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"We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, the latter of which also told us that it had broken off its relationship with AdVon after finding its
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"Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them. Stash your tabs somewhere if you must, but close them all down." I
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"There were times when Sinclair ZX Spectrum games were copied over the radio waves across Slovenia. Radio Študent broadcast screeching, beeping and whining, which we recorded on tape and played a game a few hours later." I love this! I never had a ZX Spectrum, but I did
Update: I wrote a longer post that explains this argument less flippantly and in more detail. This post is anecdotal and should not be considered to be investment advice. A company I used to be associated with sent out an email yesterday that essentially explained that the effective share price
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A small web development thing I’d missed until yesterday: When you want a link to open a page in a new tab, you’ve long been able to add the attribute target="_blank" to the tag. The problem was, that actually gave the opened pages rights to
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"Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering." Except, oddly, on Android, which doesn't implement the DHCP setting
ProPublica, the newsroom I work for as Senior Director of Technology, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism for its work on Supreme Court justices’ beneficial relationships with billionaire donors. You’ve probably heard something about Clarence Thomas’s corruption in particular; that story was broken by us.
By far the coolest thing about blogging is the replies. I’ve had a bunch of responses to my latest iteration of the baby stack across various platforms: universally other dads, none of which I’ve met before, who are looking for recommendations. I think that’s really neat. Some
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"So, how do you distinguish between a psyop – a weaponized story – from other kinds of communication? Walk with me through these three simple steps." This is a great introduction - I can't wait to read the full book. It reminds me a little of some of
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"A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems." It's rare to see bad database security design advertised so openly! I can't wait to see what havoc the local residents will cause. #Technology [Link]
When our son reached nine months old, I published this UsesThis-style list of products and services we were using; I had previously published one before he was born. He’s twenty months old now: walking around and using words. He straddles the worlds between being a baby and a little
The biggest thing to be concerned about in all these student protests is not the students, but the severity and strength with which the police are entering the fray. A police officer fired a gun on the Columbia campus. Tear gas is being used on multiple campuses. In multiple cases
