Brad’s Weekly by Brad Brooks (@ninthart)

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The Atlantic
If the Author Is a Bad Person, Does That Change Anything?The Atlantic
5 min · From 2021 · Blake Bailey, who wrote "Philip Roth: The Biography," has been accused of sexual crimes. · Shared by 101, including corey robin, David Frum, Nilofer Merchant, Brad Brooks
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The Guardian
That creaking sound? It’s the United Kingdom starting to break apartThe Guardian
4 min · From 2021 · Westminster’s self-serving rule is bolstering the cause of independence. Democracy will be the winner, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot · Shared by 90, including Brad Brooks, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Leonardo Sumulong, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, George Monbiot
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In Scotland, the three parties that favour independence (the SNP, the Greens and Alba) are on course between them to win a clear majority this week.
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DEV Community
Build your Responsive website without media queryDEV Community
7 min · From 2021 · We cannot talk about web development without talking about Reponsive Design. The latter is now a must... · Shared by 134, including Evan (he/him), Brad Brooks, Jessel Sookha
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Nieman Lab
It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone…Nieman Lab
2 min · From 2021 · Three years ago, we ran a piece by Digital Content Next's Jason Kint on what kinds of data collection and tracking consumers expect Facebook to do in order to improve their ad targeting. A majority… · Shared by 101, including Andreas Von Gunten, Joshua Benton, Janosch Tröhler, Brad Brooks
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Only about 4% of U.S. iOS users and about 11% of worldwide iOS users are saying yes to tracking.
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Creative Bloq
12 essential cheat sheets for every designerCreative Bloq
7 min · From 2021 · All the facts, shortcuts and jargon designers need in their lives. · Shared by 184, including Brad Brooks, Jansnet
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The Guardian
Smartphone is now ‘the place where we live’, anthropologists sayThe Guardian
2 min · From 2021 · A UCL study has found people around the world feel the same about their devices as they do about their homes · Shared by 455, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Vikram, Stephanie A Kowalski, Elena Neira, Stefan Diepolder, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, luis antónio santos, Gabriele, Benjamin, Dr. Alec Couros, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, DON’T PANIC, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Brad Brooks
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Smartphone users have become “human snails carrying our homes in our pockets”, with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to a landmark study.
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NPR
How One Man's Fight Against An AOL Troll Sealed The Tech Industry's PowerNPR
6 min · From 2021 · A fight between a Seattle man and AOL in the mid-1990s led to what has been called "the most important Internet law ruling ever." Decades later, the decision still governs how the web functions. · Shared by 146, including Ⓓarío Macchi, Stephan Woodtli, Brad Brooks, Jane
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Facebook, Google, Amazon, Yelp, Wikipedia and countless other social media, e-commerce and discussion sites that rely on user-generated content could not exist without the precedent that emerged from Zeran's case.
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The New York Times
How Did We Get So Stuck on Here?The New York Times
6 min · From 2021 · Our complicated relationship with social media might be simpler than it feels. Just remember how it started. · Shared by 178, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matt Navarra, Brad Brooks, sonia (may or may not be notable), Cade Metz, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Gerd Leonhard, @grzewap@mastodon.social, John Herrman
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Stuckness is also the inevitable result of a commercialized social and civic space, built only to grow.
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VICE
Anti-Maskers Ready to Start Masking—to Protect Themselves From the VaccinatedVICE
3 min · From 2021 · An anti-vaccine conspiracy about the vaccinated are leading some anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers to contemplate wearing a mask and social distance. · Shared by 151, including ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Jennifer Ouellette, Perez Hilton, Jake Jackson, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Gary Marcus, Jeff Atwood, Kevin Grandia, Liam Bright, Stefan Plattner 💙✌, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Brad Brooks, Steve Streza 🏳️‍🌈, Marc Brupbacher, Nils Hitze, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Oliver Fuchs, Timothy Caulfield, Joshua Benton, DonDahlmann
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VICE
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human BodyVICE
17+ min · From 2021 · Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind. · Shared by 476, including Klaus Eck, John Nosta, Marsha Collier, Esther Schindler, Noah Toly, Kate Crawford, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Benjamin, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Howard Getson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Brad Brooks, Anne Helen Petersen, Tiffany Shlain, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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The aches and pains of computer use now play an outsized role in our physical (and increasingly, our mental) health, as the demands of remote work force us into constant accommodation.
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The Guardian
Protesters surround and block immigration van from leaving after Glasgow raidThe Guardian
3 min · From 2021 · Standoff unfolded after detentions during Eid al-Fitr in apparent escalation of hostile environment policy · Shared by 82, including Guy Longworth, Rick Powell, Brad Brooks, Ray Monk, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Prof. Devi Sridhar, Sarah Fine
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The Atlantic
Why We Speak More Weirdly at HomeThe Atlantic
5 min · From 2021 · When people share a space, their collective experience can sprout its own vocabulary, known as a "familect." · Shared by 336, including Elliott M. Hoey, Beate Jordaan, Anne Helen Petersen, Larry Ferlazzo, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Brad Brooks, Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@zirk.us
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During the pandemic, we’ve spent dramatically more time in those quarters, and our in-group slang has changed accordingly.
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THE COMICS JOURNAL
Five Years Left To Cry InTHE COMICS JOURNAL
13+ min · From 2021 · Do you know how dangerous it can be to randomly go roaming the internet for comics news, reviews and points of views? Buddy: take a look at that pipeline situation. It's rough out there! Why not place… · Shared by 8, including Brad Brooks
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