My testing with a sample size of one (me) concluded that years ago.

Ars Technica

The spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine

This week's unanimous vote on phenylephrine's ineffectiveness was decades in the making.

Libya after the flood. It’s like a piece has been cut out with a very large scalpel.

The most significant news in #Apple 's event today wasn't iPhone or such, right? They didn't say many exciting things there other than that some Silicon structures on their new chip are only 12 atoms wide. But instead the news was that they want to be #carbon #neutral across the entire company and all of their products in 7 years. That sounds extremely unlikely to me. But then, 12 atoms wide also sounds extremely unlikely to me. What do you make of this?

Thinking of the beautiful tour we got of the abandoned Kasbah in the beautiful Atlas Mountains by the most friendly self appointed tour guide ever. Not far from the center of today’s #earthquake in #morocco.

Linked from my site's moderators,: making sense of interaction and discussion patterns, healthy and unhealthy ones. I like this a lot!

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discourse

By Devine Lu Linvega

Russia is resurrecting Stalin as a positive figure.

The Special Ideological Operation Going AccordingTo Plan — Russia Post

Andrei Kolesnikov writes about the ideological foundation of the Putin regime, the most important part of which is the destruction of the memory of...

374 automated tests pass. Phheeewww. Time to cook dinner. How's homemade spaghetti with homegrown zucchini? Sorry, it's a closed family event.

#threads is beginning to do some new stuff that I hadn't seen anywhere, neither in Twitter nor Mastodon nor anywhere else. Like this: sort posts by engagement.

Threads

Tom Bender (@tb_99999) on Threads

on mobile, we're rolling out a richer view of post activity. tap the like count on any post to see quotes and reposts. this will also be on w...

(Now you may not care about this feature. My point being is that they are innovating and going beyond the Twitter baseline, which in many ways, Mastodon is shooting for.) How do *we* innovate in the Fediverse? Driven by user wants or delight? (I don't think I have access to it yet; rolling deployment I guess)

What’s the fediverse app closest to what Usenet was in its prime? I remember hierarchical discussion trees with unread message nodes in the tree in bold. I think.