Diving into diacetyl for this week's Eat This Newsletter. You still have time to subscribe. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/form-view/1
That’s a bit of a disappointment. Daily Kos won’t play nicely with Instapaper.
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Some of the people rediscovering independent publishing on their own domains are agonising over self-censorship, guilt and the like. I'm slowly continuing to bring old posts over into my main site. That goes for the ones that hurt a bit to read.
The only ones I'm not bringing are link posts that include dead links. A few are just too topical to bother with. The others are coming over, albeit not very quickly, even if I have to go searching for archived pages to link to.
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Along the way, Salmon
the world’s billionaires – the richest 2,000 people on the planet – saw their wealth increase by a staggering $762 billion in just one year. That’s an average of $381 million apiece. If those billionaires had simply been content with staying at their 2016 wealth, and had given their one-year gains to the world’s poorest people instead, then extreme poverty would have been eradicated. Hell, they could have eradicated extreme poverty, at least in theory, by giving up just one seventh of their annual gains.
Hang on a minute. Wouldn't the billionnaires need to make that awesome sacrifice every year? Or does the fact the people would slide back into extreme poverty next year not matter?
This may seem strange, but I really don’t mind it when my social streams fall off the bottom because I’ve been away. Generally, I will catch up with anything that I find interesting, and if I don’t, that’s ok too.
Very sad to read Daring Fireball on Dean Allen's death. https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/dean_allen No matter what Textdrive became in the end, it was a super place to be in the beginning and Textile was an inspiration to lots of lesser folks.
Still puzzled by why some photo posts in Known go through to micro.blog with an image and others don’t. Almost all are PESOS from Instagram. I thought I had an explanation, but it doesn’t hold up.
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It is always interesting to read of someone else deciding to I like what Michael Singletary has to say, especially this
Most of my online friends and acquaintances will never understand or participate in the IndieWeb, and so I require a bridge between these worlds. On one side I choose what content to post and how it is stored, and it exists mainly on an island that few visit regularly. On the other side is nearly everyone I know, blissfully ignorant of my real home on the web and unable to see any content shared there without manual intervention or working plugins.
What really struck me, though, was the line in his bio: “Blogging since 2002, taking control of my content since 2018.”
I lost some of my pre–2002 posts, not through the actions of any evil silo (were there any, then?), but through my own idiocy in misplacing a crucial backup. And I never really got on board the silo first band-wagon, so in a sense I have always owned the content I care about owning. Most of my friends do consider it kind of weird that I didn’t see the photo they posted only to FB, but they’re only too happy to show them to me one on one. So yes, for now few people visit this island, and that’s OK. I enjoy the ones who do.
I'm using the IndieWeb in an attempt to make it easier for everyone to visit, and that works too.
