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Most photos taken with a smartphone contain GPS coordinates - e.g. of your home. Did you know @withknown strips those out? Well, now you do.
@selenalarson Our conversations and reading are compressed; compress anything and you lose fidelity. Then they're optimized for virality.
@selenalarson Not sure it's intelligence as such, but considered discussion, nuanced viewpoints and respect for facts seem to be in trouble.
Crumpets, tea, and Kanye West's seminal 2013 album Yeezus.
This is my favorite crowdfunding video to date, and the first one I've ever felt moved to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6bVPutR_5E
Google’s slow fade with librarians https://medium.com/message/googles-slow-fade-with-librarians-fddda838a0b7
@yoz We use Slack internally, and it's lovely. But there's something nice about using an open platform, y'know?
@jordan_web That's annoying. It's loading from here - but this is a great kick to get us hosting docs on our own servers. More soon.
Known's getting its own IRC channel on Freenode. Which I guess means I'll have to remember to log into IRC every day.
PHP developers: there are great reasons to code with notices on, so you can patch them. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1868874/does-php-run-faster-without-warnings/1869185#1869185
Genuinely fascinating: how 50 Shades of Grey emerged from the Twilight fanfic community. http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey:_The_Reddit_Origins_Essay
Only just heard that Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was killed by ISIL yesterday. So awful. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/japanese-hostage-beheaded-isil-150131201857344.html
Everything is bigger in the US, including sports team names. There: Oxford, Manchester, Hartlepool. Here: EAGLES, PATRIOTS, GIANTS.
I have no idea what the rules of American football are. One day I should learn, but, eh, today is not the day.
Kindness is never overrated. I'm happy to be reminded daily of all the thoughtful, considerate people in my life. People are the best.
It seems to me that any structure, technology or framework that helps people be less lonely is a good thing.
From Chris's non-monogamy piece, I learned that fewer marriages are failing: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html
I'd be careful about saying that Silicon Valley is at the cutting edge of human relationships, but worth sharing: https://medium.com/@chrismessina/disrupting-monogamy-4a46ec373556
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