Interesting Links for 25-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Dispatches from the media apocalypse

(tags:journalism doom Technology )

2. Edinburgh scraps plans for workplace parking charge

(tags:OhForFucksSake cars edinburgh )

3. UN's top court orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive, citing 'immense risk'

(tags:UnitedNations israel gaza )

4. A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on "Man or Bear"

(tags:men bears society patriarchy )

5. Google's new AI is using headlines from The Onion as if they were true

(tags:Google TheOnion ai OhForFucksSake )

6. Watch: Edinburgh residents share their pictures of videos of severe rain that caused widespread disruption

(tags:Edinburgh rain video )

7. After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

(tags:games law ownership )

Comments

[zz]

2 is a goodnews, not ohforfuckssake.

[mountainkiss]

I like your kitten

[ninetydegrees]

4) This was so well-written. Thanks for sharing!

[andrewducker]

My pleasure. It was so much better than I was expecting.

[channelpenguin]

I just wish we could find a good answer or solution for all humans. :-(

[threemeninaboat]

John said if I suddenly die he is not going to sail the Sea of Thieves on the Quarqueg, take up Myst, or get a hankering to discover who the killer is in Disco Elysium.

[andrewducker]

He is such a disappointment.

[jducoeur]

I found 1 pretty frustrating. It's a call for innovation in journalism, but poo-pooh's away micro-payments, which from a consumer POV are very much what I want.

There are a decent handful of media outlets that I follow enough that it's worth buying a subscription. But there are a couple hundred that I only access via links, each very occasionally. I'm not buying a subscription in order to maybe skim one article every couple of months -- but I would happily drop a bit of money each time on it.

It feels to me like the journalism community has completely failed to grok that they need to cooperate in order to survive. If they stopped whining about how micropayments are impossible, and instead worked together to solve those problems, I'm pretty sure the result would be a net positive.

(I'm even more annoyed by the linked-to article that just jumps up and down going, "Better Paywalls!" No, they're not getting it. I don't want a subscription. I don't want the come-ons and the spam to renew and all that BS. They're treating reader time and inconvenience as irrelevant, and missing that it's much of the problem.)

[anef]

That rain looks scary! Were you affected by it?

[andrewducker]

We did get very wet on a couple of occasions, but we didn't get flooded. Living on the side of a hill, where there's a railway line on the other side of the road, means that the worst that happens is that the railway line turns into a bit of a river and all flows away pretty quickly.

I mean, the local pond overflowed a lot, and was muddy for a week afterwards, the nursery car park turned into a lake, etc. But nothing life threatening.