Linked1 min read Linked: “Dutch Filmmaker Intentionally Lets His Phone Get Stolen In Order to Follow Its Path Through Spyware” via LaughingSquid: Dutch filmmaker Anthony van der Meer decided to intentionally allow a thief to steal his mobile… February 20, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “What Apple gives you for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer — and why Reddit Enhancement Suite may cease support for Safari” via the developer of Reddit Enhancement Sweet Browser Extension (a medium blog): A little over a year ago,… February 17, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Cities to Trump, Clinton and Sanders: pay your police bills” via Public Integrity: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders may not remember much about the rallies they… February 16, 2017
Linked2 min read Linked: “Repealing Obamacare: Just what the doctor ordered for wealthy investors” via CNBC: Urged on by Trump, the Senate overnight adopted a budget resolution that clears a path for… February 15, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps” Via Google Blog: The first thing you’ll notice about the updated Google Voice apps is a cleaner, more… February 14, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible With News Media” via Monday Note: Facebook is made up of dozens of millions of groups carefully designed to share the… February 10, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Nintendo’s Missed Question Mark” via 500ish: Conventional wisdom these days says you shouldn’t look backwards. This is usually followed by a Steve… February 9, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “A DIY Guide to [Feminist] Cybersecurity” via HackBlossom: The internet is a crucial environment for our lives. Friendships, relationships, work, activism, commerce, and so… February 8, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “The Thing about Trucks.” via Rd2.io: My thinking goes like this: I can borrow someone else’s phone if I need to make… February 7, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: The Last from Obama and the First from Trump I don’t watch or listen to speeches usually. I try to find the transcript and read because I… February 6, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “App.net shutting down Twitter-like social platform on March 14, open-sources code” via VentureBeat: In November 2012, it launched a free trial program to bring more users onto the site,… February 3, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “RT Gets Banned From Facebook Until After Trump’s Inauguration” via Gizmodo: (which is now basically Gawker.com) In a surprise move, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has… February 2, 2017
Linked2 min read Linked: “Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing” via KickStarter / Micro.blog: Do you remember how the web used to work? How the web was supposed… February 1, 2017
Linked2 min read Linked: “The Wii U Was Great, Just Not For Me” via Kotaku: I have two kids. The youngest is my son, who is now almost four. Not long… February 1, 2017
Linked2 min read Linked: “Starting January 20, Donald Trump Can Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to the Entire Nation” via NYMag: You’ve probably, at some point, gotten a text alert on your phone about some nasty weather,… January 31, 2017
Linked2 min read Linked: “Why Half a Million Young Japanese Can’t Face School or Work” via Bloomberg: Each welfare recipient turned into a taxpayer would add between 78 million yen ($702,000) and 98… January 30, 2017
Linked3 min read Linked: “What the Hell Just Happened?” via DavePell (a medium blog): The Next Few Months: There can be no tolerance of acts of hate… January 29, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum – The New Yorker” via NewYorker: We talk about the filter bubbles on social networks—those algorithms that keep us connected to the… January 28, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead” via Gizmodo: If you weren’t watching Samsung’s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it.… January 27, 2017
Linked1 min read Linked: “Internet Archive’s Trump Archive launches today” via Archive.org: A work in progress, the growing collection now includes more than 520 hours of Trump video.… January 26, 2017