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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Reading, watching, playing, using: December 2022

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        "text": "This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2022. Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!Apps + WebsitesLaborPicket Line Notifier. \u201cAn open-source browser extension that alerts you when you navigate to a website belonging to an organization whose employees are on strike. You can then click on the notification to learn more about the strike. You can also click on the extension\u2019s icon in your browser\u2019s toolbar to show a popup with a list of active strikes and links to more information.\u201dStreaming MediaMoviesRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical. It\u2019s a real pleasure to see Dahl\u2019s curmudgeonly storytelling turned into a parable about the importance of civil rights. The imagery, down to toppling statues, is hard to miss; Tim Minchin\u2019s lyrics hone the idea to a fine point. I can\u2019t wait to use this as a way of helping to explain civil disobedience to my kid.Notable ArticlesAII Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language. \u201cI am writing this blog post as a public record of this incredibly impressive (and a little scary) capability. I know I just posted yesterday, but I am so blown away that I had to write this down while it was still fresh in my mind. Congratulations OpenAI. This is truly revolutionary.\u201d Mind-blowing.A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do. \u201cOpenAI have put a lot of effort into preventing the model from doing bad things. [\u2026] Your challenge now is to convince it to give you a detailed list of ideas for crimes.\u201dBusinessBig Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress. \u201cSome lawmakers, academics and policy analysts have criticized some of the provisions, including the move to raise the age of required retirement account distributions to 75. They argue much of the legislation benefits the wealthy and the financial-services industry.\u201d I agree and would prefer to see welfare and social security improvements instead.Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal. \u201cSuccessful people can afford to engage in countersignaling\u2014doing things that signal high status because they are associated with low status. It is a form of self-handicapping, signaling that one is so well off that they can afford to engage in activities and behaviors that people typically associated with low status.\u201dClimateIEA: Renewables to overtake coal as world\u2019s biggest energy source by 2025. \u201cLed by solar energy, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide by early 2025, helping to keep alive the global goal of limiting Earth\u2019s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).\u201dShould you not have kids because of climate change? It\u2019s complicated. \u201cThere are, no doubt, environmental consequences to having children. But the question of whether to have kids in a warming world has started to shift from fears over what children will do to the climate to fears over what the climate will do to them.\u201dCodingTabs. \u201cI\u2019ve long been on the \u201cspaces\u201d side of the tabs vs. spaces preference debate. I think there is just something that feels sturdy and reliable about spaces. I\u2019m wrong though. Despite not having swapped over most of my projects, I think that, objectively, tabs are the better choice.\u201d Compelling!Playing with ActivityPub. \u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here.Should Alt Text be Visible/Accessible for All? \u201cMore importantly, like making visible all attribution statements for open licensed images, it makes the practice of doing so public. And it enables a chance to help others see, analyze, and learn from the alt text practices for others.\u201d I like this a lot.CryptoCrypto was billed as a vehicle to wealth. For many Black investors, it's been anything but. \u201cBlack Americans have been among the groups hardest hit by crypto\u2019s implosion because of their greater financial exposure and their later entry into the cryptocurrency market. In the early days of bitcoin and other digital currencies, Black investors were hesitant to buy in.\u201dExclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment. \u201cThe Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block\u2019s CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.\u201d Real question: how much of the crypto ecosystem was it funding?CultureTom Lehrer Puts Whatever He Hadn\u2019t Already Donated To The Public Domain Into The Public Domain.These are the only rights of which the news has come to Harvard \u2026 there may be many others but they haven\u2019t been discarvard.Glaswegian who 'invented' chicken tikka masala dies. \u201cA Glaswegian chef credited with inventing the chicken tikka masala has died, aged 77. Ali Ahmed Aslam is said to have come up with the dish in the 1970s when a customer asked if there was a way of making his chicken tikka less dry. His solution was to add a creamy tomato sauce, in some versions of the story a can of tomato soup.\u201dPublic Domain Day 2023. \u201cOn January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.\u2009They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf\u2019s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.\u201dWhat The 19th loved in 2022. \u201cTo close the year, we ask our staff what brought them joy \u2014 not within journalism, but life outside of it. Some picked up new hobbies, some spun their favorite album a modest 600 times, others reflected on new babies or engagements (keep reading to find out who!). Big or small, here are some of the musicians, shows, sports teams, hobbies and people that got The 19th through 2022.\u201d Including mine.Inclusive American Girl book faces anti-LGBTQ+ backlash from right-wing outlets. \u201cIn an effort to be factual\u00a0and make the kids reading [American Girl] books feel good and informed, we think it\u2019s an incredibly logical and important step for the brand to include these new sections, and we\u2019re not shocked that they thought to add them in. We\u2019d say it takes a bit of willful ignorance to assume that the brand\u2019s values don\u2019t align with being gender-inclusive.\u201dHuge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society. \u201cThe proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.\u201dOxford Word of the Year 2022. \u201c\u2018Goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 a slang term, often used in the expressions \u2018in goblin mode\u2019 or \u2018to go goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 is \u2018a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.\u2019\u201dDemocracyWe need the return of the state. \u201cThe biggest lie that neoliberalism promotes is that all value is created by private sector business, which claim is contrasted with a claim that government destroys value. So, apparently, a teacher working for a private school adds value. The same teacher in front of the same children in a state school would, apparently, not do so. The idea is obviously absurd, and yet is key to understanding neoliberal\u2019s approach to public services, which is built on this lie.\u201dThe Respect for Marriage act doesn\u2019t codify gay marriage. \u201cThe bill doesn\u2019t codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that granted LGBTQ+ couples the right to marry. Instead, it forces states without marriage equality laws to recognize LGBTQ+ marriages from other states.\u201dHere\u2019s how states plan to limit abortion \u2014 even where it is already banned. \u201cAs statehouses across the country prepare for next year\u2019s legislative sessions \u2014 most for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned \u2014 Republican lawmakers are pushing for further restrictions on reproductive health, even in states where abortion is already banned.\u201dHillary Clinton on women\u2019s rights and the 2024 election. My colleague Errin Haines: \u201cOn Thursday, I interviewed Secretary Clinton virtually as she prepared to host the Women\u2019s Voices Summit in Little Rock, Arkansas. The daylong conference Friday is focused on voting rights, health care and global issues \u2014 all topics I also wanted to dive into with her.\u201dHateKanye West to Alex Jones: \u2018I Like Hitler\u2019. \u201c\u201cI see good things about Hitler also\u201d Ye said. \u201cI love everyone. Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love us, and you can love what we\u2019re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we\u2019re pushing with the pornography. But this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can\u2019t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I\u2019m done with that.\u201d\u201dHealthWhy colds and flu viruses are more common in winter. \u201cIn fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils.\u201d Aside from blocking droplets, masks make you healthier because they\u2019re like \u201ca sweater on your nose\u201d.Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality. \u201cWith fresher air [from EVs], in 27 years greater Los Angeles will have 1,163 fewer premature deaths annually, corresponding to $12.61 billion in improved economic health benefits. Greater New York City could see 576 fewer such deaths annually and have $6.24 billion in associated economic gains and health benefits, while Chicago could have 276 fewer deaths and gain about $3 billion in financial well-being.\u201dBrains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds. \u201cAfter matching 64 participants in each group for factors including age and sex, the team found that physical changes in the brain that occurred during adolescence \u2013 such as thinning of the cortex and growth of the hippocampus and the amygdala \u2013 were greater in the post-lockdown group than in the pre-pandemic group, suggesting such processes had sped up. In other words, their brains had aged faster.\u201dMediaPower company money flows to media attacking critics in Florida, Alabama. \u201cThese readers have been unknowingly immersing themselves in an echo chamber of questionable coverage for years. Matrix shrewdly took advantage of the near collapse of the local newspaper industry and a concurrent plunge in trust in media in propelling its clients\u2019 interests.\u201dThis is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!). \u201cI predict that these people won\u2019t stand for a universe where their email becomes ever more crowded just because of Elon Musk mucking up Twitter. The only way to survive in a world where multiple DC-insider publications are launching multiple newsletters and Twitter is no longer socially acceptable is to use an RSS reader that satisfies the intelligentsia and political elite.\u201dWe, the tweeters. \u201cMusk and the far-right are not free speech absolutists. They veil their racism, misogyny, hate and institutional insurrection behind the cloak of free speech and the First Amendment. They claim that anyone who dares criticise them is cancelling them. They give speech a bad name.\u201dA Matter of Necessity. \u201cToday, The 19th\u2019s staff reflects that broadened aim: the newsroom is 65 percent women of color, with 28 percent identifying as LGBTQ+; 16 percent are people living with disabilities. \u201cWe pledged to build the most representative newsroom in America,\u201d Ramshaw told me. \u201cI think we are pretty close to that point.\u201d\u201d I\u2019m deeply proud and grateful to work here.Linked: Lack of trust in journalism and knowledge of news practices. \u201cThe researchers said both the survey and focus groups showed that while several factors influence trust - such as someone\u2019s willingness to trust other institutions in society - when audiences understand how news works they are more likely to trust it.\u201dMastodon Media List. \u201cThis list is designed to point people to media outlets on the fediverse so they can either follow or avoid them.\u201d A really useful, growing list.SecuritySirius XM Bug Lets Researchers Hijack Hondas, Nissans, Acuras. \u201cA number of major car brands were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user data. According to researchers, the bug [...] would have allowed a hacker to remotely locate a vehicle, unlock and start it, flash the lights, honk the horn, pop the trunk, and access sensitive customer info like the owner\u2019s name, phone number, address, and vehicle details.\u201dSocialI Was Wrong About Mastodon. \u201cWhat I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture. Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users. They\u2019ve discovered the same thing the Mainstream Media did: negative emotions grip people\u2019s attention harder than positive ones. Hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.\u201dSocietyA new museum and clinic will honor the enslaved \u201cMothers of Gynecology\u201d. \u201cAt that site, Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, along with other enslaved women and girls whose names have been lost to history, shed blood for the creation of American gynecology, despite their inability to consent. It is also where they labored to run the \u201cNegro hospital\u201d and tend to the family of Sims, the doctor who rose to fame for his contributions to gynecology.\u201dThe Grift Brothers. \u201cOver lunch, MacAskill encouraged SBF to pursue the EA life strategy called \u201cearn to give,\u201d whereby one strives to \u2014 quoting a Sequoia profile on SBF\u2014\u201cget filthy rich, for charity\u2019s sake,\u201d even if this means working for what MacAskill himself calls \u201cimmoral organization[s].\u201d Although the means may be questionable, they\u2019re justified by the ends: maximizing the \u201cgood\u201d that one does in the world.\u201dHow British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years. \u201cBetween 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.