🔗 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites – Motherboard
But for people who came of age in the early 2000s, sharing our lives online is second nature, and largely came without consequences. There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
🔗 The 21 (and Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals of 2018 – WIRED
In 2018, the social giant juggled so many crises, you probably forgot half of them. Here’s a refresher.
Facebook’s had quite the year… 🤯
🔗 Sydney bakes as heatwave sets in, with no end in sight beyond New Year’s Eve
Roads are melting, beaches are full to bursting and air conditioners are getting a serious end-of-year workout as residents in Sydney and across the state swelter through heatwave conditions, with no end in sight until 2019.
Are we still debating whether Global Warming is an actual thing or not? 🤦♂️
🔗 Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations – The Verge
while the uniforms are meant to encourage attendance, it seems that there’s nothing stopping administrators from using them to track students out of school, at least technologically speaking, which is certainly concerning
That is one super slippery slope!
I’ll preface this with saying I am decidedly against likes on Micro. – Josh Sullivan
that brings up the question, if you don’t want to write about it and cannot find a single sentence worth quoting or directly bring others attention to, is it worth sharing?
Personally, I think “simple” liking is the scourge of the social Internet and adds little to no value to anyone, unless you’re using “liking” as a bookmark type thing, which is what my wife does instead of using an actual bookmarking service.
That said, I often “like” other peoples posts using Indigenous, however, when they Micropub to my blog they do so “Privately” and I can then choose to add a comment or pull-quote later, and then publish it publicly.
I’m thinking about making my New Year Resolution all about education, both getting and giving as of it as I can. 👨🏫
Damnit, I can’t get past Zapdos in Pokemon Let’s Go. 5 failed attempts so far…
I’m desperately trying to level up some Rock and Electric types before my next attempt.
Watching: WarGames (1983) 📺
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to re-import the Facebook export back into Facebook, for the purpose of re-generating my Facebook account so I can re-export it in JSON format instead of the shitty HTML version?