IndieWeb

Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth

This post will show you step by step how you can let people log in to your website with their own IndieAuth website so you don't need to worry about user accounts or passwords.

#indieauth #indieweb #oauth

April 13, 2021 9:15pm -07:00

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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Looking forward to this Webmentions pop-up session next month.

April 13, 2021 5:03pm -05:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Thanks to everyone who joined me last night at #TechNott for my talk about the #IndieWeb - you can find the recording of the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFXOZww5mmE - I'll also look at getting it uploaded to Archive.org for longevity!

#public-speaking #tech-nottingham #indieweb

April 13, 2021 12:02pm +00:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Not long now till you'll be able to hear me talking about the #IndieWeb at tonight's #TechNott - hope to see some of you there to learn what it is, why some of us want to own our data and be our own platforms, and more!

🚨 TONIGHT 🚨 We have @JamieTanna talking all about the #indieWeb and owning your data plus we'll be asking you to share your personal sites in the second half! ⏰ O...

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#indieweb #tech-nottingham

April 12, 2021 6:05pm +01:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Happy #TechNott day all! Looking forward to seeing you later to hear a bit more about what the #IndieWeb is, and the ways you can get involved owning your data and building cool things for yourself https://www.technottingham.com/events/tech-nottingham-april-2021

#public-speaking #tech-nottingham #indieweb

April 12, 2021 8:23am +01:00

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In the midst of a re-write of how my site works and in passing conversation in the IndieWeb chat, I think about how to 'show' the IndieWeb as something people can invest in versus a collection of things that...

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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Turning off syndication to Twitter, at least for today. If you're reading this, it's via my indieweb feed on my Known site, or on Micro.blog.

April 9, 2021 4:21pm +00:00

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Christopher Chelpka christopherchelpka.com

Now that you know why posting for “free” on MySpaceBook isn’t a good idea. Check out Micro.blog. I just paid for another year, again. Totally worth it. Micro.blog is the easy way to #indieweb.

April 7, 2021 5:00am +00:00

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www.wired.com/story/healing-power-javascript-code-programming/

Jeremy Keith adactio.com

The Healing Power of Javascript | WIRED

I can very much relate to what Craig is saying here.

#code #coding #indieweb #maintenance #personal #websites #tinkering #covid-19 #coronavirus #hacking #wired

April 6, 2021 6:33pm +00:00

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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Woop woop! Very excited for this 🎉 looking forward to sharing a bit more about what the #IndieWeb is, why you may be interested and what folks can do to get involved!

Next week we've got @JamieTanna talking all about the #IndieWeb and owning your own data! Join us Monday 12th April 18.30 online 📅 All the deets ➡️ nott.tech/tn-ap...

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April 6, 2021 9:28am +01:00

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Mike Taylor bear.im

Checking on code 2021 Edition

#code, indieweb

April 4, 2021 9:05pm +00:00

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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Reading, watching, playing, using: March, 2021

