Ghost — the open-source platform I use to publish my daily "When The Going Gets Weird" and weekly "The Torment Nexus" newsletters — 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

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!

Decrypt

Did Donald Trump Really Just Drop a Solana Meme Coin? - Decrypt

Donald Trump is promoting a Solana meme coin from his social media accounts. Elaborate hack or a truly wild new era for crypto?

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

The Torment Nexus

The TikTok saga has gotten even stupider if that's possible

This week could see the end of the TikTok saga, and if it does — regardless of what the ending is — I for one will be grateful if that happens....

“We make plenty of money already”:

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“We make plenty of money already”

I posted this tweet today, and I thought I would expand on the story for anyone who might be interested. The comment from Craigslist CEO Jim Buckma...

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?

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

The Torment Nexus

Social media is a symptom, not a cause

I know that it's tempting to blame what happened on Tuesday night — the re-election of a former game-show host and inveterate liar with 34 felony...

Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” the Stanford Prison Experiment was faked, and no one knows why it’s called a monkey wrench

When The Going Gets Weird

The famous Stanford Prison Experiment was a fake

From Vox: "The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple ...