Elbrond

I think the conclusion that people hate chronological feeds is not a very strong conclusion. People also hate some algorithmic feeds, especially when it’s full of crap and there is no chronology anymore. An ideal situation would be if you could choose both and also if you could influence the algorithm.

Yes, not so fast. Only if other teams can replicate LK-99 and they can confirm room temperature super conductivity will it be time to say that this changes something.

I enjoy editing my hometown and have been doing it for about twelve years. But my town is already pretty complete, so I check in every six months or so to change minor details like shops or adding a new bench in the park. In total I'm not even at 200 edits, but I always enjoy seeing those edits back in major tools that use OSM.

No, I hate it. I listen to podcasts while working out. It's the only thing that makes it bearable.

Wie de denkwereld van Yesilgöz wil leren kennen kan de H.J. Schoo-lezing lezen.

Yesilgöz en de VVD lijken, gezien deze lezing en de reden van de val van het kabinet, te willen inzetten op het thema asielzoekers en het profiel van Yesilgöz als 'crimefighter'. Ik vraag me echter af of dat wel de thema's zijn waar de kiezer warm van wordt. Zijn dat echt nu de grootste thema's? Zelf denk ik van niet. Klimaatcrisis, stikstofcrisis, toeslagen, Groningen, gebrek aan vertrouwen in de politiek, etc. etc., er zijn volgens mij zoveel andere thema's die de mensen volgens mij op dit moment belangrijker vinden, dat het klassieke VVD thema niet een thema is waarmee Yesilgöz de verkiezingen gaat winnen. Ik kan me vergissen, natuurlijk, maar het voelt niet alsof ze hiermee de harten van Nederlanders gaat winnen. Wel het VVD smaldeel, maar je gaat er geen zwevers mee naar de VVD halen. Ook denk ik dat Nederland een beetje VVD-moe is, maar dat kan ook wel mijn eigen gevoel zijn. Als Omtzigt, Timmermans, of een andere aansprekende kandidaat gaat meedoen, dan kan de VVD weleens een grote verkiezingsnederlaag tegemoet gaan.

House of wax (1953). Invasion of the body snatchers (1956 and 1978).

Russian politics is a bizar spectacle and apparently we have no idea what’s really going on.

Why don't server admins open OpenCollective accounts or something similar. It seems to work on Mastodon. I would be willing to pitch in to help finance the instance I'm on.

Thank you for your thoughts. I would say that federated means decentralized in the first place. But to me it is also important that everybody can start an instance, users can switch from instance and you need to be able to control whith whom you connect. That means no forced algorithm. Being able to connect to other types of social media via something like activitypub is also high on my list. I disagree that the fediverse needs to be not-for-profit by definition. Bluesky is a for profit company and it has it’s own activitypub-like protocol. Is it part of the fediverse or not? Personally I prefer the not-for-profit fediverse and donate to several small instances monthly. I enjoy these communities that are not driven by profit, but by idealism.

Just bought Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov. Intend to read it this summer. I read about it in a review and was fascinated by the plot. Here’s the Wikipedia plot description:

The novel follows an unnamed narrator and Gaustine, a psychiatrist who creates a clinic for people with Alzheimer's disease in Zürich. Each floor of the clinic recreates a decade in intricate detail, aiming to transport patients back in time to revisit their memories. Tasked with collecting past artifacts for the clinic, the narrator travels across countries.Soon, healthy people turn to the clinic to flee their monotonous lives and the idea becomes widespread when more clinics open. Referendums are held across Europe to decide which past decade each country should live in, in the future.

Well, that makes it even easier to never visit Twitter again. Right now I was sometimes tempted to follow a link and see what it was about, but I'll be happy to quit that habbit too.