April 1, 2021 2:45pm +00:00

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"text": "This is my monthly roundup of the media I consumed and found interesting. Here's my list for March, 2021: a month where, at least in the United States, mass vaccination started to present the light at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic.BooksThe Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi. Beautiful and sad; a tale of someone trying to be themselves in a context that won\u2019t allow it, and of love and allyship becoming their own kinds of oppression. Despite the tragedy at the heart of the novel, it resonates with triumphant humanism, too. Emotional and sonorous and just about perfect.Something That May Shock and Discredit You, by Daniel M. Lavery . A very personal book; powerful in a way that sneaks up on you with seemingly-banal interludes that add up to a meaningful whole. I\u2019ve been a fan of his ever since The Toast, but this is something else entirely.The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It starts with a catastrophe - an extrapolation of climate change and the very dark places it might lead us - but then takes us on an exploration of how we might deal with it. It\u2019s an informed celebration of invention, resolve, and the human spirit. If I have a criticism, it\u2019s that it sometimes is far too utopian and engages in technological determinism, but what a change that makes. I\u2019ve even forgiven its extensive passages on decentralized social networking (something I know a thing or two about) and blockchain, the wrongness of which casts doubt on the technical robustness of other climate solutions presented. This is hard economic science fiction, and yet, a very human book.The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett. A near-perfect novel about identity and how the stories we tell about ourselves both define and disguise us. Modern, nuanced, and rich in a way that lingers long afterwards.Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong. A challenging, complicated book that provides a much-needed perspective via the author\u2019s Asian American experience. I was drawn in by the first half, and again by the deservedly angry final essay. The rest of the second half is dedicated to her experiences as an artist, which are not always likable. But why should they be? She doesn\u2019t owe anybody anything, and her honesty is a gift that deserves attention.Notable ArticlesBusinessImagine Your Flexible Office Work Future. \"The C-Suite has had \u201cflexibility\u201d for years. If companies don\u2019t expand it to other workers, they\u2019ll find jobs elsewhere.\"The End of Indie. \"Unfortunately, as we\u2019ve sought to lean more aggressively into scaling our investments and ideas behind an \u201cIndie Economy\u201d we\u2019ve not found that same level of enthusiasm from the institutional LP market.\"Four-Day Work Week Gains Popularity Around the World. \"So last spring the company told everyone to sign off around lunchtime every Friday to ease into the weekend. The experiment was so successful\u2014sales, employee engagement, and client satisfaction all rose\u2014that in January, Awin decided to go a step further, rolling out a four-day week for the entire company with no cuts in salaries or benefits. \u201cWe firmly believe that happy, engaged, and well-balanced employees produce much better work,\u201d says Chief Executive Officer Adam Ross. They \u201cfind ways to work smarter, and they\u2019re just as productive.\u201d\" Honestly, what's the downside?An alternative to competition. \u201cAnd all we have to do is get enough customers to make our business work. That's it. That's how we stay alive. Not by taking marketshare away from anyone, not by siphoning off users, not by spending gobs of cash to convince people to switch. We simply have our own economics to worry about, and if we get that right, we're golden.\u201d I like this way of thinking.What Ended Indie. The discussion of GAAP accounting here - and in particular its shortcomings - is very familiar to me.For Creators, Everything Is for Sale. \u201cA rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life \u2014 down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.\u201d It\u2019s like an episode of Black Mirror.In a First, Uber Agrees to Classify British Drivers as \u2018Workers\u2019. \u201cUber said it would reclassify more than 70,000 drivers in Britain as workers who will receive a minimum wage, vacation pay and access to a pension plan.\u201d Everywhere, please.The Personal Finance and Investment Advice Fallacy. \u201cThe personal finance circuit and the hustle economy are some of the most public acts of cruelty in capitalism. It exists to kick people when they\u2019re down - telling those who are suffering because inherent unfairness of capitalism (where so much is based on where you are born, when you were born and whom you are born to) that it\u2019s their fault, and that the reason they\u2019re doing badly is because they haven\u2019t taken the right advice or done the right thing.\u201dESGs, sustainable investing are not as green as touted, investor says. \u201cThe financial services industry is duping the American public with its pro-environment, sustainable investing practices. This multitrillion dollar arena of socially conscious investing is being presented as something it's not. In essence, Wall Street is greenwashing the economic system and, in the process, creating a deadly distraction. I should know; I was at the heart of it.\u201dGreen investing is a fraud. \u201cTake \"Environmental, Social, and Governance\" (ESG) funds, pitched as a way to save for retirement without annihilating the planet you're planning to retire on. These were once so promising that they panicked the finance sector, so much so that the world's carbon barons convinced Trump to propose a law making it illegal to direct your investment dollars into an ESG.\u201d Instead, ESG funds were gutted of their impact and are now largely marketing concerns.CultureBeeple sold an NFT for $69 million. Just, ugh.The internet didn\u2019t kill counterculture\u2014you just won\u2019t find it on Instagram. \"Taken from the title of Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin\u2019s 2008 book, \u201cthe dark forest\u201d region of the web is becoming increasingly important as a space of online communication for users of all ages and political persuasions. In part, this is because it is less sociologically stressful than the clearnet zone, where one is subject to peer, employer, and state exposure. It also now includes Discord servers, paid newsletters (e.g., Substack), encrypted group messaging (via Telegram, etc.), gaming communities, podcasts, and other off-clearnet message board forums and social media.