The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
"Despite their idealist manifesto and their Bill of Rights, I don’t believe they could ever truly be in partnership with their community once they were taking large amounts of venture funding." This...
View ArticleMy grandpa was a Nazi
"His definition of strength was power, influence, money and his network of important people. [...] I wondered for many years, how all of this could have happened. How people like my grandpa turned...
View ArticleUS to get first dedicated high-speed railway – built by Network Rail
I hadn't caught that the US's first high-speed railway is going to be built by Network Rail, which runs Britain's railway infrastructure. The San Francisco to Los Angeles route will take under three...
View ArticleNYT Flash-based visualizations work again
"NYT is using the open source Ruffle as their Flash emulator. I hope other news outlets follow. It’s great to see my favorite visualizations working again." A lovely way to keep interactive archives...
View ArticleHow The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in the U.S. |...
Roughly a third of revenue for the Guardian - a firmly British paper - now comes from US readers.The Guardian is free for everyone to read online. There's the promise that paying readers see fewer...
View ArticleStarting Whole30 today in the midst of ...
Starting Whole30 today in the midst of a fairly chaotic family time. If you have tips or recipes that helped you get through it, I'd love to hear them!
View ArticleFake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote on Tuesday
A robocall used a deepfake of Joe Biden's voice to encourage New Hampshire voters to stay home. "It's important that you save your vote for the November election." It's not a perfect deepfake, but it...
View ArticleThe 19th News Network
The 19th News Network is "a collective of national, regional and local publishers seeking to advance racial and gender equity in politics and policy journalism." Partners include USA Today, the Texas...
View ArticleIntroducing our Open Salary System: Reflecting on a Decade of Transparent...
"What we’re sharing today is the result of applying our lessons learned from running a company with transparent salaries for a decade." I've been following Buffer's open salaries initiative since the...
View ArticleMore states propose bills to exclude trans, nonbinary people from public life
"Proposed legislation would prevent trans people from being able to update driver’s licenses, hold public office, use public restrooms, or take shelter from domestic violence unless they do so...
View ArticleHow Beloved Indie Blog 'The Hairpin' Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm | WIRED
"In 2018, the indie women’s website The Hairpin stopped publishing, along with its sister site The Awl. This year, The Hairpin has been Frankensteined back into existence and stuffed with slapdash...
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The right to see who is spying on us
CNN reports that the NSA has been buying internet data as a way to track Americans without a warrant:[Oregon Democratic Senator Ron] Wyden, one of Congress’ most vocal privacy advocates, said he spent...
View ArticleFour years of The 19th News: The year in review and what’s next
Honestly, what a lovely thing: a nonprofit newsroom doing important things for news, media, and democracy, for the right reasons - with a women-led, diverse team. And thriving. 60% of the team is...
View ArticleWe Need Your Email Address
"In order to combat the fracturing of social media platforms, a Google discoverability crisis fueled by AI generated spam and AI-fueled SEO, and a media business environment that is in utter freefall,...
View ArticleThe War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco, the graphic journalist who wrote Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza, and Safe Area Gorazde, has started a new series, The War on Gaza. It's accompanied by this statement from Fantagraphics: "We...
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The indieweb is for everyone
Tantek Çelik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of...
View ArticleFollowing lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
Simon Willison called this, and it makes sense: the George Carlin AI special was human-written, because that's the only way it could possibly have happened. It's a parlor trick; a bit. It's also a...
View ArticleWhy You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash
A really great piece about blameless postmortems and how the psychological safety to tell the truth leads to fewer mistakes and - in the case of the aviation industry - fewer lives lost. "It’s often...
View ArticleEvery day I walk back from daycare ...
Every day I walk back from daycare with an empty stroller, its toddler cocoon open like a burst egg sac, and everyone looks at me like I’m either processing some intense grief or I’ve let something...
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Stripping the web of its humanity
I tried Arc Search, the new mobile app from the Browser Company. Its central insight is that almost every mobile browsing session starts with a web search; rather than giving you the usual list of...
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