I’ve been linking to things on this blog since 2011. It’s a great way to share written works from others with you all who still read this blog but also to give a little bit of my own flair of opinion and thoughts toward something. Well, I’ve been linking to one or two things a week for the last 6 months but I’ve been reading and saving many more things and not keeping up with posting these here. It’s been mentioned before but I send things to Instapaper all day that I want to read but can’t while at work. Every month, I read everything I saved. I don’t keep an Instapaper backlog. One out of ten things I read is something I’d like to share here for my own posterity mostly because I like reading what I wrote years ago to see how my opinion changed but also so that you readers can find things to read that most likely didn’t appear on your Facebook or Twitter feed. So many great things are being written that aren’t shared enough to bubble up into the mainstream since most mainstream news is political now.
I have to file for bankruptcy though and dump everything here in one post. I’m sorry. I think this is only the 2nd time I’ve done such a thing. The last time I did this was in 2014 and it seems I was reading a lot less then versus now. Here’s that post.
Without more delays, a few dozen things I wanted to share:
- Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read
- What the iPhone X borrowed from the Palm Pre
- After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress (hah, this was in January, nothing since then)
- Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Action Plan
- What We Know About Victims Of Sexual Assault In America
- Nathaniel Bullard and Adam Minter: The upside to America’s infatuation with gadgets
- My 2017 Homescreen – 500ish Words
- BBC – Capital – Is there an upside to having no social life?
- No Level of Copyright Enforcement Will Ever Be Enough For Big Media – TorrentFreak
- The Good War
- What Can’t You Send to an Inmate in New York? Apples, Used Books and More – The New York Times
- Reading disks from 1988 in 2018
- A News Feed Without News – Peter Rojas – Medium
- Online Interest In Trump Has Plummeted – Political Wire
- Open Letters: Dean Allen on His Mother’s Wedding
- All Good Things…
- Building a Lightroom PC
- Opinion | I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great
- The New Dating Requirement: Consuming All of Your Partner’s #Content
- Editors’ Letter: The Next 25 Years of WIRED Start Today
- A History of the Xserve: Apple’s One Rack Wonder
- Why Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti Loves & Hates Facebook
- Drake drops in to play Fortnite on Twitch and breaks the record for most-viewed stream | The Verge
- Back to the Blog
- The Missing Building Blocks of the Web – Anil Dash – Medium
- How 40404 changes Twitter • Kristin Magette
- Michael Tsai – Blog – Apple Now Runs On “100%” Green Energy
- Michael Tsai – Blog – The Inside Story of Reddit’s Redesign
- IndieWeb generation 4 and hosted domains | Manton Reece
- RSS is undead
- A tale of two QuickTimes
- Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn
- Improving Ourselves to Death
- iMac Pro + Hasselblad H6D Photo Review: Antarctica
- I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
- What Kanye West seeks is what Michael Jackson sought—liberation from the dictates of that we. In his visit with West, the rapper T.I. was stunned to find that West, despite his endorsement of Trump, had never heard of the travel ban. “He don’t know the things that we know because he’s removed himself from society to a point where it don’t reach him,” T.I. said. West calls his struggle the right to be a “free thinker,” and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom—a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror’s freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, pussy grabbers, and fuck you anyway, bitch; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas.
- And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet
- Noticing Excerpt: Getting lost on the internet
- Beer industry ‘failing to address’ mental health and alcohol link
- We are all trapped in the “Feed”
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I’m sorry to not have the time to add much to this but I really need to get to bed. Lots to do tomorrow.