Same happened to my personal website for which I purchased the domain when I was 14 (long time ago) and at some point decided that a .com domain is ridiculous for a personal website. Chinese porn site it was thereafter …
That is such a cheap argument.
I think the general “problem” is a bit exaggerated in the media - as a frequent visitor of the Berlin Freibäder I have not experienced any problems myself. However, the violence in my small home town city came mostly from German males with German ancestors.
Toxic masculinity (and social injustice) seem to be a major driving the problematic behavior - not immigration. The majority of violence also here in Berlin comes from males. Also, my impression is that is if there is violent behavior coming from males (also in other situations) their background foremost is a rather low social status and not dependent on their passport or their ancestors’ origin. A well educated rich woman is less likely to show violent behavior than the poor uneducated man.
I don’t know the difference of this between the German and the “Arab” (which is the group most people here blame rn) male of equal social status but id be very surprise to see a big difference if any significant at all..
Chat has a lower level barrier to participate than a forum post (or even old schooler: a mailing list).
Chat is More direct and faster paced, which has its positive and negative effects (engagement vs quality - I’d assume most people put more thought into a forum post or email than a simple chat message)
So far I have only seen Reddit/HN style „forums“ to combine these aspects together successfully (although I don’t know if that also happens in slack and the likes)..
Another option might be to filter out important discussions and elevate it on a certain (“BB or mailing list worthy”) level - that seems to be a challenge, that the threading function does not sufficiently solve (also, as users don’t always adher to the technical aspect of replying to a thread).
It will be interesting how LLM/AI might solve some of these issues of organizing the knowledge that is generated in these different formats. That’s a task that so far seems to be too tedious to be done by humans, after all.
A wiki generated by AI to certain discussions and topics? Summaries in the chat software to certain keywords/discussions and suggestions on further reading?
> In today’s chat-centric environment, there’s a skewed emphasis on the ease of posting. We rarely pause to consider the broader implication: for every message posted, it’s likely to be read 100 times by other people. Yet, we continue to post more and more low-value messages, because it’s easy to do so.
> For the vast 99% majority who are on the receiving end, chat becomes a source of stress. Constant notifications require frequent context shifts. Unstructured discussions make it difficult to follow along. And, the lack of summaries means onlookers are left out of the loop.
> Knowledge work becomes more productive when non-urgent communication gets shifted to an asynchronous format. Thoughtful, long-form communications promote deeper thinking and better decision-making. This insight led Amazon to ban PowerPoint in meetings, and instead require 6-page memos to be read silently at the start of meetings. Programmers have long recognized the efficiency of this approach in their work, utilizing batch processing to have computers efficiently handle repetitive tasks. We need to apply a batching approach to our communication.
Getting the newsletter right, including relevance scoring and summarization, is a really fun opportunity. I am experimenting with some GPT approaches - it's quite really effective at summarization.
Especially regarding org mode I am always surprised about how most users use so little typography. Using the same settings for writing and coding seems counterintuitive yet most org modes I see in screenshots look pretty code-editorisch to me, and the styling options you mentioned are pretty much the only ones I know (missing Olivietti mode [1]) Most other note taking apps surpass here…
[1] https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
I would argue that some typographic changes (eg right amount of white space, line height etc) might lessen the distraction that you get with visual clotting. It appears here, though, that not everyone perceived it that way..
The foremost reason for use of typography in this case should be readability and accessibility and not pretty (which by itself is not a bad thing either)
I like writing in a monospaced font—it helps me focus, and it's what I'm used to. That said, I have found delight in the ability to customize certain modes to use different fonts.
I keep two fonts: a "reader" font and a "normal" font: normal is all fixed-width, while reader has longer characters for e.g. em-dashes and arrows.
I have a custom Iosevka build [1] that I use to make these. (The only difference is the `spacing` option: full-fixed-width is "term", while the reader version is "normal"—confusing, no?) I make Emacs use one or the other with a little config. [2]
As a group, programmers do seem quite attached to monospaced fonts. For my IDE I have actually gone (I think) even further than you: I use a proportional (serif even!) font for all my programming, not just prose writing. It took a bit of getting used to, but now I've come to much prefer it over monospaced fonts.
Inverse for me, I use mono in places people traditionally use proportional fonts - after literal decades of looking at monospaced text (right back to DOS) it's just as easy for me to grok.
The debates about citizenship and the inherent feelings that they provoke are an outstanding example of how artificial and unintuituve the concepts of nations and borders are.
Until we're no longer bound to the availability of physical resources, we need some way to manage it. Citizenship addresses that, even if it doesn't do that perfectly.
There will always be nations and borders. The alternative is the entire planet being a nation, and I have a feeling that would break down pretty fast. It would also be terrifying. Imagine being a whistleblower against the world government, and you have no jurisdiction to run to for amnesty.
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime
You are controlling a spaceship with up to four people, bit with all these weapons, shield and steering you have to swap between these or at least coordinate. Really enjoyed this with 3 other friends but might be even more fun with just 1 or 2 extra players as there should be more running around the spaceship
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