@tante@tldr.nettime.org"We might call what’s going on now “taste-washing,” an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAnyone else noticing the new Mona jumps the timeline scroll position, thereby losing your place sometimes when you tap towards the bottom end of the timeline? (Seeing it on iPhone usually when I try to tap the bookmark icon on a post towards be bottom of the screen.)
I don’t have the auto-scroll on new posts feature on. This is very much in response to a tap.
CC @…
@cdarwin@c.imVoltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work.
One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf…
@timbray@cosocial.caOne of the more intriguing strands of Big Tech litigation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/meta-and-google-trial-are-infinite-scroll-and-autoplay-creating-addicts
@stefan@gardenstate.socialRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116089095239290279
scroll to the top of this thread to get a great overview of an important debate happening right now.
I don't have strong opinions about how we critique each spec. be mean or not mean. I…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialIntegrated a Feedland widget on my blog sidebar #blogroll
@grork@mastodon.socialThe year is 2032, and web browsers no longer have scroll bars because they literally no longer tell you long the content is because 50% of the scroll distance is… related content and chum boxes.
@david@boles.xyzMemory in the Meme
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I have only one minor criticism of GitHub's highlighting, and I don't know whether it is (or should be) fixable.
In cases such as the one pictured below, it's necessary to scroll/page down hugely to bring a tiny change into sight.
In other words, 'Show Diff' shows much, much more than the diff.
A wild gues…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy own little experiment for you to try:
Open Facebook. (You won’t hear me say that often!)
Scroll. You don’t have to read anything. Just scroll.
Every once in a while, click on an ad — but not the top ad. Make it the second in the list on the side, or one far down your feed. You can open it in a background tab and then close the tab. Tell the model it didn’t •quite• get you right — but you’re engaged, it just needs to drift a little further from who it thinks you are.
Wait for the ads to update. Repeat. And repeat. Watch the model degrade.
To this day, Facebook thinks I’m a gun owner who wants testosterone supplements.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialWhen I scroll through my Matrix app, I see the many channels of really cool and prolific projects. It's so beautiful! 🥰
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… scroll position for freeeeeee as long as bfcache is in play weeeeee https://we…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaMelinda Gates opens the office door. Her new boyfriend, Floridan underground hip-hop artist bleood (formerly known as deffici1e and m4ri), nonchalantly spins in Bill's old chair, midway through popping some ecstasy. Bill's Epstein wall poster's been replaced with a CoD MWII one. It peels slightly.
"whasgood shorty" bleood exclaims nonchalantly.
"Oh... the designer sent in some more logo concepts!" she hands him her phone so he can scroll them. From…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI’ve used this for literally decades; and evangelize for it always.
It’s IMMENSELY useful when doing presentations because you can zoom in on a small section easily to emphasize it
Also, great when doing support for someone or in when screen sharing in meetings https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/11604
@gray17@mastodon.socialtoday's rabbithole: scroll shadows with just css.
- background-attachment - well-established hack, works ok, but tricky to do in some layouts (eg sticky footer)
- container query scroll-state stuck - chrome only for now and kinda buggy
- scroll animation - works ok in chrome and safari. not yet firefox without flag. awkward if you want a smooth fade at a particular closeness.
leaning toward scroll animation, because it feels like the most natural way to express it
@cdarwin@c.imThe timing of this exhibit feels resonant – and a bit ominous.
In January, news broke that Kerouac’s 37-metre-long first-draft scroll of
"On the Road" will be up for auction.
When it was last for sale in 2001, Carolyn Cassady
– Neal Cassady’s former wife
– denounced the auction as “blasphemy”, saying the scroll belonged in a library, not a private collection.
"Jack loved public libraries,” she said at the time, adding:
“If they auction…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe first #Ariane 64 flight is well underway (and has just reached the target orbit)- here is the booster separation from an onboard cam, see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-4-februar-2026/#Feb12 (scroll down ... a lot) for more timesteps from the webcast.
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThree posts in and I really dig the format so far!
Two brothers riffing about Punk Rock / IT-Management is interesting.
(Scroll below the header to see the posts or subscribe.)
https://www.agileisanarchy.com
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaBtw a flap of Swiss cheese will scroll your phone very well with a little help
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/tiktok-a…
@bici@mastodon.socialOh say can you see by the television's glowing light,
What so loudly we rage at the halftime show's streaming?
Whose broad swipes and bright screens through the performative fight,
O'er the comments we scroll, always angrily screaming?
And the outrage we share, the hot takes everywhere,
Gave proof through the night that our team was still there;
Oh say does that star-spangled banner still wave,
O'er the land of live TV and the home of the st…
@cdarwin@c.imJack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for "On the Road"
– the 37 metre (121 ft) long roll of paper on which he typed his defining Beat novel in a three-week burst
– will go under the hammer at Christie’s in March, with a sale estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m ($2.5m to $4m).
The scroll is one of the centrepieces of the Jim Irsay Collection,
one of the most extensive private collections of music, literary,
film and sports memorabilia ever assembled.
