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A channel for Very Internet Persons to discuss net culture, intermedia, and having fun online

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📿 zach harris 🙏🏼
@zachharris.eth·
Remember when you had to database your own knowledge?
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elle
@riotgoools·
reply with something u found and enjoyed on the internet this week (image, writing, website, meme, etc.)

can be something new or just new to u (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
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elle
@riotgoools·
i adapted the html canvas grass i made for the vip site last year into a lavender garden for my homepage (⌒_⌒;) i guess it kind of represents me being more offline lately. i felt like i needed some more plants in my home ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

new blog post here too: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#a-labyrinth
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★ stulka ★
@stulka·
can i have 6 days off a week? 😞
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Naomi
@naomiii·
Finally got around to updating my personal website a lil, and realized once again how much fun mmm is for doing that.

Lots of things are hyperlinked, too now - click around and find out 🫡

https://cryptonao.mmm.page/
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
i wonder if anyone would be interested in an AMA about wikipedia
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
A call to action: Identify a particular area of information that you care about or feel is important and protect it.

https://www.hbcompass.io/one-practical-thing-protect-information/
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kbc
@kbc·
if you here ai agent what do you assume it is or does? And is it the same than a bot?
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo·
can confirm; as member of Gen Z, we regularly question the existence of computers

https://youtu.be/3S5BLs51yDQ
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🌈 YON
@yonfrula·
i'm an animated pfp maxi, tbh.
every website and app on the internet should support animated avatars — gifs are the most internet-native format out there.
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elle
@riotgoools·
reply with something u found and enjoyed on the internet this week (image, writing, website, meme, etc.)

can be something new or just new to u (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
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tyler ↑
@trh·
Map that lets you discover Wikipedia pages around you: matthewsiu.com/local-map
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
Weird Gloop is helping wikis move away from the non-free and vaguely predatory Fandom platform, and they wrote a blog post to explain what got them to do that. I really liked this post!
https://weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-helping-more-wikis-move-away-from-fandom
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tiny
@tinyrainboot·
"The internet is not a mirror of the physical world anymore. It is something else—something alien, recursive, and untamed. We cling to skeuomorphic beliefs, treating it as an extension of our lives offline. But this nostalgia blinds us to its true nature.

The internet is a domain of continuous now, where presence is fragmented and time is folded. To thrive in this space, we must abandon the comforts of linear thinking. We must accept the alien logics of agents and the swarm-like behaviors of digital ecosystems. This is not a space for progress in the traditional sense. It is a space for possibility—chaotic, infinite, and unconstrained.

The internet does not ask us to evolve. It simply evolves without us. The question is whether we will adapt—or become relics, like the blockchains we so carefully built. The future is not ahead of us. It is here, folded into the continuous now."

https://paragraph.xyz/@rm/the-internets-collapse-into-now
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
I'm a simple person: I see a blog post praising RSS feeds, I like and share. Also, this one's by Cory Doctorow.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
Tomas, a journalist, says it's hard to use AI ethically in media. So, he shares his experience and tips for using it in a way that supports journalism instead of replacing it with lower-quality output.
I liked this blog post, it resonates with a lot of what I feel as a content marketer as well (even though my job is, obviously, less vital to society & democracy).
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/09/07/how-im-trying-to-use-generative-ai-as-a-journalism-engineer-ethically
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Jilt 🎩
@jilt·
If you use comfyui to generate ai pictures (SD or flux models) I may have some paid commissions for you, DC for info
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Naomi
@naomiii·
"To rot is a verb and as a noun it names a process. Rot, the dictionary confirms, does not just happen, it is done."

https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/05/rot-all-over
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elle
@riotgoools·
“Building our own websites, making independent media, and striving for more democratic social networks—I think these are some of the small but crucial things we need to be doing to create alternatives to the monopolistic, billionaire-owned and increasingly authoritarian tech ecosystems currently dominating our lives,”

been very short on time lately so i haven't been on social much. i've just been spending any free time on my homepage

https://aftermath.site/website-musk-twitter-facebook-internet
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Alex ツ
@asteure.eth·
My friend Siddharth shared this analysis of the game Universal Paperclips. It was fun and interesting and made me remember the hours I spent being greedy.
https://if50.substack.com/p/2017-universal-paperclips
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