I voted Harris in Utah. I had been trying to convince everyone I could that she was a better option than being complicit in Trump taking office again, and of roughly 12 people I was working on, I think I might have convinced a single person to swing to Harris, the rest went with Chase Oliver or wrote in someone they knew. 🙄

has a working algorithm

I think the true genius of Bluesky is that it doesn’t have A algorithm, it has a framework that allows users to build their own algorithms, share them with others, and subscribe to the algorithms from people whose tastes you trust. They did the same thing with moderation making it possible to build your own moderation tools, share them, and use those constructed by others you trust.

It’ll be abused by the trolls who love the sound of their own voice and embrace the echo chamber of their choosing, but the flip side is that none of the rest of us have to suffer those idiots if we don’t want to. It’s not a perfect solution to the Paradox of Tolerance, but it’s good enough.

Playtron is all in on Crypto nonsense, so of course SquareEnix is coming along for the ride. I wouldn’t get too excited, like most “Web3” things, I expect that this too will flounder and die.

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/

Generally a science education/communication podcast, but they’re really good at teaching critical thinking skills and just talking about cool advances in science, technology, and everything in between.

Regardless, the “pedantic” argument against the headline is only a thing if you’re not allowing for the evolution of language, it’s actually just being a snooty language snob given that language does evolve and the usage of the headline aligns with common standards these days:

Decimate strayed from its “tenth” meaning and nowadays refers to the act of destroying or hurting something in great numbers.

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate

See also definition 3b of the same source.

Anyone have a link that’s beyond the sub-wall?

Tap to pay was pretty well established when they went with scan to pay, they just hoped the Walmart name was large enough that they could cut out all the middlemen inherent with traditional payment processors and keep a bigger piece of the pie. Specifically they were in a spat with Visa over merchant fees at the time so they wanted an option that allowed them to cut Visa out of the picture. They thought that having their own scan to pay system would allow them to do that, but they eventually reconciled with Visa and got the merchant fees discount they wanted and that aspect of the scan to pay system sorta dropped out of focus.