Category: Link
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Apple’s Newsroom Blog Debuts New ‘Quick Read’ Post
Jarrod Blundy writing at HeyDingus: Tonight, I noticed something curious about Apple’s latest post to their official Newsroom, a blog of sorts where the company makes public statements and press releases. The post regarding the opening dates for their two newest retail stores is categorized as a ‘Quick Read’, complete with a lightening bolt icon and pop-up…
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Preserving the Wilhelm Scream
Craig Smith wrote a very interesting post for Freesound. In it he explained how took tape with sound effects ranging from the 30’s and 80’s and restored them. The kicker is that one of those recordings was the Wilhelm Scream. The biggest issue he had was a lot of these tapes had sticky-shed syndrome. This is basically a…
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Mehdi Hasan Dismantles the Entire Foundation of the Twitter Files as Matt Taibbi Stumbles to Defend it
Along with the full interview of MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan interviewing Matt Taibbi, Tech Dirt goes into even more detail about the errors and inaccuracies Taibii brought with his reporting on the Twitter Files. Mike Masnick writing for Tech Dirt: Hasan came prepared with facts. Lots of them. Many of which debunked the core foundation on which…
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A Better Shade of Blue
Daniel Jalkut on Red Sweater’s blog: A few weeks ago, I found myself staring at the about box for the app, and this default shade of blue stood out to me: There’s nothing particularly wrong with it. It is, after all, the default color for all links. But I’m not sure anybody spent much time…
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Introducing Substack Notes
From Substack: In the coming days, we will start rolling out a way for writing, ideas, and discussion to travel through the Substack network. We’re calling this new product Notes. In Notes, writers will be able to post short-form content and share ideas with each other and their readers. Like our Recommendations feature, Notes is…
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The Color Quiz
The Verge has created a pretty quick and fun color quiz where you try to pick the correct color for 8 logos. I managed to get 7 out of 8 correct, which was pretty good considering the average is about 4.5.
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Feedly wanted to track protests and riots for companies, until they got destroyed on Twitter
Feedly, the popular RSS feed service, recently came under fire for a now-deleted blog post (here is an Internet Wayback Machine link) in which they discussed using AI models to track protests, riots, and rallies. Many people were concerned that this technology could be used by employers and corporations to engage in union busting, worker…
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BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes
Noor Al-Sibai and Jon Christian writing for Futurism: Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard. “I think that there are two paths for AI in digital media,” Peretti told CNN. “One path is the obvious path…
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Spotify Releases Anchor Replacement Spotify for Podcasters
From Spotify’s news blog: It’s official: Anchor, the world’s largest podcast hosting platform, has combined with Spotify for Podcasters to create an all-new, first-of-its-kind platform with everything you need to create and grow a podcast This is exciting for podcasters who are already hosted on the platform—but it’s also a breakthrough for all creators. In…
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Bard Fork, and How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen
Hard Fork is a show that I slept on far too long and as someone that has interviewed Casey before I feel shame admitting it. This episode in particular really grabbed on to me, and it was so good I plan to listen to it again in a few days. In short hosts Kevin Roose…