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This is a stream/feed/river (or whatever you want to call it) of short posts that I write over time. If I feel like it I also repost to my Mastodon and/or Twitter account. Such posts are marked with Mastodon icon and/or Twitter icon, respectively.

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GNOME files defense against patent troll (to fight for us all)

gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-f

"... Rather than trying to humanise technology, then, we should be trying to democratise it. ..."

This and many more interesting points in this Guardian's Long Read:

theguardian.com/news/2018/may/

(A podcast version: theguardian.com/news/audio/201 )

"... Drug companies have to test their drugs, car companies have to test their cars before they can go out and actually sell their products to people. ... Why is it that a tech company is allowed to make the excuse that what we build is too complicated for even us to understand and, therefore, we're not at fault. ..." --- Christopher Wylie

(From an interesting interview with him: video.aktualne.cz/dvtv/faceboo )

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Reshared http://scripting.com/2019/07/05/160304.html

Dave Winer's essay on Live In The Moment vs Climate Change (and also the young vs old).

An interesting perspective on what's the point of writing scientific papers:

"Papers are written so that their author(s) can forget their content and move on to other things. Therefore when you write you should be very careful to put in enough of the big picture and enough of the details so you'd be able to reconstruct your thoughts 10 years later if you'll need to, assuming you'll forget everything but retain some familiarity with some basic principles of mathematics."

mathoverflow.net/a/83093/46003

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Google+ is no longer available for consumer (personal) and brand accounts

Time of death: 10:03:42 US/Pacific.

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I've written an article explaining why the upcoming copyright directive is about to fundamentally break the internet: tomas.jakl.one/blog/2019-03-24

Please help to stop it, contact your MEPs and ask them to vote against it in the upcoming week. saveyourinternet.eu/


I like those little . 🙂

DIY Tracking Apps with Google Forms: jeremykun.com/2019/03/08/diy-t

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Reshared https://mamot.fr/users/doctorow/statuses/101722196029850376

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RT @RogueNotary

It's infuriating how often I google a story to verify it, and the results are:

  1. NYT (no free articles left)
  2. Fox News (always free)
  3. WaPo (no free articles left)
  4. Breitbart (always free)
  5. Daily Caller (always free)

Guess what people end up reading when this happens?

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I started following Larry Sanger's blog (the founder of Wikipedia). He has lots to say. For example here is his apt summary of what is the social media doing to our online communication:

Is it time to move from social media to blogs? larrysanger.org/2018/06/is-it-

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