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Engagement Farming For Reward
Ben Werdmuller writing about Threads trading trust for growth: If X has fake news, Threads is assumed to have fake views: engagement by any means necessary. I did not know that Meta were incentivising engagement bait, …
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Hobbies & Hustles
Manuel Moreale thinking about the differences between hobbies and side projects: A hobby is something one does for themselves. This blog is a hobby. I write on it because I find it enjoyable and the primary user is …
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Opening Your Wallet
Matt Birchler is an expert on payments, so when he writes about them, you listen: I can’t see the future, and I don’t work directly in card issuance, but this is my very strong instinct. They want to win the payment …
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Could Simplicity Be The Key?
Jared Henderson in a recent ParkNotes video on Commonplace Books (cleaned up by me): I think that people found it refreshing to just be like oh I could just do this in a notebook and there’s not like a system .. …
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Why I Hate Instagram Now
Colin Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic about why they Why I Hate Instagram Now Meta, Instagram’s parent company, still says its mission is giving people “the power to build community and bring the world closer …
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No Need To Upgrade
Kev Quirk writing in Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another …
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Anthropomorphising AI
Zach Seward being clear that AI is not like you and me: Aristotle, who had a few things to say about human nature, once declared, “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor,” but academics studying the …
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Zuckerberg Opening Up
Karissa Bell for Engadget: Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of that is particularly new, as the Meta founder has been feuding with …
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Why The RCS Hate?
John Gruber joining two unconnected things together and predictably developing from it a pro apple stance (via Birchtree): But the argument against RCS is strong and simple: it doesn’t support end-to-end encryption. The …
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Talking to Apple about Smart Script and Math Notes
Christopher Lawley got to talk to Jenny Chen and Ty Jordan about iPad note-taking and specifically math notes. Whilst it is predictably a very reserved, PR focused chat, Chris always manages to demonstrate his excitement …
