What happened to blogging for the hell of it? - Yeah it does sort of feel like a bit of a never ending hellscape of hustle. Perhaps it's just a reflection of RL? blog.whiona.me #
2023/10/19 #
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US-China chip war: Washington announces new export curbs - It appears a new era of resource nationalism has begun as China restricts exports of raw materials such as gallium and germanium in retaliation. www.bbc.com #
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Bookmarks in the Fediverse - Andy Piper writeup of how he's been modifying his setup to be on the Fediverse, with a focus on sharing links using a self hosted express app he runs on glitch. Some interesting ideas. I'd like to add ActivityPub support for things I publish on the website, though I'm not yet convinced it's much better than RSS. Managing an ActivityPub server is quite a lot of effort. It would be awesome if there was a service that republished RSS feed items into the fediverse. andypiper.co.uk #
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MI5 head warns of 'epic scale' of Chinese espionage - They are worried about a doubling of the reported cases of people being appeoached by chinese spies in order to cultivate them to provide sensitive information. The environment that spies operate in is going to be massively changed by AI tools, but will have a profound impact on society at large. www.bbc.com #
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X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines - Apparently it's to stop the proliferation of bots, though it must be noted that it will also exclude anyone that is unbanked. The number of unbanked people in the world is a worryingly large amount of people: one-third of adults – 1.7 billion – were still unbanked in 2017. You'll still be able to create read only accounts for free, but it's quite clearly censorship. All accounts should be read and write. www.bbc.com #
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The Matrix reloads again: Danny Boyle dance version opens Manchester's Aviva Studios - Great article that covers all the main topics without too much sensasionlism. Much of Boyle's work is phenominal. The opening ceremony for the Olympics was a master piece imo. I've never seen anything like it. Many of his books are ceminal too. I can't think of anyone better to re-explore the ever more important themes of the Matrix. Interestingly I think Boyle now lives in the US. Fun factoid, I was interviewed by a TV crew walking out of the cinema after watching the 2nd Matrix film. The one with all the CGI spaceships with tentacles. I didn't have much to say about it. I felt it had lost the spirit of the original movie in favor of over the top VFX. Curious to see his interpretation, the modern world is so the Matrix, but it's not about flashy VFX, it's much more incidious. www.bbc.com #
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🚀 New Post: Getting the blogging balance right - Some thoughts about both the good and bad of my new notes feature and overall blogging setup. markjgsmith.com #