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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare www.eff.org/deeplinks…
“We need shittable cities (actively maintained public restrooms).… A city without well-maintained restrooms is a city where many of the chronically ill cannot leave their homes, and where the homeless are criminalized for bodily functions.” www.tumblr.com/vautour-c…
Venice floats on millions of tree trunks that workers pounded vertically into the mud over a thousand years to erect vast stone buildings on top of floating foundations. This is wild, and I had no idea. www.bbc.com/future/ar…
 I dislike Discord
I dislike it so much that I’ve decided to stop participating in all Discord forums.
Reddit and webforums (particularly those based on Discourse software) are great. Even mailing lists can be pretty good.
But Discord is a mess. Too many channels. Every time I visit one, it’s like I’m walking in on the middle of a conversation and have no idea what people are talking about.
Discord is meant for people who live on Discord and pop in a couple of times an hour to catch up. That’s not me.
I’m feeling a little the same way about timelines — Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and Facebook and of course X. In the case of timelines, it all seems to be people talking past each other. Tumblr is better, but mostly I’m on Tumblr for the memes and vintage illustrations and photos.
