Natasha 
🇪🇺We figured out the greenhouse effect closer to the start of the Industrial Revolution than to today
Source: xkcd
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Blake Watson 
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Plinubius 🇪🇺Links: Wie sich der Staat (hier: #StadtWorms) sicheren Radverkehr vorstellt. Rechts: Was Eltern ihren Kindern beibringen, damit sie tatsächlich sicher mit dem #Fahrrad von der Schule nach Hause kommen.
PhDog 🇮🇪David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."
Jesse KarmaniKudos to Signal for this fantastic blog post detailing the cost of running an anti-surveillance messaging service 👏🏻
I especially appreciate how they point out that while privacy can be more expensive, so too can the bloated surveillance and data collection that the big ad-tech companies rely on.
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
"Immortal, complex, graceful: pick 2 of 3. And that’s at best. At worst, you’ll have a complex system that’s dying gracelessly."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2023/11/02/the-future-of-the-blogosphere/
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2023/11/02/the-future-of-the-blogosphere/
Open Web Advocacy
Good article, but I don't think the comparison with Craigslist is a good fit.
It's more like SMS splintering into different chat services. Same use case, different apps.
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/10/23/leaving-twitter
Dan LuuIf you look at consumer behavior, consumer surveys, and car reviewer comments, this all seems entirely rational behavior by the car industry in response to consumer preferences.
Another example of this is car wheels getting bigger and getting paired with shorter side walls. This started happening with sports cars for somewhat practical reasons, at least if you highly prioritized track performance over almost anything else. But sports cars are cool, so this look became cool.