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? Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon? | Hacker News

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Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon? | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

Dat is nog eens een verrassende discussie op HackerNews. Ik had het idee dat de reacties voornamelijk over het obscure karakter van Mastodon zouden gaan, hoe niemand er gebruik van maakt, dat het geen lang leven is beschoren want {insert Silicon Valley BigTech}. Maar je kunt in de reacties een aantal interessante user-accounts vinden en extra diensten om Mastodon te gebruiken, zoals een manier om lokale tijdlijnen van instanties te bekijken zonder er lid van te zijn. Handig!

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The City and The Freezing of Life by an author (0xadada.pub)

The drive to urbanization is an imperative of capitalism, this drive results in ‘a freezing of life’— a static world devoid of spontaneity, the result of land development and bureaucratic zoning laws optimized for rent seeking and increased land valuations, devoid of nature and where its residents have no ability to change their surroundings to suit their daily ways of living

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The end of reputation (Seth’s Blog)

AI can now easily (8 seconds) change the identity of someone in a film or video. Multiple services can now scan a few hours of someone’s voice and then fake any sentence in that person’…

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In Which My Mother Ends Up in the South China Morning Post by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

I have a Google Alert set up for my name, to find new mentions of it online. Today I received a mail that my name came up in an article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), as part of a photo credit. This made me curious.
An article on the amount of time elderly US citizens spend behind their com…