News outlets treating prediction markets like news are traitors to their mission and communities.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

No longer my platform but I’m fairly confident this was actually zero searches (until this morning!)

i still think domain verification is a great solution but as someone who often explains DNS to large bureaucratic institutions these days, trust me when i say that quick and easily recognizable account verification is necessary too. especially for verifying authenticity in moments of breaking news

Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

Just realized I no longer use Alexa or Siri. Wild how they’ve become irrelevant so quickly.

Tired: But her emails.

Wired: But his text messages.

okay but even in dystopian novels i'm pretty sure they have universal healthcare

Thought i was getting a surprising amount done today, and then realised it was because I forgot to open Teams.

Thank you @markhusk.bsky.social for including our poll in your article for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social!

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live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up

My 1st grader started singing "Another One Rides the Bus," and when I asked him how he knew it, he said, "It's by a YouTuber. I think he's called Weird Al?"

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch...

I guess every now and then you reach a fork in the road

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HOW ARE NON-U?
On the Marmite history of Nancy Mitford-style commandments on what's posh and what's not...

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“All of us who make a living doing creative work on the Internet inevitably find ourselves in a partnership with [a] platform”— @rusty.todayintabs.com on migration
“It’s hard to describe a dysfunctional platform relationship, & it’s equally hard to describe one that feels productive & well-aligned.”