Accessibility guidelinesPearson doing a nice job with clarity of design and language for accessibility. h/t Joe A Give Me Anything That Sparks Joy in Your Soul and I Will Monetize It – McSweeney’s Internet TendencyBy the way, why aren’t you putting Amazon affiliate links in texts to your family, co-workers, and high school friend group? […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-29
Meet the first-ever accessibility engineer at The Washington Post | Nieman Journalism Lab I’ve often found myself wishing conversations in this area were more inclusive of people with a diversity of backgrounds and identities. It’s essential to think about accessibility not just in the context of disability but also in the context of other inequities […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-22
Automatisch – Open Source Zapier Alternativeopen source ifttt/zapier h/t grant potter Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowHere is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-15
Eduardi Tsokolakyan (@eduwoes) • Instagram photos and videosa really crazy variety of art techniques and examples of non-standard creation Michael Tsai – Blog – Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWireI’m also using NetNewsWire for Mastodon. As with Twitter, what I like compared with a lot of the clients is that it works well for reading […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-08
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military | DazedKnown in esoteric meme circles as the psy-op girl, Haylujan, also known simply as Lujan, is a self-described “psychological operations specialist” for the US Army, whose online presence has led to countless memes speculating that she is a post-ironic psy-op meant to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-25
The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies, thanks to just-passed bill | TechCrunchA brand-new law (awaiting only the president’s signature) will let the Federal Communications Commission directly regulate rates in the notoriously predatory prison calling industry. Under the threat of having to provide a solid product for a reasonable price, companies may […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-18
Why the super rich are inevitableThis is the crux of the Yard-sale model. In a free market, one person ends up with all of the wealth – completely by chance. This is completely counterintuitive. If everyone wins half their games, everyone should end up approximately where they started, around $1,000. But it all starts to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-11
Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanationsA variation on the secret crush website I loved from many years ago. Convert curl commands to codeConvert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, C#, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Dart, CFML, Ansible URI or JSON John O’Nolan ???? on Twitter: “However, directly loading scripts from our CDN on […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-04
URME Surveillance — Leonardo SelvaggioThe principle method is by inviting the public to wear a photo-realistic, 3D-printed prosthetic of my face. When a user dons the prosthetic, camera systems equipped with facial recognition software identify that user as myself, thus attributing all of their actions to the identity known as “Leo Selvaggio.” In this way, […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-11-27
Vince Chadwick on Twitter: “I’m here at the “gala” concert in the EU foreign aid dept’s €387k metaverse (designed to attract non politically engaged 18-35 year olds — see story below). After initial bemused chats with the roughly five other huSecond round of second life . . . Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social on Twitter: “The […]