…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialOK, also hier ist die Geschichte hinter dem Tofu Jizo (scroll down to "Tofu Bean Curd Jizo at Tofuku-in Temple"). Zur Verehrungspraxis: "Nowadays people come here to rub the hand or arm of the Jizo statue, with the hope to heal their own wounds and get rid of pain."
https://
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deNobody asked for my opinion but here it is: I used middle-click when I was still using Windows to scroll in browsers. When I switched to Ubuntu I was surprised to learn that middle-click did something completely different but totally useful nonetheless. For almost twenty years I now use middle-click pasting across several Linux distributions. I love having kind of a second clipboard.
That being said, I completely agree that this behaviour is unexpected for new or inexperienced users, a…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioBecause @…’s Flipboard site won’t scroll for me (?!?), here’s the paragraph with the punch:
❝It’s worth noting that over the decades, Pixar has explored topics such as, but [not*] limited to: becoming a widower, suddenly becoming a single or adoptive parent, environmental collapse, existential dread, motherhood, and job burnout. The first Incredibles has a subplot where Elastigirl thinks Mr. Incredible is having an affair, Toy Story 3 has the toys accept death by furnace, and Elemental is about interracial relationships. The last two movies Docter directed were Soul, which is about a Black man finding joy in his life again, and Inside Out—maybe the most therapy-ass movie (and series) in the studio’s entire 40-year tenure—is about messy preteen emotions that lead to its main character running away from home.❞
* The word “not” is missing in the original, surely an editorial mistake?
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-M010weUPTnu1lZIfiOE3oQ:a:1876139665-/0
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116002119945073671
I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’.
Animated GIF alt:
App menu − Settings − AI Controls − “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle).
Then scroll down and find …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaThis year will be the year to:
Seize the means of computation
- move away from iOS
- install Asahi on my mini m1
- draw on procreate instead of doom scroll
- de-JavaScript
@poppastring@dotnet.socialNew #VS2026 Insiders update brings fast scrolling, middle‑click scroll, HTML‑rich copy/paste, slimmer margins, colorized completions, partial‑accept suggestions, and streamlined Markdown preview. Small changes, big gains in flow. #visualstudio
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialBlocking off time in my calendar to scroll through Goldbelly. Please, this is important.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI just scrolled through #LinkedIn and read my feed for the first time in 2 months. *shudders*
Enough internet for the day, I need a book and some tea to earn my brain cells back.
(In all seriousness I was shocked by just how homogenous everyone’s writing style is: every post had the same rhythm and the same uncanny, unnatural cadence. That’s not how anyone speaks! Or writes! Every sentence just reads like the author is blowing smoke up their own ass)
(Also - I didn’t see a single new idea that I hadn’t seen a year ago when I used to actually scroll through LinkedIn every day)
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialBad Bot Problem
Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialI am all for human-made podcasts and they will never disappear but still this app is a nice demonstrator about the added value AI podcasts can have, I listen to it now and then.
#ai
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI'm once again having a bit of a time-wasting scroll through the rejected petitions on the UK Parliament Petitions website.
Sadly the site doesn't tell us who sent each one in, but I would imagine this one was submitted by "Mr J Oliver in Essex".
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEU threatens TikTok with massive fine over addictive design features https://therecord.media/eu-threatens-tiktok-with-fine-over-addictive-features
@Jyoti@mas.toNever forget that the liberals that cherry-pick his words now would have hated him back then:
#MartinLutherKing
@ellie@ellieayla.net
@servelan@newsie.social@hereswhykevin on Threads:
For the past 8 hours, the White House has been live-streaming this really weird lo-fi music video on YouTube that features a cartoon Donald Trump sitting by a Christmas tree, reading a book while his ‘accomplishments’ scroll on the left side of the screen. Your tax dollars paid for this.
https://www.threads.com/@hereswhykevin/post/DSjlPqtjgAM?xmt=AQF0yEB4y13kd6nd9uk1CYXhBaFYzwq0fF7NDbgv9dcJ1AE
@jswright61@ruby.socialI love it when @… is comfortable in her job and has time to scroll Mastodon AND BOOST the good stuff. My timeline is better for it.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaIf only all online stores would have those little pop-ups that ask for your e-mail for a newsletter or an auto-playing video while you scroll etc... I would save SO MUCH MONEY. Because once those trigger on a homepage, I'm just ctrl-w out of there.
@doktrock@toad.socialM 3.8 #earthquake, southern Illinois in the Illinois basin - Ozark dome region. Jan 20, 2026; 8.8 km depth. Scroll down the page for a general tectonic overview by #USGS.
@cdarwin@c.imNY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills
@whophd@ioc.exchange@… Apple II history question: Do you remember the boot loader for the Microcom versions of Flight Simulator? (It was only Microcom, I think?)
It might only be cracked versions, or some of them. But I'm trying to get a screenshot or anything of the boot loader that does this:
1. No scroll
2. No "]" prompt at the bottom
@Jyoti@mas.to
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialIt's so dumb that we use the term #socialmedia to refer to "the place where I see what my friends and family are up to" as well as "the place I go to mindlessly scroll through algorithmically chosen media". https://
@hieronymus@chaos.socialI find it so relaxing to scroll & read through #Mastodon with my #ASUS #VivoBook14Flip in #tablet
