Nothing shows how cryptocurrency is fundamentally about oppressing the poor quite like NFTs, which essentially exist only to con people or launder outrageous sums of money.
At least Bitcoin handles a handful of actual financial transactions every few minutes. It's absolutely terrible at what it does, but it *does* something.
NFTs are a misrepresention of a non-solution to imagined problems and I confess that when someone talks to me about them credulously, my mind wanders into the structural properties of their jaw.
We shipped a few comment improvements!
- Autocomplete hashtags + mentions
- New UI, optimized for mobile
- Remembers timeline position when you go back to timelines
While this is only available for timeline comments, we plan to roll this out to the rest of later this week.
re: Food porn: kinda almost literally?
Also, today I learned that, when you record a screencast from iOS, it records the background audio too. Enjoy the music. It's Thistle Radio on Soma FM.
The Definition of Backasswards, or, a good idea somewhat poorly executed.
https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/cybersylvanian/the-definition-of-backasswards.html
BTW, in case you missed it, Mt. Etna has been pretty spectacular these last few days...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mount+etna&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos
Google fired another woman working in the ethics of AI... because she was looking into why they fired the woman before her who was working in the ethics of AI.
https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/cybersylvanian/googles-lack-of-ethics-in-ai.html
Loituma - Now and Then
A mid-2000s Internet meme.
Two videos.
The same group.
The same song.
23 years between them.
Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen
https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/cybersylvanian/loituma-now-and-then.html
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