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Can someone give me some pointers for telling #Substack from non-Substack websites of the "newsletter" type? Unfortunately (for my purposes), #Ghost (and at least one other substack alternative that I know of) duplicate the look and feel of Substack seemingly exactly, down to the /p/ in the URL. If I do a "view source" on a page, what would be telltale signs of "a Substack?" Do Substack pages in all cases contain the string "substack" somewhere in the source code?
#substack #ghost

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KF7CCC Andrew
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Easiest way for a user is to open an incognito browser and click "Subscribe." If you see "By subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use" you'll know.

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Autistic representation in media — In Defense of Anagorism

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Literally #appwalled content, first time I've seen that in the wild.It's clickbait, of course. I have no desire to gawk at the charismatic practices of some faith traditions. Preachers claiming the existence of demonic confederacies arrayed against the president are a subject of some public concern, though.

Peter Lichota

2025-02-09 18:43:26

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WATCH: Trump's Faith Adviser Rages Against ‘Demonic Confederacies' Against Him and Speaks in Tongues (The Daily Beast)

The televangelist tapped by President Donald Trump to lead a new White Housereligious office once claimed "demonic confederacies" were determined to steal t...
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#appwalled

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Karen E. Lund 💙💛
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@DrSprockets First time I've seen something like this.

Added to my filter for bad news sources. No point seeing it in my feed if I can't, you know, *see* it.

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#Allstate ad featuring #Baylor fandom. Seems the future of #advertising is not only not #woke but will be faith-based. Hotez is with Baylor, so I suppose the place is not entirely without merit, but still, ad left a really bad aftertaste. Glad I'm not one of their policyholders.
#advertising #woke #allstate #Baylor

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I can’t watch news on TV — In Defense of Anagorism

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Panama Caves ‹ Explore the Natural Beauty of Bayano Caves

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Producerism: The Homegrown Roots of Trumpism

#producerism #trump #trumpism #fascism #populism #demagogue


Producerism: The Homegrown Roots of Trumpism

Jeff Shantz The disturbing rise of Donald Trump to the presidency and the growing  mobilization of rightwing forces in the United States has driven attempts to understand and situate trumpism and t…
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#trump #fascism #demagogue #populism #trumpism #producerism

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So I take it this "American Eagle" is another Colgan-type subsidiary, the lower tier of a two-tier workforce? It looks that way, anyway.

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Wow, two days in a row my #YouTube comment vaporizes on contact. #enshittification
#enshittification #youtube

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Sci-Hub is now available as meme coin!

No honor among thieves, I guess.

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Substack is a pyramid scheme in terms of "payments" - I am sure they will start ... | Hacker News

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Aaaaaand another "Alt Right Playbook" video drops:

The Alt-Right Playbook x PhilosophyTube: Doublewrong

Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/innuendostudiosco-written and narrated by Abigail Thorn! subscribe to Philo...
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The Ladybird browser is a thing. Definitely dependent on commercial sponsorship, but so far all their sponsors are much smaller than the "big tech" tier of corporations.

What would really allow other organizations to step up would be a simplification of the Web Standards. Complexity of standards equals high entry cost equals oligopoly or monopoly.

I think the best thing going might be Gemini, a massively simplified version of the Web Standards, and there are plenty of Gemini browsers that have been implemented noncommercially. Only downside, the community of Gemini users probably isn't large enough to form a critical mass.

#Ladybird #WebStandards #Gemini #monopoly

#monopoly #gemini #webstandards #Ladybird

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What (when, and where in Friendica) is the use case for the "export all" file from a Friendica account?

#Friendica

#friendica

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Laken Riley sounds like a dream case for the right wing narrative. Not only does it serve as proof of concept for brown-on-white violent crime, but even for shoplifting (perhaps the most aggrandized news trend of 2024) as a "gateway crime." Sometimes a thorough cherry picking of a police blotter hands your enemies an "I told you so" to beat you over the head with. It would be nice if some nice Democrats could get in touch with their inner opportunists. There's a time and a season for bipartisanship, but this ain't it, chief.

