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This should be required reading for all Australians. #australiaday https://meanjin.com.au/blog/australia-daze/
Australia Daze

What better way to celebrate Australia Day than with a tale of colonial nincompoopery. The man who gave us the name ‘Australia’ was a chap by the name of Matthew Flinders. For those of you denied a…

Meanjin
😢🫡 @ivory
I need the new MacBook Pro, says I, the guy who has never used more than 10% of his 2021 M1 Max MBP’s available RAM.
I’m I the only person impatiently for Apple’s Classical Music app?
My carefully curated block/mute lists, which made Tweetbot such a wonderful place to browse Twitter, are gone, like dust in the wind. @paul, any chance we could import to @ivory in the future?
A very important part of IconFactory's Twitterrific retirement announcement
Aside from the people I followed, Twitterrific from The Iconfactory was what made Twitter great for me. I keep thinking I’ll be happy to subscribe to whatever they work on next… then I realized I could subscribe to Wallaroo right now to show some support and get a bunch of cute wallpapers ✨ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980
Wallaroo App - App Store

Download Wallaroo by The Iconfactory on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Wallaroo.

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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

A TIME investigation reveals the poor conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Time
🧵I had managed to avoid #SpaceKaren ‘s wrecking of #Twitter by using #Twitterrific. No ads, no algorithm, sorted the way I want…it was a pleasant experience that I had enjoyed for 12+ years. It synced beautifully between my Mac and #ios devices and was just a joy to use and was happy to pay for. Quite honestly it was the reason I still used Twitter at all even though I love #Mastodon more and more every day. But now that they purposely killed the API for 3rd party apps, all that joy is gone
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The whole °C v °F seems silly to me. I understand the logic behind the °F argument, but I grew up in a world of °C and that relative scale makes complete sense to me, it’s my lived experience. Why would I want to change?