Ghost β€” the open-source platform I use to publish my daily "When The Going Gets Weird" and weekly "The Torment Nexus" newsletters β€” has integrated with the fediverse through ActivityPub. So you can follow the daily one through @npub15xg7...7u62 and the weekly one by following @npub1ukk7...s8xw
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So the incoming president of the United States is promoting a crypto coin named after himself. I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, but I confess I didn’t expect things to get this stupid this quickly. My bad!
Are people arguing that an app where people watch video clips of cats riding Roombas is a threat to national security? Yes. And is this just as ridiculous as it was the last time I wrote about it? Yes
β€œWe make plenty of money already”:
Random question for anyone who knows things about federating: tried to connect my blog to Bridgy Fed so I don't need to crosspost things manually, but my blog is located at a subdomain (mathewingram.com/work) and Bridgy says no when I try to connect it. Is there any way to make this work?
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It's tempting to think that disinformation on social media made people vote for Trump, but the reality is that what happens on social networks is more of a symptom than a cause
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Today in β€œWhen The Going Gets Weird,” the Stanford Prison Experiment was faked, and no one knows why it’s called a monkey wrench