Listen up: Podcasts are coming to Twitter

What’s Odeo is new again.  #Technology [Link]

California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars

“The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide. The rule also sets interim targets, requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 produce zero emissions.

The baby stack

In the spirit of Uses This, here’s what the baby stack looks like right now, a week or two before birth: Hardware Uppababy Cruz. An adaptable folding stroller. What’s super-cool about it is that it supports a bassinet as well as a seat, and can also support an

Queer YA books are selling in record numbers despite bans targeting them

“Of the close to 5 million units of LGBTQ+ books sold in 2021, the biggest absolute gains in this market came from LGBTQ+ YA books, which saw an increase in sales of 1.3 million units from the previous year. Queer YA is more popular than ever — no longer a

Creeping American fascism

As America becomes more diverse, and as a direct consequence more inclusive, it unfortunately makes sense that more people will come out of the woodwork suggesting that people who aren’t white and male be disenfranchised. This is a racist country, after all. And that’s exactly what’s happening.

People of color at 'New York Times' get lower ratings in job reviews, union says

“While there were some fluctuation — on average, the performance of Black employees rose over the intervening years, while it declined for Latinos at the organization — white workers were consistently assessed as outperforming their peers.”  #Media [Link]

Bay Area tech startup Sanas wants people to sound whiter

“Experts who spoke to SFGATE were troubled by Sanas’ emphasis on people in the Global South making themselves understood to Americans, as opposed to Americans accepting other accented voices.” Indeed.  #Technology [Link]

Whistleblower: Twitter misled investors, FTC and underplayed spam issues

“Twitter is grossly negligent in several areas of information security. If these problems are not corrected, regulators, media and users of the platform will be shocked when they inevitably learn about Twitter’s severe lack of security basics.”  #Technology [Link]

We reject the free speech-trampling rules set by J.D. Vance and Ron DeSantis for covering their rally

“Think about what they were doing here. They were staging an event to rally people to vote for Vance while instituting the kinds of policies you’d see in a fascist regime.”  #Democracy [Link]

Taste

The best part of traveling is the food. You can learn so much from how and what people eat. The way they gather, the smell of the spices, the sizzle of oil in great pans, the delicacies that only come from the sorts of hole-in-the-wall places that locals protect with

Farewell, house

Well, we sold the house. A new family gets to enjoy the space, and the incredible surrounds. It’s the start of a new chapter for us, too. I was there over the weekend, and the memories were overwhelming: the four walls of my parents’ former bedroom held newly-staged furniture

As list of banned books in schools grows, ‘soft’ censorship is spreading

“Free speech advocates say these practices are as troubling as bans — particularly when the books singled out overwhelmingly have themes related to race, gender and sexuality and are written by authors who are women, LGBTQ+ and/or people of color.”  #Culture [Link]