Activity from Kattullus

Why Platformer is Leaving Substack. Casey Newton is ghosting. Excerpt: When I launched Platformer on Substack in 2020, it was not in the belief that we would be here forever. Tech platforms come and go; in the meantime, they can also change in ways… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

“to pressure Substack about its supposed platforming of Nazis” I’ve enjoyed John Ganz’ writings, but the word ‘supposed’ is doing a lot of work here and for the rest of his argument. I find it so baffling that people whose opinions I respect… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Substack has responded. I had rock bottom expectations and still I’m somehow disappointed. Like, I expect them to be Nazis, but I also expected them to at least pretend not to be, for business reasons. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The owner of the first house to be hit, which he and his family had been building themselves for the last two years and were just about ready to move in when the town was evacuated in November, was interviewed by RÚV. He was remarkably… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

And Taylor Lorenz and Will Oremus report on Newton's decision for the Washington Post, giving more context. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It’s been very gratifying to see the post office scandal finally blowing up. I first heard about it from Marina Hyde, who’s been on it for years. But I wanted to highlight someone who was way ahead of everyone, Rebecca Thomson, who in 2009 broke the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

There's been a fatality in Grindavík. A man was working on repairing damage that resulted from a crevasse opening through the middle of the town fell in yesterday, most likely because a part of the wall gave out, and a day and a half later he still… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

A Chinese Gazetteer of Foreign Lands
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

From Bklyn: On the one hand, I had no idea he was Polish. This comment inspired me to check to see if the Wikipedia edit war about Copernicus' nationality was still raging, and yes, the latest comment in that particular kerfuffle was just… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

coffeecat: any article that rehashes this claim, without citation, that DFW was an author for men always loses me The sentence you quoted is part of a preamble to a description of Lockwood’s own reading of Infinite Jest. For what it’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Did the Duolingo mass layoffs of translators really happen?
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Ask MeFi post - 4 months ago

Thanks, General Malaise! That does seem to answer most of my question. The layoff is indeed real, and it's because of workers being replaced by AI. Hopefully some journalists dig further and find out how many translators were fired and how many… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

“I’m telling you, it was a little cursed, the movie.” – Jodie Foster
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

I think I might try that from time to time, if it was an option. And I could do with a bit fewer silos in general, most obviously IRL should be reintegrated into MetaTalk. There was a proposed Reykjavík meetup I couldn’t’ve attended, and since I… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

“What are we learning when we discover that someone was not good”
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

sjswitzer: Secondly, I've been fascinated by the reckoning of weeks. We seem to have done that for a very long time and it certainly goes back to the ancient Hebrews. Not to derail my own post, but I believe the theory is that the seven… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Tony Gilroy was interviewed by Maggie Lovitt for Collider because of the Emmy nominations. The whole thing’s worth reading, but I want to highlight this bit here: What you say about the community of a show is so accurate. Before I did all this, I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

In the last thread i_am_joe’s_spleen posted a link to a piece by Katie Notopolous which makes a really clarifying comparison between Substack and Etsy. The latter expressly forbids the selling of Nazi merchandise. Besides the ethical good sense,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The article by Adam Serwer, which I otherwise enjoyed, touched on one of my pet peeves, which is that people credit Lucas with worldbuilding. I forget the exact quote, but he said that he didn’t like figuring out the background to the setting, which… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

The River Ivel: fantasy space wizard franchise I’ve been thinking about this phrase a lot today. I’m born in 1981, and my parents didn’t get a VCR until I was in my early teens. Growing up, I saw the original trilogy maybe two or three… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

When my son was born my girlfriend and I watched a lot of random TV reruns and got reacquainted with a lot of TV shows from the 90s. I have to say, of the big sitcoms of that era, Frasier is the only one that isn’t homophobic as fuck. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Hurray! I wish every post in MeTa was positive wombat news. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

That was a really sweet and touching video. There’s something really profoundly beautiful about the story if this odd little gif traveling through time and finding itself in a very different Internet from the time of its creation. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

