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Darius Kazemi  

I've posted it a little early because I'm excited but here is my reading and analysis of RFC-1, the very first official Request for Comments document and an important piece of internet history.

write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1

I'm doing one of these a day for a year. You can follow along at @365-rfcs. I'll only be posting the really noteworthy ones on this account.

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Darius Kazemi  

A while back I built a site that converts RSS feeds to ActivityPub actors that you can subscribe to from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compliant social networks: bots.tinysubversions.com/conve

I've now also published the source code: github.com/dariusk/activtypub-

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Allison Parrish  

in the past there have been times when I feel like I've been blowing smoke up people's asses when I insist on the surprisingly long (pre-Internet, pre-digital computer) history of hype cycles around automatically-produced creative writing, but no longer, because now I know that someone in 1854 said that a book written by piece of furniture will DAZZLE YOU

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*slaps roof of a park* this bad boy can fit so many chipmunks in it

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nextdoor, nimbyism Show more

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Stephen  

practical advice for working with other humans Show more

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I had to

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alcohol Show more

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food Show more

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Badkan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badkan

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Darius Kazemi  

I almost want to put this on twitter just to see people get mad but also, I vowed to only ever use twitter for strictly promotional rather than creative purposes

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yes I reposted because typo

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French Billionaires Pledge €700 Million to Restore Two Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone

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Queer Eye Bot  

Queer Eye but it's five not getting hireds upseting your digestive system

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uspol, mueller report Show more

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Making the intergenerational tergenerational.

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Darius Kazemi  

Looking for recommendations for documentaries on US Netflix. I'm looking for something in a Ken Burns type vein rather than true crime or celebrity fluff pieces or "look at these idiots" (like the Fyre docu, I could only get through 15 minutes of that).

And yes I am aware of the actual Ken Burns stuff on there! Looking for others

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I'm a NIMBY for cops. They bring down property values!!!

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Link: The 1060-hour Large Magellanic Cloud Show more

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this will probably do nothing, but worth taking 30 minutes to send it in

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police violence (raw dump of personal experience from this morning) Show more

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Christopher Lemmer Webber  

Nice writeup by @darius about Dat, SSB, and ActivityPub and how they can learn from each other: blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22

Indeed, my post-standardization of ActivityPub work (on Spritely) has largely been about exploring similar thoughts! See also the @librelounge episode with @joeyh where we talk about Secure Scuttlebutt (esp in relation to ActivityPub) librelounge.org/episodes/episo

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