Very cool, if true

1. How to Compete with Patreon

(tags:business internet )

2. International School Signs (what do your local ones show?)

(tags:school sign )

3. Dreamwidth's war against spam intensifies

(tags:dreamwidth spam OhForFucksSake )

4. Scientists discover world's oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species

(tags:humans prehistory )

5. Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.

(tags:work homes productivity )

6. New Jersey police bought software to predict crimes. It was wrong 99% of the time.

(tags:epicfail predictions crime police software )

7. How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

(tags:google search fraud advertising )

1. MouthPad - control your device with your tongue!

(tags:disability Technology )

2. Dreamwidth access in Russia: please stay safe!

(tags:dreamwidth russia )

3. Why Russian and Ukrainian activism is not mutually exclusive

(tags:russia ukraine )

4. The Russian Erotic Equine Space Mystery!

(tags:space horses art mysteries comic )

5. Snuggle Pupping, and how WW1 led the USA into a spiral of European depravity

(tags:sex society history Europe USA wwi )

6. Clock, Shakespeare's Sonnet 12, read by Neil Gaiman and set to a haunting musical backdrop by Australia's FourPlay String Quarte

(tags:neilgaiman music video shakespeare clock )

7. Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages

(tags:language Intelligence psychology )

8. How realistic is sudden exponential AI takeoff?

(tags:ai singularity )

1. The IRS, Fake Populism (and the fallacy that we are in a war of ideas that can be won through argument)

(tags:politics republicans lies )

2. The inevitable enshittification of Tiktok

(tags:socialmedia business capitalism Amazon monopoly economics viaPatrickHadfield )

3. Mercedes Becomes First Automaker To Get Approval For Level 3 Autonomy In The U.S.

(tags:automation driving cars USA )

4. The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role

(tags:UK viaPatrickHadfield BorisJohnson corruption politics BBC )

5. I don't think of myself as prudish, but I'm definitely raising an eyebrow that "MILF Manor" was produced

(tags:TV sex mother wtf incest )

6. Password security reminder: Please continue to treat your LiveJournal passwords as compromised

(tags:Livejournal dreamwidth passwords security )

1. Dot Dot Dot - the finest review in the history of reviews (and a throwback to an earlier age of the internet)

(tags:games review funny video )

2. The art school reject who became one of the world's top glass artists

(tags:art glass scotland )

3. The Bitter Lesson for AI - it's better to design general learning systems and wait for processing power to catch up than to try and simulate human approaches

(tags:ai history computers )

4. The sound of the dialup, pictured (For very old people, who remember when the internet had a sound)

(tags:modem sound visualisation )

5. Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere

(tags:healthcare doom pandemic )

6. UK government blocks Scotland's gender reform bill in constitutional first

(tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland OhForFucksSake conservatives )

7. Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target

(tags:lasers lightning technology cool )

8. Every so often I'm reminded that I'm really glad I don't have to date men

(tags:dating men wtf viaSwampers )

9. Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny

(tags:funny children language viaClare )

10. I'm sure that Apple used to at least *pretend* to do user friendly design

(tags:Apple ux epicfail OhForFucksSake )

11. What's the method that Westminster is using to block Scottish gender reform law?

(tags:Scotland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )

12. Amazon! Cancels! Clarkson!

(tags:TV Amazon )

13. Dreamwidth is updating its anti-spam approach - please ensure your email address is confirmed

(tags:dreamwidth spam email )

14. A raccoon tries to catch falling snow

(tags:raccoon snow video cute )

15. NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments

(tags:nhs healthcare uk labour OhForFucksSake )

16. Lethal radiation from space played role in Earth's biggest mass extinction

(tags:radiation space extinction )

17. Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows

(tags:netflix doom business tv )

JK Rowling now sending love to forced-birth advocates and LGBT hate groups

(tags:LGBT bigotry abortion OhForFucksSake jkrowling )

Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, but she didn't exist

(tags:marketing computers keyboard )

What should China do about Putin?

(tags:China Russia Ukraine war )

The most curious Edinburgh relics dug up during tram works in the city

(tags:Edinburgh trams archeology history )

UK still at risk of fraud on scale of 'the Mafia in southern Italy', former Tory minister warns

(tags:uk fraud law )

If you are joining the latest exodus from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth then this might be useful

(tags:livejournal dreamwidth )

I keep meaning to get the laptop set up so I can post to DW from it. And then wanting my semagic macros. And then forgetting. So here's a post written at the desktop that I can use when I'm over at my other computer. And tag so I can find it later!

First, how to set semagic up to post to Dreamwidth.

Username:
<user name=[lj0] site=livejournal.com>

Embedding videos and suchlike:
<site-embed>[lj0]</site-embed>

Making a block of text smaller
<span style="font-size:smaller">[lj0]</span>

(For those who are curious I have these set up to keyboard shortcuts, so I can type andrewducker, select it, hit Ctrl-Alt-U and get andrewducker automatically. This is basically why I like semagic - ctrl-alt-i for an image, ctrl-b for bold, etc. As a heavy keyboard user it's incredibly useful.)