A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
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header
to the server to view the underlying object.
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{
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"atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri",
"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
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"published": "2025-06-06T15:17:10Z",
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"content": "<p>“To be clear about the mechanism: our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. This is the critical point: those deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized. They rarely register on the dashboards that guide decision-making.” </p><p>jacmullen.substack.com/p/befor...
<a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/machinelearning\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/anthropology\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>anthropology</span></a></p>",
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<a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/machinelearning\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/anthropology\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>anthropology</span></a></p>"
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