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Elon is rattling off ideas for Twitter like it’s Calvinball

Every thought Elon has is an r/showerthought that he thinks is a TED Talk

Elon has the misplaced arrogance of a “gifted” 7th grader who thinks big problems aren’t hard to solve at all, actually, and would have been solved long ago if only people were as bright as him

Monoculture https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-all-hot-100-top-10-anti-hero-1235163664/

One simple thing Elon could do to immediately make Twitter better is to turn RSS back on

If the nascent metaverse is analogous to the nascent internet, does Mark Zuckerberg think Meta is AOL or Netscape?

I’m worried about putting all our eggs in Bandcamp’s basket. I love what it’s done for music, but in ten years a LOT of embedded audio players just won’t work anymore.

an art heist movie where a team pulls off a 51% attack

One of the great comforting things about a Bose Wave CD player is that the words on the glowing display are in Gill Sans

A good trick if you’re logging into multiple similar WordPress environments (dev/staging/prod): Change the Admin Color Scheme for each one so you can easily tell which one you’re in.

the mac touchbar could be offering to refill my coffee and i wouldn’t know it because i never look at the keyboard

Whenever possible, show up with a box of donuts

Where is the Technorati dot com of the #IndieWeb?

We don’t talk enough about this Randy Newman impression that always felt bizarre in the middle of a teen comedy

all movies should be exactly an hour and forty five minutes

If you still subscribe to @DVDNetflix, nothing ever “leaves Netflix”

I knew it was only a matter of time before Twitter changed their timeline design so that “open for a surprise” tweets wouldn’t make sense anymore