MtDewd: Or that 1800 was a leap year. In the Gregorian calendar 1800 wasn’t a leap year, but in the Julian calendar it was. Which makes the Foula timeline kind of confusing, because if they switched at the beginning of 1800, then it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Nelson: It's not really fair to her career to solely highlight the Sri Lanka stuff. Some of her music is about the international dance party scene. Some of it is about other third-world minorities, like the awesome song "Mango Pickle Down… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I finally got to 16. I think I can stop thinking about 20 Words 20 Seconds for a little while now. Between this game and the volcano, I have gotten sweet eff all done today, workwise. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I was finally about to break my record and get to 16, and the prompt was "containing 'er'", a prompt I had gotten a gazillion times. I excitedly, and confidently, typed out LERM and hit enter. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Happy Yuletide to one and all! I hope you get a piece of clothing this season or else the Icelandic Yule Cat will eat you. Anyway, all of you are the best and my life would be immeasurably poorer without you. As a treat, here’s a recording of Björk… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

“strongholds of vegetarianism Austria, Denmark and Sweden” I’d like to confirm that all the Nordic countries (with the exception of Greenland and the Faroe Islands) are more veggie than average, ranging from 10-12% of the total population. I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Thanks, mollweide! The first ten minutes sounded like someone had contact-miked up a very large present and then unwrapped it. It was fab, and I was a bit disappointed when the indie music kicked back in, as lovely as it is. This also spurred… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Once, when I was living Providence, Rhode Island, I came home only to be greeted by my neighbor who beckoned me over to the backporch. An adult wild turkey was just hanging out, walking slowly and deliberately around the yard like a baron inspecting… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

According to the latest information given by Icelandic geologists, the volcano seems to be settling down. It started with real force, and it’s already produced about three-quarters as much lava as the first eruption in this series produced over a six… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Geologists flew over the eruption site this morning and couldn’t see any signs that the eruption was still going, but it’s possible that there’s still some lava flowing, but that it is within lavatubes. Hopefully this turns out to be the end, but… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

"Ghosts haunt cities, seeking revenge for the disappeared past"
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MeFi post - 5 months ago

a clattering of jackdaws descending on a giant goat statue to feast on its seeds well that sure isn’t ominous, everything’s going to be fiiiiine [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

These are lovely! I’d seen a handful before, but never the full set. Earlier this winter I went to a Tom of Finland exhibit and it featured a selection of his Christmas cards and they were something else. Here’s a positively demure example, the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

this is too damn wholesome for words best of the web, best of American culture [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Usenet was the first thing I found on the internet that really wowed me. The web was really small and somewhat staid when I first encountered it in 1991 or '92. I was ten, eleven at the time, and there just wasn't that much content on there I found… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

This really does measure something about your brain, because I was up most of the night because my 4-year-old daughter kept coughing herself awake. Yesterday I could always at least get to 12 letters, and sometimes a handful more, but now I can't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

“A poet should be recognizable not by his style but by the way in which he looks at things.” This is such a brilliant way to think about what poetry is. I tend to think of poetry as, essentially, playing with language, and therefore look to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Simon Mayo, on the film podcast he does with Mark Kermode, referred to the Covid pandemic as “what with one thing and another” and I’ve often thought that phrase could be expanded to fit everything that was going on right now. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

One of the many things that bugged me about Timely as a character is that he’s anachronistic in a lot of easy to catch ways. To give an example, in the last episode he used the term “science fiction”, decades before it was coined. I thought at first… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Personally, I’d like to reinforce the “parish notices” aspect of MetaTalk, with meetup announcements, births, cool news and just kinda random community events and happenings. And alphabet threads. A lot of that got shunted away for serious… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

Björk Sings from the Icelandic Songbook
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MeFi post - 5 months ago

There's riding your defeated enemy's horses. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

Loki, at its best, is like a good Doctor Who episode (finding joy in the everyday and weird characters being fun) and at its worst it’s like bad Star Wars (plot contrivances explained as supernatural forces and billions dying with little import)… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

"an epistolary novel in the form of twelve folksongs"
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MeFi post - 5 months ago

General Malaise: An album is on way too many lists with an antisemitic verse by someone with a deep history of antisemitism Noname's album was my biggest musical disappointment of the year. I've loved all her work until now, and I was so… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Jacques Pépin's Fast Food
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