Wells Fargo's unbelievably lame online operation does not allow the use of apostrophes in the bill payment field where you type in the person you are paying. So any person or company with an apostrophe (e.g. O'Connor) in their name is forbidden from being spelled accurately.
Well, it's only 2023, so I guess it's too early for the biggest financial institutions to do this right...
Big Journalism is terminally timid (or worse). Neither the Post nor the Times could bring itself to call the Alabama murders what they were -- not "racially motivated" (in both papers' headlines) but simply and directly, racist.
The lack of journalistic spine is remarkable.
Vital new feature has been added to Mastodon!
I just made my account widely searchable -- thank you to the Mastodon team for this!
Not available on all instances, but several large ones -- notably Mastodon Social -- have added it already.
It's in Edit Profile / Public Profile / Privacy & Reach and looks like this:
nostr:npub1ksysku5zy3scz57vfd55xk3e4g9nljl98qh3k0uph57j54g7aw6shm89q5 A fascinating initiative...
I would have preferred to see you partner on this with the Internet Archive -- and put static pages there.
The archive strikes me as the most logical place for people to put their stuff for posterity.
nostr:npub1k4uz82vjsjyv55w5aqh8ta7kdmhpzsa5xadm08aepgclpv33979q7p0yfm A "billionaire" who can't have the cash ready?
Four excellent (former) Motherboard journalists have created their own subscription outlet. It already shows great promise.
I wish they had a lower-cost subscription tier -- and I don't see them here on Mastodon (a major omission).
But it's great to see that they're using open-source Ghost as their platform.
Recommended!
nostr:npub19jp4gk0xfrzgqle3js9ersdr4zpsqgyca22la9gy95zuycp0xggsmllmst You may be right.
Big Journalism and its hangers-on still believe Twitter (now called X by its sociopath owner) is where they have to be. And as he launches insult after insult to the press and what it does, they just stay there and support him. Today's case in point:
It's clearly a combination of cowardice and calculation on the part of news orgs and the people who run them. Journalistic integrity doesn't even begin to factor into it. Which is sad, if not pathetic.
The so-called "Constitutional Sheriffs" are among the most dangerous people in America -- and their malign influence is growing. Here's some great student reporting from ASU's Cronkite School (I work there) and the Arizona Center for Investigative Journalism. https://azcir.org/cspoa/
The big mistake NBC News makes here is to given even slight credence to the extremists' claims that their supposed tool to uncover voter fraud is about uncovering voter fraud.
The blatantly obvious goal is to muck up the elections process even more -- to make more people doubt outcomes, and to throw sand into the gears of election operations.
Journalists, please please please do better.
nostr:npub1s4pjt4tyvvwfu7znws9zuw0cxnkn6s4vfl7al25gzzdhq3md5mlqt5zzn6 Headline is (I am NOT joking): "Elections are Bad for Democracy" --
The RICO laws are deeply flawed, and civil libertarians have been decrying prosecutorial abuses for decades.
So why is everyone cheering on the Georgia prosecutions so ardently? (Yes, rhetorical question.)
Trump should die in prison, and he obviously committed a host of crimes. Is this the right way to nail him? I have questions...
nostr:npub19v8902xk6e76j7r8tpswus6aqa4mtsh0sry0jqhk6tnhulxfmg4s050w22 I want to donate to you but the only payment options are Monthly and Annually, when my intention is a one-time donation to help defray legal costs that (hopefully) won't be recurring. Hope you can fix this.
The New York Times' coverage of yet another abuse of the legal system against a journalism organization is so neutral as to be meaningless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html
nostr:npub1y85cym5f83ahszpk6dnua7sg0mnftprjl0stnvgy4gq088vvjajsqmhhrq I don't see a copyright issue in reading and remembering things -- and if there is, then we need permission to read, which is not a good thing.
Extremists looking for books to ban can't be bothered to, you know, read books. So they go to a "source" that's notorious for spouting bullshit -- you guessed it, ChatGPT -- for advice on what books to ban.
nostr:npub1lea7fgga3mvxtamdzlga88ry2mukp4al4dqnqjarydp463ma6wnqd4zztp Meanwhile I'm still waiting for search.
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 Trying to figure if I can hack a Python script to do it.
nostr:npub1lea7fgga3mvxtamdzlga88ry2mukp4al4dqnqjarydp463ma6wnqd4zztp Pls share if you do...
nostr:npub1hx90n0mzt7323wtt00wy0l7u56m4zsm5e50tlcq2pq006dw58rgs77lyhl The reporter of this story has been, from my perspective, visibly on the side of Big Publishing for years. Which makes the relative fairness of this story almost shocking. nostr:npub1fl6vrld9v59s4sz0da29kh2fwelwjdx4pmp8tscel3vhsg2qq3qq57kwvj nostr:npub1xrj3t052eyqclk39m85tvffsge35zr3kedkmsf8l6dheq8zrt8rs589q43
nostr:npub1lea7fgga3mvxtamdzlga88ry2mukp4al4dqnqjarydp463ma6wnqd4zztp Given the pace at which Canvas adds vital features, I'd look for that obvious one in, say, 2029.