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ernie

@ernie@writing.exchange

Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine.

Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance

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The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

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A half-finished fediverse integration is worse than no integration at all.

https://tedium.co/2024/06/21/meta-threads-fediverse-unfinished-business/

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@mastodonmigration It certainly feels like a distinct strategy.

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Effectively, it is a continuous Threads advertisement projected into the Fediverse.

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“YouTube made recommendations based on videos users had deleted from their watch history, which was against YouTube’s own policy.”

So you’re saying all that work I put in my highly curated watch history is all for naught?

It’s not even like the biggest thing in this mess.

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

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Hard to disagree with this take.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

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It’s alive. https://udm14.com

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@ernie Also, (obviously) seems worth tagging @pluralistic in!

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@pluralistic @peterfr disenshittified

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Company you’ve never heard of raises $150M for a decentralized social network.

If you go to the front page of this social network’s website, the first headshot you see on a smartphone is of Marc Andreessen.

Rest my case on this being hot garbage.

https://unchainedcrypto.com/decentralized-social-network-farcaster-raises-150-million-in-a-series-a-round/

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The Gaming Historian just dropped a feature-length documentary on The Oregon Trail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QbjlHeoLdc

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If that Billie Eilish song from the Barbie soundtrack can become a big hit, so too can (and should) this Adrianne Lenker song. It has all the bones for it.

Diane Warren wishes she was still writing music this good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iJmIL83vas

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About a month ago, a 60ish year old British woman started uploading Linux distro tours on her YouTube channel. It's great.

https://youtu.be/0XhNM_2gYBQ?si=Ra3mGXXcsXg6zfsM

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How is Adrianne Lenker so good

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@mastodonmigration @bhaugen @lynnfoster her solo work is as good if not better than her very good band

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@ernie @bhaugen @lynnfoster

Very interesting life story BTW.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1482-big-thiefs-adrianne-lenker-has-seen-some-shit/

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This move into HaaS printers is so baffling, I’m missing the Leo Apotheker era of HP leadership. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

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Periodic reminder that owning your work, or as much of it as you can afford to keep, matters.

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I see Ryan Reynolds is going for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJH0HtTxEz0

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Oh, this is awesome. Turns out Maximum Effort convinced ABC to run these ads all day tomorrow.

What a clever idea. Brilliant, and probably cheaper than a Super Bowl ad.

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/lays-groundhog-day-ads-ABC-Disney-Ryan-Reynolds/706337/

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Gonna be straight up with y’all. I share paywalled links sometimes. I may not gift link them, or even call it out.

I’m a journalist and I want to support journalism. If I share something that’s intriguing enough for you to support a journalist, awesome.

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