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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media

Posted by john-doe on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @02:39AM
from the journals.sagepub.com dept.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051261437487

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device with... on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:16AM (#48019465)

https://archive.is/sM7O5

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Posted by john-doe on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @03:34AM
from the thatprivacyguy.com dept.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

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Ethicswishing

Posted by john-doe on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:22AM
from the berjon.com dept.

https://berjon.com/ethicswishing/

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Domination: A contrarian view of AI risk

Posted by john-doe on Monday June 24, 2024 @02:36AM
from the matthewbutterick.com dept.

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/domination.html

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Known Purpose and Trusted Potential

Posted by john-doe on Sunday May 19, 2024 @01:53AM
from the fasterandworse.com dept.

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

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What Is Utility-First CSS?

Posted by john-doe on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:44AM
from the heydonworks.com dept.

https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-utility-first-css/

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From Pigeons to Artificial Neural Networks

Posted by john-doe on Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:33PM
from the cs.toronto.edu dept.

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~lczhang/360/lec/w01/pigeon.html

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Re:The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors on Friday January 12, 2024 @06:38AM (#38966912)

https://archive.is/AT6JK

AI or Ain't: Eliza

Posted by john-doe on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:20AM
from the zserge.com dept.

https://zserge.com/posts/ai-eliza/

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PalmPilot Alpha Font Collection

Posted by john-doe on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:56AM
from the rainerzenz.de dept.

http://www.rainerzenz.de/palm/alphafontview.html

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Re:The new Google Fonts: find what you’re looking for on Saturday September 09, 2023 @01:48AM (#37442618)

The google-webfonts-helper makes it easy: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts

Re:Ask HN: Why buttons in UIs stopped looking like buttons? on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:27AM (#37334096)

https://despens.systems/2022/06/button-pushes-you/

Case Study: Rebuilding TechCrunch Layout with Modern CSS

Posted by john-doe on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:06AM
from the ishadeed.com dept.

https://ishadeed.com/article/rebuilding-techcrunch-modern-css/

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Re:Bye, Gemini on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:21AM (#37050341)

Gemtext not allowing emphasis was the true dealbreaker for me.

Button Pushes You

Posted by john-doe on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:58PM
from the despens.systems dept.

https://despens.systems/2022/06/button-pushes-you/

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Designing Transit Maps interactive handbook

Posted by john-doe on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:43PM
from the bureau.rocks dept.

https://bureau.rocks/projects/book-metro-en/

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Designing Transit Maps interactive handbook

Posted by john-doe on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:03PM
from the bureau.rocks dept.

https://bureau.rocks/projects/book-metro-en/

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Re:Typescale: A Tool for Easy CSS Typography on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:18AM (#36000908)

Some good advice: https://practicaltypography.com/headings.html#:~:text=Certai...

Re:All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:41AM (#35959131)

Case in point, here’s AI Alan Curtis on Corecore, by Silvia Dal Dosso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhZ058-lI6g

Re:Apple Music Classical on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:30AM (#35337944)

Anyone not on a recent macOS gets 'serif', Times New Roman in most cases. Classy!

Multiplicity Horror

Posted by john-doe on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:15AM
from the freddiedeboer.substack.com dept.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-purpose-do-i-serve-in-your-life

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Ben Denzer, 2011–Present

Posted by john-doe on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:30AM
from the 2011-present.bendenzer.com dept.

https://2011-present.bendenzer.com/

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Hyperglot

Posted by john-doe on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:33PM
from the hyperglot.rosettatype.com dept.

https://hyperglot.rosettatype.com/

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Atlas of oblique maps: A collection of landform portrayals of areas of the world

Posted by john-doe on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:25AM
from the pubs.er.usgs.gov dept.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i1799

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Re:When Paper Beats the Screen on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:59AM (#34026745)

https://archive.ph/JSlSm

What Is Limbic Capitalism? (2021)

Posted by john-doe on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:52PM
from the damagemag.com dept.

https://damagemag.com/2021/06/02/what-is-limbic-capitalism/

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Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:34AM (#33306149)

Looks like it uses GitHub, not Git?

Re:Website Fidelity on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:50AM (#33286315)

> at least from visual/informational point of view.

True, knowing that an (empty) linktree profile is 1MB: https://linktr.ee/hello

Re:Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:06PM (#33276769)

Perfect!