Automated Archives for March, 7th 2023
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- The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics (publicdomainreview.org)
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Automated Archives for March, 4th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-1
Net Elo Change: +11
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- schachspieler69 - WIN
- kunfe - WIN
- Nurlan_M - LOSS
- popisrb - WIN
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Automated Archives for February, 26th 2023
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- The devolution of the web (scripting.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-5
Net Elo Change: -27
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Automated Archives for February, 22nd 2023
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- How Florence Pugh Became Hollywood’s Most Grounded Superstar (vogue.com)
- Can We Stop Being Cynical and Give Biden the Huge Props He Deserves for Kyiv? (newrepublic.com)
- Conspiracies are the price of freedom (unherd.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 5-1-6
Net Elo Change: -6
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- Hypotaxis - LOSS
- Vicrors5 - LOSS
- skrybz - LOSS
- emre-ozkaya - WIN
- shadowmenNL - WIN
- Max_1982 - WIN
- atropos46 - DRAW
- Bilitismonroe - WIN
- UH_Chess_Master - LOSS
- AyvazHer - WIN
- sammie_seyi - LOSS
- Sultex - LOSS
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Automated Archives for February, 16th 2023
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Automated Archives for February, 15th 2023
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Automated Archives for February, 13th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-6
Net Elo Change: -11
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- Damithron - LOSS
- HardenBoroda - LOSS
- Gabrielgil - WIN
- dncr - WIN
- edilberto7 - LOSS
- Ray_OZ - LOSS
- Osmanysw - WIN
- Leidkultur - WIN
- Yuriy1953 - LOSS
- olafolaf2000 - LOSS
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Automated Archives for February, 9th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-0
Net Elo Change: +11
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Automated Archives for February, 8th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-2
Net Elo Change: +10
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Automated Archives for February, 6th 2023
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- Daily links from Cory Doctorow
(pluralistic.net) - Archiving in the Time of Streaming
(ascii.textfiles.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 7-0-6
Net Elo Change: +6
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- vdavl - WIN
- Ssantos - WIN
- serotonergic - WIN
- ChessBaridi_GS - LOSS
- alan_rial - WIN
- Lupo2221 - WIN
- YeetYateYote - WIN
- Maiomene - LOSS
- jamespbtaylor27 - LOSS
- mahmutessiz - LOSS
- TinyOtter - LOSS
- Aurimar - WIN
- kantabhi - LOSS
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Automated Archives for February, 4th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 6-0-3
Net Elo Change: +18
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- BORKAN2021 - WIN
- satin1965 - WIN
- chako_apk - LOSS
- peterlaj - WIN
- cakagunduz - WIN
- Bnmurmu - LOSS
- alan_rial - WIN
- lito743 - WIN
- herbert7 - LOSS
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Automated Archives for February, 2nd 2023
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- The Hidden Link Between Workaholism and Mental Health
(theatlantic.com) - Meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold, guns, and gas masks
(businessinsider.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-4
Net Elo Change: +2
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- jr2410 - WIN
- achilletesta - WIN
- bilagros - LOSS
- ABDULRHMANM - LOSS
- Rasulshahosiny - LOSS
- MustaphaBrooks - WIN
- el_chupacabras - LOSS
- BotMSR - WIN
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"Do you have a moral duty to watch the police beating of Tyre Nichols?"
A friend asked a similar question on Facebook yesterday.
Is watching it ghoulish voyeurism?
Or is not watching it tacit complicity in the status quo?
How do you feel about the answer, and why? I can't figure out where I stand.
This was my response:
I turn away from watching the video itself, but I read the responses and editorials about it. I have always shied away from watching death. As [name removed, another person in the thread] said, and I fully acknowledge, this is my cowardly privilege. I don't watch horror movies, I avoid almost all suspense, because it gets into my head and torments me for a long while after.
I already know how I feel about this, and the awfulness on display here. My feelings here are pegged already in the anger and sadness and frustration, and watching it won't do anything to drive those further in me.
The editorial on WaPo shows others are asking the same question. I especially appreciated this excerpt:
Allissa V. Richardson, a University of Southern California journalism professor who researches Black Americans' use of social media as journalism, said people should not feel a moral obligation to view violent records of important events.
