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The New York Times
After Iran’s Drone Attack, Trump Says This Country ‘Will Not Stand for It’
9 min · · Iran’s destruction of the high-altitude American drone surprised some American Defense Department officials, who say it was in international airspace, an assertion Iran disputes. · Shared by 52, including Dr. Pete Meyers, mrbrown, The Indian Express, Charles Baldwin, Esther Schindler, DonDahlmann, Trey Tweets Into the Void
WIRED
Facebook’s Libra Reveals Silicon Valley’s Naked Ambition
4 min · · Cloaked in the guise of making the world a better place, the cryptocurrency project is really another attempt to go big or go home. · Shared by 215, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Martina Grolimund, Claudia Sommer, Backchannel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Alain, Gabriele, Thomas Power, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Yvette Dubel, Ralph Hutter, Dominik Grolimund, Oleg Baskov, Thomas Billeter
VANITY FAIR
Thousands of Christians Demand That Netflix Cancel a Show It Does Not Air
2 min · · A Christian group that once protested a “blasphemous” ice cream company now demands that Netflix ax Good Omens, which it believes constitutes “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and… · Shared by 46, including Hugh Howey, Steven Sinofsky, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Tim Herbig, Charles Baldwin, Christina
The New York Times
The Day the Music Burned
· It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire. · Shared by 367, including Matthew Perpetua, Charles Baldwin, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Jane, Austin Kleon, Kiki
medium.com
This is how Google will collapse
7 min · · The way things might turn out for Google if current trends continue. · Shared by 118, including Eberhard Frank, Johannes Lenz, Lukas Stickelberger, Rand Fishkin, Florian Stambula, Abdelsalam Smadi, Claudio Noguera, Charles Baldwin, Lluís Codina, Stephanie A Kowalski, Arin Basu
WIRED
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English
6 min · · Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level. · Shared by 102, including Kat, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Backchannel, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kim Schläpfer, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Carl Morris, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Uyên Đỗ, Charles Baldwin
The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
20+ min · · A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. · Shared by 678, including Korben, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Richard Deitsch, Florian Hanke 🍎, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Nils Hitze, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Dominik Grolimund, Aral Balkan, Mike Davidson, Michael Seemann, Brian Resnick, Tiago Forte, mdy, Beto Esquivel, Ward Plunet, Ajit Pai, Jeff Atwood
medium.com
Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
6 min · · Today’s internet is bland. Everything looks the same: generic fonts, no layouts to speak of, and an absence of expressive visuals. So I asked my students to redesign it, and here’s what they created. · Shared by 221, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, luis antónio santos, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Niklaus Gerber, Marc Wieland, Klaus Eck, David Hellmann, Kat, Julian de Keijzer, Carlo Badini, Thomas Pleil, Gabriele, Christian P. Stobbe, Ines Bieler, { Monah } 💡, five5star // Design Graphique, Dominik Grolimund, sascha aßbach, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa
TechCrunch
The future of diversity and inclusion in tech
20+ min · · Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. Some advocates call this part “the end of the beginning,” Code2040 CEO Karla Monterroso… · Shared by 172, including Women Who Code, Chris Messina, Jeff Bussgang, anildash.com, Gabriele, Mike Butcher, Joelle Emerson, Charles Baldwin, Sergio Caredda, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Lluís Codina, Massimiliano Aroffo
The Washington Post
Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.
5 min · · The growth of bone spurs at the back of the skulls of young people may be a result of an adaptation to the use of handheld devices. · Shared by 122, including Dan Wahlin, Ste Davies, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Arin Basu, Niklaus Gerber, Brian Solis, Bjorn Larsen, Boas Ruh, Esther Schindler, ❤️ Umair, Mark Kaigwa, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
The Wall Street Journal
Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests
2 min · · In one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers’ revenue, researchers at three universities suggest publishers only get about 4% more… · Shared by 70, including Nils Hitze, Bjorn Larsen, George M 🇪🇺, Oscar MacDonald, Yvette Dubel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Vincenzo Tremonte, Azeem Azhar, Mathew Ingram, Gabriel Weinberg, Contagious, Charles Baldwin
TechCrunch
Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company
3 min · · Apple shared plenty of news today at its WWDC 2019 annual developer conference, but a few of the announcements early on are potentially its biggest in terms of what they signal about the company and… · Shared by 83, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Rick Powell, Jelan Ong, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Charles Baldwin
The Guardian
'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
7 min · · Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally · Shared by 436, including Fern, Rico Grimm, Gregg Caruso, Charles Baldwin, Connie Ragen Green, Florian Hanke 🍎, Aral Balkan, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Matthew Turland, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Konrad Lischka, Yvette Dubel, Tim O'Reilly, Martina Grolimund, Gabriel Weinberg, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social
Fast Company
I left the ad industry because our use of data tracking terrified me
4 min · · With every post, click, and purchase, we have become the product. I didn’t agree to that, and I bet you didn’t either. · Shared by 62, including Marko Saric, Charles Baldwin, Thomas Power, Yvette Dubel, LARRY ELKAN, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao
The New Yorker
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
12+ min · · The current system for delivering news online is broken. Readers and journalists will need to work together to find a new one. · Shared by 133, including luis antónio santos, 瑞拿頭, Dominik Grolimund, Charles Baldwin, Jeremy Caplan, Mathew Ingram, Nieman Reports, CORRECTIV, Jane, Liv 😷, Mark Little, Stéphane Renault, Vincenzo Tremonte, Oleg Baskov, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Oscar MacDonald
The New York Times
Smash the Wellness Industry
7 min · · Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims? · Shared by 67, including Brittany Berger, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin, Florian Hanke 🍎, Lucy Moon 🌙, Carly, Martin Steiger 🦈, Tauno