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This is nuts. Mechanical WiFi! https://phys.org/news/2017-12-d-wifi-electronics.html
Share this postI’m pretty much in John Oliver’s corner on this one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/12/04/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-over-se...
Trust in the media is declining, you say ... https://theoutline.com/post/2563/how-brands-secretly-buy-their-way-into-forbes-fast-company-and-huff...
Another excellent episode of the Daily, interviewing that bigoted cake shop owner, and the same-sex couple he turned down. https://play.radiopublic.com/the-daily-GMB3yp/ep/s1!401740dd4524a43fc06a77c57c1125a861e7a460
Broken dreams and broken jaws. https://soundcloud.com/hannahwerdmuller/broken-jaws
“Here, you shed your clothes and your inhibition, and there’s a rawness.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/technology/silicon-valley-esalen-institute.html
While the Republicans deservedly implode, and while we fight this atrocity of a tax bill, the Democrats are readying a candidate who will win 2020 by winning back disillusioned working class people in economically unstable swing states, right?
... Right ...?
I sincerely wish I could kill the part of my brain that tells me I'll never be good enough and reminds me all the reasons why. I think it's always going to be whispering at me somewhere in the background; the trick is to keep it there.
Interested in getting into investing? Want to help create a more progressive society? New Media Ventures is hiring: http://www.newmediaventures.org/were-hiring-2/
It was a simpler time. http://www.zdnet.com/article/run-your-own-myspace-with-elgg-spaces/
I so badly want this to exist. Join me? http://mailchi.mp/8e698d483056/were-halfway-there?e=5111f5c455
Looking for a technical cofounder? Here's how I think you could go about it. https://words.werd.io/searching-for-a-technical-cofounder-7ffd401c04b4
The Post sounds like a solidly good movie. Brave of this reporter to break the press embargo. https://medium.com/@SaraJBenincasa/an-honest-review-of-the-post-ca4026e3e430?source=linkShare-3b1640...
The Daily continues to be excellent. The US has set aside $5M for payments to civilian casualties in the war against the Islamic State - so why has nobody been paid? https://play.radiopublic.com/the-daily-GMB3yp/ep/s1!7532ed751d08f20dc38f99f403e0474a76f3887d
“We’ll unsubscribe you from our mailing list within ten business days” should be illegal. There’s zero reason to not do it right now, except that you want to keep spamming me.
Dirty tricks are in play in the Roy Moore story. This is yet another example of why real journalism is so important. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--...
Good interview with Reid Hoffman. I hadn’t considered the DMCA angle on hate speech, but he’s absolutely right. https://play.radiopublic.com/recode-decode-hosted-by-kara-swisher-2Gq0A8/ep/s1!c93a8517552cba9508ee5...
Oh boy, Lady Bird. I just openly wept (in between laughter) all the way through that movie. Go see.
#Thankful for
The amazing people I get to have in my life
The opportunities to do amazing things that I’ve improbably been given
People who don’t hide their politics, and fight and shout and act for social justice
All the beauty in this world, which belongs to all of us.
Things I’ve read about the UK this morning:
It’s about to have the greatest fall in living standards in 60 years
MPs voted that animals can’t feel pain
Scottish cities are losing their ability to receive European cultural designations
What’s going on over there? (Rhetorical.)
In 2017, we apparently call keyloggers "user research". http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42065650
I believe in web principles as a symbol of freedom online (although the web as a technology needs to continue to evolve and change). Gatekeepers should not be the future. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality