A Miscellany Starting The Second Weekend In July

In no particular order:

• I’m a bit nervous about how much the various media conglomerates are deleting content online
  • Our tax code in the USA is biased in weird ways to favor them doing things like this
  • From an archival perspective looking at tools like yt-dlp you end up with invocations looking like yt-dlp –xattr-set-filesize –restrict-filenames –continue –embed-thumbnail –video-multistreams –audio-multistreams –write-auto-subs –embed-subs –embed-metadata –embed-chapters –xattrs –concurrent-fragments 32 –downloader aria2c –downloader-args “-s16 -j16 -x16” –windows-filenames –trim-filenames 64 –mtime –no-remove-chapters perhaps
• Threads is getting overrun with right-wing extremists apparently
  • Taylor Lorenz posted screenshots of right-wing extremists being confused by it, though
  • Steve Herman posted a link to a story in Mashable where warning labels are being removed from the accounts of right-wing influencers who are setting up on Threads
  • Adam Mosseri claims Threads won’t “encourage” politics or “hard news” but it seems like that statement may prove hollow based upon organic user behavior
  • Although I created an account on Threads, I nuked it which resulted in my destroying any presence I had on Instagram too
  • Ruth over at glammr.us posted an update that glammr.us is preemptively blocking Threads based upon Moms For Liberty popping up in multiple spots on Threads
  • Will Threads becoming the new Gab? Time will tell.
• Items from the RSS feeds have been weird
  • The Roys Report Alliance University in New York Closes Its Doors After 140 Years
  • Variety Empire Cinemas in U.K. Goes Into Administration, Closes Six Branches
  • rtl-sdr.com Receiving Unintentional Voice Transmissions from GPS Satellites
  • Defense News Court ruling could overturn federal control of the National Guard
  • The Hechinger Report Moms For Liberty flexes its muscles — and faces pushback
  • The A.V. Club One of Disney’s latest streaming movies had a shelf life of about 7 weeks
  • Book Riot A Censorship Language Primer
  • Ars Technica Motorola’s “Satellite Link” hotspot lets you send messages via outer space
  • The Roys Report Americans Who Never Attend Church Now Outnumber Regular Attendees
• I’m finding that I am a halfway decent teacher when it comes to computer basics
• I’m finding that hiding any talent or skill in the arts so as to conform to the business worlds expectations of efficiency and productivity to keep the mighty engine of capitalism running has not necessarily been good for me. I certainly would have been far happier if I had previously let artistic expression flow more in my life.