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.
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:
Happy (early) 4th of July! 🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🥳🇺🇸
Ever since getting involved with Micro.blog I can’t stop thinking about:
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
Whenever there are big changes with Apple, if there’s anything as predictable as “hot takes about Apple” it is the repeated posts from people who are “tired of hot takes about Apple”.
Hot takes all the way down.
Yesterday I used a phone call to cancel my TV Licence.
Yep. Your highest chance for success is with a phone call.
This was, as they say, a good one.
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.
You can spec an iPad Pro up to £1869 but still can’t directly use web development tools on Safari. Madness.
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:
The new community-based projects have made me think about one of my favourite things about Micro.blog; this is not an effort to “replace Twitter” or anything like that. Rather the community is proving that it is an effort to try something different with the social web.
Quick list of recent additions to the Micro.blog community:
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.
Starting my day with a combination of Life and Experience, from the master himself.
Looking forward to;
Let’s go! 💪🏻
I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:
micro.blog/USERNAME)Enjoy! ⭐