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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.
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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.
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@dustinvolz Who wants to bet that the only reason the WSJ is even interested in this is because Jan6 folks got caught up in the net? If this had just been GF protesters it would have been crickets.
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Montana is banning #TikTok for alleged spying and surveillance.
The problem is that, to enforce it, the ban requires more spying and surveillance than Apple and Google currently allow.
This is a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/19/montana-tik-tok-ban-challenges/
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@ppatel @KaraLG84 @BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof Bookmarking more of these so I can get myself into more trouble because my want-to-read pile is already huge.
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@KaraLG84 Bookmarking this post so I can add these to the reads list because they sound excellent.
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Joint Dear Colleague Letter on the Online Accessibility of Colleges, Universities, and Other Postsecondary Institutions (PDF)
https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1584491/download By @TheJusticeDept & @usedgov #HigherEd #Accessibility #A11y #Disability -
my small sweet cat is whipping her tail and literally licking her chops looking up at a helicopter flying over and you can practically hear her thinking “if anyone can take down that huge fuckin bird, it’s me” and I want some of that over-confident warrior back for myself
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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.
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I’m listening to Micro Camp 2023 and thoroughly enjoying myself. Thanks to everyone who’s putting on such an excellent conference and I’m looking forward to all the talks. @camp
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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/
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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 -
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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 my email address.
I found out all this when I was attempting to pre-order the new Stone Barrington book that’s due to arrive on 6 June, and the new book from John Grisham which will be a sequel to The Firm coming out on 17 October. So hopefully I’ll get this sorted.
I’m definitely going to make time for a drink later on this evening since today’s been such a not good one.
In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights play game one of t he conference finals tonight, the Florida Panthers won last night’s game in quadrupal overtime with a score of 3 to 2, and both the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves play baseball tonight.
Oh, and the weather’s great again so we have the windows open.
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