Richardson said there is both power and risk in the ways that smartphones and social media regularly broadcast so much evidence of brutality to us.
"People should be very careful about consuming these videos casually through social media," Richardson said in an email. "For many Black Americans especially, it can be retraumatizing to see someone who looks like you or a loved one be brutalized this way."
Richardson also said that when violent moments grab our attention, we may conflate passive watching with action.
"Pressing play is not the same as pressing for tangible changes. Social media can make us forget that sometimes," she said.
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Automated Archives for January, 30th 2023
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- 12ft |
(12ft.io) - How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-4
Net Elo Change: -1
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- Boits22 - LOSS
- Jghalandari - WIN
- ak_3999_5 - WIN
- VVR28 - WIN
- MRsegar - LOSS
- birilat - WIN
- goramaeztu - LOSS
- Bierliebhaber - LOSS
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Automated Archives for January, 28th 2023
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- Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking - TidBITS
(tidbits.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 6-0-6
Net Elo Change: +1
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- sisco743 - WIN
- Wowa12 - WIN
- zozu - WIN
- gabrielabalos - WIN
- CAMAPA - LOSS
- Sandeep_Raghani - LOSS
- dasbill - LOSS
- Werofritz - LOSS
- elpariaguanero - WIN
- Jarvis1016 - WIN
- Kike201918 - LOSS
- Zawadi - LOSS
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Content purpose
Originally posted this to LinkedIn this morning. I am trying to get better about utilizing that social platform:
Found myself thinking about content and metrics this morning on the way into work. I think too often the simple "one set of metrics for all content" is adopted, to the detriment of the content and the professionals creating the content. Instead it is important to recognize the purpose and goals of each piece of content, both in the creation of the content, but also in the measuring and evaluating of the content.
I break them down into four possible "purposes":
- Business purpose: Information which needs to get out but is not expected to drive any serious engagement or actions
- Awareness / Engagement: Content which is meant to drive shares, comments, likes, etc.
- Invisible CTA: When the content is driving to do things which aren't directly trackable but may be seen in other areas (sales at stores, etc.)
- Direct Call-to-Action: Click a link, watch a video, essentially do something which we can track and measure that goes above like/comment/share.
There is obviously overlap between each of these, but I contend that the main thrust of content can and should be in one of these four, and from that the metrics which the content which is measured and evaluated derive, while also taking into consideration the platforms and mediums.
What do folks think? Is this a good split for purpose of content?
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Automated Archives for January, 24th 2023
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- The Double-Edged Sword of Deep Sea Mining
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Record: 3-1-2
Net Elo Change: +6
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Automated Archives for January, 22nd 2023
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- Little Turtle’s War — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-2
Net Elo Change: +23
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- allanchisulo - WIN
- tbtsantomera - WIN
- Adarshamb - WIN
- nicolasj56 - LOSS
- jcmacken - WIN
- oscareino - LOSS
- Gregorio_Cobas - WIN
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Automated Archives for January, 20th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-0
Net Elo Change: +29
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Automated Archives for January, 19th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 8-0-4
Net Elo Change: +34
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- yareldelac1985 - WIN
- bambonubs - WIN
- Pramod369 - LOSS
- Xj6rider - WIN
- gymflake - LOSS
- MMusaToprakci - WIN
- Mohammadkashi - WIN
- wodans-erbe - WIN
- Rimsik - WIN
- Juliette06 - LOSS
- afobam - WIN
- cuatrocantos - LOSS
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Automated Archives for January, 18th 2023
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Record: 4-0-2
Net Elo Change: +14
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Automated Archives for January, 17th 2023
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Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-1
Net Elo Change: +7
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Automated Archives for January, 16th 2023
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Record: 4-0-1
Net Elo Change: +16
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Toxicity driven by the need for likes
So there was a horrific plane crash in Nepal killing dozens of people. Worse, one of the passengers streamed the final moments of the flight on Facebook live. Worse worse, the goblins driven by upvotes on Reddit are reposting it in countless subreddits so people can watch this horrific incident over and over.
This is some dark shit. Who gets pleasure from this video? It's horror porn capitalizing on this tragedy for the nonsensical drive for upvotes. Just awful everything.
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