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@rupertread.bsky.social What we can learn from past civilisational collapses and what we will learn seem like two very different things. Also, ‘we’ is doing a lot of work here.
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@Avner this is really great. Your questions are very interesting.
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@markreckons.bsky.social I’m too Tyne and Worn out to fetch it myself
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@markreckons.bsky.social I’ve a sudden hankering for a nice piece of Leiensteinshire cheese
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@jayeless some great ‘comedy horror’ movie ideas there though so there’s a big up-side
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@lmika yeah, I remember a snake handler story about a guy who was killed trying to run over a snake with his car!
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@lmika Cars kill roughly 200 times more people in Australia each year than sharks, crocs, snakes and spiders put together. Just being inactive kills more than six times as many as that – but people seem to worry far less about these much higher risks
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@manton just wanted to say thanks for all the great micro.blog improvements recently. Wavelength 2, Micro Monday, beautified book pages and more. I’m most grateful for auto-saved long drafts. Brilliant!
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@iChris congratulations and thanks – it’s been a wild, wild ride.
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@manton “We spend so much time on this social network vs. that network that we risk missing the big picture.”
True. While some wonder whether to detach from Musk and Zuckerberg, many are also considering how to repair or even replace the US-dominated Internet. So much good will squandered.
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@Marty I’ll be very interested to see how it works out too
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@JohnPhilpin since you got me thinking about “content” I noticed Manuel Moreale also has some thoughts.
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@JohnPhilpin as Doc Searles and David Weinberger say: “Holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content.”
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@artkavanagh All understandings of how the world works are incomplete, but some are more incomplete than others.
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@Skarjune “underlying framework of Block editing is a complex layout system, not for writers” - yes, that has certainly been my experience. It might well be that no ‘simpler’ front end could improve this.
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@apoorplayer that’s an interesting thought. I’ll be continuing to use micro.blog, which for me hits the sweet spot between simplicity and range of features. And static sites are just different from the php-and-database approach of Wordpress. Im also keen to see how Dave Winer’s new work turns out.
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@drwalt yes, I’m going to try it out at least. It might be too basic for many users, but some people, myself included, are quite keen on basic. I won’t be leaving micro.blog, though, which is both simple and full of useful features — and for a very reasonable price.
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@warner yes, there’s some great interviews and it’s a good way of discovering interesting bloggers
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@hjalm at times like these we dance around and sing Kara Jackson’s song, Dickhead Blues. Remember: “I am pretty top-notch!”
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@writingslowly.bsky.social Thanks! Looks like editing a bluesky post is beyond my capabilities
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@Miraz here in Sydney we mostly see smaller navel oranges in the shops. The larger Seville oranges are only briefly available and not widely on offer. Maybe that’s because they’re more bitter (ideal for marmalade). We had a tree with huge oranges like these, but also stink bugs!
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@hyde absolutely - it’s as though Luhmann was independently practising the ‘choose your favourite problems’ approach. But (slightly beside the point) I think it was described by Richard Hamming , not Richard Feynman - a claim I need to write more about.
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@rscottjones fantastic! There should be a word for the opposite of photobombing.
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@hyde ah, thanks – that’s an issue with POSSE. I keep forgetting that Mastodon only notices the first link of a post and ignores all others. Edited now, but here’s the original post, which had links to both editions, 76 and 77.
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@lmika condolences Jean. I’m wondering if your father inspired you to learn Russian.