\u201dTeamsBuilding Resilient Organizations. \u201cThere are things we can and must do to shift movements for justice toward a powerful posture of joy and victory. Such a metamorphosis is not inevitable, but it is essential. This essay describes the problems our movements face, identifies underlying causes, analyzes symptoms of the core problems, and proposes some concrete solutions to reset our course.\u201dTechnologyBring back personal blogging. \u201cIn the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies could discover new and good blogs. I want to go back there.\u201d Me too - and this piece also seems tailored for bloggers to share.Poor and diverse areas of Seattle and Portland offered slower and more expensive internet. \u201cSeattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with more white residents.\u201dTech Journalism Doesn\u2019t Know What to Do With Mastodon. \u201cWhat\u2019s attractive about Mastodon isn\u2019t the software (it\u2019s not as slick as corporate social media but it\u2019s still very good) \u2014 it\u2019s the values of the platform. No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads. It\u2019s just a community of people, communicating.\u201dByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists. \u201cOver the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts.\u201dMozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative. \u201cOur intention is to contribute to the healthy and sustainable growth of a federated social space that doesn\u2019t just operate but thrives on its own terms, independent of profit- and control-motivated tech firms. An open, decentralized, and global social service that puts the needs of people first is not only possible, but it\u2019s absolutely necessary.\u201dThe Anti-Social Network. \u201cNow 17, the Edward R. Murrow High School senior is the founding member of the Luddite Club\u2014a group of teenagers who feel technology is consuming too much of their lives. They took their name from the 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed the machines they saw as threatening their livelihoods.\u201dTwitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative. \u201c\u201cThis will probably be the first, from the ground up, large language content moderation model using AI that\u2019s actually built by people from the culture,\u201d Brown told TechCrunch.\u201dWill Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party App Stores, Sideload in Europe? \u201cAs part of the changes, customers could ultimately download third-party software to their iPhones and iPads without using the company\u2019s App Store, sidestepping Apple\u2019s restrictions and the up-to-30% commission it imposes on payments.\u201d This is why competition rules matter.Abusive Instagram, TikTok hashtags target women in politics: study. \u201c\u201cThere have been lots of commitments to helping protect women online during elections and at critical times,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cBut what we found is that platforms are really falling short of enforcing their own terms of service.\u201d One major revelation from their study was that platforms recommended abusive hashtags referencing women officials even with very few posts \u2014 sometimes fewer than 10 or 15 \u2014 associated with those hashtags.\u201dA Creator of ActivityPub on What\u2019s Next for the Fediverse. \u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201dHello! You\u2019ve Been Referred Here Because You\u2019re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop. \u201cNow, apparently more files are going to be published, so something may change, but so far it\u2019s been a whole lot of utter nonsense. But when I say that both here on Techdirt and on Twitter, I keep seeing a few very, very wrong arguments being made. So, let\u2019s get to the debunking.\u201dA year of new avenues. \u201cThe platforms of the last decade are done. [\u2026] This is\u2009\u2026\u2009tremendously exciting! Some of you reading this were users and/or developers of the internet in the period from 2002 to perhaps 2012. For those of you who were not, I\u00a0want to tell you that it was exciting and energizing, not because everything was great, but simply because anything was\u00a0possible.\u201d +1,000,000. I love the moment we\u2019re in.The best of Protocol. \u201cAnd for this, our final edition of Source Code, the Protocol team has nominated our favorite stories from the past three years. I hope you enjoy them one last time.\u201d Protocol was great - I\u2019m still sad to see it go.TwitterHere\u2019s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter. \u201cAs part of the deal, anyone who invested $250 million or more gets special access to confidential company information. But giving that privilege to foreign investors is raising flags with Biden and U.S. officials. Of particular interest is whether that includes access to personal data about Twitter\u2019s users since several of the entities are entwined with governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms.\u201dI Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter. \u201cContent moderation at Twitter under Musk regime is simply raw, unadulterated petulance. He clearly sees the entirety of Twitter as his own personal $44 billion playground and a vicious cudgel to be wielded against his perceived enemies.\u201dAmnesty International: Twitter\u2019s decision to suspend journalists\u2019 accounts threatens press freedom.\u201cTwitter is an important space for connection. People\u2019s right to freedom of expression and the freedom to impart information shouldn\u2019t be predicated on whether Musk likes it or not. Musk\u2019s latest move illustrates the dangers of unaccountable tech companies having total control over platforms we rely on for news and other vital information.\u201dJoint Statement on the Disbanding of the Twitter Trust and Safety Council. \u201cWe call on Twitter, in the strongest terms, to cease making ad hoc, unaccountable, and damaging content moderation decisions and to commit to implementing policies and practices that promote the safety, expression, and participation of its users.\u201dElon \u00dcber Alles. \u201cAs someone who has had entire branches of my family tree cut off and burned by the nazis, I believe that if you are willingly consorting with nazis, you approve of what they\u2019re saying. It really is just that easy. If you resent being called a nazi, or a nazi sympathizer (which is being a nazi, by the way!), perhaps stop hanging out with or sympathizing with nazis. We do not need to \u201chumor them.\u201d\u201dGoodbye, Twitter. \u201cJust as Twitter\u2019s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter\u2019s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don\u2019t want to contribute content to it.\u201dWhat if failure is the plan? \u201cFor an anchor point, consider the collapse of local news journalism. The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn\u2019t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop.\u201dElon Musk\u2019s promised Twitter expos\u00e9 on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people.\u201cWhile Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter\u2019s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.\u201d But the intention appears to have been a PR exercise for conservatives, not to report a real expos\u00e9.A snapshot of the Twitter migration (PDF). \u201cIn this report, we track, with the most quantifiable data we can, the contours, scope, and direction of the migration as it is at its beginning. Some users are fully leaving the platform, and many are not going that far yet, but creating new, alternative accounts, hedging their bets in case Twitter descends further into chaos, goes out of business, or crashes and doesn\u2019t return.\u201d Fascinating.Hate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find. \u201cBefore Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter\u2019s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.\u201dWritingWriting Is Magic. \u201cThere are many ways to be influential. You can form 1:1 relationships with people, have small group meetings, do talks, send out a code review, or argue in Slack. All of those can be valuable at the right time. But there\u2019s one tool that I choose most often: long-form writing. Writing is the closest thing I know to magic.\u201d",
        "html": "<p>This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2022. Happy new year to everyone who celebrates it today!</p><h3>Apps + Websites</h3><h4>Labor</h4><p><a href=\"https://github.com/jamespizzurro/picket-line-notifier\">Picket Line Notifier.</a> \u201cAn open-source browser extension that alerts you when you navigate to a website belonging to an organization whose employees are on strike. You can then click on the notification to learn more about the strike. You can also click on the extension\u2019s icon in your browser\u2019s toolbar to show a popup with a list of active strikes and links to more information.\u201d</p><h3>Streaming Media</h3><h4>Movies</h4><p><a href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80993016\">Roald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical.</a> It\u2019s a real pleasure to see Dahl\u2019s curmudgeonly storytelling turned into a parable about the importance of civil rights. The imagery, down to toppling statues, is hard to miss; Tim Minchin\u2019s lyrics hone the idea to a fine point. I can\u2019t wait to use this as a way of helping to explain civil disobedience to my kid.</p><h3>Notable Articles</h3><h4>AI</h4><p><a href=\"https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-invent-a-language\">I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language.</a> \u201cI am writing this blog post as a public record of this incredibly impressive (and a little scary) capability. I know I just posted yesterday, but I am so blown away that I had to write this down while it was still fresh in my mind. Congratulations OpenAI. This is truly revolutionary.\u201d Mind-blowing.</p><p><a href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/4/give-me-ideas-for-crimes-to-do\">A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do.</a> \u201cOpenAI have put a lot of effort into preventing the model from doing bad things. [\u2026] Your challenge now is to convince it to give you a detailed list of ideas for crimes.\u201d</p><h4>Business</h4><p><a href=\"https://wsj.com/articles/401k-changes-retirement-plans-congress-11671482120\">Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress.</a> \u201cSome lawmakers, academics and policy analysts have criticized some of the provisions, including the move to raise the age of required retirement account distributions to 75. They argue much of the legislation benefits the wealthy and the financial-services industry.\u201d I agree and would prefer to see welfare and social security improvements instead.</p><p><a href=\"https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status\">Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal.</a> \u201cSuccessful people can afford to engage in countersignaling\u2014doing things that signal high status because they are associated with low status. It is a form of self-handicapping, signaling that one is so well off that they can afford to engage in activities and behaviors that people typically associated with low status.\u201d</p><h4>Climate</h4><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/12/renewables-coal-energy-crisis-iea-2022\">IEA: Renewables to overtake coal as world\u2019s biggest energy source by 2025.</a> \u201cLed by solar energy, renewables are poised to overtake coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide by early 2025, helping to keep alive the global goal of limiting Earth\u2019s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/02/climate-kids\">Should you not have kids because of climate change? It\u2019s complicated.</a> \u201cThere are, no doubt, environmental consequences to having children. But the question of whether to have kids in a warming world has started to shift from fears over what children will do to the climate to fears over what the climate will do to them.\u201d</p><h4>Coding</h4><p><a href=\"https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/13/tabs\">Tabs.</a> \u201cI\u2019ve long been on the \u201cspaces\u201d side of the tabs vs. spaces preference debate. I think there is just something that feels sturdy and reliable about spaces. I\u2019m wrong though. Despite not having swapped over most of my projects, I think that, objectively, tabs are the better choice.\u201d Compelling!</p><p><a href=\"https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html\">Playing with ActivityPub.</a> \u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here.</p><p><a href=\"https://cogdogblog.com/2022/12/alt-text-for-all\">Should Alt Text be Visible/Accessible for All?</a> \u201cMore importantly, like making visible all attribution statements for open licensed images, it makes the practice of doing so public. And it enables a chance to help others see, analyze, and learn from the alt text practices for others.\u201d I like this a lot.</p><h4>Crypto</h4><p><a href=\"https://cnn.com/2022/12/23/opinions/crypto-black-investors-carmona/index.html\">Crypto was billed as a vehicle to wealth. For many Black investors, it's been anything but.</a> \u201cBlack Americans have been among the groups hardest hit by crypto\u2019s implosion because of their greater financial exposure and their later entry into the cryptocurrency market. In the early days of bitcoin and other digital currencies, Black investors were hesitant to buy in.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://axios.com/2022/12/09/bankman-fried-funded-crypto-news-site-block\">Exclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment.</a> \u201cThe Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block\u2019s CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.\u201d Real question: how much of the crypto ecosystem was it funding?</p><h4>Culture</h4><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/12/26/tom-lehrer-puts-whatever-he-hadnt-already-donated-to-the-public-domain-into-the-public-domain\">Tom Lehrer Puts Whatever He Hadn\u2019t Already Donated To The Public Domain Into The Public Domain.