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A place being better by some metrics doesn't mean it's better by all. It depends on which parameters matter most to you. Imagine the overall desperation someone must feel when even a lack of health coverage won't stop them from flocking here.

Didn't know about this. Thanks! Although, as paradoxically expected, in order to use it you need an active IG account. Which is... the main problem. I was also advised to write to the California AG.

This is useful info and POV. Thanks so much for the pointers. Everything is exhausting right now, including using basic tools that became de facto behemoths of communications.

I have been trying a combination of those—though the app doesn't like GrapheneOS either, I suspect. I transitioned most of my overseas family to Signal and other channels, though some of them just won't—and I understand that.

P.S. Happy to see another Kagi user help here. :)

I understand the sentiment. In principle, I agree with conscious use of these tools.

In this specific case, however, it wasn't for general browsing. After living overseas for more than a decade, you realize that, for some people, these platforms function as essential infrastructure. I can't force my old aunt on Signal or Matrix or whatever. It had become the only channel to call my 76yo uncle. Family I'd just reconnected with. This is especially true during a divorce with far away aging family members.

My post is less about my need for Instagram and more about the systemic problem: what recourse does a person have when a company's automated moderation fails and the original reason for the ban is proven invalid? That's the technical/procedural question I'm hoping to find an answer for.

While Americans can mean "from the US", the term "statunitensi" is how people from the US are commonly called in Italy. And in other countries. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and calling Americans for people from the US is just a figure of speech called synecdoche.

Many Italian newspapers (example: IlPost) and, I suspect, many non-US media, report this as “the second American Pope, the first from the USA.”

Which, I think, is fair, as South and Latin are also America. And so is Canada. And so was Francis.

But I usually find it a hard concept to convey to my fellow local USsians.

George Carlin on the ridiculousness of euphemistic language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY

Right. Paraphrasing, any sufficiently popular art piece is indistinguishable from marketing.

I like optimists.

The reality is that only he can help himself. He's just facing the search he delayed up to now. It's good he's facing it. Most never will.

Opposite problem. I am tied to a corporate job, and I'd absolutely know how to use every second. No, really. Every second.

Julian.com (Julian Shapiro) is a great, hyper-focused example of regularly refined pages.

Even though I'm sure someone has created a laser-printed photo exhibition to make an artistic point, photographers (and galleries, and museums) still exist–both hobbyists and professionals.

Design and content references must have felt like a cute satirical reference at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T...

Those humans. When will they stop?

(This should also be read as a joke.)

Original quote by George Carlin, not US-centric: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

Sarcasm is a valid theory.

Q.E.D. :)

Lol. Lines like this make it clear that anyone speaking about it has never actually lived in Chicago.

They may own a big hotel, run for public office, or (here) they may link a source or two leveraging a couple of neighborhoods raising statistics.

But they clearly never lived in, or know what it's like to live in, Chicago.

“It” feels more appropriate than “she” for an ethereal entity.

Besides, attributing a gender to an AI can be misleading and anthropomorphizes a non-human entity, creating unrealistic expectations from the start.

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher

No, it's not time to stop taking photos of strangers because capturing a public moment is called documentary, reportage, and also is an art practiced for a century or more by the likes of Cartier-Bresson and Martin Parr. And it's a journalist's ethical duty, or even a citizen's, important in case of abuse of power, such as murdering by law enforcement forces in certain countries. However, it's important to dismantle platforms that reward engagement based on voyeurism and cruelty towards strangers for the purpose of advertising, such as the cases described in the article. So no, unless stop taking film and photos of strangers means disabling all the security cameras that constantly intrude in our lives in public spaces to analyze data unilaterally. Which is what would remain.

Lead generation marketing materials that make millions with a Facebook or Google campaign don't need copyright. Most livelihood for media and creatives doesn't come from entertainment, but in the form of ephemeral "content."

Sadly, content copyright doesn't matter much to the companies that produce that.

"If."

As if leadership did not already cut copywriters, designers, or accountants during the last rounds of "optimizations."

And as if video productions don't increasingly use ElevenLabs to replace voice actors for any digital and broadcast video, paying $5 for what would have been talent work with usage rights worth $1,200/6mo. Plus agency fees.

In the real world, it already happened.

Clap. Single.

Yep, we agree on ethical stands. It's not that the uniqueness of my work is lost or anything like that. It's the choice of not feeding.

What strategies did you use? Other than quitting social media, blocking crawlers and enforcing an "email-wall" is what I just started to do with my personal website. I feel that it's hard to stay on top of "pretty please" robots.txt requests, especially with new, undeclared ones. I prefer word-of-mouth diffusion of links, skipping the algorithmic promotion game altogether. I decided that I won't ever rely on my online writings, recordings, or photography as main income again (I did that once: it worked, but it felt gradually poisoned by the need to build engagement.) But it feels weird that we got to the point where I have to shield a blog from bulimic information machines that pollute valuable knowledge, and I wonder what the right strategy is.

Hi! The only reason why I keep a Panasonic GM1 body around is to use two Panasonic Leica DG lenses whenever I miss them :) I see your point.

Hi! Author here: I use a Balmuda Phone now, an exotic Android 12 Japanese discontinued phone that still receives security updates and weighs 138g with a 4.9" display. The iPhone Mini is my previous phone. It sold millions and millions of units, close to the entire number of yearly shipments of Google's Pixel line, but that was not enough for Apple. I like phones that are less than 140mm in height, less than 5" screen, but run modern software. Apple made enough that it would have been considered a huge success for any other company in the world. But alas :)

Nice! I keep a tiny GM1 around just to use a couple nice m43 lenses that I can't depart with! :)