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Replied to How Long Should a Podcast Be? by

Jeremy Cherfas

Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars: If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero. Not quite a hero, I can at least cou...

I think that you capture something important here Jeremy. For me what matters is how much effort has been given to edit the content and remove the cruft.

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Liked The Case Against Quantum Computing (IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News)

The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables

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Jeremy Cherfas

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Liked a post by

Chris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)

Something got me thinking about comments on my website here. Almost no one posts native replies on my posts. I’d have to think that 99.9999% of all the replies on my website are now via Webmention. Perhaps I should cut off native replies just to cut back on the amount of spam I get? Hmmm….

Bookmarked Uber Is Headed for a Crash (Intelligencer)

The company just posted another quarter of jaw-dropping losses. How much is hype and how much is real?

I love how Cory Doctorow puts it:

Uber might be able to replace all those drivers with autonomous vehicles — a dream that, like AI, will likely be ten years away for the next forty years.

Bookmarked Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more by Margaret Atwood, Josh Cohen, Dave Eggers, James Bridle, Anne Enright, Olivia Laing, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Bill McKibbon (the Guardian)

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70, leading authors reimagine it for today

The right to be a person, not a thing (Margaret Atwood)
The right to an inhabitable planet (Bill McKibben)
The right to live free from blame (Anne Enright)
The right to understand (James Bridle)
The right to live free from discrimination (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
The right not to work (Josh Cohen)
The right to define yourself (Olivia Laing)
The right to a life offline (Dave Eggers)

Replied to Is there a RSS revival going on? by Andy Sylvester

What do you think?

We can only hope so Andy. I wrote my own reflection last year.

Bookmarked Australia's war on encryption: the sweeping new powers rushed into law by Paul Karp (the Guardian)

Australia has made itself a global guinea pig in testing a regime to crack encrypted communication

Paul Karp discusses the new digital laws that have been passed meaning that providers can now be asked to provide access to users.

While a law enforcement agency may only be targeting one criminal suspect, that does not mean a technological trap will not harm others.

Danny O’Brien from EFF also provides context on this change.

Tristan Greene argues that it will kill the Australian tech scene:

Another way of putting it: Australia‘s tech scene will soon be located on the Wayback Machine.