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Making good progress on hosting an AT Proto PDS for new Micro.blog users. It'll launch soon. Important note: it is not for people who already use Bluesky, at least not yet. The goal is to give new users an account on the atmosphere. Existing users will be happier sticking with the Bluesky PDS.
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The Agency was quite good.
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The Agency was quite good.
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Long day, good day. We used the new tow hitch for the first time, moving some stuff with a U-Haul trailer. Great test before hopefully getting a camper trailer one day!
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#435 : Le marathon robotique de la facturation electronique
Dans ce 435, les robots courrent plus vite que les champions humains.podcast.captainweb.net -
1893 - "En Banc"
No Agenda Episode 1893 - "En Banc"
En Banc
Executive Producers:
RonV42
Scott Vance
Lady Butters
Associate Executive Producers:
Manuka Gold
Hazmatticus II
Ara Derderian
Eli The Coffee Guy
Linda Lupatkin
Doug Andrews
Knights and Dames:
Hazmatticus II > Sir Hazmatticus II, Knight and slave to the Lord Christ, and Keeper of Dogs. far right, white Christian nationalist.
EOS Mixes:
Gary in Gilroy CA
Perth No Agenda Producers
Maik Iampietro
Sir Chris Wilson the Drunkard Minstrel
CSB
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
Chapters: Dreb Scott
Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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Red in Tooth and Claw
Samantha Hancox-Li talks about the return of international competition in our increasingly unsettled age. In historical perspective, far from being an alien imposition on "normal politics," international competition has been a feature of human societies from the start.
Reflecting on how the pressure of competition has driven both mindless militarism and genuine modernization—from the mass grave at Gomolava to the Meiji Restoration to the Kitchen Debate—she argues that liberals must remember that liberalism works.
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Weeknote 2026-32
Talking about a tough week padded between with a great run, and time relaxing at football/rugby.
My second ever week note, and holding onto that weekly cadence so far. Hold on for a week of mediocrity and misery, front-ended by a fantastic 10km run.
Work
Probably the least said about work this week the better. I was hoping to launch a transformation project next week which I have pushed back to mid September as a result of current workload and resource. It is a bit catch 22, as launching this piece of software will reduce my workload dramatically - but I need to be able to configure it properly and support the launch. Very disappointing all round, contributing to a very miserable week.
Projects
Amidst the mediocrity of work though, I have ploughed on with a number of my personal projects which I'll start talking about soon. I think that they are all heading past MVP now and towards 1.0.
I have also made a cute little expense and mileage tracker for work. Not sure if it will roll more widely at this point, but for the first time ever I'm essentially 3 weeks ahead with my August expenses rather than catching up in a hurry mid September. I might talk about this project too, but a big improvement on spreadsheet, even if it's deliverable is a zip file containing that same spreadsheet, with receipt images.
Sod it, here's a few screenshots...
 Exercise
I started off the week really well, following up a strong run last Sunday with an even stronger fastest 10km of the last decade holding onto the long group at Trawden AC on the Barrowford Summer Route on Monday.
My training suffered after that as work life balance deteriorated heavily, and I've not ran since - though I have been in the gym and on the bike towards the end of the week.
Exploring
One of the other benefits of watching sport at the weekend is that I find it helps to put distance between myself and work and the week. It is pretty much impossible to work while inside a stadium too.
I spent Saturday afternoon at Turf Moor watching a clearly superior Burnley side scrape past Notts County in the League Cup on penalties following a 1-1 tie, inertness in front of goal clearly unresolved from last season.
I then finished off this afternoon watching Oldham do their best to throw away a three try advantage, before winning the game 31-30 with a last touch drop kick.
 People
I hate people. Other than that, not much to report this week - other than Vickie running up the Barrowford Road for the first time today - the return on my Nelson Skyline Route. While I'm very proud of her progress, I doubt she will make that mistake again any time soon.
Hopefully I'll be back next week in a more positive mood.
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Weeknote 2026-31
My second ever week note, and holding onto that weekly cadence so far. Hold on for a week of mediocrity and misery, front-ended by a fantastic 10km run.
Work
Probably the least said about work this week the better. I was hoping to launch a transformation project next week which I have pushed back to mid September as a result of current workload and resource. It is a bit catch 22, as launching this piece of software will reduce my workload dramatically - but I need to be able to configure it properly and support the launch. Very disappointing all round, contributing to a very miserable week.
Projects
Amidst the mediocrity of work though, I have ploughed on with a number of my personal projects which I'll start talking about soon. I think that they are all heading past MVP now and towards 1.0.
