We've got literary agent Jessica Faust of Bookends Literary answering questions on Absolute Write this month. See: https://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?338849-Welcome-Jessica-Faust-of-Book-Ends-Literary-to-Ask-An-Agent-for-October
@medievalist That's a pretty cool idea!
With all this news of users jumping ship or at least taking serious breaks from Twitter and Facebook, I can’t help but feel like Apple is on point with this Today article:
Demystifying RSS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1350923731
FWIW: Yes, I picked my newsreader bs k up a couple years ago. I use Feedly and a couple apps. You can see my public collections here: https://feedly.com/chartier
It's also clear that Masto needs some user tools here, too. On Twitter, a user facing a deluge can go private for a bit. That's not possible here. It should be. Just some sort of temporary withdrawal for protection, short of nuking your account.
September's labors: ploughing and sowing seeds from the Da Costa Hours: https://www.digitalmedievalist.com/2018/09/01/september-from-the-da-costa-hours/
amac on content moderation • Internet expert lawyer lays out some notes and citations on moderation policies for web products http://www.bricoleur.org/2018/08/recent-podcasts-articles-on-content.html #linkblog #facebooktwittermoderationtootmeamacpolicy
Incredible story here.
https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting
Today is the 100th birthday of technical badass Katherine Johnson. Ms Johnson calculated trajectories for Apollo space missions by hand.
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Ok it's officially time for the 2018 SF Pen Show and this year I'm gonna try to keep it all in one thread so ya'll can just ignore the whole damn thing if you want (Minus instagram crossposts, sorry about that). #sfpenshow2018
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