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shoq

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I'm @shoq from ExTwitter. Self-appointed evangelist for the #fediverse, working on open source projects that can help it become the communications backbone for the planet that Twitter might have been.

#fedi22 #opensource #sidetoolz #USpolitics #liberal #invention

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You’re a mess

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https://mastodon.social/@Colby@mastodon.world/112407801729192698

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Well, @arimelber is certainly going after some of what RFK jr has said, and is landing some blows, but Bobby Junior wins just by being on the show.

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I think the only person who might be harder to listen to than Donald Trump, is RFK, Jr. It’s not his fault, but it doesn’t matter. It’s like listening to a gravel crushing machine reading parking ticket instructions translated into Esperanto.

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Oh ugh. @Arimelber is platforming RFK, Jr.

NOT HELPFUL

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These are the sorts of (often but not always simple) chats I have almost every day with ChatGPT. It’s impossible to describe just how useful it can be for thrashing out product designs or materials and methods choices. It’s not always spot-on, but it rarely matters.

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Anyone who ever “sources” materials or methods knows the problem. The most recent project almost always requires education about the particulars of the materials, products or applications in question. ChatGPT has already saved me dozens if not hundreds of research hours on a single design.

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I think there’s a secret occupation called “earworm consultant.” For a big fee, they turn ordinary ballads into killer earworms that tunnel into your brain like a JFK Jr. hitchhiker. All week I’ve been trying to break free of this one. I have no idea how it got in there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vR32XI3Sr4

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I’m pretty old. Old enough to remember the very first time I wanted to punch someone out for saying, “follow me back?”

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Why I listen to @driftglass and the @proleftpodcast every week, without fail, in one perfect burn.

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Four years ago today, amid an out of control pandemic, the unemployment rate hit the highest level since the Great Depression. It's now been under four percent for more than two years. The Biden administration did a remarkable job leading us out of covid and bringing back jobs.

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@aaron.rupar In another era, it would be something most Americans would be proud of. Then came Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes. And that was the end of all that.

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@mmasnick Speaking of woke, I wish more manufacturers (of anything) would recognize the marketing value of proudly presenting their ethics. In trying to choose among 3 plastics vendors, this one just got my order for this one simple paragraph.

https://cshyde.com/about-us/

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He’s always struck me as an unhinged nothing burger. This just confirms it.

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@jeffjarvis You had me at ⏵

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@Professor_Stevens @gooba42 I agree. One thing that I find really off putting about substack journalism is just because I might respect a particular reporter on SOME stories (or even just one), doesn’t mean I’m interested in paying for their other views. Too many newsletters become a platform for THEM, more than their journalism.

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@SamUpstate @jeffjarvis You have no idea how timely this question was. I was just detailing a productizing direction for the software I am building with @Green_Footballs. Its value to almost any curation project would be incalculable. I haven’t thought about anything else for the past 2.5 hours :)

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@Spotify for Android is a fucking virus. Can anyone tell me how to make it STOP autoplaying whenever bluetooth reconnects? It’s so fucking annoying, I want to murder the programmers, or whomever is responsible.

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@tchambers If I change my Instagram/threads name, is the change going to federate properly, or is this uncharted water?

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Cyrus Beschloss (Michael’s boy), the founder of The Generation Lab, which surveys and analyzes young people aged 18 to 34, says that 29% of that demo is supporting Wormhead.

Gulp. If that’s even close to true, I need a kiss, because we’re about to get very fucked.

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There has to be a better way to do journalism than subscription-based newsletters by a few superstars whose entire brand was built on the paychecks of their previous employers. Like so many other things in modern culture, the toxins of a trend build up slowly. But they still hurt us in the end.

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Hey journalists, here’s some research that might get you some airtime if you write it up well enough (or just sensationally enough). And it’ll only cost you $26!

“Antisemitic Attitudes among Young Black and Hispanic Americans”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/abs/antisemitic-attitudes-among-young-black-and-hispanic-americans/5465F2124BC3D44B40521D2CD000D023

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Whenever someone says something was “widely reported,” the dying worm in my brain automatically transposes it to “some say…”

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For those short on facts about this conflict, this article contains one of the better historical timelines I’ve ever seen. Everyone needs more education about this war than so many are getting from jihadist propaganda videos on Tiktok that inflame but never try to inform.

“Did Jews take Israel away from Palestinians? ”

https://jfedsrq.org/did-jews-take-israel-from-palestinians/

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I could do this. I just don’t want to. (Starts slow, gets amazing.)

Girl Biker Performs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3qTVg3hhs

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@Tedgarrison3 Right? Starts out slow, but then, wowza!

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I lived through a lot of war in the Middle East and heard most arguments. Nothing will ever change so long as a terrorist organization is driving the bus for Gazans. You cannot convince a powerful enemy you’re interested in peace when continually supporting people whose only skill is war.

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@Colby Of course, you conveniently neglect the fact that these wars are always started with acts of terror by devout jihadists who want to do exactly that to the Jews. Evidently, you feel if they can just get on with that mission, everything “will be fine.” If you only want to see one side of this conflict, you can’t be interested in a solution.

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@Colby I never said anythign like that. I am blocking you now. Say hi to Vlad.

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