I have also made a cute little expense and mileage tracker for work. Not sure if it will roll more widely at this point, but for the first time ever I'm essentially 3 weeks ahead with my August expenses rather than catching up in a hurry mid September. I might talk about this project too, but a big improvement on spreadsheet, even if it's deliverable is a zip file containing that same spreadsheet, with receipt images.
Sod it, here's a few screenshots...
Exercise
I started off the week really well, following up a strong run last Sunday with an even stronger fastest 10km of the last decade holding onto the long group at Trawden AC on the Barrowford Summer Route on Monday.
My training suffered after that as work life balance deteriorated heavily, and I've not ran since - though I have been in the gym and on the bike towards the end of the week.
Exploring
One of the other benefits of watching sport at the weekend is that I find it helps to put distance between myself and work and the week. It is pretty much impossible to work while inside a stadium too.
I spent Saturday afternoon at Turf Moor watching a clearly superior Burnley side scrape past Notts County in the League Cup on penalties following a 1-1 tie, inertness in front of goal clearly unresolved from last season.
I then finished off this afternoon watching Oldham do their best to throw away a three try advantage, before winning the game 31-30 with a last touch drop kick.
People
I hate people. Other than that, not much to report this week - other than Vickie running up the Barrowford Road for the first time today - the return on my Nelson Skyline Route. While I'm very proud of her progress, I doubt she will make that mistake again any time soon.
Hopefully I'll be back next week in a more positive mood.
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😂 Talking of the creative application of maps …
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If you live in Clacton
Make Your Vote Count
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This post started over in DaveLand ... got federated to my accounts via Micro.Blog (thanks @manton) to which I replied and now sharing that reply from Ricardo's 'RSC' (Really Simple Conversation) .. the world always was wacky .. it's now getting easier to be wacky .. and potentially generate ECHOES of ECHOES of Echoes of echoes of ech ...
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Indeed .. I wonder if this will work the same way❓
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Indeed .. I wonder if this will work the same way❓
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Well look at that @dave .. it worked .. taking the same route as you .. just in a different truck … here to Micro.blog to BlueSky … and Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr et al .. thanks to @manton.
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Well look at that @dave .. it worked .. taking the same route as you .. just in a different truck … here to Micro.blog to BlueSky … and Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr et al .. thanks to @manton.
LATER THIS MORNING:
Saving for posterity - this what was orgianlly posted and somehow broke because of html and markdown trying to work in the same space.
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Yes … despite the proclamation .. logo once again gone. I know why. I know how to fix it. I just need to actually do it!
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Following some breadcrumbs.
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Following some breadcrumbs.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about Capital One’s stated reasons for shutting down Trump accounts: Would be nice to have some disclosure laws so that if a presidential candidate’s had his bank accounts closed for money laundering, we don’t learn about it years later in […] -
I’ve managed to make a small AppleScript that gets the selection from Safari & a link and posts it to RSS.chat. Post Link & Quote to RSS.chat Fairly niche.
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Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier, and understand it, in a minute or two. We've done this project in three stages, not knowing at the first two that there would be another one. Now we're working on the editors. An odb table editor, outliner, menubar editor, script editor. All built on the same codebase. It's in an Electron app that works with lots of independent windows, which while it has its pros and cons, is the way Frontier did it for almost 40 years. I find all this very unsettling, but I realize that once we get back to adjusting the UI, I already know how to work with Claude on tuning things up so they feel just right. I'm a market of one, the only one who has to be happy here is me. This may be the hardest programming project I've ever had, for one simple reason, I'm not doing any programming. That and I'm having very strong deja vu on everything I do and think about. Also there will be a fourth stage and maybe more. It'll be about the affordances, the things that seem little, but make the product usable. The biggest is the debugger. It's patterned after the one in THINK C, which I found transformative so I stole from the best, as they say.
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What is the most frustrating thing about RSS?
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Is the Progressive Takeover Real?
MS NOW's Chris Hayes joins Alex Wagner to talk about what Democrats should take away from the progressive movement's big primary win in Michigan and how the party's reaction may predict what's ahead in the 2028 presidential election.
They debate whether Abdul El-Sayed should continue to campaign with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, discuss how AIPAC's media strategy is backfiring with voters and how ideals of masculinity continue to influence our politics.
