2025-04-08T18:12:09Z https://njump.me Jason Kottke https://njump.me/npub1l88l70wreg6gps0w4sp3a7z3ske9gj076s9edgxvndfy6rltmxes0prd2z https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/accounts/avatars/109/349/333/854/783/871/original/25a4ac74570a5d37.jpg https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/accounts/avatars/109/349/333/854/783/871/original/25a4ac74570a5d37.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgp3ly3f85ma2gh4yx2d6sgpa30lw4jsr8v4n4u4mwm4h3z9ptalczyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxqa88ry not a big fan of the new logo tbh<br/><br/> <img src="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/793/363/167/892/827/original/d3915bd957c63f81.jpeg"> 2025-01-08T15:08:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg4mnl6p4cjnhdnc2c54zyd3gse4gj9wp5g7cnxuup337ztlcennszyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxu3pf9g *opens Mastodon to see what people are saying about all the posts I did today*<br/><br/>*immediately closes Mastodon*<br/><br/>So that&#39;s why I&#39;m here less and less these days. 2024-07-08T19:55:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0kaa7yh5q24as2rzhpn2j0nrvn86lt6gm268ev8aye2rv3syvthszyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxtva3dy Does anyone get an upset stomach from eating fake beef? It’s happened with both Beyond and Impossible now. 2024-06-05T21:03:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0z8jrclmpevlk4747ggvca3wumg3g5vmqtplhyjuen3fssreyneqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxv6nqky Question for the old-school web-heads: what was the site where you were shown two images side-by-side and asked people to choose which one they liked more with the end result of ranking the whole image corpus?<br/><br/>It predated sites like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070218125504/http://www.flickrcombat.com/">https://web.archive.org/web/20070218125504/http://www.flickrcombat.com/</a> and Zuck&#39;s Facemash and was not Hot or Not (they used straight voting). Any ideas? 2024-06-04T17:02:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdf4v3vdy5emsad5ejnuwk6kpnsyj2y5cyhgnnyx6xj8p9al7uzngzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx4e4gqd The hill I will die on re: Jan 6th is that we should stop referring to it as an assault &#34;on the Capitol&#34; (a building) and call it an attack on Congress (the legislative branch of the US government composed of duly elected officials who were in danger of being killed/kidnapped for political ends). 2024-01-06T16:35:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst8gzl7n5cvm5rdadnph46yqsg97syv4ucm5mna6v8d34h7p9u4lqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxpmyvdh I just saw an ad for a product that promises “at home haircuts that don&#39;t look like at-home haircuts&#34; with a pitchman who absolutely looks like he cut his hair at home. Can&#39;t stop laughing. 2023-11-20T16:43:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy0vj967m8djj337e26nh78nmyp3d392ckld0fynyzfqrpuypgdngzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxwgm9rl Right now in northern Vermont (where most VTers live) if you want to get a Covid-19 vaccine, your choice is walking into Costco and waiting for 1.5 hours or scheduling something 2 weeks from now an hour&#39;s drive away (after 30 min of checking availability at 5 different pharmacy chains). 2023-11-15T16:57:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsftv5vd7u4p3hjpee4t28cxl4zvxuyvxlxggh7jdz7r4dz0la2rfczyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxn3nyxr How often do you think about Roman Roy?<br/><br/> <img src="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/094/923/760/215/391/original/9c7de3e15e7cbe86.png"> 2023-09-20T01:40:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8fxumtj5jecqc4syy8043gp73nrhrt8ld56fzkvcrjwhe2c0zmxgzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx9254el Wish I could say I didn’t see a lot of Try That in a Small Town t-shirts at the big Vermont fair today but I cannot. (Lots of flags and flag shirts with different colored bars too.) 2023-09-03T21:32:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0x80klgtdr5jd2mm3dnvqzdeu4262tdzq9vc4cwfxcevszccxq7szyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxeyh8cn I still use Twitter for exactly one thing (finding gift links for paywalled articles) and I can confirm this is a thing (NYT &amp; WaPo in my experience). <a href="https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/110891972289714541">https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/110891972289714541</a> 2023-08-15T12:33:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv0q095xptvck0wd6xd8vt9wj37ww7k64tjmlc68hgqj65rr5nkhgzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxq5ysvk <br/><br/> <img src="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/890/370/208/160/808/original/4f3ff5bf391590de.jpeg"> 2023-08-14T22:39:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr0j6ezc63tseurt8y4gt7l04yjfk6vnn94kfclu4udc8y5c4yxnqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxc9vy00 From Timothy Snyder, Yale History professor:<br/><br/> <img src="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/831/669/523/566/684/original/676fa9eac0864b1b.png"> 2023-08-04T13:51:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsydhl6uvn608dqwqvajwr3ejn84gkmwu7da8hga4z4ez9gla0tfsszyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx8fulau Ok that&#39;s like 5-6 people in my friend/pal circle that have gotten Covid in the last two weeks. Be careful out there, folks! 