\"You\u2019re probably using the wrong dictionary. \u201cA book where you can enter \u201csport\u201d and end up with \u201ca diversion of the field\u201d \u2014 this is in fact the opposite of what I\u2019d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that\u2019s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare. No wonder McPhee wrote with it by his side. No wonder he looked up words he knew, versus words he didn\u2019t, in a ratio of \u201cat least ninety-nine to one.\u201d\u201dMediaJournalism is a public service. So why doesn\u2019t it represent the public?. \"All of this is to say, getting into a four-year university depends largely on generational wealth, which a myriad of immigrant households and historically marginalized racial minorities are still struggling to build. Those on the unlucky side of the gap see disadvantages compound from the start. I come from a family that lived below the poverty line, and that likely helped me earn a full scholarship to Boston University. This stroke of luck has changed my life, but it\u2019s important to acknowledge that the hurdles don\u2019t end there.\"America is learning to rebalance its news diet post-Trump. \"Nearly halfway through President Biden's first 100 days, data shows that Americans are learning to wean themselves off of news \u2014 and especially politics.\"Nearly Half of Digital Subscribers Are \u2018Zombies,\u2019 Medill Analysis Finds. \u201cSpiegel found that 49% of digital subscribers didn\u2019t go to the websites they had paid for even once a month, putting them in a category known in news-industry slang as \u201czombies.\u201d Concern is growing about this problem because even though the living dead may still pay for local news, they seem like a weak foundation to build a future on.\u201d It makes me wonder why they subscribe; I suspect it\u2019s closer to why people donate to charity than because they want to be constantly engaged with the content.Here's why Substack's scam worked so well. \u201cFor all we know, every single one of Substack\u2019s top newsletters is supported by money from Substack. Until Substack reveals who exactly is on its payroll, its promises that anyone can make money on a newsletter are tainted.\u201dAAJA Guidance on Atlanta Shootings. \u201cWe urge newsrooms to cover the shootings in the context of the current rise in attacks on Asian Americans. These shootings have come during a time of increasing attacks on the AAPI community, and heightened fear among AAPI communities across the country.\u201dPoliticsWomen in Congress on the Capitol riot: 23 lawmakers on what happened to them during the insurrection. \"As the events of the deadly riot are examined in the impeachment trial, here is what almost two dozen lawmakers told The 19th about January 6, in their own words.\" Really harrowing.ScienceA Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children. Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test. Can you?Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. \"Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity. Given the widespread use of facial recognition, our findings have critical implications for the protection of privacy and civil liberties.\" Kind of terrifying.Study: Preservative Used in Pop-Tarts and Hundreds of Popular Foods May Harm the Immune System. \"A food preservative used to prolong the shelf life of Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats, Cheez-Its and almost 1,250 other popular processed foods may harm the immune system, according to a new peer-reviewed study by Environmental Working Group.\" And: \"Recently published research has also found a link between high levels of PFAS in the blood and the severity of Covid-19.\"How mRNA Technology Could Change the World. \"For decades, researchers have struggled to design a workable vaccine for HIV, and many observers considered this field a dead end. But a new paper argues that these repeated failures forced HIV-vaccine researchers to spend a lot of time and money on strange and unproven vaccine techniques\u2014such as synthetic mRNA and the viral-vector technology that powers the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 vaccines that made it to clinical trials used technology that \u201ccould be traced back to prototypes tested in HIV vaccine trials,\u201d Jeffrey E. Harris, the economist at MIT who authored the paper, wrote.\"Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github. \u201cWe didn't reverse engineer the vaccine. We posted the putative sequence of two synthetic RNA molecules that have become sufficiently prevalent in the general environment of medicine and human biology in 2021.\u201dSocietyHow to have better arguments online. Not just online: \u201cWhen we\u2019re in an argument with someone, we should be thinking about how they can change their mind and look good \u2013 maintain or even enhance their face \u2013 at the same time. Often this is very hard to do in the moment of the dispute itself, when opinion and face are bound even more tightly together than they are before or after (the writer Rachel Cusk defines an argument as \u201can emergency of self-definition\u201d). However, by showing that we have listened to and respected our interlocutor\u2019s point of view, we make it more likely that they will come around at some later point. If and when they do, we should avoid scolding them for not agreeing with us all along.\u201dNew study finds not knowing how to flirt is the main reason behind \"involuntary singlehood\". \"Among the participants who indicated that they were involuntarily single, the most important factor by far was their lack of flirting skills. Following this factor, in decreasing order, were skills in perceiving signals of interest, \u201cmating effort,\u201d and choosiness. These last three factors were all relatively similar in their degree of impact.\"Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete. \u201cHaving a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who\u2019s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it\u2019s like having a neighbour who\u2019s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.\u201dPrivate Schools Are Indefensible. I agree with the headline. They simply shouldn\u2019t exist. This is an excellent piece that dives into some reasons why.What the Pandemic Is Doing to Our Brains. \u201cThe pandemic is still too young to have yielded rigorous, peer-reviewed studies about its effects on cognitive function. But the brain scientists I spoke with told me they can extrapolate based on earlier work about trauma, boredom, stress, and inactivity, all of which do a host of very bad things to a mammal\u2019s brain.