Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Tue Jul 2
β˜… Liked https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/leaving-the-web-industry/
Simone Silvestroni
post from Leaving the web industry
I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web industry anymore.
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β˜… Liked https://robinrendle.com/notes/instability/
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Mon Jul 1
β˜… Liked https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/
frontendmasters.com
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β˜… Liked https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
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β˜… Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
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β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21252
Jeremy Keith
post from Wallfacing
The Dark Forest idea comes from the Remembrance of Earth’s Past books by Liu Cixin. It’s an elegant but dispiriting solution to the Fermi paradox. Maggie sums it up:
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β˜… Liked https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/
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β˜… Liked https://dangillmor.com/2024/07/01/journalists-ordering-biden-to-quit-the-race-really/
Dan Gillmor
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Let’s assume for a minute that the New York Times’ months-long and now frantic campaign to remove Biden from the Democratic ticket is based on a sincere desire to keep Trump from getting back into the White House. (I don’t assume this, given the Times’ incessant normalization of …
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Fri Jun 28
β˜… Liked https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/steam-deck-wireguard/
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β˜… Liked https://catvalente.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about
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β˜… Liked https://mastodon.social/@mweinberg/112677998206889835
Michael Weinberg
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@marty at least I'm in the .0001% of people who are excited instead of freaked out when I get one of the notice emails
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β˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2024/06/nice-also-i-love/
gRegor Morrill
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Nice! Also, I love the conversational style of your subheadings; made me chuckle. πŸ˜ƒ
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β˜… Liked https://chelseatroy.com/2024/06/23/how-do-we-build-the-future-with-ai/
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Thu Jun 27
β˜… Liked https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/
Cory Doctorow
post from Pluralistic: Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding (27 Jun 2024)
Today's links
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β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21241
Jeremy Keith
post from Filters
My phone rang today. I didn’t recognise the number so although I pressed the big red button to answer the call, I didn’t say anything.
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β˜… Liked https://snarfed.org/2013-02-17_do_you_have_permission_to_use_your_computer
Ryan Barrett
post from Do you have permission to use your computer?
It seems like a ridiculous question. We use our computers all the time, and we
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β˜… Liked https://virtualmoose.org/2024/06/25/indie-game-roundup-june-25-2024/
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Wed Jun 26
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/release-the-bats/
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β˜… Liked https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway/
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β˜… Liked https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/common-future
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Tue Jun 25
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/fighting-bots-is-fighting-humans
Ben Werdmuller
post from Fighting bots is fighting humans
[Molly White]"I fear that media outlets and other websites, in attempting to "protect" their material from AI scrapers, will go too far in the anti-human direction."I've been struggling with this.I'm not in favor of the 404 Media approach, which is to stick an auth wall in front …
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β˜… Liked https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/fighting-bots-is-fighting-humans
www.mollywhite.net
post from Fighting bots is fighting humans
One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training.In my personal view, option 1 is almost strictly better. Option 2 is never as simple as "only allow actual human …
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β˜… Liked https://buttondown.email/PixelProphecy/archive/the-pixel-prophet-20/
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β˜… Liked https://mastodon.social/@mweinberg/112677856516707009
Michael Weinberg
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For the 4th time (+1 on youtube), WMG has targeted an Engelberg Center podcast recording of a "how do music experts analyze songs in copyright infringement lawsuits?" panel with a copyright takedown on Spotify. This is so …
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Sun Jun 23
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/
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β˜… Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/kissy-lips-wont-delete/
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Sat Jun 22
β˜… Liked https://crookedtimber.org/2024/06/20/occasional-paper-fungal-banking/
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β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/projects/indieweb-movies/
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β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/2024/06/do-you-have-any-private-parts-off-your-site/
Sara JakΕ‘a
post from Do you have any private parts off your site?
Me and Benji have recently touched upon the private parts of the websites. The context was the loss of context, if we are only providing our side of the conversation vs. problems of hosting what other people created.
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Fri Jun 21
β˜… Liked https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/
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