There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still open and trading.
I wouldn’t eat there.
Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified?
(Some would argue that it’s already there…)
I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first 20 shown were from my friends do you think?
(Rather than groups, pages and ads)
Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me.
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Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?
[Guardian cartoon.]
Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of this cup of coffee left.
That was much easier than I was expecting.
Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product:
- Substack has it, via Notes
- Instagram has it, via Threads
- The Fediverse has it, via Mastodon
- The Web has it, via Micro.Blog
That’s why I don’t think there will be One True Twitter Killer.
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.