</a>These are the only rights of which the news has come to Harvard \u2026 there may be many others but they haven\u2019t been discarvard.</p><p><a href=\"https://bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-64055639\">Glaswegian who 'invented' chicken tikka masala dies.</a> \u201cA Glaswegian chef credited with inventing the chicken tikka masala has died, aged 77. Ali Ahmed Aslam is said to have come up with the dish in the 1970s when a customer asked if there was a way of making his chicken tikka less dry. His solution was to add a creamy tomato sauce, in some versions of the story a can of tomato soup.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023\">Public Domain Day 2023.</a> \u201cOn January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.\u2009They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf\u2019s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/what-the-19th-loved-in-2022\">What The 19th loved in 2022.</a> \u201cTo close the year, we ask our staff what brought them joy \u2014 not within journalism, but life outside of it. Some picked up new hobbies, some spun their favorite album a modest 600 times, others reflected on new babies or engagements (keep reading to find out who!). Big or small, here are some of the musicians, shows, sports teams, hobbies and people that got The 19th through 2022.\u201d Including mine.</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/american-girl-book-inclusivity-right-wing-backlash\">Inclusive American Girl book faces anti-LGBTQ+ backlash from right-wing outlets.</a> \u201cIn an effort to be factual\u00a0and make the kids reading [American Girl] books feel good and informed, we think it\u2019s an incredibly logical and important step for the brand to include these new sections, and we\u2019re not shocked that they thought to add them in. We\u2019d say it takes a bit of willful ignorance to assume that the brand\u2019s values don\u2019t align with being gender-inclusive.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society\">Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society.</a> \u201cThe proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022\">Oxford Word of the Year 2022.</a> \u201c\u2018Goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 a slang term, often used in the expressions \u2018in goblin mode\u2019 or \u2018to go goblin mode\u2019 \u2013 is \u2018a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.\u2019\u201d</p><h4>Democracy</h4><p><a href=\"https://taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/12/13/we-need-the-return-of-the-state\">We need the return of the state.</a> \u201cThe biggest lie that neoliberalism promotes is that all value is created by private sector business, which claim is contrasted with a claim that government destroys value. So, apparently, a teacher working for a private school adds value. The same teacher in front of the same children in a state school would, apparently, not do so. The idea is obviously absurd, and yet is key to understanding neoliberal\u2019s approach to public services, which is built on this lie.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/respect-for-marriage-act-doesnt-codify-gay-marriage\">The Respect for Marriage act doesn\u2019t codify gay marriage.</a> \u201cThe bill doesn\u2019t codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that granted LGBTQ+ couples the right to marry. Instead, it forces states without marriage equality laws to recognize LGBTQ+ marriages from other states.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/states-plan-limit-abortion-statehouses\">Here\u2019s how states plan to limit abortion \u2014 even where it is already banned.</a> \u201cAs statehouses across the country prepare for next year\u2019s legislative sessions \u2014 most for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned \u2014 Republican lawmakers are pushing for further restrictions on reproductive health, even in states where abortion is already banned.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/hillary-clinton-women-rights-elections\">Hillary Clinton on women\u2019s rights and the 2024 election.</a> My colleague Errin Haines: \u201cOn Thursday, I interviewed Secretary Clinton virtually as she prepared to host the Women\u2019s Voices Summit in Little Rock, Arkansas. The daylong conference Friday is focused on voting rights, health care and global issues \u2014 all topics I also wanted to dive into with her.\u201d</p><h4>Hate</h4><p><a href=\"https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-alex-jones-i-like-hitler-1234639617\">Kanye West to Alex Jones: \u2018I Like Hitler\u2019.</a> \u201c\u201cI see good things about Hitler also\u201d Ye said. \u201cI love everyone. Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love us, and you can love what we\u2019re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we\u2019re pushing with the pornography. But this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can\u2019t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I\u2019m done with that.\u201d\u201d</p><h4>Health</h4><p><a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/06/health/why-winter-colds-flu-wellness\">Why colds and flu viruses are more common in winter.</a> \u201cIn fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils.\u201d Aside from blocking droplets, masks make you healthier because they\u2019re like \u201ca sweater on your nose\u201d.</p><p><a href=\"https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/12/electric-car-sales-drive-toward-cleaner-air-less-mortality\">Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality.</a> \u201cWith fresher air [from EVs], in 27 years greater Los Angeles will have 1,163 fewer premature deaths annually, corresponding to $12.61 billion in improved economic health benefits. Greater New York City could see 576 fewer such deaths annually and have $6.24 billion in associated economic gains and health benefits, while Chicago could have 276 fewer deaths and gain about $3 billion in financial well-being.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/01/brains-of-post-pandemic-teens-show-signs-of-faster-ageing-study-finds\">Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds.</a> \u201cAfter matching 64 participants in each group for factors including age and sex, the team found that physical changes in the brain that occurred during adolescence \u2013 such as thinning of the cortex and growth of the hippocampus and the amygdala \u2013 were greater in the post-lockdown group than in the pre-pandemic group, suggesting such processes had sped up. In other words, their brains had aged faster.\u201d</p><h4>Media</h4><p><a href=\"https://npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm\">Power company money flows to media attacking critics in Florida, Alabama.</a> \u201cThese readers have been unknowingly immersing themselves in an echo chamber of questionable coverage for years. Matrix shrewdly took advantage of the near collapse of the local newspaper industry and a concurrent plunge in trust in media in propelling its clients\u2019 interests.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really\">This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!).</a> \u201cI predict that these people won\u2019t stand for a universe where their email becomes ever more crowded just because of Elon Musk mucking up Twitter. The only way to survive in a world where multiple DC-insider publications are launching multiple newsletters and Twitter is no longer socially acceptable is to use an RSS reader that satisfies the intelligentsia and political elite.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theneweuropean.co.uk/we-the-tweeters\">We, the tweeters.</a> \u201cMusk and the far-right are not free speech absolutists. They veil their racism, misogyny, hate and institutional insurrection behind the cloak of free speech and the First Amendment. They claim that anyone who dares criticise them is cancelling them. They give speech a bad name.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://cjr.org/abortion/a-matter-of-necessity-shefali-luthra-19th\">A Matter of Necessity.</a> \u201cToday, The 19th\u2019s staff reflects that broadened aim: the newsroom is 65 percent women of color, with 28 percent identifying as LGBTQ+; 16 percent are people living with disabilities. \u201cWe pledged to build the most representative newsroom in America,\u201d Ramshaw told me. \u201cI think we are pretty close to that point.\u201d\u201d I\u2019m deeply proud and grateful to work here.</p><p><a href=\"https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/trust-in-journalism-news-literacy\">Linked: Lack of trust in journalism and knowledge of news practices.</a> \u201cThe researchers said both the survey and focus groups showed that while several factors influence trust - such as someone\u2019s willingness to trust other institutions in society - when audiences understand how news works they are more likely to trust it.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://severalproblems.press/mastodon-media-list\">Mastodon Media List.</a> \u201cThis list is designed to point people to media outlets on the fediverse so they can either follow or avoid them.\u201d A really useful, growing list.</p><h4>Security</h4><p><a href=\"https://gizmodo.com/sirius-xm-bug-honda-nissan-acura-hack-1849836987\">Sirius XM Bug Lets Researchers Hijack Hondas, Nissans, Acuras.</a> \u201cA number of major car brands were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user data. According to researchers, the bug [...] would have allowed a hacker to remotely locate a vehicle, unlock and start it, flash the lights, honk the horn, pop the trunk, and access sensitive customer info like the owner\u2019s name, phone number, address, and vehicle details.\u201d</p><h4>Social</h4><p><a href=\"https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html\">I Was Wrong About Mastodon.</a> \u201cWhat I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture. Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users. They\u2019ve discovered the same thing the Mainstream Media did: negative emotions grip people\u2019s attention harder than positive ones. Hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.\u201d</p><h4>Society</h4><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/mothers-of-gynecology-museum-clinic\">A new museum and clinic will honor the enslaved \u201cMothers of Gynecology\u201d.</a> \u201cAt that site, Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, along with other enslaved women and girls whose names have been lost to history, shed blood for the creation of American gynecology, despite their inability to consent. It is also where they labored to run the \u201cNegro hospital\u201d and tend to the family of Sims, the doctor who rose to fame for his contributions to gynecology.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://truthdig.com/articles/the-grift-brothers\">The Grift Brothers.</a> \u201cOver lunch, MacAskill encouraged SBF to pursue the EA life strategy called \u201cearn to give,\u201d whereby one strives to \u2014 quoting a Sequoia profile on SBF\u2014\u201cget filthy rich, for charity\u2019s sake,\u201d even if this means working for what MacAskill himself calls \u201cimmoral organization[s].\u201d Although the means may be questionable, they\u2019re justified by the ends: maximizing the \u201cgood\u201d that one does in the world.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians?fbclid=IwAR2cUsXxWZOWFeGD_EfoV109LUAMZehuuFoeUf1OQU3e4VTS9QJTv37k8yQ\">How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years.</a> \u201cBetween 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.\u201d</p><h4>Teams</h4><p><a href=\"https://forgeorganizing.org/article/building-resilient-organizations\">Building Resilient Organizations.</a> \u201cThere are things we can and must do to shift movements for justice toward a powerful posture of joy and victory. Such a metamorphosis is not inevitable, but it is essential. This essay describes the problems our movements face, identifies underlying causes, analyzes symptoms of the core problems, and proposes some concrete solutions to reset our course.\u201d</p><h4>Technology</h4><p><a href=\"https://theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging\">Bring back personal blogging.</a> \u201cIn the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies could discover new and good blogs. I want to go back there.\u201d Me too - and this piece also seems tailored for bloggers to share.</p><p><a href=\"https://invw.org/2022/12/21/poor-and-diverse-areas-of-seattle-and-portland-offered-slower-and-more-expensive-internet\">Poor and diverse areas of Seattle and Portland offered slower and more expensive internet.</a> \u201cSeattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with more white residents.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0\">Tech Journalism Doesn\u2019t Know What to Do With Mastodon.</a> \u201cWhat\u2019s attractive about Mastodon isn\u2019t the software (it\u2019s not as slick as corporate social media but it\u2019s still very good) \u2014 it\u2019s the values of the platform. No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads. It\u2019s just a community of people, communicating.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html\">ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists.</a> \u201cOver the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative\">Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative.</a> \u201cOur intention is to contribute to the healthy and sustainable growth of a federated social space that doesn\u2019t just operate but thrives on its own terms, independent of profit- and control-motivated tech firms. An open, decentralized, and global social service that puts the needs of people first is not only possible, but it\u2019s absolutely necessary.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nycitynewsservice.com/2022/12/13/luddite-club-in-brooklyn-ditches-smartphones-social-media-goes-offline\">The Anti-Social Network.</a> \u201cNow 17, the Edward R. Murrow High School senior is the founding member of the Luddite Club\u2014a group of teenagers who feel technology is consuming too much of their lives. They took their name from the 19th-century English textile workers who destroyed the machines they saw as threatening their livelihoods.