I had no idea you could do this! Joseph Basquin points out that you can manage bookmarks by treating them like files. The drag-and-drop strategy doesn’t work everywhere, but is solid in Chrome and Safari.
If you’re a Spotlight / Alfred / Raycast user on the Mac or the Start menu search on Windows, this might be the fastest possible way to get to a website.
[afewthingz.com]
DomainInvesting spotted the Whois-listed change yesterday.
Last year, threads.com was just the website for a Slack-like app — you can imagine the traffic it got when Meta launched its Twitter alternative. Shopify bought Threads-the-company in June, though, perhaps clearing the way for Meta to scoop the domain for Threads-the-platform. And just in time for its Connect event, no less!
[DomainInvesting.com]
The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.
Meta tried to settle, and it tried to appeal, but former moderators and the Kenyan courts have now rejected both attempts according to The Associated Press. In the US, Meta settled with content moderators for $52 million in 2020, after some were diagnosed with PTSD.
Last year, Kenya also ordered Meta to provide mental health care to moderators.
The company is ending its Mozilla.social Fediverse experiment in content moderation and will remove all content and accounts — but you still have time to move elsewhere:
At any point before Dec 17, 2024, you can migrate your account to another instance on Mastodon by following these instructions.
TechCrunch notes that Mozilla had about 270 active Mastodon users as of Tuesday. A tracker based on the Mastodon API reports about 8 million accounts and 1 million or so active users overall.
[support.mozilla.org]
Anthropic’s new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what’s next for generative AI.
The democratic process is nice and all, but who could go back to normal “I Voted” stickers after this?
The creator of “One Million Checkboxes” has shared some heartwarming stories about the creative ways that teens interacted with the now-shuttered website. Check out the below video, this X thread, or Eieio’s blog for some feel-good Friday vibes about concealing URLs in binary and creating pixelated Rick-Rolls.
Insider accounts of the company reveal a chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and troubles with the SEC
Now, when you choose “Share” within an already-shared Google Drive folder or document, you can click a new envelope-shaped icon to write an email to those you’ve shared it with.
The feature is rolling out now for some, with a broader rollout starting August 26th.
Meta is now testing posts that will disappear after just 24 hours, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. (You may recall Twitter’s short-lived version of this, Fleets.)
When replying to one, you’ll see a timer next to the person’s name, along with a banner at the top that says the post will disappear, taking any replies with it, the outlet writes.
A few folks working on decentralized social stuff just proposed a new symbol for all things fediverse: the asterism, represented here by three asterisks in a triangle. Looks like this: ⁂
I dig it! But I might like one of the Hacker News comments even better: “that’s the sarcasterisk and should replace /s in modern communication.”
The new owners of the satire site rescued it from content farm hell. Now, they’re relaunching its newspaper.
The company closed the waitlist for its “prototype” generative search product, sending out emails like the one below to signed-up users who weren’t chosen to test it.
The company has said only 10,000 users will get access at first, which could help it if its searchbot gives bad recommendations like gluing slippery cheese to pizza.