\u201dHospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results. Hospitals have to list pricing by law - but they explicitly add noindex, nofollow tags to pricing pages so they can't be searched and discovered. Seems like an opportunity for someone to build an open dataset.Evanston, Illinois, becomes first U.S. city to pay reparations to Black residents. \"The Chicago suburb\u2019s City Council voted 8-1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households. Each qualifying household would receive $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property.\"TechnologyClubhouse Harassment, and Tech's Move from Enthusiast to Industrial Press. \u201cI believe that a lot of the people in tech who are having this vacuous, oafish discussion of the media has as \u201chaters\u201d are actually just mad that they can\u2019t say or do what they want and that every action they have isn\u2019t the most important thing in the world.\u201dGoogle will end behavioral targeting, profile-building in its ad products. \"Google helped create and grow the digital ad ecosystem that relied on tracking and targeting ads to people across the web. Now, up against pressure from regulators around data privacy and antitrust, Google will stop enabling cross-site tracking and targeting of individuals outside its own properties such as in inventory it sells through its Google AdX display and video ad exchange.\" Big changes are coming.The SOC2 Starting Seven. \"Here\u2019s how we\u2019ll try to help: with Seven Things you can do now that will simplify SOC2 for you down the road while making your life, or at least your security posture, materially better in the immediacy.\" File under \"things I wish I'd read a year ago\".Lying to the ghost in the machine. \u201cThe point I'd like to make is that ready-trained NNs like GPT-3 or CLIP are often tailored as the basis of specific recognizer applications and then may end up deployed in public situations, much as shitty internet-of-things gizmos usually run on an elderly, unpatched ARM linux kernel with an old version of OpenSSH and busybox installed, and hard-wired root login credentials. This is the future of security holes in our internet-connected appliances: metaphorically, cameras that you can fool by slapping a sticker labelled \"THIS IS NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR\" on the front of the droid the camera is in fact looking for.\u201dT-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers. 'Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their masked browsing, app data and online activity with advertisers unless they opt out.\" As a previously-happy T-Mobile customer, I'm outraged by this.He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction. \u201cI began video-calling Qui\u00f1onero regularly. I also spoke to Facebook executives, current and former employees, industry peers, and external experts. Many spoke on condition of anonymity because they\u2019d signed nondisclosure agreements or feared retaliation. I wanted to know: What was Qui\u00f1onero\u2019s team doing to rein in the hate and lies on its platform?\u201d Surprise, surprise: that\u2019s not what Facebook wanted to talk about.The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021. \u201cWhatever progress runtimes and networks have made in the past half-decade, browsers are stubbornly situated in the devices carried by real-world users, and the single most important thing to understand about the landscape of devices your sites will run on is that they are not new phones.\u201dOne Year in the IndieWeb. I'm pretty much an indieweb zealot. These experiences are fair and representative of the community, it seems to me.The Dao of DAOs. \u201cAfter a contentious debate, the Ethereum core team, led by Vitalik Buterin, released a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain. It was essentially a new version in which everything was the same, except in the forked version, the heist never happened.\u201d A very telling paragraph. How decentralized is it, really, if the core team can vanish away transactions, regardless of the reason? (Hint: every blockchain can do this.)In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click. Fuel for Google being more of a publisher than a referrer these days.The End of AMP. \u201cIf you\u2019re currently using AMP, you\u2019ll be able to get rid of that monstrosity in May, and if you aren\u2019t, you\u2019ll now be competing for search positions previously unavailable to you. For publishers, it is a win-win.\u201d FINALLY.",
"html": "This is my monthly roundup of the media I consumed and found interesting. Here's my list for March, 2021: a month where, at least in the United States, mass vaccination started to present the light at the end of the tunnel for the pandemic.<h3>Books</h3><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/the-death-of-vivek-oji/9780525541608\">The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi</a>. Beautiful and sad; a tale of someone trying to be themselves in a context that won\u2019t allow it, and of love and allyship becoming their own kinds of oppression. Despite the tragedy at the heart of the novel, it resonates with triumphant humanism, too. Emotional and sonorous and just about perfect.<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/something-that-may-shock-and-discredit-you-9781982105228/9781982105211\">Something That May Shock and Discredit You, by Daniel M. Lavery </a>. A very personal book; powerful in a way that sneaks up on you with seemingly-banal interludes that add up to a meaningful whole. I\u2019ve been a fan of his ever since The Toast, but this is something else entirely.<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780316300131\">The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson</a>. It starts with a catastrophe - an extrapolation of climate change and the very dark places it might lead us - but then takes us on an exploration of how we might deal with it. It\u2019s an informed celebration of invention, resolve, and the human spirit. If I have a criticism, it\u2019s that it sometimes is far too utopian and engages in technological determinism, but what a change that makes. I\u2019ve even forgiven its extensive passages on decentralized social networking (something I know a thing or two about) and blockchain, the wrongness of which casts doubt on the technical robustness of other climate solutions presented. This is hard economic science fiction, and yet, a very human book.<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/the-vanishing-half-9780525536291/9780525536291\">The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett</a>. A near-perfect novel about identity and how the stories we tell about ourselves both define and disguise us. Modern, nuanced, and rich in a way that lingers long afterwards.