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- You don’t need to fill your time. Creating calendar white space provides a buffer for work and play.
- Find the intersection of doing what makes you happy, what is smart for you long-term, and what is useful to others. Whatever that is, do it often.
- Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
- Friends are not forever, but they enrich our lives like no others can.
- Age should never hold back your confidence.
- Nobody cares how many books you’ve read. People care what books you’ve read. And timing can determine quality. The impact a book can have on you is dependent on where you are in life.
- Don’t dwell on augmenting your life. Self-care is more important than you probably think.
- Move to your own rhythm. This is where progress is realised. Keeping pace with others is a losing battle.
- How slowly or quickly you think is not an accurate measurement of your intelligence. Slow thinking is more deliberate and less emotional.
- Just because AI is available, doesn’t mean you need it in your product.
- Personal websites and newsletters are far more valuable than any social media presence.
- You can’t teach minimalism to somebody who hasn’t felt the pain of having too much stuff.
- Solo projects evolve faster, but collaborative projects evolve better.
- We don’t need a million followers. And maybe we don’t need a thousand true fans. But we probably could use ten good internet friends to make our digital life better.
- Email is the best form of communication. Especially if you write informally.
- It’s okay to obsess over numbers, but only if they give a sense of mission rather than distraction.
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These Josephinen Hütte glasses are, uh, not durable. What they are, though is incredibly gorgeous, insanely thin and very light. I could stack superlatives all day and you still wouldn’t get it until you held one in your hands. It feels like you’re holding heavy oxygen. When you drink from them it feels like the wine is materializing out of thin air into your mouth, it’s really ridiculous.
I love a proper hedonist, an epicurean. Salud, Panzer. #eng
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The other day I finished reading Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod and for the first time in my life, a book made me feel the need to hug the author. Craig, thank you for creating this book.
And thank you, Manuel, for bringing Craig Mod to my attention. #eng 📚
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In a time of crisis, social media is flooded with images, videos and bold claims. This can be useful for researchers like ourselves but overwhelming for the general public seeking the facts.
At Bellingcat, we pride ourselves on providing tools and resources for our audience to think critically about sources they find online. In this short guide, we give a few tips on what to consider when confronted with an abundance of footage and claims.
Here’s how to separate fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.
Good advices to keep a skeptic eye on misinformation. #eng
1800-2050 AD will go down in history as the brief period when humanity could afford to have billions of people dedicated to sitting on their arses, reading and writing on increasingly technological devices and getting fat. It was not sustainable, so an apocalyptic event put an end to it.
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Lerner’s hand is clearly visible in Haley’s simple, patient approach to the 2024 campaign. Unlike her rivals, she’s opted against focusing on a single state — a time-honored path to a moment of glory and a losing campaign. Instead, she’s stretched her focus out to all the primary states, trying to chart a narrow course across the early primaries toward ending up as the sole non-Trump alternative. Her message to voters is also simple: She’s the most electable Republican — and one who can depart from the “chaos” that so often surrounds Trump.
Haley, who pays Lerner’s firm a relatively modest $15,000 monthly retainer, has also been frugal, a preoccupation of Lerner’s (and a marked contrast with DeSantis’s messy, extravagant bid). On Tuesday, the campaign announced it had raised $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 — more than doubling their previous fundraising numbers — and entered the new year with $14.5 million cash on hand.
It’s Haley’s own dexterity, however, that has kept her upright, at least until recently, on the near-impossible Republican tightrope. She’s a rare former Trump aide who maintained both her relationship with him and her distance from him, a party of one who is seen neither as Trump’s pawn nor his nemesis. Winning a Republican primary against him may well be impossible, but Haley and Lerner’s careful strategy seem, so far, to have gotten her closer than anyone else.
A very interesting piece on Nikki Haley’s strategy for the GOP nomination, and her strategist, Jon Lerner. #eng
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Things I Learned This Year
This is a list of 20 things that Carl learned last year. I highlighted the ones that are meaningful to me, go over to Carl’s page to read the rest. They make quite a good 2024 bucket list for me.
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People that use different languages regularly, how do you handle your social media? Do you have separate accounts for each language. Do you use a single account? Do you find that mixing languages in one single account might deter people from engaging or following? I use mostly Spanish and English, sometimes Basque, and I don’t know if mixing all languages is good for engagement or not. What do you think? #eng
🔗 Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida
“We got down from the car and went inside.”
“I made the line to pay for groceries.”
“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.”
These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans.
In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.
According to my recently published research, these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida. #eng
I just found out that the people in Mastodon that I follow from my ActivityPub user in micro.blog do not see that I follow them, I don’t appear in their followers list. Is that so, @manton? I think that is bad for my visibility and engagement.
I’m 1 minute into “The General” by Guns n Roses and my ears bleed. Please, somebody erase that minute from my memory. https://music.amazon.es/albums/B0CNT4LYNC?ref=dm_sh_Ma2lsRaBRf6Sz5PkJU7ndd70Y
I’ve had time to read and reflect all morning. Now I’m going to make lunch for my family and in the afternoon I’m going to have more time to think. Just think. Isn’t that a miracle. Is it a good omen for 2024?
I have to admit I do not understand Bridgy at all. Neither do I get if I have to do anything to add webmentions to my site or it already supports them. I’d say it does, but I’m totally at a loss. It should not be that difficult but my brain doesn’t grasp these concepts. @manton any help for newbies?
After years of tweeting/posting, retweeting/boosting, liking/faving, quoting, inserting GIFs/images/videos/songs, and other ways to express thoughts, ideas, opinions and states of humor, the by-design focused/limited functionality of micro.blog is both soothing and frustrating.
I’m so happy I was able to build my About me page in three languages, with a distinct card for each of them and hyperlinks that lead to each of the languages. My HTML knowledge is very, very, very basic. I really hope it’s user friendly, I tried to make it visually appealing since the plain text was too long otherwise.
I’d appreciate any feedback, beautiful people in the fediverse ☺️. Thanks.
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Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, published a letter on Tuesday describing an arduous transfer to his new penal colony in the Arctic, the first time his supporters had heard from him in three weeks.
Mr. Navalny’s comments, posted on his social network accounts and written with a heavy dose of irony and humor, highlighted his good spirits and seemed intended to assuage concerns among allies who had grown anxious about his health and status since his sudden disappearance from the public eye on Dec. 5.
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Curio giveaway! - BrettTerpstra.com
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This weekend I added limited support for following Bluesky users in Micro.blog. This isn’t federating with Bluesky yet. Instead, it uses a combination of Bluesky’s RSS feeds and the AT Protocol.
To follow a Bluesky user who has an account username in the form username.bsky.social, just search for the username in Micro.blog. It doesn’t work for custom domain usernames in Bluesky, because Micro.blog will think you want to follow the user’s blog instead.
Even if it has some limitations, it’s great to know that there’s ever more bridges to connect different platforms. I have a few dear friends and interesting accounts in Bluesky that I’d rather follow from my place in micro.blog. Being able to interact with them will be awesome. #tech #eng
🔗 European Commission: “Dear Mr and Ms Claus, We are …” - EU Voice
Dear Mr and Ms Claus,
We are happy to confirm that your gift delivery service meets our #DigitalEU and Data Protection rules:
No record of personal data breaches
We hope you enjoy a smooth and safe journey over our Single European Sky.
The social media team
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This is very annoying, having the Threads favicon look like there’s some notification or update. When I go to see what’s up, there’s nothing new. It’s a fixed red dot. So bye, Threads, I won’t keep your tab in the background anymore.
Good morning, Vietnam.