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Us, after a long holiday weekend, but also Billy McFarland, the tech bro influencer / fraudster behind Fyre Festival, aka one of the worst pop culture moments that you’d maybe just started to forget about.

Over the years, Mastodon has occasionally seen the number of incoming users shift from a flood to a trickle and back again.

On The Talk Show, John Gruber and Jason Kottke got way down in the weeds on the evolution of blogging, what it means to be A Blogger, how social media changed what it means to write on the internet, and much more. There’s like a whole hour just about headlines! It’s super nerdy and super fun.

They even have sport mode.

The community over at Stripperweb has questions for the forum’s anonymous owner after a banner appeared last week announcing that, for reasons unknown, it would be shutting down on February 1st.

So it’s time to break out the lotions, carbs, and the internet’s favorite local news report. At least we have Samsung Unpacked, the big Mobile World Congress show, and death to look forward to.

Tumblr connoisseurs may remember the tale of the Second Century Warlord. If you’re one of them, I promise you’ve never heard it like this.

At nine years old, Dieunerst Collin entered meme immortality via this 2013 Vine clip comparing the side-eyeing youth to Lil Terrio, and since he was at a Popeyes, he became the “Popeyes Kid.”

Less than a month after publishing an article about how The Youth are totally into flip phones these days, The New York Times is talking about how Gen Z is obsessed with crappy old digital cameras. As a 26 year-old who went through a CoolPix phase in college, then a film phase, and who just bought another point-and-shoot, I just want the kids to know I support them.

One of the services we mentioned in our article about the race to build a better Twitter was Hive Social; however, at the time, you couldn’t use it after the operators shut down to fix a few security flaws.

If you’re old enough to remember the words “via Hiptop,” then you’ll recognize that instead of being tweet-like, the new Instagram Notes feature takes inspiration from Twitter’s predecessor — AOL Instant Messenger away messages.

Motherboard writes that the kid — who says his name is Matan Even — also famously flashed a pro-Hong Kong T-shirt at a Clippers game, crashed a Blizzcon World of Warcraft panel, and appeared on InfoWars when he was younger.

I once called my toddler son impersonating “The Fat Controller” character from Thomas the Tank Engine to congratulate him on a successful poop. Imagine how motivating a $25 personalized Cameo Kids video would have been!

With protests raging across China over its zero-covid policy, Bloomberg and others have noticed that Chinese Central Television (CCTV) broadcasts from Qatar appear to be avoiding footage showing thousands of maskless fans. Here’s a good side-by-side example: CCTV on the left.

No it isn’t.

Twitter’s greatest poster has shared his thoughts on the platform’s new owner in an interview with The Washington Post. Here’s Dril on Musk:

In this 2013 CNBC video, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey calls the 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 water landing in the Hudson River a moment that “changed everything.”