Figuring out which things are plausible and which are reasonable to be mad about really is the main advantage of learning Too Much about a specific field or system, but what a social clusterfuck if you ever try to talk about it with people who haven't gone in.
for the record, ”I don’t want Following, I want Discover but chronological instead of an algorithm, Facebook gives me that but Bluesky won’t because they have an agenda,” is the network take that broke me
The Following feed, which is a list of posts by people you follow, is in reverse chronological order.* If you’re in the Discover feed, you are no longer in the realm of linear time. Switch to Following for that.
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You know those banners on news sites that are like “This article is THREE YEARS OLD YOU WEIRDO, please act accordingly”? We need that for social but measured in hours.
My brain is okay at some things but then there are these peripheral things it does. Like I was today years old when I realized that Personal Shopper is a different movie from Confessions of a Shopaholic. And also Sicario is not in fact a remake of, uh. Serpico.
So many microbes, so few inspections. Food safety oversight is one of those super-basic things the government should do, and it's degrading in so many ways at once.
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