<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning/9781984820365\">Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong</a>. A challenging, complicated book that provides a much-needed perspective via the author\u2019s Asian American experience. I was drawn in by the first half, and again by the deservedly angry final essay. The rest of the second half is dedicated to her experiences as an artist, which are not always likable. But why should they be? She doesn\u2019t owe anybody anything, and her honesty is a gift that deserves attention.<h3>Notable Articles</h3><h4>Business</h4><a href=\"https://annehelen.substack.com/p/imagine-your-flexible-office-work\">Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future</a>. \"The C-Suite has had \u201cflexibility\u201d for years. If companies don\u2019t expand it to other workers, they\u2019ll find jobs elsewhere.\"<a href=\"https://medium.com/@bryce/the-end-of-indie-6e1b92d90b09\">The End of Indie</a>. \"Unfortunately, as we\u2019ve sought to lean more aggressively into scaling our investments and ideas behind an \u201cIndie Economy\u201d we\u2019ve not found that same level of enthusiasm from the institutional LP market.\"<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/four-day-work-week-gains-popularity-around-the-world\">Four-Day Work Week Gains Popularity Around the World</a>. \"So last spring the company told everyone to sign off around lunchtime every Friday to ease into the weekend. The experiment was so successful\u2014sales, employee engagement, and client satisfaction all rose\u2014that in January, Awin decided to go a step further, rolling out a four-day week for the entire company with no cuts in salaries or benefits. \u201cWe firmly believe that happy, engaged, and well-balanced employees produce much better work,\u201d says Chief Executive Officer Adam Ross. They \u201cfind ways to work smarter, and they\u2019re just as productive.\u201d\" Honestly, what's the downside?<a href=\"https://world.hey.com/jason/an-alternative-to-competition-ff57f4bc\">An alternative to competition</a>. \u201cAnd all we have to do is get enough customers to make our business work. That's it. That's how we stay alive. Not by taking marketshare away from anyone, not by siphoning off users, not by spending gobs of cash to convince people to switch. We simply have our own economics to worry about, and if we get that right, we're golden.\u201d I like this way of thinking.<a href=\"https://medium.com/@bryce/what-ended-indie-76575463934d\">What Ended Indie</a>. The discussion of GAAP accounting here - and in particular its shortcomings - is very familiar to me.<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/style/creators-selling-selves.html\">For Creators, Everything Is for Sale</a>. \u201cA rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life \u2014 down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.\u201d It\u2019s like an episode of Black Mirror.<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/uber-uk-drivers-worker-status.html?referringSource=articleShare\">In a First, Uber Agrees to Classify British Drivers as \u2018Workers\u2019</a>. \u201cUber said it would reclassify more than 70,000 drivers in Britain as workers who will receive a minimum wage, vacation pay and access to a pension plan.\u201d Everywhere, please.<a href=\"https://ez.substack.com/p/the-personal-finance-and-investment\">The Personal Finance and Investment Advice Fallacy</a>. \u201cThe personal finance circuit and the hustle economy are some of the most public acts of cruelty in capitalism. It exists to kick people when they\u2019re down - telling those who are suffering because inherent unfairness of capitalism (where so much is based on where you are born, when you were born and whom you are born to) that it\u2019s their fault, and that the reason they\u2019re doing badly is because they haven\u2019t taken the right advice or done the right thing.\u201d<a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/16/wall-street-esg-sustainable-investing-greenwashing-column/6948923002/\">ESGs, sustainable investing are not as green as touted, investor says</a>. \u201cThe financial services industry is duping the American public with its pro-environment, sustainable investing practices. This multitrillion dollar arena of socially conscious investing is being presented as something it's not. In essence, Wall Street is greenwashing the economic system and, in the process, creating a deadly distraction. I should know; I was at the heart of it.\u201d<a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/greenwashing/\">Green investing is a fraud</a>. \u201cTake \"Environmental, Social, and Governance\" (ESG) funds, pitched as a way to save for retirement without annihilating the planet you're planning to retire on. These were once so promising that they panicked the finance sector, so much so that the world's carbon barons convinced Trump to propose a law making it illegal to direct your investment dollars into an ESG.\u201d Instead, ESG funds were gutted of their impact and are now largely marketing concerns.<h4>Culture</h4><a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies-nft-sale-cost-everydays-69-million\">Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million</a>. Just, ugh.<a href=\"https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/\">The internet didn\u2019t kill counterculture\u2014you just won\u2019t find it on Instagram</a>. \"Taken from the title of Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin\u2019s 2008 book, \u201cthe dark forest\u201d region of the web is becoming increasingly important as a space of online communication for users of all ages and political persuasions. In part, this is because it is less sociologically stressful than the clearnet zone, where one is subject to peer, employer, and state exposure. It also now includes Discord servers, paid newsletters (e.g., Substack), encrypted group messaging (via Telegram, etc.), gaming communities, podcasts, and other off-clearnet message board forums and social media.\"<a href=\"https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary\">You\u2019re probably using the wrong dictionary</a>. \u201cA book where you can enter \u201csport\u201d and end up with \u201ca diversion of the field\u201d \u2014 this is in fact the opposite of what I\u2019d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that\u2019s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare. No wonder McPhee wrote with it by his side. No wonder he looked up words he knew, versus words he didn\u2019t, in a ratio of \u201cat least ninety-nine to one.\u201d\u201d<h4>Media</h4><a href=\"https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/journalism-is-a-public-service-so-why-doesnt-it-represent-the-public/\">Journalism is a public service. So why doesn\u2019t it represent the public?