@molly0xfff
@Inoreader Take a look at this great thread. You should share it on your blog!

@molly0xfff Of which, feedly

@molly0xfff with all due respect, I don't think it's ever a good idea to ONLY follow RSS.

For one thing, RSS is generally not used by #RestOfWorld #independent #journalist s.

And second, it disincentivizes discovering new sources.

The only time I think it is worth using RSS for me is if I have someone I like following that I would like to always hear amidst the current chaotic online discourse.

But I will contest the idea that RSS is 'fair' in 2024. Different times, different rhymes.

@molly0xfff I needed that, thank you.

@molly0xfff hey cutie

@molly0xfff educate him!

@molly0xfff thank you so much for sharing! The talk was great!

The Internet was more exciting then than now. And enshittiifcation is taking all that is left now. Especially disappointing for what is happening with Mozilla lately.

@molly0xfff I love the idea of reviving the old spirit of the web. And that younger generations get what was great about it.

Just recently saw this video by a Gen-Z'er promoting the idea of making home-pages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNlZ50b6wSs

But we'll need new tech to help us connect and find each other ... the good old "web-rings" won't do it anymore. :blobfoxlaughsweat:

@molly0xfff great talk, and made me realize how young you are! Your experience as a preteen discovering the Internet just by reading makes me go back to talk to my kids in English. They are 5 and 7, and I used to speak to them almost 100% in English until 4ya. The reason I stopped is complicated, but mostly: I'm not a native speaker. This will stretch my patience limit because everything will be slower for a great while, but I think it's worth it. I hope my kids discover the same web you did.

@molly0xfff There's a wonderful study by Heinrich Böll where a radio station employee collects on tape the very precious moments when politicians say - nothing.
"Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen"

@molly0xfff ssshshhshshshshsh

@molly0xfff
To be clear, I know this isn't, and this is really happening.

but you have no idea how much my soul WISHES this was actually some sort of weird troll/in joke I'm not getting. Because this is just 'I'm going back to bed' level of awful capitalism.

“People have called me a prison concierge”

the mega-wealthy truly live in a different universe

@molly0xfff If you sell prints, please let me know. They'd make great sponsor rewards!

@molly0xfff
Oh man, I need this as an enamel pin. ♥️

@molly0xfff Glorious! Stickers would be very welcome.

My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.

@molly0xfff Strong "Abe Lincoln is sick of your shit" vibes.

@molly0xfff I would send this to the next stranger from the internet, who asks for a picture, if it wouldn't be so personal.

@molly0xfff I feel seen, thank you Unicode rockstars!

@molly0xfff Caught between a rock and a hard place: I usually do this, but then get pushback from localisers that that's not reliable across languages (I believe Turkish is an example where this goes wrong).

@molly0xfff for my own learning, what's the reason for wanting that? Is it related to accessibility, reader modes, or something else I'm not considering?

@molly0xfff Ooh, me too!

@molly0xfff Losing the Internet Archive will be a tragedy as devastating as losing the Library of Alexandria. No exaggeration whatsoever.

@molly0xfff

Definitely never buyjng a hachette book again

@molly0xfff The US Court of Appeal not showing the wisdom of Solomon. Just devastating.

An April 2024 survey funded by the Digital Currency Group and published by the crypto lobbying group The Blockchain Association was not shy about aiming its messaging directly at politicians, trying to convince them of the existence of a sizable crypto voting bloc.

#CitationNeeded #crypto #CryptoLobby #USpolitics #USpol

@molly0xfff fun fact that I think might be a tiny bit related (in the sense of the push that is happening behind the curtain): a recently-signed bilateral agreement between Ukraine and Poland seems to contain a weird, completely out of place paragraph about how blockchain technology improves transparency and trust in government or something to that effect. :thaenkin:

@molly0xfff

That the type of politicians actually courting crypto types are the same ones who think finance in general should be less regulated and are beloved by billionaires should give anyone with any remaining hope in crypto pause.

Really it should've died after Silk Road did. It's just speculative circle jerk looking for a bigger sucker to be left holding the bag. Day trading for people who own multiple Funko Pops.

I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing increasingly concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a small fraction of the size?

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

Featured this week: Barbara Fried called up her son and asked if he could be a dear and dig around in the couch cushions for a spare $92k (in under 24 hours)

@molly0xfff I recommend tapping your D.C. connections for attorneys who either hate the industry in question generally, or the company, in specific. If I'd have done that around 2001, I'd be a multimillionaire, probably.

@molly0xfff my wife is an employment attorney in CA and one of our friends is a great plaintiffs employment attorney.

DM me if you want info.

@molly0xfff It depends on what case you want to argue in court. Just because they are an employment lawyer doesn't mean they will be qualified for your specific circumstances. For example, of your case is in the public interest contact a related legal aid nonprofit, perhaps the ACLU, Institute for Justice, America First Legal or other not for profit legal aid societies.

@molly0xfff

Hard screaming agree.

Own your web presence. Funnel everyone and everything to it. Make it your single source of truth.

I know writers and artists who invested heavily in a presence on MySpace and Geocities. They had to start over. Many never recovered.

It's also somewhat important to have email on your own domain, at least for receiving. You can still forward it to any of the big services. But in this case, if Google or Yandex or Yahoo or Microsoft decides to ban your account for an arbitrary reason or no reason at all, what would've been a disaster would turn into only a mild annoyance at needing to reconfigure your email setup.

@molly0xfff The thing is there is this software called rewind and I really like it.

@molly0xfff @MaZderMind das kam jetzt so oft durch die verschiedenen News Portale, dass ich meine letzte Windowsbastion — die Gamingkiste — auch mal testweise auf Ubuntu umziehe. Danke für den Anstoß 😁

@molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor Wait til they get to 4chan.

@molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor That's just another reason, folks, that it is a moral imperative to use online platforms exclusively to share photos of fat, throbbing, transexual cocks with your mates.

Train you AI models on this for size, billonaires!

@molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor we thought Web 3 was going to be a crypto con, but it’s actually a hallucinated cesspool of AI generated content.

@molly0xfff It's so good to read something with a positive and encouraging bottom line. Thanks for this article.

@molly0xfff
This metaphor of the garden works so well!

@molly0xfff This was a lovely read to start my day with. Thank you for writing it!

@molly0xfff this is huge!! I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it's release 👀👀

@molly0xfff I haven't parsed how to use Ghost like I would patreon or substack. I subscribe to ghost newsletters but there doesn't seem to be a way to login to ghost without being creator and paying a fee. I want to use the ghost login like my Patreon page and my old substack page where I can subscribe and unsubscribe newsletters. I don't see a way to do that. Have I misunderstood their model? I subscribe to your newsletter and platformer as discreet content rather than under a centralized Ghost account.

@molly0xfff when I read your newsletter with an RSS reader they display your icon next to the audio player above the player and very big.

@molly0xfff The product conversation probably went something like this:

Designers/Developers: Which sections do you think we should emphasize with animation?

Stakeholder/Client: Yes.

At work, we've had clients leave because competitors offer "better" design, and by better, they mean it looks like Michael Bay directed the million animations running on the site.

@molly0xfff between this and Apple scroll jacking animations it’s a real low