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ben, 5 days ago to random

The thing about a political campaign centered around a notable fraudster with a published fascist platform that includes literal Nazi references in its media materials is that it's so outlandish to be unbelievable for most people.

They've been taught that America is better than this; that we're somehow exceptional; that it can't happen here. It's not; we're not; it is, in fact, happening right now.

Campaigners are in a tough spot. How do you make the message land when it sounds like a movie?

ben, 6 days ago to random

Which newsrooms are doing a good job of in-house technical and product innovation? What makes them stand out in your mind?

ben, 7 days ago to journalism

"The free version of Apple News is one of the biggest news platforms in the world. It’s the most widely used news application in the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia, and boasted over 125 million monthly users in 2020." And publications are becoming dependent on it. #Media https://werd.io/view/664b71ebb03e591ffd06b8d2

ben, 7 days ago to technology

"I want the IndieWeb to be a viable alternative to social media, gradually widening the audience beyond tech-savvy folks by making the tools easier to use and more reliable." This is what we were trying for with Known. #Technology https://werd.io/view/664b6e260510a99fb30adb72

ben, 7 days ago to random

Why it’s usually better to work with a talented designer: here are some sketches I did for my own ShareOpenly icon. I, uh, do not have the touch.

ben, 7 days ago to random

Oh, hey, my work bio was published this week. https://www.propublica.org/people/ben-werdmuller

ben, 9 days ago to DoctorWho

This week’s #DoctorWho had a lot of good things to say and was gripping from start to finish. Really appreciated the anti-war, who-really-benefits message. Still the best show ever.

ben, 9 days ago to technology

A lovely blog post by Jon Hicks on his process for creating the ShareOpenly icon. Characteristically, lots of care and attention went into this. #Technology https://werd.io/view/66478c57e052fabafd0db252

jonhicks, 9 days ago to random

I've added @ben's fediverse-friendly ShareOpenly to the Hicks.design Journal, and blogged a bit about the icon:

https://hicks.design/journal/share-openly

ben, 10 days ago to random

Oh, hey, there's a new Ani album out today. I've seen her live almost 20 times; been following for decades and decades. Looking forward to listening. https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/unprecedented-sh-t

ben, 10 days ago to business

"Our findings imply that return to office mandates can imply significant human capital costs in terms of output, productivity, innovation, and competitiveness for the companies that implement them." #Business https://werd.io/view/664765a219e4d579460b55f2

ben, 11 days ago to technology

"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models." #Technology https://werd.io/view/66460b700123961ccd0a5482

ben, 11 days ago to technology

This is great news for Mozilla, for everyone who uses the internet, and for everyone who cares about ethics, privacy, and human rights. #Technology https://werd.io/view/664608b99c4a04a4850e6292

ben, 11 days ago to random

What’s important: inclusively supporting the democratic public interest in a way that makes everyone’s lives better.

What’s not important: maintaining incumbent institutions.

People are what’s important, not a stable status quo.

ben, 11 days ago to random

In your organization, how do you share provocations, reflections, and thoughts about the future with each other? In Medium, it's Hatch, their internal version of the platform. At Automattic it's P2. What do you have?

ben, 11 days ago to random

If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through buying ads.

tylrfishr, 16 days ago to random

Pitch: Google Reader over ActivityPub