Ukranian, belarussian and russian tennis players at Wimbledon and the French Open are refusing to shake hands before matches and it's causing a lot of confused reactions from the crowd, who are not understansing who is snubbing who, and sometimes getting it totally backwards. Life is such a complicated mess sometimes. www.bbc.com #
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How to Verify your Domain on Nostr and Bluesky - These are instructions for micro.blog users but the general idea is similar on any domain, just create a text file in a specific location on your site. It has to contain some string of text the social media site gives you. Then they can check it's your domain, because you had enough access to add the file, at which point they add a verified check to your account. I think this should be the way Threads and Twitter should do verification. It feels like the "Open web" way of doing verification. At least have it as an option, they might find even more people sign up for the paid verifications. mattlangford.com #
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How to Get Verified on Threads - You can do it through your Instagram account, or through Meta/Threads where you have to get on a paid plan.beebom.com #
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"Caches is a web3 authenticated multi-topic forum on all subjects related to the Ethereum protocol, Web3, Science and Technology. Caches is hosted, created and curated by community members" - Sounds kinda cool, you have to have a crypto wallet installed but you don't need to have a balance, it's just for auth. caches.xyz #
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Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform) - It's a lengthy article but covers in a lot of detail the main large platforms in various areas. It's definitely worth the time to read, there's a load of financials, and just generally paints an incredibly broad picture of the current tech landscape. Seing it all in one article like this, I was struck by how unterecognisable the environment is compared to when I first got online. Maybe it's because I'm feeling particularly low energy today, but I just wanted to get through the article and found a lot of it unbelievably dull, though it's a well written article. I like the Android, iOS, SpaceX, OpenAI and a bit of the AR/VR coverage, but Alexa, gamming and everything else is super boring and tedious. I'm left wondering if I even am interested in more than about 20-30% of the tech industry. It's like a wonderful beautiful garden has been 80% turned into multi-level carparks. I guess technically they are ecosystems, they just sound and feel a bit lifeless to me. www.matthewball.vc #