this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

YouTubers amongst you: has the A/B testing thumbnail thing worked for you? It's giving mental whiplash as a viewer!

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feeling a bit down about (the future of) the web. writing a script inspired by a post i wrote a little while back on knowledge. i refer to a story in it, noon in the antilibrary, he assumes that ai slop being indistinguishable from real stuff is the scary part. 1/2

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

Yo come over! We got some of the master's tools and we're gonna wreck his shitty house hahaa

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do you have a habit of keeping quotes that resonated with you? i used to do it much more in the days i actively updated my life plan on trello; stop laughing okay! i have fallen off with since i fell off pkm/commonplacing/obsessive note-taking, but it's a habit i liked so: olu.online/quotes/

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This looks great. And I recommend Lola Olufemi & Françoise Vergès books, also from @plutopress.bsky.social "Feminism for the World" by Lola Olufemi, Françoise Vergès, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia, Djamila Ribeiro Transl. Sophie Lewis & Fionn Petch

I try not to call them “Internet cables,” partly because it isn’t accurate, but also because the first subsea fiber communication cables were built primarily for voice traffic. Capacity was measured in the number of simultaneous voice calls you could make, not in bytes of digital information.

There are a few hundred tubes at the bottom of the sea, hugging the planet, sending beams of light that carry things we need to do just about everything in our daily lives. It’s fun to realize that even industry vets feel that sense of the near-miraculous.

It sounds really corny, but it’s true. There’s also the near miracle of the Internet, but before that, fiber optic technology, specifically stuff that can survive the pressure and environment of the deep sea, for DECADES—is just an astonishing.

Was speaking to a cable industry vet who started his work at the time of transition between the telegraph and coaxial cables and he said that even after all these years, he finds it hard to comprehend just how incredible it is that we can send information over pulses of light, across the oceans

indulging my special interest in subsea cables again! laughed out loud at this video, 1000 internet points if you correctly guess the background music track before clicking through: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM8Q...

man I’m gonna be so pissed if the AI bubble bursts before I get my next video out

new alphabet superset post: olu.online/questions/

does anyone here write-to-think, or in other words, write to work out what their thoughts are on a topic or issue or whatever? trying to find more people who don't start with fully fleshed conclusion cos i think it will help me to believe it's not the only way to write well lol!

anyone up for chatting about their non-corporate web scrolling habits on youtube with me? one on one (well, one-on-one-on-who-knows, doubt it'll pop off immediately/ever lol). chat with me about some of the sites/newsletters/forums/etc you love? (or tell me if that sounds fun to watch? lol)

anyone up for chatting about their non-corporate web scrolling habits on youtube with me? one on one (well, one-on-one-on-who-knows, doubt it'll pop off immediately/ever lol). chat with me about some of the sites/newsletters/forums/etc you love? (or tell me if that sounds fun to watch? lol)

Help please! I'm trying to find another way of saying "problem space," which is a phrase I hate. Simply saying "problem" isn't quite right in this case. Ideas for other phrases I can use? I've been banging my head against this off and on for days and can't produce an alternative.

new alphabet superset post on permanence: olu.online/permanent/

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My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

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it's so aggravating how the evangelists both revere the status of formal education in a classist way, and don't actually understand that people with experience in any field (regardless of formal education) all are that way not because they posture, but because they are discerning and vet information

I read this article today and quite liked it www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu... An analogy came to mind when reading it: if the cloud is feudalism, self hosted is sustenance farming.

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just one more male loneliness discourse bro. i promise bro just one more male loneliness discourse and it'll fix everything bro. bro. Just one more male loneliness discourse. please just one more. one more male loneliness discourse and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one mor

I'm finding different documents that attribute the same thing to multiple people, make possibly fictional attributions, etc. and this is about stuff that happened like no more than about 150 years before these things were written

when i read about how ancient mythologies probably arose from people misunderstanding historical narratives and blowing them out of proportion, it feels hard to buy but reading about the """history""" of canning has completely changed my mind

A few years ago I wrote a take about the interchangeability of the terms "infrastructure" and "means of production" in tech and the current data center construction boom feels especially relevant to this

Old enough to remember when Facebook called itself a "social utility" before dropping that upon realizing that might lead to them being regulated like one lol

does anyone have teeny tiny (relatively!) social media they love? can be closed-ish like davidsocial.com or open to all but currently/purposefully small!

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we do things not because it is easy, not because we thought it would be easy, but because we didn't think about it at all tbh

i accidently a good way to explain ai

i thought bearblog had shit itself as my blog views today suddenly jumped over 1200 (i usually spike at like 50 -100, 200 best day) but no, someone posted this on hackernews: olu.online/no

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Re-upping this because I thought it was, for want of a better word, okay

If you want an idea of how stupid things are going to get, Wikipedia has said in court they are seriously considering putting a quota on the number of users that can visit from the UK because of the Online Safety Act

Antiporn groups said they were only going after games with violence against women. But what got censored? Award-winning games about disordered eating, LGBTQ+ games and anything flagged NSFW. @megannicolett.bsky.social's reporting raises alarms about the real danger of this censorship campaign.

For 0 reason at all just wanna remind that South Park is one of the most virulently transphobic and its consistent rhetoric of aggressive centrism and never caring directly contributed to the fascist moment we're in. But hahaha they said trump gay with devil recycling their 20 yr old homophobic joke

If you asked me to choose between listening to an ai governance person speak for 15 minutes or fireflies by owl city on repeat for 24 hours, id pick fireflies