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I really need to spend some time putting together a "subscribe" page for my site. Every post kind has its own feed, and while some of the kinds are quite busy, others might be worth subscribing to in your favorite reader in case you don’t want to join the fediverse or something like that. https://acarson.wtf/2023/05/19/255769/ State College(3ft)
71 °F Scattered Clouds (https://acarson.wtf/?p=255769)

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One time someone called me a technologist and it felt so bad and wrong that I moved to Oregon and started growing weed.

I worked in tech, but I was never a technologist. Tech is boring. People are what’s interesting. Tech is just something we use to get to the people.

When you forget that, as many tech leaders have, that’s when the bad things happen.

—@fraying

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Hey folks. Everyone–EVERYONE–can get got by a scammer at some point.

When we blame folks who get socially engineered for their carelessness or lack of vigilance, we’re making it less likely that people will self-report when they got got, and perpetuating the myth that all we need is vigilance to avoid scams.

The narrative that only fools get scammed helps scammers. Don’t fall for it.

—@Annalee

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I can only hope Ryan Reynolds sues someone into oblivion over deepfake Tesla commercial by an author
Ryan Reynolds Getty Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images In the modern age of technology, there are certain technological advancements that are quickly changing the world and leaving civilians absolutely dumbfounded. Of course, one of these advancements just so happens to relate to the concept of Deepf...
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I am a very happy #Microblog customer – and if you look on #FediDb, they are one of the top Fediverse-enabled platforms (in the top 6) and just launched the ability to post to both Mastodon/Fedi and #Bluesky.

They are having a virtual yearly event online #MicroCamp and it's about to kick off. And @Onmyom will be one of the keynote speakers.

cc: @manton

Go see it here: https://micro.camp/

—@tchambers

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Afternoon fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday, and we’re a good chunk of the way through it on top of that.
Not much has gone right today. I’ll have to find a way to get in touch with a human at Audible because somehow my Audible account is no longer merged with my Amazon account, and when I attempt to re-merge, I can’t complete the second step. So as a result, Audible thinks I’m not a member, although I can see my library if I log into Audible with my username instead of… https://acarson.wtf/?p=255744