The Wrong Question – O’ReillyMaking people angry might increase shareholder value short-term. But that probably isn’t a sustainable business; and if it is, it’s a business that does incredible social damage. The “solution” isn’t likely to be legislation; I can’t imagine laws that regulate algorithms effectively, and that can’t be gamed by people who are […]
Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress BlogThe Library now has a secure collection of tweet text, documenting the first 12 years (2006-2017) of this dynamic communications channel—its emergence, its applications and its evolution. Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, […]
Super Punch: Adversarial fashion“The patterns on the goods in this shop are designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers, injecting junk data in to the systems” minmax() – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDNThe minmax() CSS function defines a size range greater than or equal to min and less than or equal to max. It […]
Aaron Ansuini ??? on Twitter: “HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course I’m taking *died in 2019* and he’s technically still giving classes since he’s *literally my prof for this course* and I’m learning from lect Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, […]
You may note that when you cut/paste from Google Docs into the WordPress editor you get a bunch of span tag and inline CSS garbage. It’s awful . . . so you could paste into the plain text editor . . . but you may also find that you want to keep a bunch of […]
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Do You Compute? — Page 4Be a fun display pattern to play with for other time-related projects. h/t Alan Levine TabFSTabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer. […]
Feature Prioritizing: Ways To Reduce Subjectivity And Bias — Smashing MagazineSuch a manifestation of democracy works great when you involve experts — people who know the topic inside out or who, as Danish physicist Niels Bohr puts it, “have made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” When everyone on […]
Antimemetics Division Hub – SCP FoundationBut anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your […]