Carl T. Holscher fights for the customers.
Buy my book!Instapaper feels truly dead. Where are people going for read later services?
My main use case is filtering my RSS feeds to a place that’s not an open browser tab. Android + Web is ideal. I’m on Mac/Ubuntu most of the time.
I don’t care for Pocket’s focus on sharing but it’s fine.
I want a place to throw articles to then read later.
I’m looking forward to Readwise’s Reader when it gets released. Matter is iOS only.
In the end, what do NFTs stand for? Images that you have a fairly convoluted way of proving you own? Except you don’t own the image, you own URL to an image. It’s like a joke that you have to explain every element of as you go – by the time you’ve reached the conclusion, the person in question has tuned out. And really, what normal person is going to do these mental gymnastics to agree that your digital art is worth something?
The Internet of Grift
I listened to two people talk about NFTs and possibly making their own. And how it’s an investment or can make them money.
NFTs are an MLM scheme.
The people at the top are pumping money and hype into the economy. Everyone else looks at the huge sales numbers and media attention warranted by the few large sales.
But what are you buying? A Hyperlink to an image file.
Buying a link. That you hope will remain working. Either because the companies hosting stay in business. Or IPFS which is Napster for Web3.
At least with Beanie Babies you had a cuddly stuffed animal.
This is how my days go sometimes when I need to go bug hunting with multiple devices connected to webinars.
This may have also been the moment I uttered the words. “There’s a chance I have too many computers.”
What The Internet Did to Garfield is… an experience. I watched this across three sessions and it’s a deep dive (and I mean center of the earth deep) into the Garfield comic and his relationship with Jon.
I found it fascinating and weird as any good exploration into a long-running creation can be. It goes to dark places but the creator hides the worst of it in an effort to stay monetized on YouTube and because some thing don’t need to be shown it’s not graphic.
But art museums in Vienna have found a clever way to display their nude collections online without tripping any alarms or threatening their museum accounts: Starting an OnlyFans account. The Vienna Tourist Board, working on the museums’ behalf, is now displaying nude art on the platform, which is mostly used by sex workers.
Vienna museums move NSFW images to OnlyFans
It’s absolutely wild to display works of art, they need to be moved to a platform synonymous with sex work.
Carl
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