Nelson Minar

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This account will no longer be updated. You can find my linkblog on the web at https://t.co/KKSocBLwIQ or on Mastodon @[email protected]

Elon Musk has destroyed Twitter.

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Meadows Texts: Archive and reporting on text messages from Trump's chief of staff as he helped coordinate the Jan 6 coup attempt
https://t.co/W8sMtwCfCf
- politics trump coup jan6 meadows sedition journalism

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Griner's return: Sweet, personal update on the basketball player's first days now that she is free from unlawful detention in Russia
https://t.co/g2aik7YkqP
+ griner politics russia basketball fre

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Brin & Page's lifestyle: Gossipy article about how the Google founders live with their billions of dollars
https://t.co/aKP94jr02I
+ google larrypage sergeybrin money lifestyle billionaire jetset

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Gerät 32620: 1980s East German speech generator, used in number stations for communicating to spies on the radio. There is now a MAME emulator.
https://t.co/rAupE2kmB7
+ ddr germany stasi spies cryptography numbersstation mame via:jwz

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Who is that?: Bing / Microsoft image search; upload a face picture, they tell you who it is (if they are famous)
https://t.co/H5Dbzfu0nn
+ facerecognition imagesearch ai images celebrities

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IPv6 routing mess: Cogent has refused to peer with various important networks, breaking IPv6 for many Americans
https://t.co/zzpSAPpXxk
- cogent isp internet routing via:lobsters

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Nervous System design: Nice feature on the algorithmic artists
https://t.co/cesaTYi1nW
+ art generativeart puzzles newyork sculpture

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Playing with ActivityPub: Practical notes of adding simple federation to a blog. It's not so simple.
https://t.co/atmwLxP9Jj
+ mastodon activitypub socialmedia federation blog software

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Reflecting on Google Chrome: One of the original Chrome engineers talks about his perspective ten years later
https://t.co/S8MTGVjoSn
+ chrome google browser software engineering javascript

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Minecraft's End Poem: Writer Julian Gough talks about being taken advantage of by Mojang and a decade later coming to peace with the fact he didn't get $$MM from the sale to Microsoft. A message of love.
https://t.co/MRTUoFWh6i
+ minec

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mdBook: Open source software to make online books like technical reference docs from Markdown sources
https://t.co/Ql3aU0QX51
+ books writing publication technicalwriting docs search

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Germany coup plot: Bizarre revanchists plot to replace the German government. Not clear it was a serious or big group but serious enough to be a threat
https://t.co/cgebCyanrf
- politics germany coup feudalism

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Mastodon in 6 static files: A very simple demonstration of federating via ActivityPub with the simplest possible thing
https://t.co/02zMCEZiZz
+ activitypub mastodon code server socialmedia

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danah boyd on Twitter: Thoughtful media researcher shares insights about failing social networks
https://t.co/S9foo6yFEe
- twitter danah socialmedia myspace research via:metafilter

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Proud Boys in Columbus: Details from the fascist attack on a children's story hour in Ohio. Masked, armed men show up with weapons.
https://t.co/Fki22fqb8a
- fascism lgbt proudboys t

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European power grid: Nice interactive story explaining power exports and the energy crisis in Europe
https://t.co/DZmWvUW8iR
- energy politics electricity grid visualization via:benfry

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Twitter exodus: Some stats on where people are going and how fast now that Twitter sucks
https://t.co/d8QBalQALa
+ mastodon socialmedia twitter hive post tumblr data

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Same sex couple US census: Update from the census survey about same sex households in the US
https://t.co/GyANmqUeuM
+ census lgbt gay civilrights america usa

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playersexual: When a video game has romance options where someone is attracted to you no matter what gender your character is.
https://t.co/YVcIAwZGwV
+ funny gay lgbt games romance lazy