Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
“We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations aimed at denigrating the former U.S. Vice President, supporting the U.S. president and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November.”
Popular Information · Judd Legum
On Monday, Attorney General Bill Barr and Ivanka Trump visited Georgia "to highlight the administration’s efforts to protect human trafficking survivors." Barr and Trump visited the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy and participated "in a walking tour of the survivor care facility." Later, they participated in a…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Save video game history: The MADE needs help to mothball for two years. Life as a precriminal: 1,000 people in Pasco County, Florida are harassed day and night as part of a predictive policing tool. Qanon is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: It's a recycling program for nutjob racists. EFF…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are for users and developers.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Warren Buffet, monopolist: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. Uber lost $4b in H1/2020: They're not even making it up in volume anymore. Dragon's Lair skeleton Dirk pin: Come for Dirk, stay for Leia. This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances,…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Terra Nullius: Podcasting my column about "IP," John Locke, genocide and erasure. How they're killing the post office: The USPS has been under threat for decades, but now it's an existential crisis. When you hear "intangibles"…: Think "monopolies." Text-based, cyberpunk MMORPG: CyberCode Online is based…
Signal v. Noise · Jeffrey Hardy
We have two rare openings on our Core Product team for Rails programmers. We’ll be accepting applications for the next two weeks, aiming for a flexible start date in October. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. This is an opportunity for us to bring in a different…
Interconnected
RSS should be how we read our favourite content on the web. But it’s not. I was trying to figure out the other day how I would describe RSS and its history. Maybe something like… (Skip this section if you already know what RSS is.) RSS is a technology that lets you subscribe to new content on websites, just like you…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
This series of posts compiled by Michael Tsai regarding Down Dog’s App Store rejection — ostensibly for not automatically charging users after a free trial period has lapsed — illustrates the still-confusing world of subscription pricing. Everything from an app’s registration screen, through the free trial process,…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Copyright keeps police use-of-force training a secret: How cops are circumventing the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South: Princess and the Frog ahoy! Let's get rid of nursing homes: An end-of-life plan. Sympathy for the mask-shy:…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Walt's grandson calls for Disney execs' bonuses to be canceled: Brad Lund wants the money directed to furloughed workers. The Lost Cause and MMT: The climate emergency and centuries of full employment. Patent troll sues ventilator makers: Swirlate IP says anyone who uses LTE is violating its patents.…
Reporting by Matt Taibbi · Matt Taibbi
Crime has been down for decades, but incarceration is still sky-high and brutality cases keep tearing the country apart. Does policing in America need a fundamental re-think?
Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
So for the last month, I’ve been a little occupied with canigo.sg. What started out as a mental compilation of answers for my mum and my wife’s parents during Singapore’s Covid breaker circuit breaker measures turned into a website, which then turned into a frequently visited source of information for Singaporeans.…
Prof Galloway · Scott Galloway
I gave an interview for New York Magazine this week that received a lot of attention. Colleges and universities are scrambling to figure out what to do next year if students can’t come back to campus. Half the schools have pushed back their May 1 deadlines for accepting seats. What do you expect to happen […]
Prof Galloway · Scott Galloway
5-min read So, there was a time when there was … no time. Before the Big Bang (a dot that exploded) there was no time. Are we pre dot? Sheltering in place, time feels amorphous and nonlinear. Time has a lot to do with our perception. Our focus on different things at different levels of […]
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil…
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
Jeff Kowalsky’s photograph of the “American Patriot Rally” at the Michigan statehouse on April 30 shows a large, bearded man, leaning forward, mouth open, screaming. Positioned between two police officers who are staring blankly ahead above their masks, he is focused on something they are preventing him from…
PressThink · Jay Rosen
"There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives." The post The plan is to have no plan appeared first on PressThink.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Google Shopping is changing its model, suggesting Google is joining the Anti-Amazon Alliance; 3rd-party merchants should do the same.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Telecom industry representatives and lobbyists have begun lining up behind the narrative that a lack of net neutrality legislation in the United States explains why it has so far fared well under increased use. For example, here’s an excerpt from a piece published by the American Enterprise Institute from Roslyn…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
There’s nothing new strategically about the new iPhone SE — it’s a nearly exact replay of the original SE strategy from 2016, before the iPhone X era began.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Wood-metal worry beads: Chris Bathgate's latest, "The Woody." Overly descriptive color palettes: Handpicked from the Colorschemez bot. American Prospect high-school essay contest: An antidote to the Ayn Rand Institute contest. Snowden's Box: The logistics of leaking are a mix of tradecraft and…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots: My latest podcast, on a redefined form of abundance and luxury. Illinois reinstates physical restraints for special ed kids: Revenge of the "quiet room." Youtube vs 5G arsonists: There's plenty of things wrong with 5G, but coronavirus isn't one of them. Hamilton original…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Twitter has a new policy to listen to experts about what content to limit; what happens, though, when experts are wrong?
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Fangcang shelter hospitals … a novel public health concept. They were implemented for the first time in China in February, 2020, to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fangcang shelter hospitals in China were large-scale, temporary hospitals, rapidly built by converting existing public…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
completely obvious in hindsight, but this is the first I've seen this explained
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links The most beautiful RPG dice I've ever seen: And you can also make your own. The king of Dutch climate denial was secretly in Shell's pay: Frits Böttcher was a packrat, and his papers detail exactly how he was paid to sow climate doubt. He was very good at it. American Catholic officials … Continue…
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
One follow-on to the story of Crypto AG being owned by the CIA: this interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth reading or listening to, but I was struck by these two quotes at the end: ...in South America, for instance, many of the governments that were using Crypto machines were engaged in…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal – Bloomberg This is APPALLING. holy crap. To doctors opening patients’ electronic records across the U.S., the alert would have looked innocuous enough. A pop-up would appear, asking about a patient’s level of pain. Then, a drop-down menu would list…
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
As you might have guessed from a previous post, I’m not a fan of carrying keys and or even having to use them. When I moved to a new place, I knew I’d use the front door as my main point of entry (instead of a garage attached to a house), so I wanted to … Continue reading Entering your home with just a tap (using NFC…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
the remarkable creation tool can be used for game development, 3D rendering, music, animation, and more
Robin's blog
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
he didn't own a smartphone until three years ago
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
Spotify's mixed earnings, why podcasts are uniquely valuable to the company, and where The Ringer fits in.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
Epic Systems, an electronic health records company, is protesting a mandate that they make consumer health care available via API. Their arguments highlight the tension between interoperability and privacy.
The Morning News
"Maybe this is the highest thing a person can hope for." Helen Rosner on creating a recipe that's Instagram-famous. ↩︎ The New Yorker View Post →
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system. Source: Design System Checklist
kottke.org · Jason Kottke