Apple’s emoji keyboard is reinforcing Western stereotypes

"The feature associates “Africa” with the hut emoji and “China” with the dog emoji." [Link]

Newsrooms Need To Treat Coordinated Online Attacks On Reporters Like Propaganda - And Act Like They're At War

"And yes, this is a war, and it is a war being fought by the New York Post, by Fox News, and by many solo writers that have found a successful career in joining these campaigns, because outrage breeds clicks." [Link]

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

"Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was

Andreessen Horowitz’s ‘Future’ is a media machine

""We have a business to run, and we're in the business of investing in the future and providing returns for LPs," Wennmachers said. "So as much as I can help advance the future and the narrative of the pro case for the future … that&

Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated, rising where they are not

In other news: Popes Catholic, bears defecating in woodland. [Link]

Day One at Automattic

"Day One not only nails the experience of a local blog (or journal as they call it) in an app, but also has (built) a great technical infrastructure — it works fantastic (when) offline and has a fully encrypted sync mechanism, so the data that’s in the cloud is

Scientists shocked as particle transforms between matter and antimatter for the first time

“The charm meson has a light and heavy version that helps distinguish between its matter and antimatter states.” [Link]

The Electrification of Everything: What You Need to Know

Short answer: we'd better upgrade the grid. [Link]

Former NSA contractor Reality Winner, jailed for leaking secrets about Russian hacking, released early from prison

"Winner, 29, was sentenced to more than five years in prison in 2018 after she leaked classified information to The Intercept news outlet about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election. She pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report that detailed the Russian government's

Colorado is now the 3rd US state with modern privacy legislation, with a twist

"In other words, Do Not Track – or something very much like it – is back in Colorado, and ignoring the setting, like companies did widely when Do Not Track was created, is not an option any more. The technical details will need to be figured out between now and when

Grief

Gravity doesn’t work the way it used to. Some things are too heavy, and some too light. There’s a great weight, but it’s like a dark cloud; sometimes dense, sometimes not. It’s like someone took the laws of physics and put them in a blender. I’

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Ma

We lost my mother, Deborah Monas, on Sunday evening. I was giving her a head rub; my sister Hannah held her hands; my dad Oscar and her brother Steve were at her feet. How is this possible? The world doesn’t feel real. When I was a small child, we