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don’t let the book ban people know I found this in a drawer at the library
Here is how to distinguish Elon Musk’s new X.com from 1994 computer strategy gaming classic XCOM: one involves a brave struggle against freakish, hideous alien intelligence seeking to undermine world civilization with advanced technology and the other is a computer game
Just figured out how to rebrand smbc for the modern moment
Trump will benefit from incarceration in Florida because it will teach him useful skills.

Fed up with Reddit, mods of popular AMAs quit organizing high-profile interviews

"Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fed-up-with-reddit-mods-of-popular-amas-quit-organizing-high-profile-interviews/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war

"Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."

Ars Technica
Breaking: US Coast Guard detects “banging” noises from hermetically-sealed Twitter.
TFW a file format is so old that it includes an "insert paper tape this way" arrow as part of the header: Looks like this traces back to the PDP-11.

API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours

Thousands of subreddits going dark broke Reddit's website, mobile app.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/api-pricing-protests-caused-reddit-to-crash-for-3-hours/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours

Thousands of subreddits going dark broke Reddit's website, mobile app.

Ars Technica
Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.