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What the Democratic Party needs is a hostile takeover by its progressive faction. Think of it as a correction (hopefully not an overcorrection) for the hostile takeover by the DLC. The Republican Party (which, notably, does not have the "superdelegate" system) has allowed itself to be taken over by its more militant faction at least three times in my lifetime, with mixed results, but as we know, nothing ventured, nothing gained. The Democratic Party is extremely resistant to change, and their ship will sink if something doesn't change.

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‘As If She’d Have a Crystal Ball’: Supporters Race to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Defense As MAGA Critics Make Her the Scapegoat for Wildfires atlantablackstar.com/2025/01/0…

‘As If She’d Have a Crystal Ball’: Supporters Race to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Defense As MAGA ...

As wildfires raged uncontrollably across the Los Angeles area, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and leaving at least five dead, conservatives within the MAGA
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I think Trump is trying to make a political statement. As a protege of Putin, his philosophy of international politics is a post-Westphalian "might makes right" type world order. The Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) case in particular, is a taunt. The island is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, with ambitions for full independence. To someone like Trump, independence is not a status under international law, but the ability to hold one's own against rivals. If Trump were to annex Kalallit Nunaat, what are its 58,000 inhabitants (or even Denmark) going to do, fight back? He's trying to beclown the system of sovereign nation states, which includes a lot of small and/or weak ones that used to be part of empires, as something only fools or idealists believe in. At least Putin is picking on someone 1/4 his size. Trump is a bully in the most pathetic sense of the term.

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I don't do volunteer work for for-profit entities.

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Looks like NPR's "The Daily" is normalizing fascism, trying to paint a human face on DJT's "hostages". The walls keep closing in around me. Keep reminding me that I have allies.

#NPR #jan6 #jan06

#Jan6 #jan06 #npr

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Black and Decker is the #vim of microwave ovens. Would recommend.
#vim

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Can #anagorism survive #panarchy?

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Can anagorism survive panarchy? — In Defense of Anagorism

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#anagorism #panarchy

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Why is the "Judge Judy" character being rebranded as "Judy Justice"? Is she being groomed for a seat on the Supreme Court?

#tv #law #SCOTUS

#tv #law #scotus

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In the age of GagaMAGA you might think it were possible. But it's just a spinoff of "Judge Judy".
"...
On November 1, 2021, Sheindlin launched the ***spinoff streaming series Judy Justice*** on IMDb TV (now Amazon Freevee), another arbitration-based reality court show in which she handles legal disputes. After winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2022 for the first season of Judy Justice, she became the only television arbitrator to have won the award for more than one court show: three for Judge Judy and one for Judy Justice.
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American television judge

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Too old. tfg likes them younger, prettier and more pliable.

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Why are all my Codeberg repositories marked as updated 3 weeks ago? Did Codeberg perform some kind of hard reset?

#Codeberg

#codeberg

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Is newmibridges.michigan.gov going with a dodgy #SSL cert provider, or is #Firefox just being pissy? #Michigan
#michigan #firefox #SSL

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it's using SSL but without any certificate at all. I don't even know how you could set up a server that badly by mistake.
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dan
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MI Bridges’ certificate has been iffy since 2023, if I recall correctly. Though I’ve set up my Firefox install to not load sites with imperfect SSL.

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web.archive.org/web/2009080320…

Yahoo!.GeoCities/SiliconValley.....Christmas - 1999!

SiliconValley Christmas - 1999.
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Freedom of religion is enjoyed by individuals, not businesses (as should be the case), which I think is why the conservative movement invented the "religious freedom" branding for an adjacent-but-not-the-same cause.

#FreedomOfReligion #ReligiousFreedom #USpol

#uspol #FreedomOfReligion #ReligiousFreedom

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“A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect of its economy–a country that switched to Japanese cars the moment they were more reliable, and to Chinese T-shirts the moment they were five cents cheaper–has loyally stuck with a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers.”–Malcolm Gladwell (2005)

#MoralHazard #dental #DentalCare #insurance #USPol

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The Moral-Hazard Myth

The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.
Malcolm Gladwell (The New Yorker)
#uspol #insurance #dental #dentalcare #MoralHazard

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Cat addiction is caused by toxoplasmosis. Dog addiction is caused by dogs. If you have a nanochip in your body, your body will dissolve into gray goo.

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