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Richard MacManusIn this week's issue of Cybercultural, my online magazine about internet history, I look at how Slashdot's "karma" system inspired the moderation efforts of BowieNet version 2.0 (launched in May 2000). I also check in with Google and Amazon in the year 2000: despite the dot-com downturn, their karma was just fine. (bonus: a pic of Google's founders wearing tin foil capes at that year's Webbys!). https://cybercultural.com/p/karma-2000-slashdot-bowienet-v2/
now that my Big Project™ for the year has shipped and is wrapping up, i will be enjoying some relative down time at work, in which i’d like to spend time topping up my waning modern web dev knowledge.
💡i am looking for recommendations on good online courses to bridge my knowledge gap in latest (not trendiest) CSS and JS practices. i have a few already queued up, but this will help me prioritize.
boosts are most welcome. thank you in advance! #webDev #CSS #javascript
Mark SimonsonMark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/mark-simonson-studio-at-25/
Electronic Frontier FoundationInstead of worrying that TikTok could carry Chinese government propaganda — which the Supreme Court declined to even consider — "people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for US government propaganda," EFF’s @davidgreene and @evacide said.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2025/09/23/tiktoks-future-us-owners-to-control-algorithm-and-data-in-proposed-deal/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2025/09/23/tiktoks-future-us-owners-to-control-algorithm-and-data-in-proposed-deal/
tante"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "
(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and collaboration issues. Leaders need to consider how they may be encouraging indiscriminate organizational mandates and offering too little guidance on quality standards. To counteract workslop, leaders should model purposeful AI use, establish clear norms, and encourage a “pilot mindset” that combines high agency with optimism—promoting AI as a collaborative tool, not a shortcut.
> Obscure Vietnamese New Wave made in Little Saigon (Orange County), California from the mid-80s to mid-90s … The extravagance of the hairstyles, the fits & the attitude gave the recently migrated Vietnamese a newly found, shared interest with their non-Viet counterparts. Music & style unified people amidst high cultural sensitivity due to the aftermath of the Vietnam War
#vWave #80s #eurodance #italoDisco #synthPop
Vwave – Rare Vietnamese New Wave 1980s
https://vwave.bandcamp.com/album/vwave-rare-vietnamese-new-wave-1980s
Vwave - Rare Vietnamese New Wave 1980s, by Vwave - Vietnamese New Wave 1980s
7 track album
Wil James🍻The First PBS Station is Shutting Down Following Cuts in Federal Funding | Cord Cutters News https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-first-pbs-station-is-shutting-down-following-cuts-in-federal-funding/
The First PBS Station is Shutting Down Following Cuts in Federal Funding | Cord Cutters News
In a move that has sent shockwaves through central Pennsylvania’s media landscape, Penn State University announced plans Thursday to wind down operations at its beloved public broadcasting station, WPSU, by no later than June 30, 2026. The decision, driven by escalating financial pressures and federal cuts to public media funding, marks the end of a […]
Hal PomeranzWe have been conditioned to think in terms of battles with definitive, lasting outcomes fought by heroic figures. But the reality is imperfect people struggling day by day to make change, often with no positive outcome or reassurance that what they are doing is effective. They push forward because of belief and hope for a better future.
This is the hard work in front of all of us. Decide every day to show up and do what you can to make things better. Try harder, push further, do more. Celebrate successes, no matter how small, and accept setbacks as part of a process of learning. Find allies, build community, create networks of support.
Kim ScheinbergThis essay from the only Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker in the days and months after Oct 7 is an astonishing, haunting, infuriating read
It deserves a trigger warning for all the things you'd expect in a piece about fact-checking the details of a genocide
