We do not currently have information on how many of those journals used end-to-end encryption, but any such journals would have been protected against disclosure.

Paul Mayne, Day One Outage Postmortem

Yikes.


Windows is a service

Do you think whoever wrote this for the updater immediately felt sad about it? (assuming it was a person of course)


When @macgenie talks about the Microblog Academy all I want in the world is for there to be a beta of the Micro.blog platform and that is the name Manton chooses. AND WE GET A STAR TREK UNIFORM-INSPIRED PIN UPON BEING ACCEPTED INTO THE BETA. BEST IDEA OR VERY BEST IDEA?


Not only do I agree with @cheri’s suggestion for photo labelling in Micro.blog, I think it’s important for the implementation to go beyond basic functionality. I believe Micro.blog users ought to be prompted to add a label to their photograph.


Micro.blog is not an attempt to duplicate or replace Twitter.

Jean MacDonald welcomes Twitter users to Micro.blog

The sooner we displace Twitter values as default values, the better. Reject the notion they did anything well and start afresh.


A woman mentioning her period shouldn’t be such huge news

Danielle Rowley, a Scottish Labour MP

The existence of period poverty in my country is a damning indictment of where we are as a society.


Don’t eat the paper.

a white woman to Patti Labelle

We white people have an overflow of rank stupidity mixed with pure nastiness. Such vile behaviour.


… federal authorities, in conjunction with contracted private partners, have signed a lease to open a baby jail to detain child immigrants just east of downtown Houston.

via State Senator Sylvia Garcia


Then I took a deep breath and went off-script…

Liz Marley, Next Conference

This is one of my favourite Micro.blog posts. Thanks for writing it, @liz.


We care about your privacy

– Every company that does in fact not care.


We haven’t yet had the in depth sessions, but the even Platform State of the Union is ripe with half-truths + empty stats that serve them.

Meghän Kane, at WWDC

Huh, they didn’t include that in the keynote.


It is his business. He should have the opportunity to run his business the way he wants. If he wants to turn away people of color, then [that’s] his choice.

Michael Clark, a South Dakota state lawmaker

🇺🇸


But what really changed? Not much.

@danielpunkass pours cold water on the hype surrounding Apple’s support of free trials

Here’s my question: why doesn’t Apple (at least partially) justify their 30% cut by doing as Daniel suggests?


We want to be clear that while we are not developing AI for use in weapons, we will continue our work with governments and the military in many other areas.

Google published its AI ethics guidelines


I want to oppose Trump BUT the other side shouldn’t be mean to me!

– Idiots Everywhere


There were so many people, including nurses and doctors, out there to support her.

Leanne Whitehad, whose 13 year-old daughter underwent 892 days of chemotherapy

Leah Whitehead is an amazing person, a reminder of just how much potential we all have.


I know that, on my death bed, I would regret not giving this a shot.

Casey Liss, Taking Risks

Out of all of the people I discovered traversing the Apple enthusiast landscape, Casey is one of my favourites. He is a great addition to the indie worker ecosystem. 👏



We will be removing the Yahoo login requirement, yes.

Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug

Talk about instantly improving your new acquisition.


The move immediately triggered vows of retaliation from Mexico and the EU, which called the tariffs “protectionism, pure and simple”.

New US tariffs are set

This is the latest effort by the US government to cut their citizens off from the rest of the world.