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?
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Flag Day is, of course, the national holiday for content moderators
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Reblog via Media Economies Design Lab
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
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This is a remarkable thing @kissane just wrote. https://erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
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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
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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
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There should be a non-profit accelerator for end-user open source projects that have the potential to make the world more equal, inclusive, and democratic.
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I was inspired by this great write-up on operating your own email server by @jwildeboer : https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/ (Worth a read!). So I sat down and built some automation around this excellent blog post.
Long story short here's "version 0.1" of a dockerised mailservice: It features SMTP and IMAP servers, supports TLS (via letsencrypt), DKIM/DMARC for sending and receiving, and comes with a monitoring suite.
Set-up requires only minimal configuration.
Check it out at https://github.com/t-lo/mailserver .
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Noel Gallagher blames Friends for the decline in music sales and I think that’s fantastic https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/noel-gallagher-says-friends-is-why-music-sales-has-declined/