</a>. \"All of this is to say, getting into a four-year university depends largely on generational wealth, which a myriad of immigrant households and historically marginalized racial minorities are still struggling to build. Those on the unlucky side of the gap see disadvantages compound from the start. I come from a family that lived below the poverty line, and that likely helped me earn a full scholarship to Boston University. This stroke of luck has changed my life, but it\u2019s important to acknowledge that the hurdles don\u2019t end there.\"<a href=\"https://www.axios.com/politics-media-trump-biden-e423fd1f-f239-4581-9338-32d514977d3d.html\">America is learning to rebalance its news diet post-Trump</a>. \"Nearly halfway through President Biden's first 100 days, data shows that Americans are learning to wean themselves off of news \u2014 and especially politics.\"<a href=\"https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2021/03/01/zombies/\">Nearly Half of Digital Subscribers Are \u2018Zombies,\u2019 Medill Analysis Finds</a>. \u201cSpiegel found that 49% of digital subscribers didn\u2019t go to the websites they had paid for even once a month, putting them in a category known in news-industry slang as \u201czombies.\u201d Concern is growing about this problem because even though the living dead may still pay for local news, they seem like a weak foundation to build a future on.\u201d It makes me wonder why they subscribe; I suspect it\u2019s closer to why people donate to charity than because they want to be constantly engaged with the content.<a href=\"https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so\">Here's why Substack's scam worked so well</a>. \u201cFor all we know, every single one of Substack\u2019s top newsletters is supported by money from Substack. Until Substack reveals who exactly is on its payroll, its promises that anyone can make money on a newsletter are tainted.\u201d<a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FKZ-75jmhQS4UbAaASPgynowlkjFuIxkcAqIIwi7Ydk/edit\">AAJA Guidance on Atlanta Shootings</a>. \u201cWe urge newsrooms to cover the shootings in the context of the current rise in attacks on Asian Americans. These shootings have come during a time of increasing attacks on the AAPI community, and heightened fear among AAPI communities across the country.\u201d<h4>Politics</h4><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2021/02/women-in-congress-capitol-riot/\">Women in Congress on the Capitol riot: 23 lawmakers on what happened to them during the insurrection</a>. \"As the events of the deadly riot are examined in the impeachment trial, here is what almost two dozen lawmakers told The 19th about January 6, in their own words.\" Really harrowing.<h4>Science</h4><a href=\"https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children\">A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children</a>. Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test. Can you?<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79310-1\">Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images</a>. \"Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity. Given the widespread use of facial recognition, our findings have critical implications for the protection of privacy and civil liberties.\" Kind of terrifying.<a href=\"https://www.ewg.org/release/study-preservative-used-pop-tarts-and-hundreds-popular-foods-may-harm-immune-system\">Study: Preservative Used in Pop-Tarts and Hundreds of Popular Foods May Harm the Immune System</a>. \"A food preservative used to prolong the shelf life of Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats, Cheez-Its and almost 1,250 other popular processed foods may harm the immune system, according to a new peer-reviewed study by Environmental Working Group.\" And: \"Recently published research has also found a link between high levels of PFAS in the blood and the severity of Covid-19.\"<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/how-mrna-technology-could-change-world/618431/\">How mRNA Technology Could Change the World</a>. \"For decades, researchers have struggled to design a workable vaccine for HIV, and many observers considered this field a dead end. But a new paper argues that these repeated failures forced HIV-vaccine researchers to spend a lot of time and money on strange and unproven vaccine techniques\u2014such as synthetic mRNA and the viral-vector technology that powers the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine. Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 vaccines that made it to clinical trials used technology that \u201ccould be traced back to prototypes tested in HIV vaccine trials,\u201d Jeffrey E. Harris, the economist at MIT who authored the paper, wrote.\"<a href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9gya/stanford-scientists-reverse-engineer-moderna-vaccine-post-code-on-github?utm_content=1617026621&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=motherboard_twitter\">Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github</a>. \u201cWe didn't reverse engineer the vaccine. We posted the putative sequence of two synthetic RNA molecules that have become sufficiently prevalent in the general environment of medicine and human biology in 2021.\u201d<h4>Society</h4><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/16/how-to-have-better-arguments-social-media-politics-conflict?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">How to have better arguments online</a>. Not just online: \u201cWhen we\u2019re in an argument with someone, we should be thinking about how they can change their mind and look good \u2013 maintain or even enhance their face \u2013 at the same time. Often this is very hard to do in the moment of the dispute itself, when opinion and face are bound even more tightly together than they are before or after (the writer Rachel Cusk defines an argument as \u201can emergency of self-definition\u201d). However, by showing that we have listened to and respected our interlocutor\u2019s point of view, we make it more likely that they will come around at some later point. If and when they do, we should avoid scolding them for not agreeing with us all along.\u201d<a href=\"https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/new-study-finds-not-knowing-how-to-flirt-is-the-main-reason-behind-involuntary-singlehood/\">New study finds not knowing how to flirt is the main reason behind \"involuntary singlehood\"</a>. \"Among the participants who indicated that they were involuntarily single, the most important factor by far was their lack of flirting skills. Following this factor, in decreasing order, were skills in perceiving signals of interest, \u201cmating effort,\u201d and choosiness. These last three factors were all relatively similar in their degree of impact.