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2023/06/22 #

  • AI meets the other AI - With talk recently of the House Oversight Committee having a hearing about UFOs, and with the present moment being so dominated by AI, it's dawning on people that not only could we use AI to detect UFOs, but that learning about AI will make us much better at preparing for a future encounter with alien intelligences. www.politico.com #

  • Not That Kind of ‘Open’ - John Gruber gets to the core if why those trying to block Facebook's new ActivityPub powered Twitter app are essentially participating in something akin to pre-crime at best. And also however you feel about Facebook/Meta, there are a lot of people that use the service, so really all you are doing is blocking the open web from growing. It seems that might be exactly what some people would prefer, open for we but not for thee. daringfireball.net #

  • Style your RSS feed - Describes how to style your RSS feed using XSLT and CSS. I'm not sure exactly where I fall on styling your RSS feed. It's true that feeds look a bit intimidating to new users, especially for non-programmers, but is a styled feed really necessary since most blogs & podcasts have an HTML page that lists all the posts/episodes anyway. For example my blog and podcast, and the seperate page that lists all the feeds. At least when you see the weird looking XML you know you've found the feed to copy/paste. Aren't you just confusing things even more by styling the feed? Also when you actually want to see the XML of a feed, something that I find myself needing to do quite a lot, there isn't an easy way to remove the styling. darekkay.com #

  • Sitemaps XML format - The way to tell search crawlers about the structure of your site. Yet another thing I'll need to implement. You literally have to have an entry for every single page, but you can build index sitemaps that point to other (nested) sitemaps. Without sitemaps I'm guessing your site isn't going to showup very often in search results. And you need a robots.txt file too. www.sitemaps.org #

  • Bitcoin Breaks $28K for the First Time Since May - A flurry of activity in the crypto space has raised the price above $28k, up from 22k in just a few days. It appears to be in response to the world's largest asset management firm Blackrock's announcement of the first Bitcoin ETF, which would open up the possibility of investing to many that previously would not have been able to. Previous to this, it had been a slow and steady decline in price, which appeared to be following the general sentiment that the economy is heading into a deflationary period. This comes at the same time as US regulators have been charging big crypto exchanges for handling unregistered securities, and prominent TradFi figure John Stark has been straightup advising folks to 'get out of crypto' because of the storm brewing and major podcasters in the space are predicting big regulatory headwinds. Nevertheless at least for now, it's the return of number go up. news.yahoo.com #

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