mi·cro·blog·ging | \ ˈmī-krō-ˌblȯ-giŋ , -ˌblä- \: blogging done with severe space or size constraints typically by posting frequent brief messages about personal activities
Source: Merriam Webster
So….basically what Twitter is. This microblog is more like Tumblr than Twitter, IMO.
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Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
The issue I think (as a glasses wearer) a lot of wearable eyewear has is that it generally assumes the person won’t already be wearing glasses. I remember Google eventually fixing this, by letting glasses wearers buy prescription lenses with their Glass. BUT not as a separate attachment for their current, existing glasses. Also how many people really want to walk around in public, looking like a borg?
So good idea. ? Bad execution. ?
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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 TechnicaI sure hope giantpaper won’t become a huge thing. ?
Related: Netflix’s Squid Game Is Accidentally Making One Twitch Streamer’s Life Way Harder
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‘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…
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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.
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Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Google Chrome
I’m normally a Firefox user, but ohhhh noooeeesss, Chrome! ?
/s
EDIT: Tried searching for “chrome” using Bing on Edge (not sure if it needs to be this combo but I did try it with searching with Bing on Firefox and got nothing), but HAHAHA
EDIT #2: Ok, Adblock was keeping it from appearing in Firefox. ?
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I like Microsoft Edge. But if it doesn’t get less annoying, I’ll switch again
And yet they couldn’t put the same amount of energy that they’re using to push their browser onto people into their Windows Phones. ?
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Cloud Strife Voice Actor Fired From Soap Opera For Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination
Pffft, in addition to finding out that the Dragon Quest composer was a huge asshole and finding out the NA voice actor for one of my favorite anime characters was charged with possession of child pornography. ??
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Ordered some guinea pig greens through Instacart, and I’m trying to add a bigger tip than usual (because Thanksgiving Eve + COVID). Instacart be like ^
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(For context, the order itself was small compared to your average grocery shopping order–about $13. But I wanted the shopper to have more than just ~$5 for braving grocery shopping during Thanksgiving Eve. I usually do $20, first half given when I place the order and the second half given when the order is delivered. So I wanted to do $25-30. And Instacart wouldn’t let me tip $15 because the order was under $15???? I ended up making it $13.26 (the exact order total) and gave the rest on delivery. Instacart didn’t complain. ?♀️)
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$10 Switch Game Currently On Sale For… Uh $250
Sooo…what’s the opposite of Black Friday? White Friday? Neon Friday?
EDIT: Ohhkay, that’s supposed to say “For… Uh $250”. PHP coding error took away the $, 2 and 5.
EDIT #2: Aaaaand it is fixed. ?
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Lawsuit: Tesla is like a “frat house” with “frequent groping on the factory floor”
Dunno why, but I’m just not surprised anymore when I hear about more sexual harassment allegations. ?
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Picked up Breath of the Wild again after a long hiatus, and finished the Yiga Clan hideout and the Vah Naboris dungeon.
Go me! ?
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Are these vaccines—is this injection—100 percent safe? As a parent of two children that go to this school, I’m not willing to take the chance on a question mark.
This is infuriating. Nothing is 100% safe – do you drive your kids to work? Do you wear seatbelts? Why? Because they are safer than driving without them, despite the fact that they could, perhaps, kill your child.
Like everything else, it’s a risk, but that risk is absolutely better than the alternative. I have a feeling these parents know this, but want to outsource that risk to other parents/children so that they can go on living their lives with the knowledge that other people will pull the weight of public health for them.
Yhbv24 — Oct 18, 2021 9:44 AM