So I get (and appreciate) that brands are trying to be more sensitive in their messaging. But does it really help that in lieu of what might be two dozen Father’s Day promotional emails, we’re moving in the direction of this:
If I’m going to get a bunch of those for every potentially sensitive holiday (which is all of them in one way or another, isn’t it?) can I just unsubscribe altogether?
Reblog via Ben Werdmuller
Flag Day is, of course, the national holiday for content moderators
Another “impulse” purchase before the holidays in the line at Marshall’s – a “vintage” butterflies puzzle. Very intricate individual butterflies, all numbered and labelled at the bottom – very complicated puzzle to do but enjoyable.
Reblog via Steve
Via Amazon: Edward Hopper, Portrait of Orleans I’m a huge fan of Hopper, and especially works he did in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Cape Ann. (The Cape Ann Museum does a wonderful walking tour of houses Hopper painted in Gloucester). This one, Portrait of Orleans, is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco … Read more
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This summer, we're doing a series of events on #OpenSocialMedia—the new explosion of alternative platforms and protocols. Up first:
OPEN SOCIAL MEDIA: ORIGIN STORIES
Next Tuesday, online and free for all. Learn more & register: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/06/open-social-media-origin-stories
I think we picked this one up at a Marshalls or Home Goods, but you can find it online too: Rae Dunn “Dogs” Puzzle. It was just ever-so-slightly too tall for our puzzle board so I had to let the top row of pieces bend over the board. Harder than it looked – lots of … Read more
Reblog via Ethan Marcotte
This is a remarkable thing @kissane just wrote. https://erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
Reblog via John Overholt
As an outgrowth of Houghton's Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom (SAEF) digitization project on African American history, Harvard is today releasing an open data set of the materials in the collection. Learn more at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/SAEF via @internetstine
Reblog via Dan Gillmor
WordPress is adopting ActivityPub and now enters the paid-newsletter market. Combine those with the traditional blogging package and this is getting quite interesting. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/wordpress-com-challenges-substack-with-launch-of-paid-newsletters/?guccounter=1