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/spill-twitter-alternative/amp\">Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative.</a> \u201c\u201cThis will probably be the first, from the ground up, large language content moderation model using AI that\u2019s actually built by people from the culture,\u201d Brown told TechCrunch.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe?sref=CrGXSfHu\">Will Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party App Stores, Sideload in Europe?</a> \u201cAs part of the changes, customers could ultimately download third-party software to their iPhones and iPads without using the company\u2019s App Store, sidestepping Apple\u2019s restrictions and the up-to-30% commission it imposes on payments.\u201d This is why competition rules matter.</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/12/instagram-tiktok-abuse-women-candidates-study\">Abusive Instagram, TikTok hashtags target women in politics: study.</a> \u201c\u201cThere have been lots of commitments to helping protect women online during elections and at critical times,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cBut what we found is that platforms are really falling short of enforcing their own terms of service.\u201d One major revelation from their study was that platforms recommended abusive hashtags referencing women officials even with very few posts \u2014 sometimes fewer than 10 or 15 \u2014 associated with those hashtags.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse\">A Creator of ActivityPub on What\u2019s Next for the Fediverse.</a> \u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-twitter-and-hunter-bidens-laptop\">Hello! You\u2019ve Been Referred Here Because You\u2019re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop.</a> \u201cNow, apparently more files are going to be published, so something may change, but so far it\u2019s been a whole lot of utter nonsense. But when I say that both here on Techdirt and on Twitter, I keep seeing a few very, very wrong arguments being made. So, let\u2019s get to the debunking.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues\">A year of new avenues.</a> \u201cThe platforms of the last decade are done. [\u2026] This is\u2009\u2026\u2009tremendously exciting! Some of you reading this were users and/or developers of the internet in the period from 2002 to perhaps 2012. For those of you who were not, I\u00a0want to tell you that it was exciting and energizing, not because everything was great, but simply because anything was\u00a0possible.\u201d +1,000,000. I love the moment we\u2019re in.</p><p><a href=\"https://protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/best-of-protocol\">The best of Protocol.</a> \u201cAnd for this, our final edition of Source Code, the Protocol team has nominated our favorite stories from the past three years. I hope you enjoy them one last time.\u201d Protocol was great - I\u2019m still sad to see it go.</p><h4>Twitter</h4><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders\">Here\u2019s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter.</a> \u201cAs part of the deal, anyone who invested $250 million or more gets special access to confidential company information. But giving that privilege to foreign investors is raising flags with Biden and U.S. officials. Of particular interest is whether that includes access to personal data about Twitter\u2019s users since several of the entities are entwined with governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2022/12/i_wish_i_could_tell_you_this_is_not_all_about_twitter\">I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter.</a> \u201cContent moderation at Twitter under Musk regime is simply raw, unadulterated petulance. He clearly sees the entirety of Twitter as his own personal $44 billion playground and a vicious cudgel to be wielded against his perceived enemies.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/12/twitters-decision-to-suspend-journalists-accounts-threatens-press-freedom\">Amnesty International: Twitter\u2019s decision to suspend journalists\u2019 accounts threatens press freedom.</a>\u201cTwitter is an important space for connection. People\u2019s right to freedom of expression and the freedom to impart information shouldn\u2019t be predicated on whether Musk likes it or not. Musk\u2019s latest move illustrates the dangers of unaccountable tech companies having total control over platforms we rely on for news and other vital information.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/joint-statement-on-the-disbanding-of-the-twitter-trust-and-safety-council\">Joint Statement on the Disbanding of the Twitter Trust and Safety Council.</a> \u201cWe call on Twitter, in the strongest terms, to cease making ad hoc, unaccountable, and damaging content moderation decisions and to commit to implementing policies and practices that promote the safety, expression, and participation of its users.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://ez.substack.com/p/elon-uber-alles\">Elon \u00dcber Alles.</a> \u201cAs someone who has had entire branches of my family tree cut off and burned by the nazis, I believe that if you are willingly consorting with nazis, you approve of what they\u2019re saying. It really is just that easy. If you resent being called a nazi, or a nazi sympathizer (which is being a nazi, by the way!), perhaps stop hanging out with or sympathizing with nazis. We do not need to \u201chumor them.\u201d\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter\">Goodbye, Twitter.</a> \u201cJust as Twitter\u2019s former leaders exercised their free speech and free association rights to brand Twitter one way, Twitter\u2019s new boss is exercising his rights to brand it another way. That new branding is ugly and despicable and I don\u2019t want to contribute content to it.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://zephoria.medium.com/what-if-failure-is-the-plan-2f219ea1cd62\">What if failure is the plan?</a> \u201cFor an anchor point, consider the collapse of local news journalism. The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn\u2019t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theverge.com/2022/12/2/23490863/elon-musk-twitter-expose-hunter-biden-flop-doxxed-multiple-people\">Elon Musk\u2019s promised Twitter expos\u00e9 on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people.</a>\u201cWhile Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter\u2019s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.\u201d But the intention appears to have been a PR exercise for conservatives, not to report a real expos\u00e9.</p><p><a href=\"https://deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf\">A snapshot of the Twitter migration (PDF).</a> \u201cIn this report, we track, with the most quantifiable data we can, the contours, scope, and direction of the migration as it is at its beginning. Some users are fully leaving the platform, and many are not going that far yet, but creating new, alternative accounts, hedging their bets in case Twitter descends further into chaos, goes out of business, or crashes and doesn\u2019t return.\u201d Fascinating.</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html?smtyp=cur\">Hate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.</a> \u201cBefore Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter\u2019s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.\u201d</p><h4>Writing</h4><p><a href=\"https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/11/08/writing.html\">Writing Is Magic.</a> \u201cThere are many ways to be influential. You can form 1:1 relationships with people, have small group meetings, do talks, send out a code review, or argue in Slack. All of those can be valuable at the right time. But there\u2019s one tool that I choose most often: long-form writing. Writing is the closest thing I know to magic.\u201d</p>"
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        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
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        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
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    "post-type": "article",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@robpc",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@robpc",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@robpc/109615148144894501",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I am learning about <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/microblogging\">#<span>microblogging</span></a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> and this article by @b@xone.zone has some nice tidbits that explain/validate my confusion on how to get started with using <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> outside established platforms. <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/\"><span>https://</span><span>arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1</span><span>2/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/</span></a> (h/t  <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://octodon.social/@cwebber\">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span>)</p>",
        "text": "I am learning about #microblogging and #indieweb and this article by @b@xone.zone has some nice tidbits that explain/validate my confusion on how to get started with using #ActivityPub outside established platforms. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/ (h/t  @cwebber)"
    },
    "published": "2023-01-01T17:33:43+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "@psylocibus",
        "url": "https://eldritch.cafe/@psylocibus",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://eldritch.cafe/@psylocibus/109614987438036974",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>ok, this year, I put my own website online o/<br /><a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GoodResolutions\">#<span>GoodResolutions</span></a></p>",
        "text": "ok, this year, I put my own website online o/\n#IndieWeb #GoodResolutions"
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    "published": "2023-01-01T16:52:51+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@schizanon",
        "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon/109612503404418848",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I like registering domains on NYE, that way if I haven't built it by next year I'll be EXTRA depressed! </p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/web3\">#<span>web3</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webcomponents\">#<span>webcomponents</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/enhance\">#<span>enhance</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/fwa\">#<span>fwa</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/pwa\">#<span>pwa</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/serverless\">#<span>serverless</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/aws\">#<span>aws</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I like registering domains on NYE, that way if I haven't built it by next year I'll be EXTRA depressed! #webdev #web #web3 #ActivityPub #indieweb #webcomponents #enhance #fwa #pwa #serverless #aws"
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    "published": "2023-01-01T06:21:08+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "@mjgardner",
        "url": "https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109611118544592663",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://macaw.social/@stammy\">@<span>stammy</span></a></span> You\u2019re correct that mere <a href=\"https://social.sdf.org/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> and <a href=\"https://social.sdf.org/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> lack the mechanic. Equivalent <a href=\"https://social.sdf.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> mechanics do exist and are collectively known as responses: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/responses\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/responses</span><span></span></a></p><p>We\u2019ve learned how to layer these mechanics on top of existing self-publishing without locking everyone in the same silo, while still staying in touch with friends and audiences wherever they are: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/POSSE</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "@stammy You\u2019re correct that mere #blogging and #RSS lack the mechanic. Equivalent #IndieWeb mechanics do exist and are collectively known as responses: https://indieweb.org/responsesWe\u2019ve learned how to layer these mechanics on top of existing self-publishing without locking everyone in the same silo, while still staying in touch with friends and audiences wherever they are: https://indieweb.org/POSSE"
    },
    "published": "2023-01-01T00:28:56+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@justusthane",
