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woops Jan 11, 2023

Low Quality Facts Jan 10, 2023

Tony Hawk: I'd like to turn myself in for murder.

Cop: Are you Tony Hawk?

Tony Hawk: Yes.

Cop: If you're Tony Hawk where's your skateboard?

Tony Hawk, holding up a blood-soaked skateboard: It dug straight into his skull. I am a monster.

Cop: You look a little old to be Tony Hawk.

woops Dec 30, 2022

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Seth Masket Dec 30, 2022

One of my frustrations with political science when I first started was that we and political reporters and political practitioners were talking past each other. I got involved in blogging in part to address that, and later Twitter helped build a community where we were in contact with each other. Sometimes we agreed, sometimes we sniped, but at its best, that community taught us to speak to and learn from each other. (2/4)

woops Dec 30, 2022

mtsw Dec 30, 2022

Seems like the salient thing about the Santos story is something no one is articulating out loud: in a normal situation, GOP would be happy to throw him overboard and eliminate the embarrassment but their razor-thin House majority forces them to defend every seat

woops Dec 29, 2022

Ben Adida Dec 28, 2022

What if Firefox became the best Fediverse client? Could be very powerful and timely.

http://benlog.com/2022/12/28/firefox-should-become-the-best-freaking-fediverse-app/

Builds on ideas from @luis_in_brief

Firefox should become the best freaking Fediverse app

The always awesome and insightful Luis wrote a post 9 years ago about how the web browser should become an RSS reader. Super important set of ideas and right on. Meanwhile, Mozilla has announced th…

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woops Dec 29, 2022

Ben Adida Dec 28, 2022

I'm pessimistic about the chances of a federated Twitter gaining and sustaining wide adoption. But I could be wrong, and I'd love to be wrong. So in the spirit of contributing rather than just whining, I wrote up a few thoughts.

Don't let federation make the experience suck.

cc @blaine

http://benlog.com/2022/12/28/dont-let-federation-make-the-experience-suck/

#federation #web #mastodon

Don’t let federation make the experience suck

I’m pessimistic about federated architectures for new end-user products, like Mastodon. But, I could be wrong. In fact, I’d love to be wrong on this one. So since Blaine fairly called m…

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