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A reasonable theory. Now, if we can convince the American public to be less obsessed with war and the military ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-has-a-brutal-theory-of-how-america...

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I just set myself a new challenge. http://seat14c.com/

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The proof just gets stronger and stronger. Although, always remember: a bunch of people really voted for this joker. https://thinkprogress.org/amp/p/5a2a952f5690

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Unacceptable in any context; regressive beyond belief and not up for debate. Everything in this article has to stop. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.htm...

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I really like this. I've worked on remote teams for most of my career, and there are strong arguments for it. https://medium.com/@meganberry/the-complete-guide-to-working-on-a-remote-team-6bb11213e37c?source=li...

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Facebook has 2bn users. Its content guidelines affect how much of the world learns - and black voices are silenced. https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms

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It's time for media companies to help build the web. My first post for the International News Media Association: http://www.inma.org/blogs/media-leaders/post.cfm/why-media-companies-should-support-a-decentralised-...

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Demoing my beautiful new site theme!

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Does anyone know if there's any beer or hamburgers in this town?

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http://www.andy-j-miller.com/ being held up as an example of a great personal website. It's beautiful. Inspiringly organic.

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For clarity: I won't tolerate or work with, in any capacity, anyone I know to be a misogynist or bigot. And I'll warn others.

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I need more

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Just came across Open Signal: a new kind of community media center. Looks really impressive. https://www.opensignalpdx.org/

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Too many projects think "if we build it they will come". It's not about building cool tech. It's about making something people need.

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This cat posts what she eats on her very own website. https://indiewebcat.com/ate

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This is a big list of decentralized web technology. I wish Urbit wasn't listed, but otherwise: cool! https://decentralize.tech/

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Super-fun to see a Known to Mastodon integration demoed at Summit. Really proud of this open source community.

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Not quite true that some content types won't work on @Medium. Embedmaker lets you embed your own site: https://embedmaker.com/

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Four years ago, I came to this event to demo something called Idno.

Four years later, Known is such a great community. I'm really proud to be back.

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Extremely cool. Here's the entire social graph of independent websites as queryable data. http://www.indiemap.org/

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What's out there? @schnarfed built a web crawler in 15 lines of code and found 706K social connections between independent sites.

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