David Blue @DavidBlue@mastodon.social

Thanks to @emacsomancer for forwarding to me this article about "demetrification" of social media https://www.wired.com/story/internet-healthier-without-like-counts/ (not showing like counts, follower counts, etc) and how dramatically user behavior is changed when we do expose these things.

On BoingBoing: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/12/flickrs-glory-days.html

jexpo (jean expo)

Knoll DeGrassy Tyson

Here are some pictures I couldn't think of posts for.

mixing 2 four lokos together to create the forbidden eight loko

just over 2 decades ago, in 1997 or so, apple was dying, and it seemed like there was no way they'd ever come back.

then steve jobs and jony ive and some other folks got together and came up with the imac, which saved apple.

if that hadn't happened, what would our world look like today?

what would our world look like if apple had gone bankrupt and never were able to push out products like the ipod and iphone?

what would our mobile device landscape look like?

And on the seventh day, God said "They don't think it be like it is, but it do." And it did.

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I’m too hot to be this depressed

@DavidBlue you ever think about the dude who had the idea for blimps? You know he was out partying the night before and shows up to the all hands meeting TOTALLY FORGETTING that his new aircraft proposal was due today, so in a sweaty hungover stupor he just says "uhh... you know balloons right? Well what if balloons but like... really big!" And to he amazement it just took off