The other day I posted a surprisingly glowing first impression of Meta’s new Threads app. This is the counterpart to that. The site is brands, man.

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File this post under "strong beliefs loosely held" because I may be wrong here, but this is what I'm feeling now. First, Threads is a massive hit. It looks like over 20 million people (update: 30 million) have joined the service already in the first 12 hours since launch. That's

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

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​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

I undertook a quest to build a computer in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and this video documents the process. We'll introduce digital logic and its applications to computer engineering and we'll learn how to create a binary adder circuit, whether it's with electronics or rolling balls. The video ends by demonstrating a 2-bit full adder within the game. Become a Patreon member: https://www.patreon.com/PhysicsfortheBirds 0:00 Introduction 1:46 Logic Gates 3:30 Addition in Binary 6:09 Failed attempts 8:07 Mechanical Computers 8:51 Full-Adder in Tears of the Kingdom 10:00 Conclusion Logic Reference: Digital Design, M. Morris Mano Full Adder in Tears of the Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjoFzZ5yhIg Impressive Minecraft Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

The whole point of an open protocol like ActivityPub is that no one can own it.