Notices by Mathew Ingram (mathewi@journa.host), page 2

So since I had a lot of free time on my hands, I swapped out all the links in the "Weird" section of my recreated 1998 home page for Wayback Machine archives of those pages. Of course, a lot of the images weren't archived, and the Javascript doesn't work, but you can still get a sense of sites like Bert Is Evil, the Museum of Bad Art, etc. https://mathewingram.com/weird.html

I really miss the days when the web was filled with goofy Javascript games and blogs about weird things, or weird people, or both. It may not have been as useful as today's internet, but it was a lot more fun 😃

Note: If you've ever seen or liked a post of mine that comes from my blog/personal site and thought "I wish there was a firehose of everything," you can get that by following @mathewingram.blog thanks to the wonders of ActivityPub. Be warned: it is a firehose of *everything,* including random thoughts, photos etc.

Just followed Adam Mosseri on here via an ActivityPub connection with Threads -- pretty cool!

Before Thanksgiving, there was the Order of Good Cheer

From Laura Kiniry for Atlas Obscura: "Four centuries ago, the settlers of a small French outpost perched on the north bank of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis River came up with the novel idea of founding an organization that would not only feed its members, but also uplift spirits during the long and brutally cold winter. Led by c

https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/11/24/before-thanksgiving-there-was-the-order-of-good-cheer/

My favorite math joke: Benoit Mandelbrot's middle initial is B, and it's short for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

My friend Dan Gillmor wrote about the end of a valuable experiment in distributing corrected info on social media -- killed by X and Reddit's decision to jack up prices on their APIs https://newscollab.org/2023/10/27/end-of-a-journalism-experiment/

Utilities have been lying about gas stoves since the 1970s

From Kate Yoder from Mother Jones: "One-third of American kitchens have gas stoves—and evidence is piling up that they’re polluting homes with toxic chemicals. A study this summer found that using a single gas stove burner on high can raise levels of cancer-causing benzene above what’s been observed from secondhan

https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/10/23/utilities-have-been-lying-about-gas-stoves-since-the-1970s/

@pluralistic, I apologize if I have missed it, but have you written or spoken about the lawsuits involving AI large language models and copyright? Given your background, I would be very interested in your perspective!

"Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review

The removal of a BBC documentary from YouTube and Twitter highlights growing social-media censorship by the Modi government in India https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/modi_india_twitter_bbc_documentary_censorship.php

Just to show I have other interests besides media and Twitter, I thought I would share a post from my personal blog, about a rabbit hole I went down -- one of my favourites, involving would-be European royalty, who claim that they are prince or duke or duchess of some imaginary kingdom or other. Classic European nonsense! If you like this sort of thing, I have a whole newsletter about it, called When The Going Gets Weird -- you can find it at newsletter.mathewingram.com https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2022/11/09/classic-european-pseudo-royal-nonsense/