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molly0xfff

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat creator • subscribe to my newsletter at http://citationneeded.news/
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adrianhon, to random
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What are the websites that make reading 10,000+ words a delight?

Hit me up with your best examples of online longform reading experiences! I don't mean NYT-style Snowfall things, I'm more interested in books/blog posts.

Bonus points if they do interesting things with footnotes, links, and all that!

molly0xfff, to web
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just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

mwl,
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@molly0xfff

Hard screaming agree.

Own your web presence. Funnel everyone and everything to it. Make it your single source of truth.

I know writers and artists who invested heavily in a presence on MySpace and Geocities. They had to start over. Many never recovered.

philip,
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@mwl @molly0xfff Yes! And, the beauty of it is that you still can use someone else's platform (MySpace back in the day, Substack or whatever today), but as long as you advertise a domain you own, you can just redirect it later.

Owning a domain is like the digital equivalent of a forwarding address that never expires. Nobody ever has to worry about which town you live in on any given month, because they'll always get to you no matter what.

fridayfrontend, to random
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The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why happens: "You’re expected to follow half-a-dozen different specialities, each relatively fast-paced and complex in its own right, and you’re supposed to do it without cutting into the hours where you do actual paid web development." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/

hannah, to random
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Pronouncing Mediawiki like a polish surname

samwho, to random
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✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!

You can read it here: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing.

It starts off by showing what happens when you have no queue...

A screenshot from the post. It shows the first visualisation, an orange circular button on the left and a black rounded square on the right. The button is clicked, and a request travels to the black square, the server, and gets processed by slowly disappearing in a clock-like fashion.

xoxo, to random
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🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! https://2024.xoxofest.com/

xoxo,
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This year’s conference lineup includes Molly White of Web3 Is Going Just Great (@molly0xfff), Sweet Baby Inc’s Kim Belair, Folding Ideas documentarian Dan Olson, writer/researcher Erin Kissane (@kissane), Aftermath co-founder Gita Jackson, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Ed Yong, and Hugo-winning author/podcaster Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane).

evacide, to random
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Threat models matter.

When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”

Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

mike, to fediverse
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Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.

Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.

Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of on our instance or wherever you get your .

https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA

Flipboard, to Podcast
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@molly0xfff is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical about the future of the web. Hear why this researcher, writer and software engineer thinks so in this fascinating conversation with @mike:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/molly-white/

Catch up on past episodes of the podcast in Mike’s Storyboard collection:

https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965

To learn more about what Flipboard's doing in the fediverse, sign up here:

http://about.flipboard.com/a-new-wave

#Flipboard #DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #Federation

Julia, to random
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For more than a year, policy makers have been worried about the consequences of AI getting too powerful.

But it’s time to start worrying about the consequences of AI staying as dumb it currently is.

My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.SV0g.r4iVMq0NT6z7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

ben,
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It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.

molly0xfff, (edited ) to crypto
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I have a new article out today in Businessweek: "The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now (paywall)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDc3MDkzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE1Mzc1NzMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjc4QTNBMDc1N0U0OTI0ODFCRUU5RDRCRjBDNERDNSJ9.q7mx4CRLXnaPaRk03IohbYerjFc5httVYyrugxZ5TE4 (gift link, good for seven days)

#crypto #cryptocurrency

angusm, to random
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This excellent article by @molly0xfff reminded me of the sci-fi trope where everyone in the future lives in a domed bunker & gets told not to go outside because it's a wasteland filled with Bad People.

Of course the protagonists leave the dome & find that the reality is a bit different: outside can be scary, but it's not the hellscape they were told.

Big Tech walled gardens are the dome; outside them is a risky wonderland that’s ours for the taking.

Leave the dome.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

mikeolson, to random
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@molly0xfff is one of my favorite cryptocurrency reporters -- insightful, timely and an excellent writer. Her new piece in Bloomberg is typically great:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDY2MzU0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MjY4MzQxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBNUFCQzU4QkE0OEQ0RTQwQTVFNTYyRUVFMENFQThFNiJ9.J71mUeP37p8CUytI8s_WntmxxdzdrjkId4KBPBbeG3Q

(Long URL because it's a gift link with a seven-day fuse.)

Much of it is quotable, but I'll just pull this out:

"Crypto firms and their lobbyists love to threaten that a crackdown on the industry would stifle innovation. But what innovation has the sector produced?"

Indeed.

hannah, to accessibility
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Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.

I would like to connect with the dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

rmondello, to random
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may TikTok radicalize an order of magnitude more people into demanding a more just world

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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Flipboard, to threads
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We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org@snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #Federation #MastodonMigration #ActivityPub #Meta #Threads #MetaThreads #BridgyFed #Web3

pluralistic, to ai
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> I find my feelings about #AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about #blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial. And while I do think that AI tools are more broadly useful than blockchains, they also come with similarly monstrous costs.

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

pluralistic, to ai
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"The reality is you can't build a $100b industry around techn that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, and that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if and only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations.You certainly can't justify the kind of exploitation, extraction, and environmental cost the industry has been mostly getting away with, in part because people have believed lofty promises of someday changing the world."

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

#AI

Sadsquatch, to random
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Honestly I owe Defector a subscription for this headline alone

https://defector.com/cybertruck-deliveries-halted-due-to-car-being-a-big-piece-of-shit-that-doesnt-work

themarkup, to random
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NEW TOOL: Students can connect to school Wi-Fi and monitor their #school’s #censorship in just a few clicks.

Share with a K-12 student in your life ⬇️
https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/does-your-school-block-these-sites

anderseknert, to random
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"Solutions architect" no, I'm a problems architect.

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