Category: Link
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Does English Need a New Alphabet?
Alec Bellos writing for Atlas Obscura: Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw—generally considered one of the greatest playwrights in the English language—was a controversial figure, who infused his many plays with his strident political and social views.>> One of the causes he embraced most passionately was the very contentious matter of spelling reform. Shaw’s main concern…
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Linus Tech Tips Hacked by Crypto Scammers
Tom Warren writing for The Verge: Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews. It’s the latest breach in a series of high-profile YouTube accounts being hacked, with scammers regularly gaining access to prominent accounts to…
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Cult of the Lamb: Doom & Shroom
The animation, writing, and voice acting in this is absolutely perfect. I loved this game when it came out and I truly would watch a whole series of this show.
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Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less?
Elizabeth M. Renieris writing for The Walrus: And now, argues tech writer Paris Marx, “new technologies like AI are framed as offering us various forms of empowerment and liberation: We’ll be able to work more productively, spend less time doing our chores, and anything we want will be a click or tap away. But those…
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Solo Acts: Marco Arment and his podcast app Overcast
Ashley Esqueda has been making a great mini-series withing Vergecast called Solo Acts where she interviews solo entrepreneurs making awesome things on the internet. In her final episode she had Marco Arment on and it did not disappoint. I have long been a fan of Marco’s work and to hear the story behind Tumblr, Instapaper,…
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Twitter’s Auto Response to the Press is a Poop Emoji
Twitter, AKA the “Free Speech” platform is now changing how they respond to journalists looking to get information from the company. Instead of a reply either giving journalists doing their job or even a simple “no comment” Twitter is now auto-responding with a poop emoji. If you’re wondering if this is a joke played by…
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We’re Drowning in Subscriptions
Leticia Miranda writing for Bloomberg: If it feels like you’re drowning in subscriptions, you aren’t wrong. It’s hard to keep track and, even if you do, you may eat at Panera a lot less than you thought after the first few months of guzzling free tea. For some companies, that’s part of the calculation, plus…
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The Talk Show ep. 370 – ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, with Jason Kottke
I will always listen to Gruber and Kottke talk about their tenured careers as bloggers and hearing them talk about the past 25 years of blogging made me really consider how I want my writing online to look like. In fact, after listening to this episode I did the following:
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I don’t want to log in to your website
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: There is a new trend among websites where they want my email address before I’m allowed to read their free content. While I sympathize with the struggles of the media business, I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is easier than reading — and way…
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Spotify is Making it Easier to Find Misinformation on their Podcasts
Mitchell Clark writing for The Verge: Spotify is acquiring Kinzen, a startup that specializes in using machine learning to analyze content and report potentially harmful statements to human moderators. In a press release, Spotify says the acquisition is meant to help it “deliver a safe, enjoyable experience on our platform around the world,” Spotify has…