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Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change. But my heart aches at the thought of it losing the things that make it so special.
#japan
·bbc.com·
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
Some Tricks To Making Mastodon Way More Useful
Some Tricks To Making Mastodon Way More Useful
A very cool tool I only recently discovered is Followgraph. You put in your Mastodon handle, it looks up all the people you follow and all the people they follow, and then recommends to you the people who lots of your followers follow, but you don’t.
#mastodon
·techdirt.com·
Some Tricks To Making Mastodon Way More Useful
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
Moving to protocols, not platforms, is an approach for free speech in the twenty-first century. Rather than relying on a “marketplace of ideas” within an individual platform—which can be hijacked by those with malicious intent—protocols could lead to a marketplace of ideals, where competition occurs to provide better services that minimize the impact of those with malicious intent, without cutting off their ability to speak entirely.
#ideas#web3#standards
·knightcolumbia.org·
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
The Crypto Story
The Crypto Story
Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters. The 40,000 word, issue-takeover piece by Matt Levine for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
#crypto
·bloomberg.com·
The Crypto Story
Nevada Democrats sound alarm as election denier leads secretary of state race
Nevada Democrats sound alarm as election denier leads secretary of state race
Jim Marchant, the election-denying Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, has so far been outspent and out campaigned by his Democratic opponent. But as the first counties in the state begin to mail out ballots to voters, he has consistently polled ahead of Democrat Cisco Aguilar.
#2022midterms#election#secretaryofstate
·nbcnews.com·
Nevada Democrats sound alarm as election denier leads secretary of state race
Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022
Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022
"Matt Mullenweg, CEO of tumblr, talks a bit about why adult content won’t be coming back to the platform. It’s a pretty good appraisal of the difficulties companies have in hosting this sort of content today."
#MattMullenweg
·tumblr.com·
Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022