Thinking Outside the Box
Uncommon perspectives and solutions to common problems.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
Nieman Lab
The Guardian’s nifty old-article trick is a reminder of how news organizations can use metadata to limit misinformation » Nieman…
5 min · · If we know lots of people on social will only glance at our headlines and not tap through, why can't we bring better information to them where they are? · Shared by 66, including Tom Connor, Nieman Reports, Joshua Benton, Chris Moran, Eric Sinclair, Mathew Ingram, luis antónio santos, Mark Needham, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Millie Tran
MIT Technology Review
How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout
1 min · · AI-powered video technology is becoming ubiquitous, tracking our faces and bodies through stores, offices, and public spaces. · Shared by 63, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Claudia Sommer, Vikram Dutt, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mike Tamir, PhD, Christopher Lauer™, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, 瑞拿頭, Thomas Power
The New Yorker
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
20+ min · · In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence. · Shared by 61, including David Nagel, 瑞拿頭, Jochen Burkhard, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Charles Baldwin, Liliane Ferrari ™, Eugene Wei, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
The Verge
The high hopes of the low-tech phone
14+ min · · The minimalist phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features. · Shared by 57, including Indiegogo💡, Brian Solis, Charles Baldwin
The Independent
Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book instead of ticket
· Special book given out as gift to readers during National Book Week is accepted instead of ticket · Shared by 47, including Anita Leirfall, Tom Connor, Esther Schindler, Korben, Matthew Bishop, Mathew Ingram
practicaltypography.com
Typography 2020 | Butterick’s Practical Typography
8 min · · “You cannot bore people into buying your product”, according to David Ogilvy. So true. Nevertheless, election season arrives, and radical boredom inevitably becomes the preferred… · Shared by 43, including bouiboui, Lena V. Groeger, Irene Au, Charles Baldwin, Jane, Jacob Cass, Design Shack, Neil Lee
kerkour.fr
Bloom: a free and open source Google
9 min · · 🇫🇷 Version française ici We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. TL;DR To bring an answer to the universal and unprecedented challenges of our century, we… · Shared by 40, including mastodon.social/@renestalder, Matthias Kahr, Matthew Turland, Charles Baldwin, Mike Ivars, David Garner
The Drum
Lush abandons social media: it's 'getting harder' to talk to customers
4 min · · Lush is stepping away from social channels in the UK. It will instead direct customers to its website, email, and phoneline for one-on-one conversations while also increasing its emphasis on… · Shared by 40, including Social Chain, Gianluca Diegoli, JD Prater, Daniel Schwarz, Miles Austin
The Guardian
‘Historic breakthrough’: Norway’s giant oil fund dives into renewables
3 min · · Experts say even nations that got rich on fossil fuels are seeing the future is green · Shared by 40, including Tom Connor, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin
medium.com
Operation Mindfuck 2.0
3 min · · Propaganda used to mean getting people to believe stuff. Now it means getting them to question what they believe or whether there’s any truth at all. However disorienting this is, it may not be all… · Shared by 38, including Mathew Ingram, Gerd Leonhard, douglas rushkoff, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Bloomberg CityLab
Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment
6 min · · The two pillars of American housing policy are fundamentally at odds. · Shared by 35, including Current Affairs, Shawn Venasse
Atlas Obscura
The Swiss City That’s Full of Cat Ladders
4 min · · A photographer captured Bern's eclectic and charming feline structures. · Shared by 34, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Draven, Charles Baldwin, Florian Hanke 🍎, Daniel Fritzsche
Imperial College London
Imperial launches world’s first Centre for Psychedelics Research
3 min · · The first formal centre for psychedelic research in the world will launch at Imperial College London today. · Shared by 33, including Tim Ferriss, Charles Baldwin, Making Sense Podcast, L. Taylor Banks
Fast Company
Future pills will be personalized and 3D printed, just for you
11+ min · · Meet the scientists using 3D printers to deliver safer, more effective tablets for children. · Shared by 33, including Balaji, Charles Baldwin, Ward Plunet
WIRED
A 1970s Essay Predicted Silicon Valley's High-Minded Tyranny
6 min · · Published in Ms. magazine, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" observes that organizations built to avoid hierarchy develop leaders with pernicious power. · Shared by 29, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Anthony Hamelle, Backchannel, Charles Baldwin
The Guardian
Edinburgh closes roads in city centre to cut air pollution
1 min · · Motorised traffic will be banned during Open Streets event on first Sunday of each month · Shared by 27, including Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Ross Wood, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin