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I don’t think RSS is required for soldering to be a blog, but I do think it’s required for it to be a viable one.

> We lean on ChatGPT to rewrite blog posts

Not anybody I read.

How do I start worshipping Wikipedia so it can become a church?

My frustration is that you can’t add monetized videos to that list, so there’s a lot of great science videos you can’t add.

One the one hand, yes.

On the other hand:

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore.”

- Julius Goat

I’m not sure if you know this, but Python and JavaScript are different languages. Their libraries are different ecosystems, so that’s definitely a hallucination.

Executive Orders are not law.

The say on the front page preordering is the only way to get one.

You could add it to the bankruptcy laws; the trustee would hire someone to release the code.

What order replies are shown in is a user profile option.

Google+ was wildly successful in certain circles. Tabletop RPG design still hasn’t entirely recovered from its loss.

Google+ was successful from any real metric but it didn’t replace Facebook so it was axed.

Your “following” is reverse chronological.

Knew what this was without clicking on it.

This underestimates the effect of Bluesky’s culture of “block and move on”. There are curated block lists you can subscribe to. Individual communities do a pretty good job of shutting down toxicity they don’t want to engage with.

People blocking jerks isn’t censorship. Do you have a source that there’s any kind of censorship going on stronger than other social media networks?

Run, you pigeons, it’s Robert Frost!

The 17th largest city in the US is mid-sized?

I will wager a box of donuts the like-hiding was due to some combination of politics and Musk’s embarrassment for being called out every time he liked some cringe porn-adjacent tweet.

No, but we try to guarantee that you have food.

This is so disgusting. The idea of milking maximum profit from such a basic human function really highlights the way extreme capitalism trends toward evil.

People who quote Monty Python aren’t nerds, they’re just old.

The sooner my kid learns someone is always watching, the better.

Two or three times a year, I schedule a dozen emails to my wife. Just little missives that say something sweet that I appreciate about her. I spread them out over the next few months, so she gets little reminders from me that say I love you.

When I’m staring down a long, busy day and she looks run down, I schedule an email a few hours later to say “Hope your day is going well, you’re awesome and I’m grateful to have you.”

When my wife gets the emails, I’m almost certainly not thinking about her. I’m usually at work focused on work.

Am I doing romance wrong?

I recently got into TCGs for the first time in 20 years (I’m in my 40s), and holy hell is the structured activity with recurring people liberating. I’ve made more fiends in the last six weeks than I had in the previous three years.

I work on a small internal ERP, and our new UX guy said “nobody needs all this info”. And I said “agreed, nobody uses more than six columns. But the key stakeholders can only agree on 5.”

I think that’s the key: nobody needs 20 buttons on a microwave, but some people love defrost or popcorn or whatever.

Key question on children’s books: Who’s the illustrator?

How are they inferior?

Why would you possibly want a contract of social norms enforced by the letter instead of the spirit? That sounds awful.

Apple Maps is free the same way the Andes mint on my pillow is free at a hotel: you're paying for an entire experience.

If Apple Maps isn't available to to people without Apple devices, it's not free.

Make a horror game where Mickey Mouse is hunting you?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2635640/Infestation_88/