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Another delightful site switches to Ghost
Mike Haynes has moved his crashthearcade blog to Ghost: Ghosting WordPress
The Ghost editor is really an example for WordPress' Gutenberg editor to follow. It functions largely in the same way but doesn't have any of the jank that makes Gutenberg so frustrating to use.
It’s actually amazing that the Gutenberg
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Artistic expression and financial return
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art
We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece of artwork or every product to reach 100% market saturation . Appealing to a global palate is a surefire way to make the blandest art.
Yes, yes, yes! Add this to my general annoyance in people
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The Acolyte is good
Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks
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The blight on our nation should drop out
The Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer: To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race
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Don’t sleep on accessibility requirements
I came across this video today where a developer reviews a John Carmack tweet and ultimately comes to the conclusion that it’s obviously better to perform click actions on website with the “mouse down” event rather than the “mouse up” event, like most things do today. The argument is that it feels more snappy
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Threads turns 1, as federation continues to Mark forward
Casey Newton interviewed Adam Mosseri on the First Year of Threads. He talks about a lot in here, but Adam
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Training bots not welcome
Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click
We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers,
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Mastodon is actively courting journalists
Eugen Rochko on the official Mastodon blog: Highlighting journalism on Mastodon
You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse, and makes it easier than
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I've completely changed my read later workflow (members post)
I'm experimenting with a brand-new app for saving things to read later. I don't know if it's going to stick, but today we're going to see if the grass is actually greener on the other side.
Stop calling the robots “smart”
There is a 1895 French short film called L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station in English) where a stationary camera was set up on a tripod and filmed a train, well, coming into the station. The story goes that some
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The hype cycle running face-first into reality
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test
McDonald’s is ending its two-year-old test of drive-thru, automated order taking (AOT) that it has conducted with IBM and plans to remove the technology from the more than 100 restaurants that have been using it.
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Microsoft vs. their robot on what “freeware” is
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It Because It's 'Freeware.'
"With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use.
The empowering nature of a general interface
There's been some chatter for a while that the chatbot interfaces we have for LLMs today are not that useful for most people and that the real solution everyone wants is for these tools to be integrated into more traditional user interfaces. While I do agree that many use cases are better solved
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Get wrecked, Perplexity
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine):
“Someone else did it” is a fine argument for a five-year-old. And consider the response further. If Srinivas wanted to be ethical, he had some options here. Option one is to terminate the contract with the third-party scraper. Option
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A couple reasons I think big games on iPads and iPhones aren't setting the world on fire
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store
Assassin's Creed Mirage was downloaded approximately 123,000 times since June 6, Appfigures says. However, it has only managed gross revenue of $138,000.
The report believes that the revenue level indicates that fewer than 3,000 people
The public web and consent
This blog exists on the public web, and that means you as a user have a lot of control over both how you consume my work and what you can do with it. I publish to the web, so I suppose the canonical way of reading my work is to do it in a web
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RCS is rolling out to iOS 18 beta users (as long as you’re on a major carrier)
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2
Now it seems that these carriers have flipped the switch and are now enabling RCS for users running the latest iOS 18 beta.
Amazing! I can’t wait to text full-size photos to my brother on Android!
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Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities of all your apps are put into a big soup, and the AI system at the heart of your device can choose the right capabilities to do what you need it to do—without you