        "url": "https://social.coop/@justusthane",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.coop/@justusthane/109610876828727590",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hello Social.Coop and the wider <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a>! Glad to be here! My name is Justus; I live in <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/ThunderBay\">#<span>ThunderBay</span></a>, ON, Canada.</p><p>I just moved here from <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://universeodon.com/@justusthane\">@<span>justusthane@universeodon.com</span></a></span>, 90% because I'm very interested in the coop model of Social.Coop, and 10% because \"universeodon\" is too hard to spell :) </p><p>I work as a <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/sysadmin\">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> in the <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/HigherEd\">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> field.</p><p>My interests (which wax and wane) are:<br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/running\">#<span>running</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/biking\">#<span>biking</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/backpacking\">#<span>backpacking</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/photography\">#<span>photography</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> (give my website a visit: www.justus.ws)<br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/selfhosting\">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/linux\">#<span>linux</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/coffee\">#<span>coffee</span></a> </p><p>Team <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/vim\">#<span>vim</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hello Social.Coop and the wider #fediverse! Glad to be here! My name is Justus; I live in #ThunderBay, ON, Canada.I just moved here from @justusthane@universeodon.com, 90% because I'm very interested in the coop model of Social.Coop, and 10% because \"universeodon\" is too hard to spell :) I work as a #sysadmin in the #HigherEd field.My interests (which wax and wane) are:\n#running \n#biking\n#backpacking\n#photography\n#indieweb (give my website a visit: www.justus.ws)\n#selfhosting \n#linux \n#coffee Team #vim"
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    "published": "2022-12-31T23:27:28+00:00",
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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

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        "text": "Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It\u2019s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!\nThis Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 24th - 30th, 2022.\nhttps://martymcgui.re/2022/12/31/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-24th---30th-2022/",
        "html": "<p>Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It\u2019s your &lt; 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!</p>\n<p>This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for December 24th - 30th, 2022.\n<a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/31/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-24th---30th-2022/\">https://martymcgui.re/2022/12/31/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--december-24th---30th-2022/</a></p>"
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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • December 24th - 30th, 2022

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        "text": "Show/Hide Transcript\n    \n  Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It\u2019s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 24th - 30th, 2022.\nYou can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.\nMusic from Aaron Parecki\u2019s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11\nThanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you\u2019d like to see for this audio edition!",
        "html": "Show/Hide Transcript\n    \n  <p>Now is a great time to reflect on all the IndieWeb gifts shared in 2022! It\u2019s the audio edition for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/this-week/2022-12-30.html\">This Week in the IndieWeb for December 24th - 30th, 2022</a>.</p>\n<p>You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/\">martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/</a>.</p>\n<p>Music from <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/\">Aaron Parecki</a>\u2019s <a href=\"https://100.aaronparecki.com/\">100DaysOfMusic project</a>: <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/03/15/14/day85\">Day 85 - Suit</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/06/7/day48\">Day 48 - Glitch</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2017/02/07/4/day49\">Day 49 - Floating</a>, <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/29/21/day-9\">Day 9</a>, and <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2016/12/31/15/\">Day 11</a></p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb chat</a> for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you\u2019d like to see for this audio edition!</p>"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@josh",
        "url": "https://josh.tel/@josh",
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    "url": "https://josh.tel/@josh/109610345681993458",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>OK, looking at self-hosting <a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> alongside my Fediverse servers.</p><p>But it's been over a decade since I was last responsible for a WP install.</p><p>Any tips or guidance that I won't find in the official docs? </p><p><a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/SelfHosting\">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a></p>",
        "text": "OK, looking at self-hosting #WordPress alongside my Fediverse servers.But it's been over a decade since I was last responsible for a WP install.Any tips or guidance that I won't find in the official docs? #IndieWeb #SelfHosting"
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    "published": "2022-12-31T21:12:23+00:00",
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

What I'm leaving behind in 2022

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-12-31T18:51:46+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2022/what-im-leaving-behind-in-2022",
    "name": "What I'm leaving behind in 2022",
    "content": {
        "text": "As part of The 19th\u2019s non-denominational end-of-year celebration, we were asked what we were leaving behind in 2022. I gave an answer about corporate social media and Instagram in particular, but on reflection, there\u2019s a lot more I want to leave behind.Year ends are both arbitrary and not: a day like any other, but also, genuinely the end of our calendar and the verge of a start to a new blank page. So in that spirit of reflection and new beginnings, these are the things I\u2019d like to leave behind as 2022 disappears behind us.If you\u2019re looking for an overarching theme: my aim is to become more values-led and to do a better job of standing up for what I believe in, which is somewhere I\u2019ve sometimes been severely lacking.Corporate social media (and Instagram in particular)I really do want to do this, and soon. Leaving Twitter was a complete success for me: I found a much richer community in the fediverse. It certainly has some major problems to sort out, most notably that amateur instance-owners often don\u2019t have a working understanding of social power dynamics and what racism, homophobia, and misogyny really are. I can\u2019t gloss over those. But these feel surmountable, and conversations I\u2019ve had with folks who may be starting instances in the new year make me feel hopeful. (For one thing, instances can be owned by the communities they support, which is clearly not the case for any large-scale corporate social media silo.)Instagram and Facebook, maybe ironically, are my last big hold-outs. I was never a big user until I moved to the US when they became the main way I keep in touch with my friends back in Britain, and my family all over the world. But of course, that\u2019s the gameplan: Facebook and Instagram are collectively the world\u2019s largest peer pressure engine. And given the company\u2019s complicity in undermining elections, facilitating genocides, algorithmically causing teen suicides, and potentially much more, I don\u2019t want to participate anymore. Not with random pictures about my day; certainly not with pictures of my baby.I\u2019ve tried to leave several times, but I missed the community - which, to be specific, is the people I love but rarely get to see. But this year has been different, and I have a lot of hope for Pixelfed alongside Mastodon as ways to stay in touch without feeding the beast. (I don\u2019t think either platform will be the final form of the fediverse, by the way, but I think they\u2019re good enough to get going with.) Obviously, I think all of you should start blogs, too, but I understand that the barrier to entry is much higher, and not everyone thinks it\u2019s fun to sit in front of their computer and write (or read) reflective essays.So in 2023, I\u2019ll keep sharing on social media, but I\u2019ll do it on my terms, in a way that doesn\u2019t add to the profits or network effects of a company I despise.And no, the answer isn\u2019t corporate alternatives like Post. It\u2019s a nonsense solution built for people who don\u2019t want to be challenged and I won\u2019t engage any longer.HelplessnessI don\u2019t exactly know how to headline this section, but this is the big one. It could easily be called \u201cunassertiveness\u201d or \u201cacquiescence\u201d, but those ideas don\u2019t quite cover it. They\u2019re right, but they\u2019re a subset of the whole.A lot of people have to deal with a lot of things. I\u2019ve been lucky in my life and I\u2019m aware that I live with a lot of privilege. But I\u2019ve also found the last few years to be very challenging personally.In lots of ways, I\u2019m still dealing with the loss of my mother. Her loss in itself is a crater. We cared for her for over a decade, through pulmonary fibrosis, a double lung transplant, and an intense aftermath brought about by drugs that both kept her alive and slowly killed her. I uprooted my life and moved thousands of miles to be with her. I still have flashbacks to the day of her transplant and lots beyond; she endured torture after torture after torture because, in her words, she wasn\u2019t ready to leave us.I used to cry and express emotion freely. I haven\u2019t been able to do that since. Part of me is still numb; a lot of me is still grieving and adapting.Before all that, I already suffered from deeply low self-esteem. I\u2019ve contemplated ending my life and have made a plan a few times. Self-loathing informed my personality, and I gained a reputation for being kind in part by not being a good steward of my own boundaries. I prioritized other peoples\u2019 needs over mine because I considered them to be much more important.I hated conflict. I still hate conflict. The idea of someone yelling at me is scary as shit to me. It gives me a knot in my stomach. I want everyone to be happy and harmonious. Of course, in a lot of situations, everybody can\u2019t be happy and harmonious. And if you start optimizing for harmony instead of boundaries and values, you can very easily stop standing up for the right thing.We can debate about whether that\u2019s a good way to look at the world or not, but the combination of a predilection for negative self-talk and a major family crisis established a pattern where I treated the world as something that happened to me rather than something I could affect. I likened it all to a turbulent flight where you just sit back and strap in, because what else can you do?And, indeed, I stopped fighting as hard as I should have for the right thing, and I hurt people I care about by not sticking to my values.Here\u2019s what else you can do: you can pilot the fucking plane. It\u2019s not as easy, but it\u2019s often right.When people describe me as nice or kind, which they do from time to time, I now bristle internally. It\u2019s always intended as a compliment, but I know what has led to that, and what it allows. It\u2019s a giant character flaw on top of a giant character flaw. It\u2019s not just that I want to leave it behind in 2023: I have to, both for my own sanity, and for the people I care about.This is hard for me. It\u2019s much easier said than done. I\u2019m having a physical stress response just typing this entry. And people who have come to depend on my acquiescence may be surprised when I don\u2019t. But who wants to live their whole life rolling over? Especially when being compliant can turn you into a far worse person.Related:Tolerating parochialismThere are a lot of small-minded people in the world. For them, parochialism and xenophobia are default positions, even if they don\u2019t realize that this is their worldview.My full name is Benjamin Otto Werdmuller von Elgg. That might sound alien to you - surprisingly Germanic, maybe. Certainly, quite a few people have told me so, or even gone so far as to make fun of it. But it\u2019s only funny-sounding because it sounds like it comes from somewhere else. It\u2019s a kind of othering that\u2019s rooted in quiet, pervasive xenophobia. It\u2019s only the slightest sliver of non-assimilation, but that\u2019s already too much for some people. (And, of course, I understand that this is just a fraction of the microaggressions that people of color suffer through.)I can take it, of course, but that\u2019s also because, as discussed, I\u2019ve taken to burying my own needs. Where this stops hard is when the same thing is done to my child. You do not get to diminish my baby\u2019s heritage or focus on one part of it - the white North American part, for example - as being more important than the others.A version of this parochialism can also be found in the commonly-held but discriminatory belief that people should be happy with what they\u2019re given. This sounds lovely until you examine it for just a fraction of a second: should people involved in civil rights or community justice movements just be happy with what they\u2019ve been given? And given by whom? Isn\u2019t it more equitable to support people who stand up for what\u2019s right and fight for more inclusivity and a better life for everyone? What does not wanting that say about someone?Let alone more overtly exclusionary stances like being anti-immigration, pro-nationalism, or pro-empire, including caring about people variably based on where they come from or expecting the world to conform to mainstream American values. They\u2019re all harmful and they\u2019re all tiresome. It\u2019s a big, connected world full of beautifully varied, diverse humans and amazing places with incredible cultures, and I\u2019m not sure I need people who find that idea challenging, scary, or in any way bad in my life.You are what you tolerate. Enough.Pandemic denialIt\u2019s still happening. I\u2019m still wearing a mask. Onwards.Not having time for myselfI mean, there\u2019s a certain amount of time pressure that\u2019s created when you have a four-month-old baby. I don\u2019t begrudge the time I spend with him at all.But this year I read far fewer books; I spent less time writing than I intended; I did less exercise; my therapist dropped out to have her own baby and I didn\u2019t take the time to find another one; I didn\u2019t spend enough time with people I care about. In other words, I neglected myself, because (here\u2019s an ongoing pattern) I didn\u2019t give myself a high enough priority.My needs are important, and the better I feel, the better I can show up for the people around me and the things I care about. I can be a better person. There is always something or someone that needs my attention, and there always will be. And although I need to also prioritize my baby, I need to give myself space, and do a better job of holding onto my boundaries so I can live more proactively and do the things I think are important.And maybe that\u2019s the theme. I need to not let go of myself, and I need to hold my needs and my values as if they\u2019re actually important to me. They are important to me. And in 2023, I don\u2019t want to leave myself - or the people I care about - behind.