The other day I posted a surprisingly glowing first impression of Meta’s new Threads app. This is the counterpart to that.The site is brands, man. All of it. It’s like the glossy fashion magazine of social networks.And I get it. I really do. This is going to succeed beyond …
On Mastodon I was joking that I want to create a social media simulator app that takes you through the exhausting process of setting up an account (avatar, enticing follow-able description of yourself, a unique name, a solid unrememberable password…) and then it gives you a space …
Dare Obasanjo, over on Mastodon:Robots.txt needs an update for the 2020s. Instead of just saying what content can be indexed, it should also grant rights.Like crawl my site only to provide search results not train your LLM.Call it license.txt.The robots.txt standard allows a …
I’ve worked alongside news and journalism for a long time - since helping the team at Latakoo to define and build their first products that helped journalists with networks like NBC News send video back to their newsrooms using commodity internet connections. But the last few …
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of comparisons between internet institutions – particularly various social media things – and premodern political forms and figures.
Finally getting some vacation time (aka being paid to do nothing) so I _might_ pick my Rust library for working with the IndieWeb at https://git.jacky.wtf/indieweb/rust again. Biggest goal is to get full documentation coverage.
The wildest thing that I think going through the process of unionization at Code for America is that the most management has had to say about me (indirectly or not) is not about the work I do for the org, but about the contempt around advocacy for workers.
Professor von Explaino
