This is really creepy... but also a cool way to take something creepy and make something cool on the internet with it... I can't get myself to actually listen to any of these... but the rest of Emily's site is also a delight so it's worth just going straight there as well.
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Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again)
This is embarrassing. It’ll probably be a huge success.
I'm just trying to figure out if these people have absolutely no shame, or if they are embarrassed and do it anyway because they think they can make a buck off of it. As someone who watched Diggnation growing up, the direction Kevin Rose has taken his career with Web3, crypto, and this garbage has been pretty disappointing. But I guess that's part of it. That's why they tell you not to meet your heroes—not that Kevin Rose was ever a hero of mine, more an entertaining idiot. But I think a lot of these early internet successes are just people in the right place, right time, not necessarily as smart as society tries to give them credit for... *cough* Elon Musk *cough*.
I leave the US in less than three weeks
When an opportunity like this presents itself, it feels absurd to turn it down. I've lived too much of my life trying to cling to what feels comfortable, and it's never been worth it.
Really wonderful to see Keenan and Katy make that big jump across the pond (and out of this deteriorating shithole).
ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed
Add any public Instagram profile, YouTube channel or X account to quickly get an RSS feed for your favorite reader.
I feel like I've seen a few of these tools before. I'm always skeptical that following something like Instagram through an RSS feed won't break eventually, but this one does look like one of the more well-polished versions, so I'm not opposed to giving it a try.
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
There is no widely available public tool comparable to the Wayback Machine, and if it continues to lose access to major news sources, its preservation efforts could erode to the point where early digital records of history become much harder to access, or are even lost altogether.
On the one hand, I get it—you don't want your stories to come out from behind the paywall and you don't want it to be used by AI (although I bet most of these publications have deals with AI companies—so that's the real reason). But no one is really reading everything via the Wayback Machine—since it's a snapshot, it's not a pleasant experience—and if they are, you are failing at presenting your journalism in a meaningful way.
🎨 What's My JND?
This already did the rounds, but it was fun to give it a go myself. I got a 0.0040 on it.
