I've been working since last fall to cancel recurring #ActBlue contributions my father got onto but can't get off of. They don't centralize all the recurring charges, everything looks long canceled under his login. When you find receipts (only by e-mail), they don't make recurrences easy to cancel. Each time I've thought I've gotten them all, I find a few charges keep reappearing. They hold themselves out as the good guys, but they are so sketch. To think I even used to tip them.
("not easy to cancel" means they expire the links in the receipts — pretty quickly, so you have to request a fresh receipt copy by e-mail then cancel through that link then fill a form with a reason for the cancelation. it's not end-of-the-world arduous, but plenty of speedbumps for the older people outraged by MSNBC into signing up for these.)
when you put it that way, i’m not sure i’m comfortable with you boosting my toots.
gotta admit he’s really upped their software quality game.
a promoted tweet by Elon Musk in which the word “Promoted” is crushed into and overlaps with the first word of the tweet. The tweet says “Something special coming soon”
[tech notebook entry] Building a resilient RSS feed unifier with ZIO https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/07/29/building-a-resilient-rss-feed-unifier-with-zio/index.html
when i ask the evidence what it supports, it says nothing, yet i find so many people brazenly speaking in its name.
this is quite the coincidence for a man who lives very, very online. i kind of don’t believe this timeline we’re in. https://mastodon.social/@Bradcopter/110795206961568361
there’s a conspiracy to confuse us with belief in conspiracies.
"Why is DNS still hard to learn?" by @b0rk https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/
I'm spreading my writing across multiple sites these days, so I've put together some unified RSS feeds to which people with terrible taste can subscribe to find it all.
All blogs:
https://www.interfluidity.com/unify-rss/all-blogs.rss
All blogs + microblogs:
https://www.interfluidity.com/unify-rss/all-blogs-and-microblogs.rss
graft is a grift for the one who receives it.
they give us a “no thanks” button when what we really need is a “fuck no” button.
the justice i want is a good life for everyone.
desantis is to #NewCollege as elon is to twitter.
XML is a retrofuture.
“while we have had plenty of technological advances in the past 25 years, we have also been constantly reminded of Kranzberg’s First Law of Technology: ‘technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.’” @davekarpf https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-the-long-boom ht @jeffjarvis
everybody’s dissin’ on x but i think there’s room for a porn / crypto scam promo site in the ecosystem.
i am very sorry about #SineadOConnor.
"This is what Patrick Ball from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group calls 'empiricism washing': take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures, and whenever anyone accuses you of bias, you can insist that you're just following an empirical conclusion of a neutral algorithm, because 'math can't be racist.'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/
[new draft post] If I were the plutocracy https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/if-i-were-the-plutocracy/index.html