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(In response to Tantek’s post on The Ephemeral Web, which he roughly equates with JS;DR.)

I think there’s a case to be made for deliberately (on the part of the author) ephemeral vs accidentally ephemeral as well. I look through my old social media posts and while some of them are worth preserving, a lot of them aren’t. And of course some people don’t *want* that permanent record. This is where things like Mastodon’s auto-delete feature, and the way you can easily set exceptions to keep some posts online, are useful.

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This is also why I still take a PESOS approach a lot of the time: my posts on Mastodon or GoToSocial end up being rough drafts for a more polished article on my website.

Regarding this aside in https://www.theverge.com/23655762/l4s-internet-apple-comcast-latency-speed-bandwidth : “I invite anyone who’s used dial-up to tell me how soft I am and to reminisce about the days when every website took 10 seconds to load, uphill in the snow both ways”

Naah, the snow was only in December when people added those scripts to display falling snow on their web pages.

Oh, the rest of it? Oh, yeah. And of course stats, tracking, ads, and JS frameworks have been using up the gains in network speed ever since.

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Your reminder that when a right-winger complains about antisemitism, they're talking about criticism of Israel, while when left-wingers complain about antisemitism, we're talking about prejudice against Jewish people.

It should be pretty obvious that these are not the same thing.

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Just realized my blog is old enough to drink.

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I find it amusing that every time someone texts (or rarely, calls) my phone by accident because they typed someone else's number wrong, and I reply, “Sorry, I'm not ____, I think you have the wrong number,” they ALWAYS, without fail, reply with something along the lines of “Are you sure?”

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Told the WordPress survey that one of my three must-have plugins is the Classic Editor

WordPress Opens 2023 Annual Survey

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Insightful and (ironically) gut-punching post from @Catvalente on the way we — as humans in general — think about pain.

“The idea that pain is punishment is at the core of humanity's nasty little habit of turning its back on itself and we've been doing that for quite some time now. For all of the time, really.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/catvalente/p/pain-is-not-a-penance

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Interesting article looking at the way Good Omens Season 2 reframes Job, and looking at the siege of the bookshop as a more inclusive commentary on the different interpretations of Sodom and Gomorrah
https://reactormag.com/how-good-omens-queers-the-bible/

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Um…what?

Stolen Van Gogh piece is returned in a bloody pillowcase inside an Ikea bag
https://wapo.st/3rcifZQ

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How do you buy random electronics gadgets these days?

There’s got to be something *useful* between “I know the brand I’m looking for and a store I can buy it from” and “Um…there are 523 virtually identical items on Amazon, each with a different randomly-generated 6-letter ‘brand’ name and 50000 reviews that may or may not be from real people or for this actual product.”

Sorta thinking if it’s going to be junk anyway it doesn’t matter which one, but also thinking that’s the whole business model and I’d rather not support it.

“Itchy Feet” comic on the suspicious ease of learning Esperanto. 😄
https://tinyview.com/itchy-feet/2023/09/07/suspiciously-easy?_branch_match_id=1370677710722312139&utm_source=tinyview&utm_campaign=viral&utm_medium=app&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL85PzkzM0SvJzKssy0wt10vOz9V3c%2Fc1N000LQ91TrKvK0pNSy0qysxLj08qyi8vTi2ydc4oys9NBQAMZSfmQQAAAA%3D%3D

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Just read that Molly Holzschlag has died at 60, after a long series of illnesses.

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/

#rip

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To be fair, I hadn't heard of the takahē until last year when I found out about the Fediverse project that named itself after the bird, which also plugs the Takahē Recovery Programme

https://jointakahe.org/

https://nznaturefund.org/projects/takahe-recovery-programme/

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