What is Dovetail from PRX?
“From a birds-eye view, Dovetail does three main things: podcast distribution, data collection, and ad inventory management.” #Media [Link]
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State abortion bans are preventing cancer patients from getting chemotherapy
““I don’t know anybody that would feel comfortable treating a pregnant patient with cancer because I don’t feel like they’re nearly dead enough,” Zahedi-Spung said. “The threshold that I am holding in order to provide abortion care is basically almost dead to try to avoid being arrested
Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
“The people complaining clearly thought they were trying to enforce a sonic landscape that they deemed superior, but what they were really doing was using shame to exert control. Over the restaurant, the building, the borough. Us.” #Society [Link]
Most people on Twitter don’t live in political echo chambers — but mostly because they don’t care enough to bother building one
“Most people don’t follow a bunch of political “elites” on Twitter — a group that, for these authors’ purposes, also includes news organizations. But those who do typically follow many more people they agree with politically than people who they don’t.” #Media [Link]
3 Reasons Why I Think 50% Coding 50% Marketing is the Best Framework for Solo Tech Founders
“Usually when a solo founder thinks they need to do more coding than marketing, it's because they don't want to do marketing, not because they genuinely think they need to spend more time on product.” #Startups [Link]
‘Where Are the Women?’: Is Hybrid Work Widening Tech’s Gender Gap?
“Polls and studies show that women have embraced flexible and remote work, and opt to work from home slightly more often than men. But they also are liable to spend those additional hours at home on chores and child care, even when a partner is also working at home.” #Business
The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court
“Should the court endorse the ISL theory, Republican-controlled legislatures also will be able to gerrymander political districts to lock in permanent control of federal elections without judicial oversight.” #Democracy [Link]
As pandemic measures are lifted, social media use has declined with the exception of TikTok
“Other studies have shown that young people are now using TikTok as one of the primary ways to get news and that some have even replaced Google Search with TikTok.” #Technology [Link]
The Sun-Times’ new chapter: Our digital content is now free for everyone
“So today, we are dropping our paywall and making it possible for anyone to read our website for free by providing nothing more than an email address. Instead of a paywall, we are launching a donation-based digital membership program that will allow readers to pay what they can to help
Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice
“Virtually every new technology tied into the massive, interconnected web of data and machine power undergirding the global internet has the potential for both social benefit and social harm. And communities that have been overpoliced and surveilled are more likely than others to experience the negative capabilities of new technology.
Positano, the Instagram capital of the world, is a terrible place to be
“The problem of travel at this particular moment is not too many people traveling in general, it is too many people wanting to experience the exact same thing because they all went to the same websites and read the same reviews.” #Society [Link]
The Battle for the Soul of the Web
“The decentralized web that Kahle and others have envisioned for years has yet to receive major mainstream attention for an obvious reason: It never promised to get anyone rich. But the Web3 movement certainly did.” #Technology [Link]