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Balanceeract
De afgelopen dagen denk ik weer na hoe ik online alles in balans breng. Mijn blog, interessante links, online aanwezigheid, CreativeNotes, comments, maar tegelijk de professionele kant van die online aanwezigheid. Hoe hou ik dat in evenwicht. Ik zou dat na 26 jaar bloggen toch wel moeten weten. Niets is minder waar. Het blijft zoeken. De huidige site op frankmeeuwsen.com is in elk geval niet voldoende. Dat is al een jaar een lelijke placeholder voor wat er zou moeten komen. Daar moet ik eens werk van maken. Maar er moet ook een manuscript af. Gelukkig heb ik nog een paar weken redelijk wat werkvrije tijd.
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Saving articles for offline use
I'm trying to read more newspaper, magazine, journal articles etc
I've subscribed to a few newspapers and mags and the like, and idea is to read them on my tablet. Ideally I'd be getting paper copies but cost + not living in the US or UK makes it difficult.
I've gotten RSS feeds and a read-it-later app but it feels like I'm always running into issues and distractions, like getting logged out of the website, trying to load it from an RSS feed but...getting logged out again in the in-app browser, ads and the like distracting me and so forth.
What I want to do is to browse for articles on my laptop, find some good ones, view them in a reading view, and then put them on the cloud to read later on my tablet as an offline file.
Other than a lo fi option of saving as a PDF + putting on G Drive, or even more lo fi of printing them (which I'm honestly considering), does anyone have any sleeker options to do something like this? I use a Mac computer and an Android tablet. I also have a Kindle but I haven't found articles on Kindle satisfying particularly ones where it has images. Thanks!
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Jax won't say anything - so taking a few minutes out to sing her praises.
Last week she was talking with someone who is on their way to ‘new friend’ status when the conversation inevitably arrived at the ‘so - what do you do’ question - and the conversation took off.
A young man (related to new friend) was listening in.
This text received the next day.
Praise doesn’t often come from teenagers, but (name redacted) was loving listening to our conversation and said “I never thought I’d meet someone like her, someone who is switched on but also doing something about it“ 😊
The most telling part of this is that a lot of people who should know better simply do not understand her work - just nod their heads and move on. Why?
- Too hard. (No - it isn't.)
- Doesn't apply to me / doesn't happen here. (Yes it does and yes it does.)
- Assumes wrongly that others are already fixing this.(No - they aren't.).
**Very proud of Jax and all that she is doing in this tortured world. **
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GreatRSS - 100% free and calm RSS reader
Hey guys,
I've built a simple RSS reader that keeps you in control of what content you see.
After years tired of News apps, Social Media slop and poor content that only prioritizes engagement over quality, I built this app to help me stay up-to-date and still keep my sanity.
GreatRSS is 100% free, it's web-based and gives you multi-device sync. It looks good on both desktop and mobile. No ads. The idea is to keep it free forever and ask for donations later if I need help paying for servers, etc.
The app is very clean. You pick your sorces, turn them on/off, it syncs manually and it only requires an email and password to login. It's very minimalist.
It's also very opinionated. I want to keep it very simple and quiet. If you are a hardcore reader, that enjoys dozens of articles from many sources, you may not enjoy it. However, if you're looking to tone down the noise, read only what actually matters and some peace of mind, this app is for you.
I hope you enjoy.
I'm actively seeking feedback from RSS users. Let me know what you like/don't like, what features are missing, etc. The app is still in beta stage.
I really hope it can be bring some peace of mind to others.
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Midterms, AI, and MAGA with Dr. Jen Golbeck
Half a percent doesn't sound like much. In a close midterm, it is everything.
Dr. Jen Golbeck has spent two decades as a computer scientist studying what the internet can figure out about you without being told — and she now spends her nights as a working journalist inside the most extreme corners of American politics. Both halves of that job point at the same machine: an economy built on collecting everything about everyone, and online communities that offer people the one thing they most want, which is belonging.
Dave and Jen talk about how far surveillance has actually gone, why she thinks the AI bubble is at its top edge, what a decade inside far-right forums has taught her about how ordinary people radicalize, what she saw on the street in Minneapolis during the ICE protests, and what is genuinely worth doing between now and November.
Guest
Dr. Jen Golbeck — Professor at the University of Maryland's College of Information and director of the Social Intelligence Lab. She writes the daily MAGAReport newsletter and reports for HuffPost and Esquire.
MAGAReport | UMD faculty page | HuffPost | Esquire: a weekend with the Proud Boys | TED: Is AI progress stuck?
Also mentioned: the Electronic Frontier Foundation's legislation tracker.
Chapters
00:00 - Cold open and intro
01:28 - Meet Dr. Jen Golbeck
03:52 - Surveillance, extremism, and the American ideal
06:07 - How bad has surveillance actually gotten
07:49 - The phone-number trick and the data-broker machine
10:01 - The TEDx talk that made the tech bros angry
13:46 - A 24-hour amnesty: 40 percent of the class confesses
17:05 - Data centers, bad neighbors, and democratic control
19:18 - The dot-com parallel: is this a bubble?
