We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
– John Gruber, Siri, Privacy, and Trust
The Jobs quote is devastating.
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My unpopular opinion: it’s a testimony to the Clintons’ extraordinarily hardball political acumen that they’ve been subjected to these fever dream theories for 30 years and go-along-to-get-along Obama never was.
Meanwhile:
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Still relevant: This Is America
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I’ve been catching up on the different shows from The Economist, and today listened to the In the sharenthood episode of The world ahead. Thoroughly recommended for people interested in privacy, generational culture, and where those issues meet. 🎙
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Songlink is a nice alternative to providing links to music streaming silos.
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The more I think about the news vs punditry and expertise, the more I agree with @JohnPhilpin re: the news as commodity. I’m not sure the actual news should be available as a publication on a website; perhaps something limited, or strictly feed-based would be better.
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I am now seriously looking at analogue watches and it’s all @collin’s fault.
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Taika Waititi is returning to the many worlds of Thor.
– Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter
A VERY GOOD DAY 😭😭😭😭
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Still not sure about removing Facebook* from your life?
They embed tracking data inside photos you download, in an attempt to track you outside of the account and platform.
(* This includes Messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp.)
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Long form writing on the web is like anything else that has the most value; it might not be the easiest, quickest, or most convenient option, but you will benefit from it the most in the long run.
Look at Seth Godin, for instance, and combine 7 of his posts. That’s long form.
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TIL about the American Community Survey. I know “the” census gets the vast majority of public attention but I hope more and more people in the US both learn and talk about the ACS.
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A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
– Jonathan Leitschuh, Zoom Zero Day
Yikes.
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… small groups of deeply passionate people can often be more productive than large groups of casually interested people.
– John Green, Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris?
In which John Green continues to be good at the whole words thing.
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This was, as they say, a good one.
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In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention, I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.
– Holly Cooper, co-director of University of California, Davis’ Immigration Law Clinic.
Holly is talking about one of the concentration camps.
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There are a number of different third-party Micro.blog projects in development. Using Today I Learned (@til), you can find and keep up to date on their progress.
Here’s a starter pack:
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Quick list of recent additions to the Micro.blog community:
- Micro Monday newsletter
- Film Festival Friday, including a new account: @friday
- Just Good Music, including a new account: @JustGoodMusic
- How to customise Micro.blog, including a new account: @custom
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Language and the New Social Web
(Note: I originally wrote this on Slack, as part of a thread about Micro.blog as a name.)
I know naming isn’t easy but I think I find it hard because M.b gets used for the company, individual blogs, the app and the timeline respectively in the following sentence (although arguably the second “Micro.blog” should be “microblog”):
“When I post to my Micro.blog hosted Micro.blog using Micro.blog it gets cross-posted to Micro.blog”
– Matthew Lindfield Seager (@matt17r), in the Indie Microblogging Slack
I think part of the issue here, especially if you’re going to compare to social media silos, is that they are not interested in differentiating these things… whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, whatever… they are simply interested in people not ever thinking about the technical side of things.
Meanwhile, Micro.blog fully embraces the technical side of things yet is also driven by a desire to make things as simple as possible.
As such, tbh, things aren’t cleanly and easily tucked into a nice little marketable pocket of jargon. If people don’t like the inevitable downsides of social media silos then they’re going to have to at least become aware of things like “blogs”, “posts”, “microblogs”, and so on.
That doesn’t mean people have to become experts or even especially comfortable with these concepts but they will need to acknowledge that there is no easy, one-size-fits-all answer for posting and sharing things on the web. Maybe over time the language will get easier but I don’t think it’s going to be because the marketing improves; rather, it’s time for people on the web to become better citizens.
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Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders, and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress. Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful. It’s an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution.
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Starting my day with a combination of Life and Experience, from the master himself.
Looking forward to;
- early morning writing;
- a lot of @til work;
- finally conquering some significant domestic tasks.
Let’s go! 💪🏻
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I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:
- Discover
- Including the Micro Monday filter.
- Click the search icon to look for people.
- Micro Monday podcast.
- Following Lists on Micro.blog profiles! (
micro.blog/USERNAME)
Enjoy! ⭐
- Discover
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They should isolate the Apple Music or News team and force them to go through App Review, pay 30%, etc to get a better feel for what it’a really like.
An interesting idea, eh @manton. 🤔
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Up to 3.7 million pensioners who previously received a free TV licence will now have to pay for it.
– The BBC
Perhaps they should all just die… and decrease the surplus population.
