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What the poet, playboy and prophet of bubbles can still teach us

One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring. The sailor noticed an onion lying on the counter.

“Thinking it, no doubt, very much out of its place among silks and velvets, h

https://timharford.com/2023/02/what-the-poet-playboy-and-prophet-of-bubbles-can-still-teach-us/

#Highlights #OtherWriting

Meta to test monthly subscription service priced at $11.99
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launches-subscription-service-priced-1199-month-2023-02-19/

What do you get for a monthly subscription fee to Facebook? Not much: a blue tick, and the knowledge that Facebook has your official ID for ever, which it can sell to other companies and miuse to send you more targeted ads. Meta isn't offering to pay you for this; now they want you to pay to be their product.

If Meta was offering an ad-free version of FB or an untampered feed, that would be an improvement. But as it stands, this is only more — as @doctorow calls it — enshittification. If it's not worth your US$12/15 a month for them to drop the ads, it shows they're making more money than that from feeding you ads and snooping on your online presence.

#Facebook #Meta #Subscription #Enshittification

February #cryptic #crossword is up at http://crossword.info/skirwingle/puzzle_47

All together: "Every Sunday you'll see, my sweetheart and me, as we..." witness the long-awaited return of #OffGridPod 😃
https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2023/02/12/elemental-moon-rays-ep-28/

#OffGridPod ep... 28? That must be perfect then? We'd love(-ray) it if you gave it a listen. https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2023/02/12/elemental-moon-rays-ep-28/ #trivia #quiz #cryptics

If you own an independently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse blog that people can follow from Mastodon:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server

Also, this method means the blog will effectively be its own Fediverse server. You won't need to rely on anyone else's server.

As the blog's owner, you will be the one deciding how long your content stays published, and there will be no character limits either.

(Note that this won't work on wordpress.com accounts, you need an indie hoster.)

In 1965 Doctor Who witnessed the fall of Troy. Here we take a look at the sources that the serial uses and abuses: Homer, Shakespeare, and the 1956 film Helen of Troy.

(Reading time: 15 minutes)

https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/02/myth-makers.html
#DoctorWho #Troy #TrojanWar #Homer #Greek #mythology