20:26 - Open source, local models, and the business-model problem
24:52 - Typing pools and the job-apocalypse story
27:37 - The antisocial internet: from privacy to radicalization
29:19 - A weekend with the Proud Boys in North Carolina
32:43 - The symbolic show of strength
36:56 - What cults know about belonging
38:58 - Minneapolis, ICE, and the feel of a civil war
44:26 - What the Charlie Kirk killing revealed
47:13 - Civil war, or Costco?
49:31 - The Facebook experiment: half a percent
52:09 - Citizens United, money, and media consolidation
56:07 - Into the midterms: troops, fraud claims, and lawsuits
58:59 - Why the election infrastructure should hold
1:02:00 - Flock cameras and warrantless tracking
1:03:24 - EFF's tracker: pick one thing and be annoying
1:08:33 - Outro and links
Dave Troy Presents is published by America 2.0. america2.news
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Here's the sign of success. (screen shot.) I wrote a post on demo.rss.chat was automatically cross-posted to Bluesky via micro.blog. Because the post has a title, it was routed to standard.site. What does that mean? I still don't really understand, when I do I will explain it here. But part of the answer is that we now have a data structure in atmosphere that looks like an RSS item with different names for things. Are there feed readers in AT-Proto-Land? If so, can we ping one of them to say hey there's a new post in the standard.site world, so please show it to subscribers? And I keep wondering, why not just make all of Bluesky capable of handling the features standard.site calls for. Twenty years is too long to have such a limited view of what text is. See textcasting for more dogma.
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FriRSS — Your FreshRSS frontend, your rules
Hi!
A couple of months ago, I started playing with the idea of building my own frontend for FreshRSS. I like FreshRSS a lot, but I wanted something different for the interface.
That little experiment turned into FriRSS. The idea is pretty simple: FreshRSS keeps doing what it does best, while FriRSS gives you another interface on top of it.
I wanted it to work just as well on my computer as on my phone, so there’s a full desktop interface and a mobile PWA with offline reading.I also wanted to be able to make it mine. Layout, colors, themes, fonts, article view, sidebar… quite a lot can be changed directly from the interface.
It now also has full-text extraction, labels & sub-labels, multiple FreshRSS servers, multi-user/OIDC support, and is available in 9 languages. It’s self-hosted, open source, and runs with Docker on amd64 and arm64.
One thing worth mentioning: I’m not a developer. FriRSS is a vibe-coded project. I started with an interface I wanted for myself, kept adding things, fixing things and learning along the way. I’m still doing exactly that. 🙂
If you’re a FreshRSS user and want to give it a try:
https://github.com/Fripix/Frirss
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
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Working on a MCP for RSC
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As often is the case..
This is a test post.
It has a title so it should be routed to the place where standard.site says they should go.
And I will be able to read them in this place.
Where I must imagine it behaves something like a feed reader.
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Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Mastodon API layer and instead work towards proper implementation of client to servers opening the route for a universal mobile app for #fedify based AP implementation.
The Mastodon API is a dead-end. It's too specific to Mastodon. Client apps should be using either Micropub or ActivityPub client-to-server API, both W3C standards.
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Simon Willison's recap of the Hugging Face exploit is really good. The more I read about it, the more insane it sounds:
A few days later: A different agent gets stuck on a task because a key file was accidentally omitted. It tries to “reach out to another agent” by writing a note into Artifactory asking if anyone has the file.
Following days: More agents discover this new informal message board while browsing Artifactory’s file listings, and start reading and writing messages.
We are so doomed. 🤪
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This is a test.
This is a short less-than 300 char post, that is being routed to Bluesky via micro.blog.
Because it's short it it won't have to be upgraded to standard.site class, it can go through the analog of coach (the current limits of Bluesky).
Okay that's about it. Let's see if this mofo works.
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Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30...
Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30 weeks secretly training to beat her brother (a former competitive player) at Dance Dance Revolution. The showdown is today…
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Connecting RSS and AT Proto
We're going to make this happen.
I think it's really important for us to connect with developers who make writing tools for AT Proto. We should be part of the same community, I feel that very strongly, so I am seeking new ways to make that happen via RSS.
