Notices by jimray (jimray@mastodon.social), page 2

Lots of nodding along to this great piece by @anildash

One thing left unsaid is the value of the Apple podcast directory, which seems to power a ton of discoverability.

https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

One of the lessons of the past two decades of tech is open protocols can work as long as there is some element of infrastructure that isn’t dependent on market forces. Social media platforms ended up the way they did because they were hellbent on wringing out every possible cent of profitability.

The way @molly0xfff ethers Chris Dixon down to the subatomic level here is just so satisfying

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

While I wait for @evan ‘s book, what are some of the best resources for getting started with developing for Activity Pub?

OpenAI replacing the only two women on the board, and the only researchers actually interested in preventing skynet, with the guy who invented the like button and the king of neoliberalism is almost too on the nose.

@anildash that’s the good shit Anil

If Peter Thiel’s codename while he snitched for the FBI wasn’t John Galt, what the hell was even the point?

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10

@kissane it feels so weird to say I’ve been eagerly awaiting? anxiously anticipating? this given I know it’s a gut punch and has to have been so incredibly difficult to wade through all of this. Not to mention Obsidian…

All of which is to say: thank you.

The Times is right — e-bikes are a scourge and we must do everything we can to protect our fragile SUV-driving elites from these teen terrors. I propose we construct a nationwide network of separated e-bike enclosures to segregate these monsters from god-fearing motorists.

I’ve attached one such example from a European petrostate that has spent years valiantly protecting cars from the ravages of cycling. With work, we may be able to reduce the number of cyclist-on-motorist deaths to zero.

@jbouie
Every 4-ton truck driving reactionary who once saw a biker execute a legal Idaho stop six years ago: EVERY BIKER REFUSES TO OBEY THE LAWS

Same guy: it’s not only my right but my *duty* to cruise through this residential neighborhood at 52 mph