This short statement by Micah Cohen, from a recent episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, caught my ear:
We wrapped up the live blog at 2:30AM and before we wrapped it up I was looking at [newspaper] headlines.
Almost all of them had some version of “Split Decision”… which is stupid, really.
People are confusing inputs and outputs. The input was not a split decision: where the American people are at at this moment is super clear. The output? Sure, it’s split. But that’s not the same thing.
Clearly, the inputs were strongly pro-Democrat. I still think “Split Decision” is a good description in the sense that Bill Kristol used it: it wasn’t a good night for Republicans, but neither was it an obvious repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. In that sense, I remain disappointed by the midterms. Sure, I didn’t really think that America would “rise up as one” against Trump… but I certainly hoped for it.
Micro.blog now supports Mastodon. It’s great.
It’s also a reminder that federated social networking can sometimes be (unavoidably) complicated:
Your custom domain on Micro.blog can now be ActivityPub-compatible, so that you can follow and reply to Mastodon users directly on Micro.blog. This also means someone can follow your blog posts by adding @you@yourdomain.com on Mastodon. (This username is configurable. Mine is @manton@manton.org.)
I wonder how many users will fully understand this and make use of it?
Giri Sreenivas just publicly launched his new product, The Helm. It’s a personal email server with a novel approach to security and privacy. The hardware looks stunning:
My chapter with Jeffrey Boase and @tkobyashi was just published in the the Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication: Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media Multiplexity
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