Nlroundabout

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Writer, reader, booster, not so much on the tooting, which is a hilarious word. Recovering doc TV producer. Dogs. Art. Music. Growing things. News and Views. By the Chesapeake Bay.
Canapés is the French word for Hors d'oeuvres
As the web collapses and search engines become a meaningless mess of ads and AI generated results, it's time to get in on the ground floor of the next big rebound industry: door-to-door encyclopedia sales
Human beings were never meant to be on a single social media platform for life. Archaeological evidence tells us our earliest ancestors hopped from platform to platform, following the migrations of the influencer herds, moving on when the soil was too depleted to grow new discourse
President Biden, in a #SouthCarolina speech, calls for a manufacturing "battery belt" in the US stretching from #Michigan to #Georgia.
@goatsarah There were two things I liked about Twitter. People could be very very funny and the immediacy of the news (from reputable people) was great. Can someone direct me to some suggested follows to find similar? I seem to have a lot of deep tech connections and I’m just an ordinary Joe who knows how to click on things.
He declined to say wheher Progozhin had traveled with a bag over his head.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-leader-lukashenko-says-prigozhin-is-back-russia-2023-07-06/
Mercenary chief Prigozhin back in Russia, Belarus's Lukashenko says

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that the mutinous chief of Russia's Wagner group was still in Russia with thousands of fighters, but dismissed speculation that President Vladimir Putin would have Yevgeny Prigozhin killed.

Reuters
omg how long have they been there
it is with a heavy heart that I regret to inform you that the tech bros have invented sails

Big Journalism's coverage of the wedding website ruling is missing a key element: the entire case is apparently built on lies if not outright fraud, as a single outlet -- the New Republic -- discovered at the last minute.

To acknowledge this, of course, would be to admit utter failure by news orgs (except one) to do even a tiny bit of due diligence.

And what about the plaintiff lawyers? Shouldn't there be sanctions at least in lower courts?

Not too late to do journalism on that, anyway.

Wiener Zeitung (#Austria), the oldest still-published newspaper in the world, founded in 1703, printed its final daily edition today.
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/oesterreich/2194098-Chronologie-einer-gescheiterten-Rettung.html #journalism
Chronologie einer gescheiterten Rettung

In ihrer langen Historie war die "Wiener Zeitung" immer wieder bedroht. Doch sie überlebte. | In den letzten Jahren war der Zuspruch groß, viele kämpften mit der Redaktion um den Erhalt. Ohne Erfolg.

Wiener Zeitung