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Mediapart en 2023 : tous nos comptes, chiffres et résultats | Le Club
Fascinated by the way French publisher Mediapart publishes its financials each year for all to see. It’s doing well with over 200,000 subscribers and growing.
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A Diary of Gaza’s Destruction - New Lines Magazine
The below is based on a collection of diary entries written by the Palestinian poet and literary critic Talat Qudaih from the beginning of the present war in Gaza until February 2024.
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Lots of Primroses now along the ditches. Spring arriving.
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Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 - Referendum Ireland
The Referendum results will be posted here. I have never been less motivated to vote but in the end did. Never seen the polling station so quiet.
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Updated to IOS 17.4. Opening Safari for the first time and having to choose the browser is a terrible user experience. A list of browsers, some of which I’d never heard of, and Safari not visible above the fold. Terrible.
I support the EU trying to get to grips with the monopoly power of these platforms, but this is not the way.
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This feels significant.
Klarna announced that it’s AI assistant has handled two thirds of customer service chats in the last month.
It is doing the equivalent work of 700 full-time agents
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MSF strongly condemns deadly Israeli attack on MSF shelter in Gaza | MSF
This demonstrates, once again, that Israeli forces are not ensuring the safety of civilians in their military operations and shows a complete disregard for human life and lack of respect for the medical mission. This makes it almost impossible to sustain medical humanitarian activities in Gaza.
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Moon Blue
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Finished reading: The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu 📚
Both fascinating and disturbing. The content about the Weimar Republic sent a shiver down my spine. History doesn’t repeat but it can rhyme. Don’t take democracy for granted.
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Bathing shelter Bull Wall.
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How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism | Washington Monthly
policy makers enabled the emergence of a new kind of monopoly that engages in a broad range of deeply anticompetitive business practices. These include, most significantly, the cornering of advertising markets, which historically provided the primary means of financing journalism. This is the colossal policy failure that has effectively destroyed the economic foundations of a free press
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Soft Day
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Multilingual Dublin.
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All good things come to an end. I sat in from of my first Apple machine in 1986 and have been an Apple fanboy ever since. No more. As an EU citizen, I found their communication yesterday re new App Store rules condescending in the extreme.
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Fascinating as always. Will need to re read a few times.
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The book project Shift Happens raised over $750,000 via crowdfunding on Kickstarter in February 2023. Author Marcin Wichary hired me six years ago — first as editor and later adding the role of project manager — for this sprawling enterprise. People have asked us since: how did you raise such a huge sum for a book? A book on keyboards?! And it’s 1,216 pages long?!
Fascinating.
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Incoming storm Isha is looking pretty nasty.
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The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel - Jon Worth
A very deep dive. Passport control now a major factor in slowing things down.
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The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation - by Ethan Mollick
The teams I worked with did valuable research, and the effort produced teaching experiences with real impact, but, at some point, if we could have anticipated the evolution of AI, we could have waited.
An interesting thought exercise.
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The incredible shrinking podcast industry | Semafor
The dominant podcasting platform had begun switching off automatic downloads for users who haven’t listened to five episodes of a show in the last two weeks
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Calm
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Ireland’s Eye
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John Battelle’s Search Blog Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data
What truly matters here is how consumer expectations will shift toward a model where each of us is feels in control of our core public personae independent of any tech platform.
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Parents hugged their adult children with a ferocity borne of the pain of absence..
Can confirm. I was one of these parents this year.