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If you use email, then you’re using the Internet technology with the greatest network effect on the planet.

Not even Meta can compete with email.

Better yet, just like the Fediverse, email is federated.

Anyone who says that social media won’t work if it’s decentralized and requires multiple servers is lying: they use email.

And email is why it was so easy for me to delete my Facebook account.

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DeSantis needs to go. This story needs to be heard and spread.

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@darius My email footer currently says "Delete Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tik Tok - Support an independent internet"

I have no idea if anyone takes notice.

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Reminder to take lunchboxes out of school bags so you don't find something horrible in two weeks.

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A BS study touted widely by anti-vaxxers is about to be retracted. This should make your blood boil -- and lead to deep soul-searching at all scientific journals.

archive.is/hEwOj

The damage this stuff causes to public perceptions of science, and to public health, is incalculable.

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You can watch curling for 100 years and you’ll never see a shot - or a reaction from the commentators - like this one from earlier today.

youtube.com/watch?v=1iEnf3brmY

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I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —

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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun control, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

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I love that our idea of what Raptors looked like, was somehow way less cartoonish than the reality.

This scary boi looks like he just saw some Froot Loops, and he's got to follow his nose.

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-0.7664680762053054 + -0.08957263307942497i at zoom 6.5820967488e+09.

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I've always struggled to find good uses for fzf, but I just saw this cool one on hacker news for using fzf to quickly test out jq expressions:

echo '' | fzf --preview 'jq {q} < filename.json'

it live updates the results as you type!

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I am deeply unamused to see a peer-reviewed paper discussing one of my pet nightmares (the risk of a MERS/COVID19 hybrid emerging) and saying it's somewhere between possible and likely: nature.com/articles/s41392-023

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