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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 3h

wut

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4h

I just… jfc why don't these companies and politicians listen?

👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 5h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 4h

Watch Cory Doctorow talk about finding a better search experience with Kagi on the inaugural episode of The Honest Broker video interview series:

youtu.be/rHHYql5Vsmk?...

How the Internet Got So Bad | Cory Doctorow & Jared Henderson

YouTube video by The Honest Broker

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 4h

In Search of Lost Breaths – Proust and Asthma

Author Marcel Proust suffered from asthma for much of his life. Some think that this influenced his writing style.

In Search of Lost Breaths – Proust and Asthma

Author Marcel Proust suffered from asthma for much of his life. Some think that this influenced his writing style.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 5h

I've been using it exclusively for six months. Better search, no ads, customization, etc.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 6h

And a ham burger?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 6h

It doesn't hurt me, but it's wrong. Like almond milk. Like PU leather. Call things what they are, don't try to deceive.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 6h

That's what I suspected. Maybe the font is corrupted, or maybe your Mac just wasn't reading it correctly.

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ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 7h

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Tidy your text after importing from Microsoft Word with ‘Edit > Text Tidying’. You can delete struck through text, replace multiple spaces with single spaces, remove empty lines between paragraphs, strip leading tabs and more.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 6h

Seconded.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 7h

I haven't seen this. Check your font setting in the Viewing settings.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 7h

Honestly? I want to see those words when the products contain meet, not when they are ersatz. It's about time the vegan food industry grew up and started calling things as they really are.

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ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 7h

Planning out your novel? Scrivener's character sketches let you note information about your characters. You can go further and create your own character sketch templates, even containing multiple files. #characterwithscrivener
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Discover more about their flexibility here: buff.ly/hOr5aEi #Preptober

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 7h

A plan with no downsides:

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 8h

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Robert Jenrick is right, we have an integration problem: racist white people — The Observer

The shadow chancellor has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 8h

But I thought it was like 5 quid at supermarkets. Has that changed? (I mean, not all supermarkets have pharmacies, but I got one at a Morrison's once.)

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rawkitbawl @rawkitbawl.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't think "Scorched Earth Jimmy Kimmel" was in the realm of possibility.

Yet here we are. I'm now a fan of someone I thought about less than once a year about two months ago.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 9h

Yeah, that’s not what I’m reading, apparently there’s a new variant that is posing problems.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 9h

I can't help feeling that if you're as wealthy as she is, and a seminal artist of her time, and you write diss tracks and songs about your boyfriend's penis, you really need therapy.

Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 9h

Very few popular musicians last for a long time without reinventing themselves, or becoming - like the Rolling Stones - the best tribute band playing their old stuff.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19h

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 9h

I can’t read the article, but it’s the goal of this just to cut down on foreign students?

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinating marker of how far the Tory target voter has shifted from ‘middle class parents wanting their kids to go to uni’ to ‘old people who didn’t go and don’t see what anyone else should either’. (Obv there’s a solid case for apprenticeships, but not convinced that’s what this is about)

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 22h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 10h

I’ve just realized that I will probably not get a free one anymore. I was looking online, it’s anywhere from £75 to 90. I’m scheduled to get a flu vaccine at my GP this weekend; I’ll see if they can give me Covid at the same time.

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