The small, real, original web via space • time • tech Incredible intro to the small web, and not centered around the Atmosphere like most of the things I post here. The internet isn't dead, you just have to know where to find the cozier, more authentic parts of it. The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled Gardens, and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web via Zsolt's pckt blog

Andrew and Tristian Tate arrested via AP News wtf is he wearing 😂 I wonder if it makes sense to try to implement standard.site in the context of rss.chat? via Dave Winer / Scripting News Not much to go on here, but it's cool to see the guy who invented RSS talking about standard.site! Full disclosure, I don't fully understand how rss.chat really works... I mean it's definitely a microblogging platform tailored to developers, but I think you have to run you own instance?

Online Friends Are Real Friends via Absurd Pirate For my whole life, there was always this stigma towards online friends, honestly just people online in general. Having more friends online than real life seemed like a trait a complete loser would have. While I think that stigma still exists, it exists to a lesser extent. Especially with younger generations who spend a lot of time online. I remember those days of people cringing from a mile away when you said you "

First things first, this is coming from a complete rube with little to no understanding of software/web development, but: why would you ever need something like ATProto? The internet itself is already a bit of an operating system right? You interface with it through the browser, and you can point it at the address of a website or a web app. It runs on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc. while your PC runs on more powerful languages like C++ and all of that other stuff.

The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change via The Marginalian The problem is pressing, because many of life’s big personal decisions are like this: they involve the choice to undergo a dramatically new experience that will change your life in important ways, and an essential part of your deliberation concerns what your future life will be like if you decide to undergo the change.

Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science via Live Science New monkey who dis 🙊 Ancient Egyptians Believed That These Newly Discovered Gold Tongues Allowed the Dead to Communicate in the Afterlife via Smithsonian Mag Well this is a lot more sane than injecting it into your body while you're still alive... How to avoid getting cyclosporiasis—and why washing lettuce may not be enough via Scientific American

The Beatles vs Hitler in the most fucked-up 1970s movie ever made via Dangerous Minds The basic idea sounds almost like a practical joke. Take thousands of hours of wartime newsreel footage, splice it together with clips from old Hollywood combat movies, then soundtrack the whole thing with contemporary artists covering Lennon and McCartney classics. wtf I didn't even know this existed lol. I'll stick with George Martin's In My Life record whenever I want to hear covers of Beatles songs.

Bluesky Is Not The Center of The Atmosphere via The Digital Renaisance I use Bluesky — it's pretty much my only social media presence. But Sam is right: it's only a small part of the Atmosphere, even if it was the original app here. The biggest reason I stick with the main instance instead of moving to something different (and with more/better features) like mu.social is because I have nightmares from when I first migrated to Mastodon from Twitter.

My Retirement Uniform via Concrete Lunch Before that trip to Cavender’s I ordered a leather belt off Amazon. When it arrived one of the little snaps where you change the buckle was already broken. ENSHITTIFICATION. I returned it for a refund. Cavender’s was 95% stuff I would never wear. The whole country/western/cowboy aesthetic doesn’t appeal to me...BUT – the merchandise was super nice! My style or not, man, being in a store full of quality clothing and intelligent employees made me feel like I was in the right place!

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search via AdWeek Who even uses Google anymore? There are so many good alternatives. Kagi, obviously, but even DuckDuckGo is pretty good these days. The models it uses for its AI assistant are more accurate than Google, or if you absolutely hate it you can easily disable it. Or if you're not a fan of either of those, there's the EU-based Uruky.