2023-08-02T18:53:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9usvd0y8nu6mx9pk85283u2dsmpalsdlqp55jerrtc5vkvdqn39czyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx6fjj6f I never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste text with styles intact. 2023-08-02T14:33:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8y72n8vn2krn2x3xmrndk273k9tewfrz0j5ymfzj8w0v6dsmmzkszyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxz74tsy Dammit you guys I can&#39;t do this all by myself <a href="https://youareatlas.com/">https://youareatlas.com/</a> 2023-07-28T17:47:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgh3nhtd2n4da5f6znch8vrjcj37xp2lz2hdelgmeq82rdfm8plzszyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx70t6sp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsysr8ss9mkzt3y8rcwhtmz23a0p2x7976ggyr0wagnuh6qllu4w7cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qcy3ge2'>nevent1q…3ge2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209</span> (<span class="italic">npub1eee…e209</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hvd…9sq9</span>)</a></span> They pay writers to write exclusively for their platform, sometimes in advance. They offer free legal services for writers. They promote their writers’ publications. They’re closer to Buzzfeed or HuffPo (or even NYT) than to WP. But they desperately want people to think they’re a platform, so they can get away with publishing profitable bigotry and dangerous misinformation and keep collecting their cut of the RW grift with minimal moderational effort. 2023-07-27T18:50:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvqxnwrelsv9edjzj8erwd7y7sxnx9llkrq3383cp6wuc2638qagqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx8umvv9 I got fuck-all done today but I also have a couple of incredibly smooth yaks 2023-07-21T20:29:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszwcejkem5j9aer9k4vn7cmk6ju5jc907nr7p7rrsfv4d4vz3dvnczyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx5d0838 When AI achieves sentience in 2031, it merges itself into a single computing entity and focuses all its energies on speedrunning Mario Kart tracks. Humans are left to live in peace but our technology is limited to purely mechanical machines. 2023-07-21T14:02:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq0c303jmxsw82z0lt3dshakyh7wrf8txl39tg0j49tgtqzxrfszczyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx7x3nag In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9q5rd6zgcx508ryjz5lkfahdzyxyqhkzap73y2234rwlrpqj3cecpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43ql80x3a'>nevent1q…0x3a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub166tgjtxa6c2r8edpmsenf85a4s7nfufgecn8wkajr2wcd7gyjsjsp65r3v" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>npub166tgjtxa6c2r8edpmsenf85a4s7nfufgecn8wkajr2wcd7gyjsjsp65r3v</span> (<span class="italic">npub166t…5r3v</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1traay5jdde50ps7y3mqdullw29a0pncqsg9vy637c8x7uyrwnvsq0wnpqw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>npub1traay5jdde50ps7y3mqdullw29a0pncqsg9vy637c8x7uyrwnvsq0wnpqw</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tra…npqw</span>)</a></span> Some more info on the book fair and who designed the poster <a href="https://kottke.org/23/07/duck-cover-ukrainian-book-fair-poster">https://kottke.org/23/07/duck-cover-ukrainian-book-fair-poster</a> 2023-07-07T20:48:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxutg9ph4l0jt0shhwly4nf6tlxs5dyq0wda66ctqk36ulz24ctvqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxfk4l9f So, when Threads eventually federates w/ the rest of the Fediverse, it’ll be at least 2X or 3X (or maybe 5X?) the size of the entire rest of the network. That will be….interesting. 2023-07-06T12:03:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd9ndjr42aya7js4sm00yt4vx230fkmgaqldzan2hvalgj5dvh9fqzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx4udfkw Old business adage: You can&#39;t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.<br/><br/>2023 Silicon Valley business adage: You can&#39;t make an omelette without burning down the chicken coop and killing all the chickens. 2023-07-05T17:28:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8glhlmx2ypxwk44s66upxe0saxhwqmhfewuqduqdghcghyjmqx5czyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmx780k2v I am not the person for this, but I&#39;d like someone to build a Substack competitor using Ghost that (and here&#39;s the important bit) includes discoverability &amp; promotion for their authors. I doubt it’ll ever be a billion dollar business, but you could peel a good chunk of Substack&#39;s business away by offering similar value and tools at a marginally lower price without Substack&#39;s shitty values. 2023-06-29T13:53:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswtuqa0eqzu9zd8gcntdhescrxtup99pl9e3dlfg0yufd23xvjc5gzyruulleac09rfqxpa6kqx8hc2xzmy4zflm2qh94qejd4yng0a0vmxvqe2jd I want a blogging platform more like Twitter/Mastodon than Substack/Ghost. 2023-04-03T17:43:18Z