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On The Media - a podcast analyzing the media, giving historical and scientific context to news coverage. In the process, it turns out to be the best in depth news shows. Academics and journalists love this show but it doesn’t seem to be as big of a hit with the greater public. I recommend this show very highly.

Also listen to a bunch of nerdy academic podcasts like The Dissenter and New Books in Science, Psychology, Philosophy, etc in the New Books networks.

“Instead of seeking happiness, save money with misery”

Mastodonians, Kbingers, and Fedizens are all superb. I’m not a fan of “feds” because it has another pretty common usage. I feel like whatever term is chosen should unambiguously evoke the fediverse.

Riffing off of another comment, I think it’s ok to have terms specific to each platform, and then a term for all platforms.

Platform specific:

• Lemming
• Kbiner
• Mastadoner

Overall:

• Fediverser

“The feds” don’t have the best connotation…

Also in practice the sentences come out a bit unclear to me. “The fed that posted this clearly knew their stuff.” “Some feds just like to stir things up.”

Edit: that said, I think that’s a really good point about the need for a platform neutral term.

This is why I said fewer cars, not no cars. Most people obviously do not drive 160 miles a day. With better infrastructure and public transportation, a 2 car family might go down to 1 car, or replace half of their car trips with other modalities, etc.

Outside of the US and Canada, electric bikes look to be the future instead of mainly electric cars. E-bikes are not just massively more environmentally friendly, they’re also radically reshaping city design to be more livable. I hope the future isn’t just a different kind of car. I hope, for the sake of the environment and society, it’s a world with fewer cars.

On The Media is the best news podcast. It reports on how stories are being reported, hence “on the media”, and in the process ends up being the most informative and deep reporting available. Journalists and academics love it, it’s a legendarily good show that started on NPR radio.

What are the controversies with DuckDuckGo? I’ve never heard of anything.

I thought it wasn’t, but dumber things exist so I had the slightest uncertainty.

This might be a dumb question, but is this real?

Can someone explain this to me?

Edit: haha of course BotW. Didn’t make the connection. Thanks.