\"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/harry-and-meghan-the-union-of-two-great-houses-the-windsors-and-the-celebrities-is-complete-1.4504502?mode=amp&amp;fbclid=IwAR3w6y23DD51xRN2FaG9fPJAmUNWdbVVwHelIyKZPskWLZ_rl2-PFXqrmzY\">Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete</a>. \u201cHaving a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who\u2019s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it\u2019s like having a neighbour who\u2019s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.\u201d<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/\">Private Schools Are Indefensible</a>. I agree with the headline. They simply shouldn\u2019t exist. This is an excellent piece that dives into some reasons why.<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/what-pandemic-doing-our-brains/618221/\">What the Pandemic Is Doing to Our Brains</a>. \u201cThe pandemic is still too young to have yielded rigorous, peer-reviewed studies about its effects on cognitive function. But the brain scientists I spoke with told me they can extrapolate based on earlier work about trauma, boredom, stress, and inactivity, all of which do a host of very bad things to a mammal\u2019s brain.\u201d<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-hide-pricing-data-from-search-results-11616405402\">Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results</a>. Hospitals have to list pricing by law - but they explicitly add noindex, nofollow tags to pricing pages so they can't be searched and discovered. Seems like an opportunity for someone to build an open dataset.<a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/evanston-illinois-becomes-first-u-s-city-pay-reparations-blacks-n1261791\">Evanston, Illinois, becomes first U.S. city to pay reparations to Black residents</a>. \"The Chicago suburb\u2019s City Council voted 8-1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households. Each qualifying household would receive $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property.\"<h4>Technology</h4><a href=\"https://ez.substack.com/p/clubhouse-harassment-and-techs-move\">Clubhouse Harassment, and Tech's Move from Enthusiast to Industrial Press</a>. \u201cI believe that a lot of the people in tech who are having this vacuous, oafish discussion of the media has as \u201chaters\u201d are actually just mad that they can\u2019t say or do what they want and that every action they have isn\u2019t the most important thing in the world.\u201d<a href=\"https://digiday.com/media/we-will-not-build-alternate-identifiers-in-drastic-shift-google-will-end-behavioral-targeting-profile-building-in-its-ad-products/\">Google will end behavioral targeting, profile-building in its ad products</a>. \"Google helped create and grow the digital ad ecosystem that relied on tracking and targeting ads to people across the web. Now, up against pressure from regulators around data privacy and antitrust, Google will stop enabling cross-site tracking and targeting of individuals outside its own properties such as in inventory it sells through its Google AdX display and video ad exchange.\" Big changes are coming.<a href=\"https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html\">The SOC2 Starting Seven</a>. \"Here\u2019s how we\u2019ll try to help: with Seven Things you can do now that will simplify SOC2 for you down the road while making your life, or at least your security posture, materially better in the immediacy.\" File under \"things I wish I'd read a year ago\".<a href=\"http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/03/lying-to-the-ghost-in-the-mach.html\">Lying to the ghost in the machine</a>. \u201cThe point I'd like to make is that ready-trained NNs like GPT-3 or CLIP are often tailored as the basis of specific recognizer applications and then may end up deployed in public situations, much as shitty internet-of-things gizmos usually run on an elderly, unpatched ARM linux kernel with an old version of OpenSSH and busybox installed, and hard-wired root login credentials. This is the future of security holes in our internet-connected appliances: metaphorically, cameras that you can fool by slapping a sticker labelled \"THIS IS NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR\" on the front of the droid the camera is in fact looking for.\u201d<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-to-step-up-ad-targeting-of-cellphone-customers-11615285803\">T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers</a>. 'Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their masked browsing, app data and online activity with advertisers unless they opt out.\" As a previously-happy T-Mobile customer, I'm outraged by this.<a href=\"https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/\">He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction</a>. \u201cI began video-calling Qui\u00f1onero regularly. I also spoke to Facebook executives, current and former employees, industry peers, and external experts. Many spoke on condition of anonymity because they\u2019d signed nondisclosure agreements or feared retaliation. I wanted to know: What was Qui\u00f1onero\u2019s team doing to rein in the hate and lies on its platform?\u201d Surprise, surprise: that\u2019s not what Facebook wanted to talk about.<a href=\"https://infrequently.org/2021/03/the-performance-inequality-gap/\">The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021</a>. \u201cWhatever progress runtimes and networks have made in the past half-decade, browsers are stubbornly situated in the devices carried by real-world users, and the single most important thing to understand about the landscape of devices your sites will run on is that they are not new phones.\u201d<a href=\"https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/one-year-in-the-indieweb\">One Year in the IndieWeb</a>. I'm pretty much an indieweb zealot. These experiences are fair and representative of the community, it seems to me.<a href=\"https://www.newsblur.com/newsletters/story/8094476:9c80ba\">The Dao of DAOs</a>. \u201cAfter a contentious debate, the Ethereum core team, led by Vitalik Buterin, released a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain. It was essentially a new version in which everything was the same, except in the forked version, the heist never happened.\u201d A very telling paragraph. How decentralized is it, really, if the core team can vanish away transactions, regardless of the reason? (Hint: every blockchain can do this.)<a href=\"https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/\">In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click</a>. Fuel for Google being more of a publisher than a referrer these days.<a href=\"https://www.lafoo.com/the-end-of-amp/\">The End of AMP</a>. \u201cIf you\u2019re currently using AMP, you\u2019ll be able to get rid of that monstrosity in May, and if you aren\u2019t, you\u2019ll now be competing for search positions previously unavailable to you. For publishers, it is a win-win.\u201d FINALLY."
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Jamie Tanna www.jvt.me

