Nationwide raids to sweep up undocumented families for deportation are scheduled to begin Sunday, homeland security officials said

America: Land of the Free

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.)

Reminder: pundits are not experts.

For all of the negative things I have to say about Zuckerberg, his posed photos still make me laugh in a way that just feels good. When looking at the photos I can instantly hear Merlin Mann’s robot voice. 😂

That so-called fine for Facebook is just another brick to be thrown by non-voters. It’s not that much different than my own government demanding to see Mark Zuckerberg, and the guy just basically shrugging as he displays all the fucks he does not have for any body of authority.

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.

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.

A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.

– Jonathan Leitschuh, Zoom Zero Day

Yikes.

Welp Spider-Man spoilers happened. It was inevitable, I guess.

… 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.

Since videos cannot be played on Twitter unless you are signed into an account, we can now definitively say that anybody who posts videos exclusively via their Twitter account are excluding a lot of people… and they’re not even getting paid for it.

I’ve just read a post in which somebody shortened Liverpool to ‘Pool. 🤔

More than ever, I value local storage.

The alternative – “the Cloud” – is lead by cowardly CEOs and fed by customers who live fear-led lives in which free is preferable to safe.

Web-based companies are dominated by the unconscionable actions of shamefully incapable assholes.

You know, for a while there I forgot about tracking pixels. It was a happier time in my life.

Naming poll:

  1. Concentration camps
  2. Concentration Camps
  3. concentration camps

Happy (early) 4th of July! 🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🥳🇺🇸

Ever since getting involved with Micro.blog I can’t stop thinking about:

  1. Thanks to the open web it was possible to create massive platforms, which inevitably became closed.
  2. Do we now abandon the open web or is it essential for keeping the closed platforms in check?

TIL Quidditch has become a real sport.

There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election.

– Jimmy Carter

Here’s to the clever people at Google who decided the useless Security Alert notifications on my phone simply had to be non-dismissable. It’s not infuriating at all. 👏

THE RAIN IS HERE PRAISE JEEBUS