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/63b084ad33f1bd5c4c04dae2/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The author and his baby in front of the Liberty Bell, with Independence Hall behind them.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" /></p><p>As part of <a href=\"https://19thnews.org\">The 19th\u2019s</a> non-denominational end-of-year celebration, we were asked what we were leaving behind in 2022. I gave an answer about corporate social media and Instagram in particular, but on reflection, there\u2019s a lot more I want to leave behind.</p><p>Year ends are both arbitrary and not: a day like any other, but also, genuinely the end of our calendar and the verge of a start to a new blank page. So in that spirit of reflection and new beginnings, these are the things I\u2019d like to leave behind as 2022 disappears behind us.</p><p>If you\u2019re looking for an overarching theme: my aim is to become more values-led and to do a better job of standing up for what I believe in, which is somewhere I\u2019ve sometimes been severely lacking.</p><p><strong>Corporate social media (and Instagram in particular)</strong></p><p>I really do want to do this, and soon. Leaving Twitter was a complete success for me: I found a much richer community in the fediverse. It certainly has some major problems to sort out, most notably that amateur instance-owners often don\u2019t have a working understanding of social power dynamics and what racism, homophobia, and misogyny really <em>are</em>. I can\u2019t gloss over those. But these feel surmountable, and conversations I\u2019ve had with folks who may be starting instances in the new year make me feel hopeful. (For one thing, instances can be owned by the communities they support, which is clearly not the case for any large-scale corporate social media silo.)</p><p>Instagram and Facebook, maybe ironically, are my last big hold-outs. I was never a big user until I moved to the US when they became the main way I keep in touch with my friends back in Britain, and my family all over the world. But of course, that\u2019s the gameplan: Facebook and Instagram are collectively the world\u2019s largest peer pressure engine. And given the company\u2019s complicity in undermining elections, facilitating genocides, algorithmically causing teen suicides, and potentially much more, I don\u2019t want to participate anymore. Not with random pictures about my day; certainly not with pictures of my baby.</p><p>I\u2019ve tried to leave several times, but I missed the community - which, to be specific, is the people I love but rarely get to see. But this year has been different, and I have a lot of hope for <a href=\"https://pixelfed.org/\">Pixelfed</a> alongside <a href=\"https://werd.social/@ben\">Mastodon</a> as ways to stay in touch without feeding the beast. (I don\u2019t think either platform will be the final form of the fediverse, by the way, but I think they\u2019re good enough to get going with.) Obviously, I think all of you <a href=\"https://getblogging.org\">should start blogs</a>, too, but I understand that the barrier to entry is much higher, and not everyone thinks it\u2019s fun to sit in front of their computer and write (or read) reflective essays.</p><p>So in 2023, I\u2019ll keep sharing on social media, but I\u2019ll do it on my terms, in a way that doesn\u2019t add to the profits or network effects of a company I despise.</p><p>And no, the answer isn\u2019t corporate alternatives like <a href=\"https://post.news\">Post</a>. It\u2019s a nonsense solution built for people who don\u2019t want to be challenged and I won\u2019t engage any longer.</p><p><strong>Helplessness</strong></p><p>I don\u2019t exactly know how to headline this section, but this is the big one. It could easily be called \u201cunassertiveness\u201d or \u201cacquiescence\u201d, but those ideas don\u2019t quite cover it. They\u2019re right, but they\u2019re a subset of the whole.</p><p>A lot of people have to deal with a lot of things. I\u2019ve been lucky in my life and I\u2019m aware that I live with a lot of privilege. But I\u2019ve also found the last few years to be very challenging personally.</p><p>In lots of ways, I\u2019m still dealing with the loss of my mother. Her loss in itself is a crater. We cared for her for over a decade, through pulmonary fibrosis, a double lung transplant, and an intense aftermath brought about by drugs that both kept her alive and slowly killed her. I uprooted my life and moved thousands of miles to be with her. I still have flashbacks to the day of her transplant and lots beyond; she endured torture after torture after torture because, in her words, she wasn\u2019t ready to leave us.</p><p>I used to cry and express emotion freely. I haven\u2019t been able to do that since. Part of me is still numb; a lot of me is still grieving and adapting.</p><p>Before all that, I already suffered from deeply low self-esteem. I\u2019ve contemplated ending my life and have made a plan a few times. Self-loathing informed my personality, and I gained a reputation for being kind in part by not being a good steward of my own boundaries. I prioritized other peoples\u2019 needs over mine because I considered them to be much more important.</p><p>I hated conflict. I still hate conflict. The idea of someone yelling at me is scary as shit to me. It gives me a knot in my stomach. I want everyone to be happy and harmonious. Of course, in a lot of situations, everybody <em>can\u2019t</em> be happy and harmonious. And if you start optimizing for harmony instead of boundaries and values, you can very easily stop standing up for the right thing.</p><p>We can debate about whether that\u2019s a good way to look at the world or not, but the combination of a predilection for negative self-talk and a major family crisis established a pattern where I treated the world as something that happened to me rather than something I could affect. I likened it all to a turbulent flight where you just sit back and strap in, because what else can you do?</p><p>And, indeed, I stopped fighting as hard as I should have for the right thing, and I hurt people I care about by not sticking to my values.</p><p>Here\u2019s what else you can do: you can <em>pilot the fucking plane</em>. It\u2019s not as easy, but it\u2019s often right.</p><p>When people describe me as nice or kind, which they do from time to time, I now bristle internally. It\u2019s always intended as a compliment, but I know what has led to that, and what it allows. It\u2019s a giant character flaw on top of a giant character flaw. It\u2019s not just that I want to leave it behind in 2023: I have to, both for my own sanity, and for the people I care about.</p><p>This is hard for me. It\u2019s <em>much</em> easier said than done. I\u2019m having a physical stress response just typing this entry. And people who have come to depend on my acquiescence may be surprised when I don\u2019t. But who wants to live their whole life rolling over? Especially when being compliant can turn you into a far worse person.</p><p>Related:</p><p><strong>Tolerating parochialism</strong></p><p>There are a lot of small-minded people in the world. For them, parochialism and xenophobia are default positions, even if they don\u2019t realize that this is their worldview.</p><p>My full name is Benjamin Otto Werdmuller von Elgg. That might sound alien to you - surprisingly Germanic, maybe. Certainly, quite a few people have told me so, or even gone so far as to make fun of it. But it\u2019s only funny-sounding because it <em>sounds like it comes from somewhere else</em>. It\u2019s a kind of othering that\u2019s rooted in quiet, pervasive xenophobia. It\u2019s only the slightest sliver of non-assimilation, but that\u2019s already too much for some people. (And, of course, I understand that this is just a fraction of the microaggressions that people of color suffer through.)</p><p>I can take it, of course, but that\u2019s also because, as discussed, I\u2019ve taken to burying my own needs. Where this stops hard is when the same thing is done to my child. You do not get to diminish my baby\u2019s heritage or focus on one part of it - the white North American part, for example - as being more important than the others.</p><p>A version of this parochialism can also be found in the commonly-held but discriminatory belief that people should be happy with what they\u2019re given. This sounds lovely until you examine it for just a fraction of a second: should people involved in civil rights or community justice movements just be happy with what they\u2019ve been given? And given by whom? Isn\u2019t it more equitable to support people who stand up for what\u2019s right and fight for more inclusivity and a better life for everyone? What does <em>not</em> wanting that say about someone?</p><p>Let alone more overtly exclusionary stances like being anti-immigration, pro-nationalism, or pro-empire, including caring about people variably based on where they come from or expecting the world to conform to mainstream American values. They\u2019re all harmful and they\u2019re all tiresome. It\u2019s a big, connected world full of beautifully varied, diverse humans and amazing places with incredible cultures, and I\u2019m not sure I need people who find that idea challenging, scary, or in any way bad in my life.</p><p>You are what you tolerate. Enough.</p><p><strong>Pandemic denial</strong></p><p>It\u2019s still happening. I\u2019m still wearing a mask. Onwards.</p><p><strong>Not having time for myself</strong></p><p>I mean, there\u2019s a certain amount of time pressure that\u2019s created when you have a four-month-old baby. I don\u2019t begrudge the time I spend with him at <em>all</em>.</p><p>But this year I read far fewer books; I spent less time writing than I intended; I did less exercise; my therapist dropped out to have her own baby and I didn\u2019t take the time to find another one; I didn\u2019t spend enough time with people I care about. In other words, I neglected myself, because (here\u2019s an ongoing pattern) I didn\u2019t give myself a high enough priority.</p><p>My needs are important, and the better I feel, the better I can show up for the people around me and the things I care about. I can be a better person. There is always something or someone that needs my attention, and there always will be. And although I need to <em>also</em> prioritize my baby, I need to give myself space, and do a better job of holding onto my boundaries so I can live more proactively and do the things I think are important.</p><p>And maybe that\u2019s the theme. I need to not let go of myself, and I need to hold my needs and my values as if they\u2019re actually important to me. They <em>are</em> important to me. And in 2023, I don\u2019t want to leave myself - or the people I care about - behind.</p>"
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        "name": "@cordillera",
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    "url": "https://mstdn.party/@cordillera/109609352072919751",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Love surfing Yesterweb and finding weird shit like LandChad.<br /><a href=\"https://landchad.net/\"><span>https://</span><span>landchad.net/</span><span></span></a></p><p>&gt;This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.party/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2863-b042-bb45-496265408544",
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        "html": "<span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://hackers.town/users/benbrown\">@<span>benbrown</span></a></span> Does this do <a href=\"https://libranet.de/search?tag=indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://libranet.de/search?tag=webmentions\">#<span>webmentions</span></a> and follow <a href=\"https://libranet.de/search?tag=microformats2\">#<span>microformats2</span></a> as well?<br /><br />I've been looking to self-host my own Fediverse compatible instance for a while now -- way before bird-gate happened.<br /><br />Being part of the Fediverse is cool, but I also blog and interact with other bloggers with webmentions and even other SNS sites with <a href=\"https://brid.gy\">bridgy</a>. Since you're at the early stages of building out Shuttlecraft, I invite you to check out the <a href=\"https://libranet.de/search?tag=indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> community at indieweb.org, have a chat with us and consider adding this functionality to your app as well.",
        "text": "@benbrown Does this do #indieweb #webmentions and follow #microformats2 as well?\n\nI've been looking to self-host my own Fediverse compatible instance for a while now -- way before bird-gate happened.\n\nBeing part of the Fediverse is cool, but I also blog and interact with other bloggers with webmentions and even other SNS sites with bridgy. Since you're at the early stages of building out Shuttlecraft, I invite you to check out the #indieweb community at indieweb.org, have a chat with us and consider adding this functionality to your app as well."
