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Whoa... 95% of canceled annual app subscribers never come back, according to RevenueCat's latest State of Subscription Apps 2026 report.
Month 1 alone accounts for 35% of all annual cancellations, and shopping apps see the earliest churn of any category.
Full breakdown 9to5mac.com/new-report-shows-annual-app-subscribers-rarely-return-after-they-cancel/
@stux @dannotdaniel @shaedrich @notbyai @AIFree
Stux, can you add Dan's AIFree emojis for mstdn.social?
@mastodonmigration @stux @shaedrich @notbyai @AIFree
this is the way - any admin can add them for the instance and then all users of the instance can use them!
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US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
"We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/us-space-force-confirms-spacex-will-build-sensor-to-shooter-targeting-network/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica space junk to infinity and beyond
So the follow up question is: what kind of shitty used computer can you get, today, for under 250 bucks?
We talking 8 gigs of memory? 4? 2? A megabyte count? Let me know what sort of computer you could acquire and install Linux on for 250 or less, at this point in our dying economy.
@junebug An e-waste recycling non-profit near me has lots of laptops under $250, some with 16GB of RAM: https://www.ebay.com/str/freegeekportland/PC-Laptops-Netbooks/_i.html?_sacat=177
I imagine there are similar offerings all over!
Just days after the #FAA accepted the findings of a launch mishap investigation, Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin space venture announced that its #NewGlenn rocket will soon send 48 satellites into orbit for the high-speed internet network that Bezos approved when he was #Amazon CEO. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-amazon-leo-satellites/ #Space #AmazonLeo #ProjectKuiper #NG4 #LN01
Folks who know I love reading tend to tell me how many #books they read last year. But that’s not what I’m particularly interested in.
I want to know what you learned through those stories. How they shaped your perspective. What they taught you about our world. Perhaps what you discovered about yourself. ✨
To me, that’s what’s most beautiful about a good book. 📚
Hello are you ready to chat with me
David Gerard
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TIL there is a unicode for joystick, and it, uh, does not look quite like a joystick at average font size 🕹.
@GeePawHill If you haven’t seen it, you might enjoy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13273.Poetic_Meter_and_Poetic_Form
@marick An excellent book, yes. I still own it in paper.
So there's this argument that utilitarianism doesn't work because (per work by behavioral economists) preferences are non-transitive. That is, you can't make a top to bottom list of preferences for each person where the higher position is always a higher preference.
But, like, surely preferences are *pretty* transitive? You can construct weird non-transitive cases. But for most purchase you could construct a list.
@ZachWeinersmith On modelling these things with numbers, I’m reminded promise theory (which only seems to have any usage in server configurations) considers any change in promise to be a broken promise, even if it’s numerically better. So if I promise to send you £10 after you send me a book, you might not be happy to send that book to someone who promises to pay £10,000 for the same book (because they’re totally not going to keep that promise).
@stefan I'm wondering how all these offshoots will handle moderation, since BlackSky isn't supposedly following BS moderation to the letter if they disagree, but apparently BS can override them on the "array" /protocol level to where even overriding the BS mods decision will be overriden by BS themselves:
https://fuckaas.space/@fuckfetish/116604223649776627
@nohhue Not sure I'm following, sorry.
This sounds to me like it's working as intended, in the sense that BS seems to handle moderation on different layers, namely PDS and AppView.
So yes, if you're in any way using BS's infrastructure, they can moderate your posts.
You and all your followers need to be on non-BS infrastructure to escape that.
Right?
FCC filing shows Amazon plans to acquire Apple’s 20% stake in Globalstar https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/27/fcc-filing-shows-amazon-plans-to-acquire-apples-20-stake-in-globalstar/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Have you taken a sip of water recently?
@selfcare LOL need to drink more water!
One day, you’ll thank yourself for starting the thing that scares you now.
Source: my 7 years of sobriety etc.
@Daojoan good job. I’m also 7 years and am rather proud of it!!!
@dannotdaniel @mastodonmigration @shaedrich @notbyai @AIFree It's the official Masto team 😉 (joinmastodon.org /mastodon.social)
@stux @dannotdaniel @shaedrich @notbyai @AIFree
Stux, can you add Dan's AIFree emojis for mstdn.social?
Hong Kong to Get Edge in Asia Gold-Hub Push With Clearing System
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/hong-kong-to-get-edge-in-asia-gold-hub-push-with-clearing-system?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg
hurt like hell and it's swollen
but it was so worth it
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@viticci can you triforce certification?
UK Food Firms Plan to Raise Their Prices as Iran War Takes Toll
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/uk-food-firms-plan-to-raise-their-prices-as-iran-war-takes-toll?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg
