My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data grab.
I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle an invite anywhere, and still stuck in the invite queue.
The real danger for them, is that I increasingly don’t care - and it’s literally part of my job to be paying attention to these things.
What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
Adrian Bell on newspaper experts:
I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a gardening expert who wrote for a London paper. ‘And where is your garden?’ I asked innocently. ‘I haven’t got a garden. I live in a flat, he replied.
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So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry:
Also, there’s no point blaming a studio which turns out two-four films a year for “ruining cinema” as though the audience is a sheep like mass. Hollywood has had its own hand in this by producing so many average films which strain for mass appeal to the extent they don’t appeal to anyone.
