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  • Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change

    Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change

    Baumann’s experience could have a chilling effect on companies’ and individuals’ willingness to participate on social media for fear of having their online identity arbitrarily seized. “Facebook has essentially unfettered discretion to appropriate people’s Instagram user names,” Rebecca Giblin, director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia at the University of Melbourne, told The New York Times. “There can be good reasons for that—for example, if they’re offensive or impersonating someone in a way that causes confusion.”

    “But the @metaverse example highlights the breadth of this power,” Giblin said. Users “essentially have no rights.”

    Ars Technica

    I sure hope giantpaper won’t become a huge thing. 😬

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  • “‘I was always curious’: Indian woman, 104, fulfils dream of learning to read”

    “‘I was always curious’: Indian woman, 104, fulfils dream of learning to read”

    On a completely different note that has nothing to do with COVID, Activ-Blizz, Facebook, etc…

  • “Telephone Phobia: Why People Are Afraid of Talking on the Phone”

    “Telephone Phobia: Why People Are Afraid of Talking on the Phone”

    So I read a lot of explanations for telephobia (“people can’t see the other person and can’t read visual cues of what they’re thinking”/”people are so used to getting bad news via phone that they’ve created an association”/etc). None of them really fit my situation. 🤔 (I’m more comfortable with messaging/email, so lack of visual cues isn’t a problem, I’ve always heard bad news in person, and now through social media, SMS, etc).

    For me, I’ve always hated how it occupies one of your hands, so you’re stuck with doing things one-handedly (though headsets made this better–I don’t have issues with doing things like Slack calls, cuz they’re always with a headset). It always baffled me that people could spend hours talking on the phone, even way back in junior high/high school (when everyone my age was doing just that). 😖 In case you’re wondering, I’m not a talky person, so I just run out of stuff to talk about, and always stumble over my words when I talk.

    Weirdly enough, I don’t have issues with making vet appointments over the phone, though I need to write out a rough script of what I need to say. My vet clinic though added an online booking function to their site, so I use that whenever possible.

    /rant

  • Spotify > Apple Music (if you own any Echo device)

    Disclaimer: I don’t work for Spotify, not affiliated with Spotify, and think they’re pretty evil as far as things like artist compensation goes.

    I might possibly ditch Apple Music for Spotify. Apple Music does not get along with Echo anything. Will report back in 3 months when my Spotify trial is up.