Sunday, 11 May 2025
quote [ ?Forcing millions of people into the same shared conversation is unnatural, requiring aggressive curation that in turn leads to the type of supercharged engagement that seems to leave everyone upset and exhausted,? I wrote. ?Aggregation as a goal in this context survives?for the simple reason that it?s lucrative.? ]
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Wednesday, 7 May 2025
quote [ a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters ]
Various aspects of microblog platforms I can relate to. Contrast with the share=like behaviour of Tumblr that prevents hate-sharing to some extend.
Via the great 32-Bit Café newsletter, feat. another Reddit critique (see also). (thumb: Clawmarks)
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Thursday, 1 May 2025
quote [ Fifty years after the fall of Saigon a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam?s legacy of transnational adoption ]
And a baby in Saigon
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Monday, 28 April 2025
quote [ Auburn University?s help desk is still answering the public?s calls 70 years on ]
You've reached the help desk
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Tuesday, 22 April 2025
quote [ The long read: On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 years ]
The nameless girl is far away
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Wednesday, 2 April 2025
quote [ Cláudio Silva reflects on moving from Angola to the United States as a child, founding Angola's largest food and travel platform, and what the country?s current flourishing means not just for Angolans but for the world. ]
Só quem sabe onde é Luanda
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Monday, 31 March 2025
quote [ As we celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in 2025, I want to take a moment to highlight a painful reality that often goes unnoticed?the horrific situation of transgender individuals who flee their home countries seeking safety, only to find themselves trapped in yet another cycle of persecution and neglect. ]
Also, an excerpt I like from Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg, in the extended.
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Sunday, 30 March 2025
quote [ What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise? ]
This had kind of a creepy fit.
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Thursday, 27 March 2025
quote [ The story of the guy who nearly drowned on his way to inventing a fundamental fastening device you?ve probably already used today. ]
Fasten up your earthly burdens
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Tuesday, 25 March 2025
quote [ I remember the first time I heard the phrase ?third place,? meaning a place humans go to be human at each other which is neither home nor work. The loss of such places has been a subject of great distress, handwringing, and much scapegoating for most of my adult life, even before such places were really lost at all.
I heard the phrase first in 2001, but it was only coined in 1989, by a sociologist named Ray Oldenburg. ] Everybody should meet more people IRL.
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