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Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
In 1944, the OSS was the precursor of the CIA. Like the CIA, their work was spying, sabotage, dirty tricks, anything to disrupt the enemy. With this in mind they issued a booklet to be distributed to anyone … Continue reading → The post SABOTAGING OURSELVES first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Podcasting "Reasonable Agreement": "On the Crapification of Literary Contracts." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Podcasting "Reasonable…
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
Where are the feminist voices in the news coverage of the overturning of Roe v. Wade? I sought some out. The post Massive media fail: Abortion coverage ignores misogyny, theocracy, and so much more appeared first on Press Watch.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Abortion surveillance only incidentally involves period-trackers: It's all your digital stuff, plus snitchy friends and doctors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects,…
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
This is a great read about the creative process behind my new favorite movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once. Similar to my breakdown of The Beatles’ Get Back documentary, this post analyzes the lessons learned from the creative process that wielded SUCH […]
kk.org · Kevin Kelly
I recommend a long bicycle tour as one of the best ways to see parts of the world, especially America. There was an article in a recent New York Times about 8 great bike touring routes in the US. These … Continue reading →
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Michael Hobbes debunks the conspiracy theory at the center of the "largest explosion of online misogyny since Gamergate" #
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
News organizations are belatedly "raising questions" about the police response at Robb Elementary School, now that it appears we were all wildly misled. The post All police lie appeared first on Press Watch.
Interconnected
I’ve been hanging out in the web3 space recently. The art and aesthetic generally is awesome and effervescent. But there are big claims made for the technology and, given the high level of scams, I’ve spend a bunch of time considering that. With any new tech, it’s interesting to ask: does this matter? Is it a weird…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Amazon's new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
Today, United States District Judge David O. Carter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered John Eastman to disclose 101 documents to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Eastman is a former law school dean at Chapman…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
I've also been playing with the beta and the results are astounding #
Placemark blog
How we make Placemark faster, so you can make maps faster.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Mike Masnick, of Techdirt, with a full-throated defence of the concepts of society and context in general: The internet itself is an incredible platform for free speech, and we should be fighting to keep that wider internet open and free from too much regulatory burden and limits. But part of the reason the internet…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Nest's secret microphone demonstrates that noone at Google actually cares, a takeaway that is reflected in YouTube's latest scandal. At the same time, to what extent does caring interfere with free speech?
Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Yanis Varoufakis: play-to-earn could be "the apotheosis of misanthropy" "the idea that people must now play like robots to earn a living so as to be human in their spare time is, indeed, the apotheosis of misanthropy." He's not wrong! Great interview with Evgeny Morozov. (tags: crypto marxism yanis-varoufakis…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Netflix's earnings were disappointing because of the subscriber numbers, but does the company have a bigger concern in terms of long-term profitability?
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
In late December, for a few years now, I have tweeted out a big list of albums I enjoyed. On Thursday, I posted my picks for 2021, some of which were likely not a surprise for anyone who follows me on Last.fm. This spring, I reactivated my account there and began scrobbling again after years […]
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
ConstitutionDAO is an interesting project to buy a physical good as a community; what is particularly interesting is what it says about the power of actualizing memes
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
I am particularly grateful for mainstream journalists who help the public understand the most important, troubling, and sometimes intentionally misconstrued issues facing the nation. The post I am thankful for journalists who bring clarity to our times appeared first on Press Watch.
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Zillow is ending Zillow Offers; where did the company go wrong, and what my initial analysis got right, and what I missed.
The Art of Non-Conformity
In what now feels like a previous life, I used to travel around the world almost every month. I slowed down a bit two years before the pandemic started, but I still took time for an international trip every six weeks at most. I was also involved in the early days of the "travel hacking" world. I founded a service,…
Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
John Voorhees, MacStories: Silvio Rizzi, the developer of RSS client Reeder, has released a brand new recipe and cooking app called Mela for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which has immediately become my favorite apps for planning and preparing meals. For me, the two essential aspects of an app like this are how it…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Exclusive Content on Instagram, like Super Tweets, is a compelling product for both the company and creators. It's also why Bulletin is more compelling than it seems.
Popular Information · Judd Legum
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during the UFC 261 press conference on April 22, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC) For months, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has governed his state as if COVID did not exist. But he didn't just ignore the problem. DeSantis acted to prevent others in his…
Platformer · Casey Newton
How the debate over vaccine misinformation hit a stalemate
Rands in Repose · rands
An inability to ask for help is not the domain of introverts. We certainly make it a more laborious mental process, but in any group of humans where there are those who know and those who are learning, the latter population is hesitant to ask for help because they don't want to appear dumb to those who have clearly…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Shopify is lowering fees for developers, which makes sense given it is operating an app store, the Internet's most powerful business model.
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
Ranulph Fienes was the first person to circumnavigate the globe by the polar route. He was the first person to cross Antarctica on foot. He was the oldest person to climb Everest, at 65. He’s completed countless endurance … Continue reading → The post TELL US WHAT, NOT HOW first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
A recent piece by Doc Searls was the inspiration for today’s post: The best new phones come with the ability to shoot 108 megapixel photos, record 4K video with stereo sound, and pack the results into a terabyte of onboard storage. But what do you do when that storage fills up? If you want to […]
Popular Information · Judd Legum
After he lost the election, Trump attempted a coup to keep himself in power. Trump hasn't been successful — but his no-holds-barred effort to overturn the election continues.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
This morning, the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a series of emails and documents that show just how hard former president Trump worked to overturn the 2020 election and retain an illegal grip on power. On December 14, 2020, which was the day electors in each state certified the votes of the…
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
During lockdown, I got sick of hearing people complain that it was driving them mad to go without their holidays. This is/was the worst global plague in a hundred years, but magazines and papers were full of articles … Continue reading → The post LANGUAGE VERSUS HOT-AIR first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
Today marks the hundredth day of the Biden-Harris administration. In many ways, the hundred-day mark is arbitrary, a holdover from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who worked with Congress to pass 76 new laws by the end of his first 100 days, setting a high bar for a consequential presidency. A hundred…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
Substack is at the center of media controversy, most of which misses the point that sovereign writers — not Substack — are in control.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
"Proof of work places a direct lien against the future." #
Daring Fireball · Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Today's links Ad-tech is a bezzle: The subprime attention crisis is upon us. Google's unionizing: Solidarity vs worker misclassification. The Data Detective: How to truth with statistics. Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back: Reviving a grand master's comic masterpiece. Endorsing the Forward 43 slate: For my…
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
And so, we are at the end of a year that has brought a presidential impeachment trial, a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 338,000 of us, a huge social movement for racial justice, a presidential election, and a president who has refused to accept the results of that election and is now trying to split his…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber