Thinking Outside the Box
Uncommon perspectives and solutions to common problems.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
Gizmodo
I Can't Believe This Dopey, Busted-Ass Website Is What Messed Up Our Lives
2 min · · Like many people, I don’t use Facebook a lot these days, but when I idly visited the world’s largest digital nation-state this afternoon, I had an odd realization: Wow, it looks like ass. · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin
nature
Facing up to injustice in genome science
12+ min · · Researchers from under-represented groups are making genomics more inclusive by working with communities that have been overlooked or abused. · Shared by 12, including Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
How Instagram Ruined the Great Outdoors
8 min · · Social media influencers have helped turn public lands into tourist-infested swamps. And one cantankerous man is fighting back. · Shared by 13, including Charles Baldwin
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
Bloomberg CityLab
The Entrepreneurs Building a Fresh Start in Flint
11+ min · · Five years after the struggling Michigan city was first hit with its public health emergency, there’s good news—and signs of economic life. · Shared by 11, including Strong Towns, Philanthropy News Digest, Charles Baldwin
TNW
Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button
3 min · · The internet can be horrible, and it isn't weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave. But there's wasn't an easy way out, until now. · Shared by 106, including Johannes Lenz, Sara Tian, Howard Getson, Leslie D, Bernhard Huessy, Matt Navarra, k, Charles Baldwin, Education Architects, Mark Kaigwa, Stephanie A Kowalski, Aamir Raz, Bilal Aslam, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ruben Schönenberger, Nils Hitze
Fast Company
The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
4 min · · The free Chrome extension Simplify will give you the Gmail you want. · Shared by 251, including BrendanEich, Yvette Dubel, Philippe Surber, pizza.lottie 🍕, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Benedict Evans, Nils Hitze, Ellie Wheeler, Luca M. Sergio, Scott Williams, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Liliputing, Howard Getson, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, ReturnPath from Validity, Jake Knapp, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Steven Sinofsky, Dominik Grolimund
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
CNN
Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonuses to lowest-paid employees
3 min · · Abigail Disney is doubling down on her criticism of executive pay at her family's company. · Shared by 10, including Marsha Collier
larrysanger.org
Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us
5 min · · Have you ever noticed that your webcam doesn’t have an “off” switch? I looked on Amazon, and I couldn’t find any webcams for sale that had a simple on/off switch. When I thought I found one, but it… · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin
TNW
'Consent condom' requires four hands to open package
2 min · · 94 percent of women who are raped experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. One in three will contemplate suicide. And while a condom isn’t going to stop rape, it’s a damn good place to… · Shared by 15, including TechTrends, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, TNW Top Stories, Charles Baldwin
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
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
metis.fi
8 reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi
4 min · · By default almost all WiFi access points transmit at full power (100mW on 2.4GHz). This gives maximum coverage and users see a good signal ("full bars"). However, there are good reasons to turn down… · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin
TechCrunch
To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself
6 min · · Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our… · Shared by 72, including Mark Kaigwa, Bjorn Larsen, Gianluca Diegoli, Johannes Lenz, Mike Allton, Charles Baldwin, Matt Navarra, Oliver Reichenstein
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