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/03/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-VSpbmyQEbxQZ

#homebrew-website-club

March 30, 2021 9:45pm +00:00

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Neil Mather doubleloop.net

Liked Life Happens: Towards Community Support For Prioritizing Life Events And Mutual Care, Starting With The #IndieWeb by

Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)

Foreword A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of our newer IndieWeb community participants found an example on the IndieWeb wiki that no longer worked, and it was from someone who hasn’t been around for a while. I knew that person had various things come up in their personal life, thus left without...

March 30, 2021 8:16am +00:00

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I really like the Life Happens page in the IndieWeb wiki that Ana highlights. Such a great message to acknowledge that other things happen in people’s lives that can prevent them participating in a...

February 18, 2021 5:45pm +00:00

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Micropublish now supports the proposed Micropub extension for Channels. If your server’s endpoint responds to ?q=channel, or your config has a channel property, you can use the new field. While my...

January 31, 2021 7:52pm +00:00

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Micropublish: IndieAuth updates and supported properties feature

December 14, 2020 9:56pm +00:00

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Micropublish v2.3.0

October 12, 2020 8:36pm +00:00

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This weekend’s IndieWebCamp in London has sensibly been switched to online-only because of the current health concerns. A big well done to the organisers, Cheuk, Calum and Ana, for their initial...

March 13, 2020 5:11pm +00:00

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