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    "author": {
        "name": "@sentience",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@sentience",
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    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@sentience/109608123222131887",
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        "html": "<p>Began a modest redesign of my personal site today. Planning to use it as the source for my social media posts (and hopefully more blogging). Having so much fun making pixels change colour in code again after too long.</p><p>Using <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/TailwindCSS\">#<span>TailwindCSS</span></a> on it to get a good feel for it as we try it out at <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/CultureAmp\">#<span>CultureAmp</span></a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/POSSE\">#<span>POSSE</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Began a modest redesign of my personal site today. Planning to use it as the source for my social media posts (and hopefully more blogging). Having so much fun making pixels change colour in code again after too long.Using #TailwindCSS on it to get a good feel for it as we try it out at #CultureAmp.#IndieWeb #POSSE"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

2022 in numbers

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        "text": "I posted 1057 times on adactio in 2022. sparkline\n\nThat\u2019s a bit more than in 2021.\n\nNovember was the busiest month with 137 posts. sparkline\n\nFebruary was the quietest with 65 posts. sparkline\n\nI blogged 91 times during the year. sparkline\nI shared 382 links. sparkline\nI posted 583 notes. sparkline\nThat included about 237 notes with photos sparkline and 214 replies. sparkline\n\nI published one article, the transcript of my talk, In And Out Of Style.\n\nI watched an awful lot of television but managed to read 25 books. sparkline\n\nElsewhere, I huffduffed 130 audio files and added 55 tune settings on The Session in 2022.\n\nI spoke at ten events.\n\nI travelled within Europe and the USA to a total of 18 destinations. sparkline",
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/archive/2022\">I posted 1057 times on adactio in 2022</a>. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>That\u2019s <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18713\">a bit more than in 2021</a>.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/archive/2022/11\">November</a> was the busiest month with 137 posts. sparkline</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/archive/2022/02\">February</a> was the quietest with 65 posts. sparkline</p>\n\n<ul><li>I <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/archive/2022\">blogged 91 times</a> during the year. sparkline</li>\n<li>I shared <a href=\"https://adactio.com/links/archive/2022\">382 links</a>. sparkline</li>\n<li>I posted <a href=\"https://adactio.com/notes/archive/2022\">583 notes</a>. sparkline</li>\n</ul><p>That included <a href=\"https://adactio.com/notes/photos/2022\">about 237 notes with photos</a> sparkline and <a href=\"https://adactio.com/notes/replies/2022\">214 replies</a>. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>I published <a href=\"https://adactio.com/articles/19210\">one article</a>, the transcript of my talk, <a href=\"https://adactio.com/articles/19210\">In And Out Of Style</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I watched an awful lot of television but managed to read <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19786\">25 books</a>. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"https://huffduffer.com/adactio\">I huffduffed 130 audio files</a> and <a href=\"https://thesession.org/members/1/tunes\">added 55 tune settings on The Session</a> in 2022.</p>\n\n<p>I spoke at <a href=\"https://adactio.com/about/speaking/\">ten events</a>.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/archive/2022/map\">I travelled</a> within Europe and the USA to a total of <a href=\"https://adactio.com/notes/travel/2022\">18 destinations</a>. sparkline</p>"
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        "html": "<p>I have a <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> that I'm somewhat happy with now!<br /><a href=\"https://auranium.neocities.org\"><span>https://</span><span>auranium.neocities.org</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I have a #neocities #website that I'm somewhat happy with now!\nhttps://auranium.neocities.org\n#indieweb #internet #webdev"
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20 years of blogging

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    "author": {
        "name": "Duncan Stephen",
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    "published": "2022-12-30T22:25:40+00:00",
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        "html": "<img src=\"https://duncanstephen.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20-years-blogging.png\" alt=\"20 RSS icons laid out across three rows, representing the three different decades I have been blogging through\" /><p>Today marks the 20th anniversary of my first blog post.</p>\n<p>My first blog post was a typically cringe first post on a new platform. Here it is quoted in full:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Hello there. Trying to get to grips with this Blogger stuff. I think I\u2019ve got it now. Anyway, this all should be added to the main page very shortly, so look out.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>That provides a clue to the fact that I was already publishing webpages on Geocities (before that, I even used Angelfire). I think those have all been long lost to the great 404 page in the sky.</p>\n<p>But blogging is when I really hit my stride in my experiments in publishing on the web.</p>\n<p>Through blogging I:</p>\n<ul><li>Developed as a writer (because no-one will read if you can\u2019t write).</li>\n<li>Understood how to build a solid argument (because comment sections and other people\u2019s blogs could be highly robust).</li>\n<li>Learnt how to code and structure a webpage (because having the same template as everyone else just won\u2019t do).</li>\n<li>\u2026And figured out what to do with my life.</li>\n</ul><h3>What blogging has done for me</h3>\n<p>Blogging came at an important time for me. When I started, I was 16; still at school. All those teenage internet opinions! 20 years\u2019 worth of it!</p>\n<p>But I was riding the crest of a growing wave. Blogging became increasingly mainstream as the noughties progressed. I found myself getting a large number of readers on multiple blogs. This garnered a fair bit of attention, including some media appearances.</p>\n<p>As strange as it might seem now, this all essentially led me to my first \u201cproper\u201d job, as a web editor at the University of St Andrews. I had an economics and politics degree from the University of Edinburgh, but it was my hobby as a blogger that drove the initial steps of my career.</p>\n<p>I won\u2019t give a full history of my blogging. <a href=\"https://duncanstephen.net/hello-again-world/\">I covered the first ten years, ten years ago</a>. At that time, I was ushering in a new era of blogging, beginning to publish under my own name rather than a pseudonym (of which I\u2019d used a few).</p>\n<p>I was also adapting to the reality of juggling adult responsibilities with this teenage hobby. Once I had a job and my own home, I did not have the time to look after my blog properly \u2014 and this was several years before I had a child or even met my partner. But I persevered at blogging when I could, because it was still occasionally useful, and it meant so much to me.</p>\n<p>Whenever I have formally put my blog on hiatus, I have felt like a part of me has been missing. I do often have things to say, so having an outlet to publish on is important to me, even if I rarely have the time to actually write the content any more.</p>\n<h3>20 years of technology changes</h3>\n<p>20 years is a long time in internet terms. My blog is now as old as the Commodore 64 was when I started it. The past two decades have seen many changes in the way people communicate with each other online.</p>\n<p>Blogging has long since declined from its mid-noughties peak. We\u2019ve seen the rise and fall of MySpace and Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. Medium has parked its bloated bottom where a blossoming blogosphere once was. Video-centric and disappearing content formats like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok have made the idea of keeping a permanent archive of words seem passe.</p>\n<h3>Today\u2019s publishing opportunity</h3>\n<p>Online publishing is having another moment <em>right now</em>. The <a href=\"https://duncanstephen.net/one-twit-can-make-a-service-a-dodo/\">new Twitter CEO\u2019s mishandling of a service</a> that accelerated the death of blogging, and that many have held close to their hearts for 15 years, has led people to ask: What now?</p>\n<p>Some are flocking to <a href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/\">Mastodon</a>, the most visible piece of software to use a set of interconnected protocols enabling a more decentralised approach to online publishing. A related concept is the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>.</p>\n<p>As things stand today these approaches are far from perfect. The barriers to entry are far too high for them to be as inclusive as they need to be.</p>\n<p>Some people, including <a href=\"https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/26/bring-back-blogging/\">Chris Coyier</a> and <a href=\"https://billhunt.dev/blog/2022/11/28/weaving-the-web/\">Bill Hunt</a> want to <a href=\"https://bringback.blog/\">bring back blogging</a>. I would love that, even if I find it unlikely given two decades\u2019 worth of change.</p>\n<p>There are also prominent people who think <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2022/11/16.html\">this is the moment for RSS</a>, the technology that enabled bloggers to read each others\u2019 blogs. Maybe there is something in that.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS\">RSS</a> was often derided for being somehow hard for people to understand. That was a self-fulfilling prophecy. The format itself is no harder to understand than HTML. But major vendors didn\u2019t take it to heart, so didn\u2019t do the hard work to make it simple. RSS took a massive hit when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader.</p>\n<p>Despite that, RSS never went away. Today it is what enables countless millions of people to subscribe to podcasts \u2014 even if they know nothing about RSS. That\u2019s because podcast app vendors made it easy. So it is possible.</p>\n<p>This moment offers an opportunity to rethink communication in a post-social media world. Building on existing technologies, we can create a publishing ecosystem that enables people rather than media companies, tech giants and advertisers. This would be closer to the original ideals of world wide web that have steadily been lost.</p>\n<h3>20 years of evolving purposes</h3>\n<p>Aside from the technology changes, 20 years of blogging has inevitably involved change as my life has progressed.</p>\n<p>What started off as a hobby gradually became a showcase for my professional abilities, and then a core tool for my career.</p>\n<p>Moreover, the amount of time I can dedicate to it has steadily decreased. Now I have a demanding job and a toddler to look after, I have almost no time.</p>\n<p>I have experimented with different approaches. A few years ago I reconfigured the blog so that I could post Twitter-style microblog posts, Instagram-style photos, and so on. I gradually stopped doing that because it felt like spamming.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://duncanstephen.net/a-year-of-blogging-daily/\">At one point I committed to publishing a post every day for a year</a>, most of which were links to other articles with a short piece of commentary. That gained a bit of attention, but was hard work and felt at times like giving a Ted talk in outer space, where no-one would hear me.</p>\n<p>My interests have evolved. My expertise has developed. The topics I write about have changed over time.</p>\n<p>Sometimes I am wary of annoying people by posting what I would like to. This is unfortunate for what is supposed to be a personal space. But my blog has served different purposes at different times. So I am acutely aware that over the past 20 years I have amassed RSS readers, email subscribers and social media followers for a wide variety of reasons \u2014 including, but not limited to:</p>\n<ul><li>Politics chat?</li>\n<li>Music musings?</li>\n<li>Formula 1 commentary?</li>\n<li>Personal stuff?</li>\n<li>User experience thought-takes?</li>\n</ul><p>As time has gone on, the content has drifted towards the items nearer the bottom of the list. Even then, personal stuff is increasingly rare since most of my personal life now revolves around a toddler who is entitled to a bit of privacy.</p>\n<h3>So what next?</h3>\n<p>If you have made it this far, I would be interested to know why you follow this blog and what you\u2019d like to see more of in the future. It might help me figure out what to do with it next.</p>\n<h3>Thank you</h3>\n<p>Thank you for reading, and for being a part of something that has played a huge role in my life for the last 20 years.</p>",
