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'The [2015!] op-ed said Reddit "made critical changes" to the site "without any apparent care for how those changes might affect their biggest resource: the community and the moderators that help tend the subreddits that constitute the site."'

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fed-up-with-reddit-mods-of-popular-amas-quit-organizing-high-profile-interviews/

I miss Reddit. Hoping to figure out the Feddit soon. I tried subbing to one from here but that did not work as expected.

I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war

Today's Tour de France stage win by Victor Lafay marks the French professional cycling team Cofidis' first stage win in 15 years. It was the first French rider to win a stage for a French team since 2020. The French commentary is great:

youtube.com/watch?v=b1c2KlVHfVw

@superball there's so much going on in this photo. Mind if I repost it? substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1bfebf0d-1f41-4b88-bd2c-2ef84fc23e61_4032x3024.jpeg

Is this really the new default not-logged-in Twitter UX? Remarkable. #twitter is really #dead

@garrettdimon you got top billing in this week's SWLW!

#caturday

Yesterday I heard someone say: "I was out of airspeed, I was out of altitude, and I was out of ideas."

I thought it was great, and couldn't find it on Google. So I asked ChatGPT. It fabricated a false answer. #chatgptfails

JFC I am tired of being told I can read the entire article with a free account. Is there a search engine that just doesn't show links to these late capitalist masterpieces?

Noticed that System of a Down has 18 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which seems pretty good for a band that made a total of 5 records with the latest released 18 years ago. That made me think back to how I originally aspired to work in the music business, but found then (1998)--and still now--the whole model pretty mysterious.