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"text": "A developer at today\u2019s Homebrew Website Club mentioned that they didn\u2019t want to have a website built on a particular language because they weren\u2019t familiar with the language and felt uncomfortable trusting their data to it. What if something goes wrong? What if it breaks? How easy will it be to export and move their data over?\nCompare this with the average social media user who doesn\u2019t know any code. In their world, they\u2019re making a choice, likely predicated upon social pressures, to post their data, content, and identity on one or more corporately controlled silos. Because of the ease-of-use, the platform is abstracted away from them even further than from the developer\u2019s perspective thus making it even less apparent the level of trust they\u2019re putting into the platform. What is the platform doing with their data? How is what they\u2019re seeing in their feed being manipulated and controlled?\nThe problems both people are facing are relatively equivalent, just different in their dynamic range. The non-programmer is at an even greater disadvantage however as the silos are moving faster and can do more to take advantage of and manipulate them more seamlessly than the programmer who at least has more potential to learn the unfamiliar language to dig themselves out. This difference is also one of dynamic range as the developer may only need a simple shovel to dig themselves out whereas the non-coder will need a massive excavator, which may be unavailable and still need an operator with knowledge of how to use it.\nFeatured image: excavator flickr photo by mbecher shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license",
"html": "A developer at today\u2019s <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/16/55776916/\">Homebrew Website Club</a> mentioned that they didn\u2019t want to have a website built on a particular language because they weren\u2019t familiar with the language and felt uncomfortable trusting their data to it. What if something goes wrong? What if it breaks? How easy will it be to export and move their data over?\n<p>Compare this with the average social media user who doesn\u2019t know any code. In their world, they\u2019re making a choice, likely predicated upon social pressures, to post their data, content, and identity on one or more corporately controlled silos. Because of the ease-of-use, the platform is abstracted away from them even further than from the developer\u2019s perspective thus making it even less apparent the level of trust they\u2019re putting into the platform. What is the platform doing with their data? How is what they\u2019re seeing in their feed being manipulated and controlled?</p>\n<p>The problems both people are facing are relatively equivalent, just different in their dynamic range. The non-programmer is at an even greater disadvantage however as the silos are moving faster and can do more to take advantage of and manipulate them more seamlessly than the programmer who at least has more potential to learn the unfamiliar language to dig themselves out. This difference is also one of dynamic range as the developer may only need a simple shovel to dig themselves out whereas the non-coder will need a massive excavator, which may be unavailable and still need an operator with knowledge of how to use it.</p>\n<p>Featured image: <a title=\"excavator\" href=\"https://flickr.com/photos/mbecher/3986864780\">excavator</a> flickr photo by <a href=\"https://flickr.com/people/mbecher\">mbecher</a> shared under a <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/\">Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license</a></p>"
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"text": "Dynamic range in social media and shovels versus excavators: boffosocko.com/?p=55776919",
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👋💛 Hi, Portland! Hope y'all are keeping safe!
So, we've had a quite a few people reach out about reservations and when we'll be reopening. Unfortunately, even tho...
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"text": "\ud83e\uddf5 Posted over at @suckerpunchpdx in response to the surprising number of enquires about when we'll be reopening.",
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"text": "\ud83d\udc4b\ud83d\udc9b Hi, Portland! Hope y'all are keeping safe! \n\nSo, we've had a quite a few people reach out about reservations and when we'll be reopening. Unfortunately, even though a lot of bars and restaurants have reopened, we still don't feel it's safe to do so."
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Remember this one? It was all over MP3 sharing apps mislabeled as an Aphex Twin song and it’s *so* cheesy but I still have a place in my heart for this violin-and-breaks acid-jazz epic. youtube.com/watch?v=5lx2BW…
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"text": "Remember this one? It was all over MP3 sharing apps mislabeled as an Aphex Twin song and it\u2019s *so* cheesy but I still have a place in my heart for this violin-and-breaks acid-jazz epic. youtube.com/watch?v=5lx2BW\u2026",
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"text": "I made some... choices... when I couldn\u2019t sleep because of the smoky air and now all my YouTube recommendations at Gaylor Swift crack videos."
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I hate to be that guy, but where's the survey data? If 23% say it's a myth/exaggerated/unsure... well, if 99% of that 23% is "not sure" that is really different from 99% of that 23% being "it's a myth". (More alarming to me is that 12% surveyed had never heard of the Holocaust!)
Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had ...
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"text": "I hate to be that guy, but where's the survey data? If 23% say it's a myth/exaggerated/unsure... well, if 99% of that 23% is \"not sure\" that is really different from 99% of that 23% being \"it's a myth\". (More alarming to me is that 12% surveyed had never heard of the Holocaust!)"
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"text": "Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren\u2019t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn\u2019t think they had heard, about the Holocaust. theguardian.com/world/2020/sep\u2026",
"html": "Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren\u2019t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn\u2019t think they had heard, about the Holocaust. <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study\">theguardian.com/world/2020/sep\u2026</a>"
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"text": "@holden another ex, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/16/bidens_glass-house_covid_criticisms_of_trump_1... from @JPederZane reference to teleprompter in lede...contains just enough to signal right wing conspiracy without stating explicitly,\n\n\nright wing media subtlety amplifies disinformation",
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@BernardGoldberg why do you think messages of ending racism are polarizing or deserve booing? That is what I do not understand. 17,000 mainly white fans in Arrowhead stadium stood against messages of unity and ending racism.
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"text": "@BernardGoldberg why do you think messages of ending racism are polarizing or deserve booing? That is what I do not understand. 17,000 mainly white fans in Arrowhead stadium stood against messages of unity and ending racism."
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OK, @onthemedia, I kinda want a piece on Kevin MacLeod and how his Creative Commons musical selections appear on podcasts from @Harmontown to ... well... @onthemedia
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In the market for an air quality sensor for my home. Ideally, I’d like one for indoor and one for outdoor, preferably with HomeKit support. Any recommendations?
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"text": "In the market for an air quality sensor for my home. Ideally, I\u2019d like one for indoor and one for outdoor, preferably with HomeKit support. Any recommendations?"
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"text": "This was a fun way to spend an afternoon! I won\u2019t lie, it was a bit difficult to sit through a meeting and an interview after a wine tasting though. \ud83e\udd23"
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"text": "Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual wine tasting event paired with AWS cost optimization!"
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Rereading “The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth” short story collection by Zelazny I have tremendous sympathy for the 10yo me who was so impressed by it.
It all seems so...overwrought nearly 50 years later.
But I’m still enjoying it.
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"text": "Rereading \u201cThe Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth\u201d short story collection by Zelazny I have tremendous sympathy for the 10yo me who was so impressed by it. \n\nIt all seems so...overwrought nearly 50 years later. \n\nBut I\u2019m still enjoying it."
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Doomscrolling takes on a whole new meaning when you’re following the #BobcatFire hastag and your house is 3 miles from the front lines. (boffosocko.com/?p=55776800)
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