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Cake day: February 4th, 2025

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  • Unfortunately popular newsletter service that also puts your issues online to look like a blog. Has a lot of startup capital behind it so they’ve been paying some of their largest writers on top of subscriber revenue.

    Big “marketplace of ideas” idiots who have allowed a lot of white supremacist and - as this and other situations exemplify - straight up Nazi content.


  • So was Twitter way back in the day (I’m talking ~ 2006 when I still worked in tech news). In a similar way, I think it’s up to us canaries early adopters to help them learn.

    There was a time when no one knew how to @ someone and the pound sign was still known as the pound sign. People learned (and yes, platforms got much better and more polished). They can learn again. But we teachers need patience and kindness when helping them.