Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Question for #indieweb folks: I remember a discussion about a syndication model that describes one of the ways I handle social media and my own site. It's sort of a selective/curated #pesos.
I don't import *all* my posts, just the ones I feel worth preserving, and those often as first drafts. I'll expand, rework, or otherwise finalize the posts on my website.
I could swear I saw someone come up with a term for this model, but I can't remember what it was!
The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-25-most-iconic-book-covers-in-history
#books
“Why isn't anybody talking about this?”
Because we already hashed out the same conversation 5 times and we don't feel like going for round 6 right now?
I just got spam plugging an event for the NRA. Which would be waaaaay misdirected even if it didn't turn out to be about the National Restaurant Association.
(Hmm, I wonder what they think of the Culinary Institute of America)
In theory, bigger organizations have more resources to secure their data.
But smaller organizations also have smaller datasets to protect. When a giant conglomerate like this loses control of its data, it loses control of a LOT of data.
(Compare it to the impact if it was only your local optometrist's customer list that was leaked. More personal, but a lot fewer people.)
So … basically if you bought glasses from anyone before 2021, you're probably in this breach.
I haven’t watched it, but apparently the big villain in the 4-parter is…
Cobalt Blue.
CBR describes him as a “classic Flash villain” and “iconic.”
https://www.cbr.com/the-flash-cobalt-blue-set-photos/
I’ve been out of the fandom for a while, but back in the late 90s early 2000s there was a large contingent of Flash fans (specifically Barry Allen fans) who HATED the character. Mostly because in the comics he was Barry’s separated-at-birth twin.
I find this hilarious. Even if it’s just the fact that we’re still in the 1990s phase of the nostalgia cycle, the idea that Cobalt Blue is worth using for a TV series finale? Never would have occurred to people back in the day.
And TBH I kind of feel vindicated for the blog post I wrote back in 2008 arguing that if the character had been introduced back in the Silver Age, he *would* have been a classic.
I guess now he is!?
Kind of wish I hadn’t deleted that CobaltBluePrime handle on Twitter back in November. It would’ve been perfect to bring it back and post “AT LAST MY TIME HAS COME” or something like that.
(I set it up for a 2011 April Fools’ joke where the blog was rebranded as Cobalt Blue Online for the day and we posted a bunch of Cobalt Blue-themed articles)
Though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. I mean, this is the show that successfully transformed Vibe into a beloved character!
I actually saw a car with the plate “MUSTPEE” the other day. Astonished that it got approved.
“Crime Blotter:…Package Not Stolen.”
What, was it supposed to be?
(Apparently someone broke into an apartment complex and *opened* a package, but didn’t steal it)
https://patch.com/california/redondobeach/redondo-beach-crime-blotter-amazon-package-not-stolen
Gosh, who would have thought that making it possible to automate the process of extracting confirmation codes from incoming SMS messages would make it possible for malware to silently collect them?
“Every week new websites and browser extensions emerge to tunnel through or scramble over the walls, and every week they are crushed by rocks and catapults. Punchbowl News will never let the rabble in. Merely thinking about reading one too many *Bloomberg Businessweek *pieces now carries with it a substantial fine. If you attempt to access anything beyond your three monthly allotted *Atlantic *pieces, Jeffrey Goldberg will pay a personal visit to your home and do krav maga on you.”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment/
I just found, on my desktop in my old website files, an 88×31-pixel button for Wikipedia. From 2003
“The Twitter Files” is a series of cherry-picked internal documents that Musk gave to hand-picked sympathetic journalists (including Matt Taibbi) who then portrayed things like an extensive internal debate over whether to ban Trump after his supporters tried to stop the official count of the election he lost as, somehow, evidence of arbitrary liberal censorship, or the Biden campaign (which was not part of the government at the time) asking Twitter to take down posts containing revenge porn as, somehow, an example of government censorship, getting organizations mixed up and at one point even claiming that 22 million tweets were flagged for takedown by one organization, when the real number was only about 3,000 and they weren’t flagged for takedown, only for review, and Twitter left most of them up.
Techdirt has a whole series of posts pointing out the flaws in the claims. This one’s a good place to start.
“MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email.”
And yet it takes simpler code to create a responsive email than a non-responsive one. You don’t have to use a 1990s-style image table grid to tell people about your weekly specials. You don’t have to specify a font size that ends up being unreadable on phone screens. You don’t have to make multiple columns and then figure out how to make sure they reflow on narrower views.
Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the &^$% *Comstock Laws* are still on the books.
Between that and the various state laws that went into effect when Dobbs reversed the ruling that declared them unconstitutional…
How many other archaic laws are still out there waiting for someone to realize they can use them as a wedge?
It's clearly not enough to just stop enforcing something for a century or so. You need to actually repeal it.
I ran into this a while back.
It’s not new
It’s not specific to Pixel photos.
The app and cloud service just don’t have support for modifying the EXIF tags, so if *any* camera has added GPS data, you can’t use Google Photos to change or remove it.
The estimated location is stored in the Google Photos database and can be modified within the app.
You *can* turn GPS off in the camera app.
A few months ago I dug into ways to work around this with photos that had already been taken with the GPS coordinates. Annoyingly, you mostly have to save the photo, remove the tag, and re-upload it.
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/gps-remove/
(I take a lot of photos for iNaturalist and reference photos for OpenStreetMap editing, so I’m constantly turning GPS on for those, and then back off for personal photos, and sometimes I forget.)
“rapid unscheduled disassembly” is one way to put it.
Reminds me of the “too much vertical velocity” comment you sometimes got when you crashed in the Chuck Yeager flight simulator games.
This year’s #wildflowers are seriously impressive
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wildflower-superbloom-photos-california
Also, the tech exec who Dax encounters *really* has the 90s Rick Astley look going.