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Not excusing what Harvard and Zuckerberg did. Joan Donovan is not an advocate for transparency and open discourse, either. Google her name and you will find she is quite alright with censoring.

It's puzzling. Discord is for real-time chat, not static posting/branching. Completely different in my eyes.

It's buried on the site but they also have a fantastic photogallery: https://photolibrary.usap.gov/#1-1expanded

To add: a while back I discovered who this guy did a slice-of-life video journal of his time in the south pole station. Super interesting! https://www.youtube.com/@GoneVenturing/playlists

Does not use <blink> tag... Worst. website. ever. ;-)

There used to be a famous site in the 90's documenting such things ...

found it! http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/begin.htm

Just to add to this (copied from other branch)

The challenge the profession currently faces is that a lot of people go into it for the wrong reasons and who are not suited for it. Because there is no money in traditional graphic design, many graphic designers elect UX thinking it's nearly a 1:1 transfer. There is a lot of mis-match.

You really have to really like and have a good sense of human cognition and human factors first and foremost. You also have to like thinking in systems. You are basically design (engineering) solutions for how humans interact with computing in all its forms and in many modes.

Many designers, whether they admit it to themselves or to others, would really rather be designing book covers and concert posters.

The challenge the profession currently faces is that a lot of people go into it for the wrong reasons and who are not suited for it. Because there is no money in traditional graphic design, many graphic designers elect UX thinking it's nearly a 1:1 transfer. There is a lot of mis-match.

You really have to really like and have a good sense of human cognition and human factors first and foremost. You also have to like thinking in systems. You are basically design (engineering) solutions for how humans interact with computing in all its forms and in many modes.

Many designers, whether they admit it to themselves or to others, would really rather be designing book covers and concert posters.

Bladerunner 2049. :-)

Hard to tell from the summaries. I hope this addresses ISPs too. Comcast, AT&T seem to operate like a cartel.

On mobile, reddit.com/.compact is an option. It's pretty stripped down but has some solid pros: it's fast, it has evenly sized (height) posts, the comments are easy to view. The post links with in-reddit photos/video do direct to the bad site, unfortunately. Another con (or pro) is infinite scrolling.

This just reminded me: does anyone remember Macromedia? Adobe bought them a looong time ago.

I believe this may have been the grandaddy of demos in Europe:

Sodan & Magician 42 - TechTech - Amiga Demo https://youtu.be/mB5CujcTN8A

How funny, I've been on an 80s Amiga Cracktro/Demoscene kick this week and it is an image frequently seen and tweaked in many demos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WWFEBsgfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssH6moTGLc

(I couldn't find the specific intros with the funny graphic...)

Timeless classics include:

- "Proud of..."

- "Let's take a moment to celebrate..."

- "I believe <Insert "profound" thought or saying>

- "Kudos/shout out to..."

- "I'm excited to announce I..."

Perhaps its just my network or industry, but I've considered creating a parody account just to mock the absurdity of what people post.

Of course my parody account would have

- a background photo of me on a stage with a headset and

- a professionally polished profile photo with my arms crossed.

smh

I've muted most people in my network. The amount of self and mutual-mas2batory posting is nauseating.

You bet: It's called Timey 3. I got it off the ios app store. $3 USD! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timey-3-menu-bar-timer/id14211...

Though a bit narrow, I have found desktop (menubar) timers with ticking in the background to help a lot. As a matter of fact, I see mine counting down from the 5 min I allocated to check out YC and I can hear the ticking. What has surprised me most is that I haven't yet developed the ability to tune it out - so I always hear it. It also acts like a metronome and I believe it makes me work a bit faster.

The website appears to be down. Having said that...

I may not be remembering this correctly, but didn't most mobile phones also have a walkie-talkie feature built-in in the 90's ? I don't think any have that now.

Not a surprise. Though anecdotal, I've noticed an increase in the use of "blasts", "slams", and "lashes out" in U.S. news titles over the past few years.