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Alex O'Connor (gone to bsky) @uberalex
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Alexa is becoming harder and harder to use as the suggestions and feature pushes increase in intrusiveness. All this does is make me resent the product; who thought this was a user-friendly idea?
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RT @threddyrex@hachyderm.io this is like a big party and every three minutes someone you know enters through the front door and we're all like HIIIII!!! YOU MADE IT! hachyderm.io/@threddyrex/109…
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RT @Riedl@sigmoid.social Feel free to reach out to me here or on email to learn more about why Interactive Computing is one of the best departments for researching how computing intersection the real world. And why I'm optimistic about the future of the (1/2)
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school/department. sigmoid.social/@Riedl/109379… (2/2)

Mark Riedl (@Riedl@sigmoid.social)

Feel free to reach out to me here or on email to learn more about why Interactive Computing is one of the best departments for researching how computing intersection the real world. And why I'm...

sigmoid.social
Ok logging out for a bit, not sure when or if I’ll be back.
RT @donncha@mastodon.ie My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying, "we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be (1/2)
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open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together." x.com/photomatt/status/15937… Our "work with us" page: automattic.com/work-with-us/ Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word! Edit: added link. #Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr mastodon.ie/@donncha/1093671… (2/2)

Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
18 Nov 2022
Replying to @levelsio @automattic
In particular I'd say people leaving @twitter we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge @tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together.
It’s hard to choose amongst to many but my most salient line of code has to be import sklearn as torch
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poets.org/poem/there-will-co… feels apt.

There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

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Alex Parker@AlexParkerDC
18 Nov 2022
Sergey Brin revives Google Plus team from cryogenic chamber. "It's time."
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The Debirdify instance pie chart is really interesting - probably the right starting point for anyone moving from the bird site pruvisto.org/debirdify/
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I think one part of the Twitter saga is the difference between legal control and moral leadership of an organisation.
Sometimes a video will go a thousand times harder than you expect… tiktok.com/t/ZTRQrhLvt/ masterpiece.
Social Media is dead: vice.com/en/article/pkgv79/s…

Social Media Is Dead

What we call social media networks are anything but. Now that they're beginning to unravel, we should ask what it would take to create social media for people, not advertisers.

vice.com
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Luka Ivan Jukic
@lijukic
11 Nov 2022
Best book review I’ve ever seen
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HenryE@HenronEldini
12 Nov 2022
Bold move for the inverse Cramer fund
CNBC
@CNBC
12 Nov 2022
Cramer advises investors to cash out on crypto while they can cnb.cx/3URuGmO
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I’m pretty sure the Dev one sent Gordain Mac An tSaoir on his adventures.
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Is there anything to be said for bringing back Usenet?
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