The Void ザ・ヴォイド #PR! @TheVoidTLMB@qoto.org

@sellathechemist @SusiArnott Haha, almost certainly. But wot about the vegans who still want something cheese-like? #WontSomeoneConsiderTheVegans

Advanced #OffGridPod warning: In the next ep, we'd looked at https://www.ft.com/content/9d8e780b-047e-4633-b3bc-fa7b09589092 #Trivia #Quiz Not-really-about-#CrypticCrosswords

Altogether now, 3, 2, 1, "It's....".
#OffGridPod #NotReallyAboutCrosswords #trivia #quiz https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2023/02/12/elemental-moon-rays-ep-28/

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