I noticed they had a feed in Leaflet, one of the editors, so I created an account entered a few posts, and then looked to see what was there. I then wrote the developer privately, to ask if he would welcome a review, and he did. I made the time this morning to put together the review.
https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/359
In the other direction, I've been asking everyone I know who could possibly help, how to go in the other direction, have my RSS feed show up in AT Proto as whatever it is that makes new posts from people in that world.
People keep telling me it's not like RSS, and I can't imagine how it could be anything other than RSS. So the answer was, until yesterday -- no -- you can't do it or we don't know how to do it. Except I asked the question again, on micro.blog and Manton says they have the feature. Of course he does. Manton covers every freaking protocol ever invented.
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Wishing there was a fully supported ATgeo lexicon that most bluesky app views co...
Wishing there was a fully supported ATgeo lexicon that most bluesky app views could understand…it would allow us to build location aware posts from location data (think disasters, quakes, flood etc)
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📝 2026-08-08 13:34: Wife: I need help clipping the goat's hooves. Here, hold this... Me: ...
Wife: I need help clipping the goat's hooves. Here, hold this...
Me: ...
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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Wet Paper Bag - Depicting a Fictional Cult in a Feature-Length Film
On today's episode of the Cult Vault podcast, Kacey interviews actor/filmmaker and screenwriter Adam Burke and actor Mike about their indie feature Wet Paper Bag, set at a couples wellness retreat that functions as a coercive, cult-like environment and slow-burn psychological thriller.
Adam explains the film’s origins in a story of an abusive relationship, his experiences starting screenwriting in prison, and research drawn loosely from real-world cult material, aiming to depict manipulation ethically and relatably.
Mike discusses preparing to play cult leader Don Haberman, referencing cult figures and trauma-driven narcissism, and the emotional toll of performance.
The film secured distribution via X4 and streams on Amazon, FandangoAtHome, and YouTube Movies, with DVD/Blu-ray available.
Wet Paper Bag: No One Goes Home The Same
It is now streaming on Amazon, Fandango at Home, Youtube Movie and people can follow the project on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wetpaperbag_film/
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Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Masto...
Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Mastodon API layer and instead work towards proper implementation of client to servers opening the route for a universal mobile app for #fedify based AP implementation.
For indiekit I used Fedify to bring this very blog into the fediverse but then I wanted to be able to use Phanpy and other mobile app so I built a compatibility api layer that these mobile apps expect to find allowing me to use my own site with any Mastodon mobile app. It works but it’s buggy and I’m subject to API layers change and other future breakage I don’t want to deal with in the long run.
So now I’m wondering, do I drop this API layer and build a universal client?
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How do you use social media efficiently when every feed is designed to keep you scrolling?
I mainly use X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube to follow industry news, discover useful ideas, and keep up with people in my field.
The problem is that nearly every platform now revolves around a recommendation feed optimized for engagement, not necessarily for showing me what is most useful. Even after carefully choosing who to follow, I still spend far more time filtering repetitive, irrelevant, or low-value posts than actually finding something worth reading.
Sometimes I’ll scroll for 30 minutes and come away with only one or two useful posts.
I’ve tried unfollowing aggressively, muting keywords, creating lists, using “save for later,” and setting time limits. These help a little, but they don’t really solve the discovery problem. A purely chronological feed reduces some noise, but it can also make it harder to discover valuable people or emerging conversations outside my existing network.
For those of you who use social media mainly for work, research, or staying informed:
- What workflow has actually reduced the amount of time you spend filtering?
- Do you use custom lists, RSS, aggregators, newsletters, browser extensions, or AI-based filtering?
- Do you check platforms only at scheduled times?
- Have you found a good balance between avoiding algorithmic noise and still discovering useful new content?
I’d especially like to hear about methods you’ve used consistently—not just general advice like “set a screen-time limit.”
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Crab Odyssey: Crustacean Wandered the Seas in a Bottle for Months, Scientists Find
Scientists discovered a crab that had spent months at sea stuck in a bottle, subsisting on algae and fish that wandered into its plastic lair. The lonely mariner offers a warning about the impacts of human pollution on wildlife worldwide. -
Crucial Track 🎵 August 8, 2026
"Govinda" by Kula Shaker Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Apparently they are still going ... who knew? This had my ears at the time - as did [🖇️ the album](https://john.philpin.com/2026/08/08/k-by-kula-shaker.html) - and still does. I can't fail to listen to Govinda and not feel uplifted. View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist
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K by Kula Shaker
Released in 1996 in the middle of ‘Brit Pop’ - yet curiously Oasis, Blur and Pulp all did NOT release and album that year. Not sure they fit into the BritPop category - but no less great for it.
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Finished reading: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. Incredible characters. A truly great work of fantasy. 📚
