers | The Firefox Frontier

Read Put your multiple online personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers (The Firefox Frontier)
Our new Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox means you can finally wrangle multiple email/social accounts. Maybe you’ve got two Gmail or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook a...