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jackyan

@jackyan@mastodon.social

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group; award-winning author; typeface designer. Favourites = bookmarks; boosts = interesting. He/him.

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jackyan, to random
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From a marketing POV, would you really want your brand appearing behind, say, the Finance Minister as she gives a speech? Tricky sponsoring events with politicians—plus you can't be guaranteed that if you are balanced (e.g. you also host an event with a shadow minister) that the other event will receive the same exposure.

jackyan, to Facebook
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'Oh wow, you still use #Facebook? You must be a real old-timer.'

jackyan,
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@InayaShujaat It's a horrible site, complicit in genocide. When I sat on a school board, I was always trying to direct them to look at alternatives (e.g. their own website—at least the visitors there aren't bots) but without direct interference since my job was governance.

jackyan, to random
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Who shot J. R. R.?

https://skeptics.social/@diessoli/112412944943944249

jackyan,
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@nf3xn I saw the 1979 Hobbit cartoon on TV in the 1980s. That was enough for me.

jackyan, to random
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Just finished a wonderful book written by a friend of mine in the rainbow community. He and I are of a similar age, and we have some similar beliefs, but one thing we differ on is that I never visualized Jon and Ponch on CHiPs naked!

jackyan,
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@ricmac My friend Craig and I played CHiPs in the playground except blond Craig wanted to be Ponch and I wanted to be Jon, so that’s what we decided! 😁

jackyan, to random
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Opt out of Waka Kotahi selling your info to third parties:

https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transactions/PersonalInfoAccess/entry

jackyan, to reddit
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Do people just argue for the sake of it? This person took issue with what I wrote and when I asked them to explain, we wind up pretty much with what I originally said.

jackyan, to random
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Yay, @Vivaldi, thank you for the latest version and for fixing that tracker blocking bug!

jackyan, to random
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I donʼt have an ad blocker, Mother Jones, you do. In fact, the current Vivaldi has a bug so Iʼm not blocking a thing.

Vivaldi settings showing that they are on 'No blocking' by default.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn True, I couldnʼt block ads if the page were rendered, and do I remember defining those hot spots! Fun times, especially as we were dealing with such tiny areas (with hindsight there was little point, just make the whole image clickable!). Nothing truly new under the sun, just adaptations given that the medium is still a flat screen of dots in front of us.

jackyan, to random
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Almost all councils reporting, and there are more Lib Dem councillors than Conservative ones.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn I was just thinking of Clegg. Who now sucks up to Mark Zuckerberg instead. He goes where the money is.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn Iʼve noticed that with the Zionist Sir Phony Blair and the whole Labour establishment. Largely the same shit with different colours.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn Tory lite—certainly the coalition showed them to be that.

jackyan,
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@nf3xn The original Tony is looking more and more like the ghoul he is.
(My nickname for Keir Starmer is Sir Phony Blair. Same Thatcherite BS.)

jackyan, to random
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All those who doubted me when I said that Bingʼs index was in the 1 to 2 milliards …
This is where Inktomi was over two decades ago, and itʼs a fraction of the size of Mojeekʼs.

Source and methodology: https://www.worldwidewebsize.com

#Mojeek #Bing @Mojeek #SearchEngines

Mojeek, to random
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last year we reflected upon losing a planet from the search galaxy 🌕

"When Mojeek started it wasn't Google that was seen as our competitor. Having been developed and run by a single person, there was only one true yardstick for us, and that was Gigablast." 🚀

https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/05/farewell-gigablast.html

jackyan, (edited )
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@Mojeek It was a sad day. I had them as an alternative in my Mojeek search footer. Still remember taking it off. 🙁

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BREAKING: NYC judge says Trump violated gag order 9 times. Fined a total of $9,000.

(Trump spends more than that on Bean-o each week.)

jackyan,
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@shoq Iʼm guessing Beano means something different in your country.

jackyan,
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@shoq Very funny! I did not expect that!

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am almost finished with this week's blog post.

Meanwhile, my 3-year old neice (grand niece? what do I call my niece's daughter?) taught me to play hide and seek.

Here's how:

💠 I tell her where I'll hide.
💠She closes her eyes and counts to 10.
💠When she reaches 10, she opens her eyes and looks for me.
💠It does't take long to find me.
💠Then we laugh.

I suspect I am supposed to tell her where I will hide so she doesn't feel scared when she opens her eyes and doesn't see me.

jackyan,
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@Teri_Kanefield This is adorable!

jackyan, to random
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The state of Mastodon.

https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112345097618350391

Oh well, this place was getting quieter anyway. Been here seven years, eight on the fediverse. Whatʼs next?

jackyan, to random
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All right, who's this?

Report and report often.

jackyan,
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@BlueDot @InayaShujaat Thank you. That happened on day one as well. It appeared for a short while, then vanished. Then they did another one. Though I think instances are blocking it at the domain level so fewer and fewer will see the various subdomain versions.

jackyan, to random
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God bless the refuse collectors working this morning.

jackyan,
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@InayaShujaat @IceNine See, your husband gets it! He knows about White People Telepathy and this is his way of observing what the messages must be …

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