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9 votes
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Muslim Magomayev - Luchshij gorod Zemli (The best city on Earth) (1964)
6 votes -
Taiwan ruling party suffers major defeat in local elections
9 votes -
Natalie Wynn: The stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from alt-right domination
32 votes -
New research suggests optimism for HIV/AIDS
6 votes -
World Record Progression: Super Mario Bros. 3 Warpless | Summoning Salt
15 votes -
What are you reading these days? #7
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6
11 votes -
A site that shows the most popular boards on 4chan right now
14 votes -
A break in the quest for the quantum speed limit
7 votes -
One of the few places where a communist can still dream
7 votes -
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
11 votes -
What these two French words can teach us about social change
3 votes -
Your own user page now has paginated Topics and Comments views - let's talk about user history visibility
When you're viewing your own user page, there are now two other "tabs" available, one for showing only topics that you've posted, and one for only comments. These pages are paginated, so you can...
When you're viewing your own user page, there are now two other "tabs" available, one for showing only topics that you've posted, and one for only comments. These pages are paginated, so you can go back through your whole history of topics/comments. I also intend to make the "recent activity" view paginated as well, but that's a tiny bit more complicated, so I left it out for now.
I plan to extend the tabs/pagination to all user pages some time next week, but as I previously promised, I wanted to give people at least a few days to be able to review their own posts and go back and see if there's anything they want to edit/delete before other users can more easily look through their posts.
This leads into a discussion that I want to have about whether we should do anything special to hide user history.
In general, I think that showing user history is good. It's valuable from an accountability perspective and it has a lot of legitimate benefits. If I run across a user that consistently makes good posts, it's nice to be able to look at their history and see some of the other comments they've made. Maybe (once the site is larger, anyway), I'll even learn about some new groups that I'm interested in by seeing where that user hangs out.
However, there are also obvious downsides, and we're seeing some major demonstrations of this in the media lately (mostly applied to Twitter). I don't want to get into the individual cases, but there have been repeated instances of people digging up years-old tweets and using them as ways to attack people. The main problem with this is that a full history (especially when combined with search) makes it very easy to find things to shame people about, especially when they're pulled entirely out of context of how they were written in the first place.
Tildes is still very new, but this is a real possibility as the site goes on. Do we want people to be able to easily dig up old comments a user made 5+ years ago? Do the potential downsides of that ability outweigh the benefits from being able to easily look back through a user's history?
One other thing to keep in mind is that once the site is publicly visible (and especially once there's an API), there will be external databases of everyone's posts. We can make it more difficult/inconvenient for people to be able to search/review user history, but we can't make it impossible. There's just no way to do that with a site where your posts are public.
Let me know your thoughts, it's a really difficult subject and one that I've been thinking about a lot myself as more and more of these "person in spotlight has embarrassing social media history" cases come up.
79 votes -
The “geno-economists” say DNA can predict our chances of success. Critics counter that their methods are naïve, offensive or both.
5 votes -
When is Firefox going to add support for dynamic module imports?
And currently it's a SyntaxError to boot. So nothing runs, even it doesn't run into an import call.
4 votes -
A group of school students preparing for a nationwide strike over climate change inaction have prompted the closure of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's electorate office.
8 votes -
Seven cookbooks for getting started with a paleo diet
5 votes -
A look into the accident that was gated reverb and how it created a decade of music - and then made its return in the here and now | Vox
8 votes -
Song lyrics repetition analysis
11 votes -
Thousands of Cuban doctors leave Brazil after Bolsonaro's win
12 votes -
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
28 votes -
Russia fails to curb new powers of chemical weapons watchdog
7 votes -
Funeral - Privacidad EP (2018)
3 votes -
Trump-Russia is too complex to report. We need a new kind of journalism
10 votes -
The Invisible Hit Parade: How Unofficial Concert Recordings Have Flowered in the 21st Century
7 votes -
Can I view older comments in my profile?
I was looking for a comment I wrote a month ago, but the comments in my profile only seem to go back three weeks. Is there any way to browse back further in my history?
6 votes -
Why standing desks are overrated
18 votes -
Publishers are treating games like a commodity and it’s going badly
17 votes -
The Lion King | Official teaser trailer
17 votes -
You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true
8 votes -
What have you been watching/reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of. If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're...
Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its Anilist, MAL, or any other anime/manga database you use!
7 votes -
Field of dreams: Heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships
6 votes -
A 23-year-old designer has won a top £50,000 ($64,385) prize after creating a low-cost bamboo housing unit to address the Philippines' slum crisis
8 votes -
CHICKEN 5.0.0 has been released
6 votes -
Transitioning from bullied kid to wrestling champ
4 votes -
Facebook criticized for allowing South Sudanese user to auction off 16-year-old bride
11 votes -
Walter "Earlonne" Woods - Host of Ear Hustle podcast - has had his sentence commuted by the governor of California
@earhustlesq: Some very big news to share: Today Earlonne's sentence was commuted by @JerryBrownGov!! This means that E should be out of prison very soon - more info to come next week. Until then, check out the letter from the governor!! #thankful
8 votes -
Inside the Flat Earth Conference, where the world’s oldest conspiracy theory is hot again
9 votes -
How to build a low-tech website
20 votes -
New rule: Just don't go there
8 votes -
"The Temperature of the Air on the Bow of the Kaleetan" by Chris Zabriskie
4 votes -
At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
34 votes -
~music Listening Club 23 - Dark Side of the Moon
Welcome to the 23rd week, it had to come eventually...another classic record discussion: The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd! Posting a little early since I'll be busy celebrating...
Welcome to the 23rd week, it had to come eventually...another classic record discussion: The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd! Posting a little early since I'll be busy celebrating Thanksgiving, have a great day everyone.
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. Its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968.
Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of The Dark Side of the Moon several months before recording began. New material was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The group used advanced recording techniques at the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops; analogue synthesizers are prominent, and snippets from interviews with Pink Floyd's road crew and others provide philosophical quotations. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many sonic aspects and the recruitment of singer Clare Torry, who appears on one track. The iconic sleeve was designed by Storm Thorgerson; following keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design, it depicts a prism spectrum, representing the band's lighting and the record's themes.
The Dark Side of the Moon produced two singles: "Money" and "Us and Them". The album topped the Billboard chart for a week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Following a change in how Billboard counts sales in 2009, it re-entered the chart and has since appeared for over 900 weeks. With estimated sales of over 45 million, it is Pink Floyd's bestselling album and one of the bestselling worldwide. It has been remastered and rereleased several times, and covered in its entirety by several acts. It is regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Here's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the artist, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with The Dark Side of the Moon! Remember that this is intended to be a slow moving thing, feel free to take your time and comment at any point in the week!
If you'd like to stream or buy the album, it can be found on most platforms here.
Rather than get an obscure record this week, I'd love to hear from you in responses to this comment!
9 votes -
Ten "other" conversation topics for Thanksgiving dinner
4 votes -
The past, present, and future of Diablo
6 votes -
Nogu Svelo! - Nashi junyje smeshnyje golosa (Our young funny voices, 2002)
3 votes -
Slick Master Rick – Nightmare (feat. Jammin Gerald) [Midnight Shift] (2018)
3 votes -
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 5: Public Housing Part 1
6 votes -
The kinetic sculptures of Nemo Gould
5 votes -
The triple jeopardy of a Chinese math prodigy
6 votes