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Worth pointing out that Chaotic Moon’s products are temporary adhesive circuits, not subdermal tattoos. A phone that sticks to your skin might be a bit more palletable that one that has to be implanted, jist think about the obscellesence nightmare that would be.

Wow, I had no idea about the Facebook/MySpace message bridge bot. Definitely shows the power and importance of the various bridge/mirror projects like Bridgy. It says that the same kind of bot would now be Fedrally illegal in the US, but I haven’t seen any specifics about that, and seems like the EU just made it mandatory to enable through APIs.

I have thought a bit about this and how to breakout of silos, and it seems like now with LLM tools accessing the browser it will be nearly impossible to prevent messaging and posts from being cross-platformed, though the compute cost would be higher than by using the old API method.

Also MySpace was one of the first platforms to use a built-in targeted advertising model, and partnered with Google for both adserve, indexing, and search. To say they didnt sell data is the same as saying Facebook doesn’t sell data, they were the data user, selling ad space based on profiling users.

Ummm… when he sold MySpace he literally sold our data to NewsCorp?

Murmillo has the most styling helm, so I’m going for that.

XMPP Lives!

Remember the 4 H’s, when someone is feeling upset they want one of four things from their listener, and asking up front “Which of the four Hs do you want right now” can really help get straight to supporting them.

Hear - Just listen, dont comment or try to fix it. Brief supportive statements like “I hear you.” and “That sounds eeally tough.” welcome, but dont insert unrelated topics.

Help - Give advice, including relating with a similar experience and specifically showing how it taught you something that applies to their situation.

Hold - Usually just listening, but with the addition of physical touch, could be holding hands or full on cuddling.

Hump (only for romantic partners) - cathartic release.

To take this further, a relateability sandwich really helps.

Start with “I really relate to that because I had a similar experience.” or similar

end with “So I really sympathize with you, and I learned/still feel [insert summary of relevance to their situation]”

Resisting them big plateau winds!

Meet my cousin Allonautilus scrobiculatus and his slimy shell.

Hello Fellow Kids

Except Jaguars were actually an endemic species to the Everglades.