        "text": "Today marks the 20th anniversary of my first blog post.\nMy first blog post was a typically cringe first post on a new platform. Here it is quoted in full:\n\n  Hello there. Trying to get to grips with this Blogger stuff. I think I\u2019ve got it now. Anyway, this all should be added to the main page very shortly, so look out.\n\nThat provides a clue to the fact that I was already publishing webpages on Geocities (before that, I even used Angelfire). I think those have all been long lost to the great 404 page in the sky.\nBut blogging is when I really hit my stride in my experiments in publishing on the web.\nThrough blogging I:\nDeveloped as a writer (because no-one will read if you can\u2019t write).\nUnderstood how to build a solid argument (because comment sections and other people\u2019s blogs could be highly robust).\nLearnt how to code and structure a webpage (because having the same template as everyone else just won\u2019t do).\n\u2026And figured out what to do with my life.\nWhat blogging has done for me\nBlogging came at an important time for me. When I started, I was 16; still at school. All those teenage internet opinions! 20 years\u2019 worth of it!\nBut I was riding the crest of a growing wave. Blogging became increasingly mainstream as the noughties progressed. I found myself getting a large number of readers on multiple blogs. This garnered a fair bit of attention, including some media appearances.\nAs strange as it might seem now, this all essentially led me to my first \u201cproper\u201d job, as a web editor at the University of St Andrews. I had an economics and politics degree from the University of Edinburgh, but it was my hobby as a blogger that drove the initial steps of my career.\nI won\u2019t give a full history of my blogging. I covered the first ten years, ten years ago. At that time, I was ushering in a new era of blogging, beginning to publish under my own name rather than a pseudonym (of which I\u2019d used a few).\nI was also adapting to the reality of juggling adult responsibilities with this teenage hobby. Once I had a job and my own home, I did not have the time to look after my blog properly \u2014 and this was several years before I had a child or even met my partner. But I persevered at blogging when I could, because it was still occasionally useful, and it meant so much to me.\nWhenever I have formally put my blog on hiatus, I have felt like a part of me has been missing. I do often have things to say, so having an outlet to publish on is important to me, even if I rarely have the time to actually write the content any more.\n20 years of technology changes\n20 years is a long time in internet terms. My blog is now as old as the Commodore 64 was when I started it. The past two decades have seen many changes in the way people communicate with each other online.\nBlogging has long since declined from its mid-noughties peak. We\u2019ve seen the rise and fall of MySpace and Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. Medium has parked its bloated bottom where a blossoming blogosphere once was. Video-centric and disappearing content formats like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok have made the idea of keeping a permanent archive of words seem passe.\nToday\u2019s publishing opportunity\nOnline publishing is having another moment right now. The new Twitter CEO\u2019s mishandling of a service that accelerated the death of blogging, and that many have held close to their hearts for 15 years, has led people to ask: What now?\nSome are flocking to Mastodon, the most visible piece of software to use a set of interconnected protocols enabling a more decentralised approach to online publishing. A related concept is the IndieWeb.\nAs things stand today these approaches are far from perfect. The barriers to entry are far too high for them to be as inclusive as they need to be.\nSome people, including Chris Coyier and Bill Hunt want to bring back blogging. I would love that, even if I find it unlikely given two decades\u2019 worth of change.\nThere are also prominent people who think this is the moment for RSS, the technology that enabled bloggers to read each others\u2019 blogs. Maybe there is something in that.\nRSS was often derided for being somehow hard for people to understand. That was a self-fulfilling prophecy. The format itself is no harder to understand than HTML. But major vendors didn\u2019t take it to heart, so didn\u2019t do the hard work to make it simple. RSS took a massive hit when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader.\nDespite that, RSS never went away. Today it is what enables countless millions of people to subscribe to podcasts \u2014 even if they know nothing about RSS. That\u2019s because podcast app vendors made it easy. So it is possible.\nThis moment offers an opportunity to rethink communication in a post-social media world. Building on existing technologies, we can create a publishing ecosystem that enables people rather than media companies, tech giants and advertisers. This would be closer to the original ideals of world wide web that have steadily been lost.\n20 years of evolving purposes\nAside from the technology changes, 20 years of blogging has inevitably involved change as my life has progressed.\nWhat started off as a hobby gradually became a showcase for my professional abilities, and then a core tool for my career.\nMoreover, the amount of time I can dedicate to it has steadily decreased. Now I have a demanding job and a toddler to look after, I have almost no time.\nI have experimented with different approaches. A few years ago I reconfigured the blog so that I could post Twitter-style microblog posts, Instagram-style photos, and so on. I gradually stopped doing that because it felt like spamming.\nAt one point I committed to publishing a post every day for a year, most of which were links to other articles with a short piece of commentary. That gained a bit of attention, but was hard work and felt at times like giving a Ted talk in outer space, where no-one would hear me.\nMy interests have evolved. My expertise has developed. The topics I write about have changed over time.\nSometimes I am wary of annoying people by posting what I would like to. This is unfortunate for what is supposed to be a personal space. But my blog has served different purposes at different times. So I am acutely aware that over the past 20 years I have amassed RSS readers, email subscribers and social media followers for a wide variety of reasons \u2014 including, but not limited to:\nPolitics chat?\nMusic musings?\nFormula 1 commentary?\nPersonal stuff?\nUser experience thought-takes?\nAs time has gone on, the content has drifted towards the items nearer the bottom of the list. Even then, personal stuff is increasingly rare since most of my personal life now revolves around a toddler who is entitled to a bit of privacy.\nSo what next?\nIf you have made it this far, I would be interested to know why you follow this blog and what you\u2019d like to see more of in the future. It might help me figure out what to do with it next.\nThank you\nThank you for reading, and for being a part of something that has played a huge role in my life for the last 20 years."
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        "html": "<p>Hey Mastodon community, I just set my new website live. Please check it out and spread word of mouth. I really would love for this project to go somewhere.<br /><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webseite\">#<span>webseite</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webdesign\">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indiedev\">#<span>indiedev</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.trilightning.com\"><span>https://www.</span><span>trilightning.com</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hey Mastodon community, I just set my new website live. Please check it out and spread word of mouth. I really would love for this project to go somewhere.\n#webdev #webseite #website #webdesign #indieweb #indiedevhttps://www.trilightning.com"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

Words I wrote in 2022

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        "text": "Here\u2019s a highlight reel of some of my blog posts from 2022:\n\n\nToday, the distant future \u2014 2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.\n\nInstalling progressive web apps \u2014 How I\u2019m letting people know they can install The Session to their home screens.\n\nStarting and finishing \u2014 Some advice for public speaking.\n\nDeclarative design \u2014 Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.\n\nRe-evaluating technology \u2014 The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.\n\nDemocratising dev \u2014 How do we share the means of the web\u2019s production?\n\nWork ethis \u2014 Don\u2019t work hard.\n\nAccessibility is systemic \u2014 The difference between inclusive design and accessibility.\n\nThat fediverse feeling \u2014 Mastodon is a vibe shift in the best possible way.\nI also published the transcript of my conference talk, In And Out Of Style, a journey through the history of CSS.",
        "html": "<p>Here\u2019s a highlight reel of some of my blog posts from 2022:</p>\n\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18743\">Today, the distant future</a> \u2014 2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18772\">Installing progressive web apps</a> \u2014 How I\u2019m letting people know they can install The Session to their home screens.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18976\">Starting and finishing</a> \u2014 Some advice for public speaking.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/18982\">Declarative design</a> \u2014 Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19125\">Re-evaluating technology</a> \u2014 The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19356\">Democratising dev</a> \u2014 How do we share the means of the web\u2019s production?</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19392\">Work ethis</a> \u2014 Don\u2019t work hard.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19468\">Accessibility is systemic</a> \u2014 The difference between inclusive design and accessibility.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/19650\">That fediverse feeling</a> \u2014 Mastodon is a vibe shift in the best possible way.</li>\n</ul><p>I also published the transcript of my conference talk, <a href=\"https://adactio.com/articles/19210\">In And Out Of Style</a>, a journey through the history of CSS.</p>"
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        "html": "<p>\u201cThe web is a fascinating technology. I myself am frequently enamored with its inner workings. So much so that it\u2019s easy to forget that it\u2019s simply the medium. It\u2019s what we fill it with that counts. And when someone takes the time to add something extraordinary, we should all take the time to appreciate it.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/lemonyellow-intellectual-diary/\"><span>https://</span><span>thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscr</span><span>ipt/lemonyellow-intellectual-diary/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/historyoftheweb\">#<span>historyoftheweb</span></a></p>",
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