Archive
Nov 2022
- Apple’s green message bubbles have an actual problem • It’s not easy being ‘#65C466’
- Brad Esposito: ‘The sooner you start laughing the less it hurts’ • Ha-ha-ha oh-oh-oh he-he-ha
- Will the admins of Mastodon be liable for defamation posted on their servers? • Nothing like legal panic to legitimise a social platform
- How a mining company is using fake Twitter accounts to defend itself • Welcome to the coalface of astroturfing
- An ungodly collection of emoji, ascii and text meme templates • Never worry about thinking up an original thought again
Sep 2022
- Audiobooks will be a real challenge for Spotify (plus: one good, free alternative for audiobooks) • The audiobook industry is still more audioboo than audioboom
- Oak is a great free meditation app (plus another great option) • Peace is within you – and it doesn't have a subscription fee
- Japanese artists manipulate the Chinese government to great success • Turns out the best way to stop pirates is to mock the CCP
Jul 2022
- A quabble of tweets, and other collective nouns for the web • Share your parade of RSS feeds with me please
- Fixing Netflix: livestreaming could make them cool again • Step one: stop trying to hollywoo Hollywood
- People love TikTok for news and money advice but TikTok doesn't love them back • Four surveys, one result: 🙃
Apr 2022
- Alexa can fart (and may be experiencing severe gastric distress) • Who needs a dog when you have an Echo?
Nov 2021
- Siri doesn’t know what time it is in Palestine (but it’s fine with Israel) • The way our sources of info talk about things matter, especially when they don't share their sources.
- Cryptocurrency is now forbidden under Islamic law in Indonesia (and some fair points were made) • Cryptobros all over were heard crying fatwah-wah-wah.
- Another small reason to dislike Mark Zuckerberg • Just in case all the privacy issues and the genocide aren't enough.
Oct 2021
- Wikipedia is as contentious as you’d expect when it comes to China • China v Democracy, round 638
- Roblox went down, parents freaked out • Society crumbled.
Aug 2021
- OnlyFans drops sexually explicit content after censoring from MasterCard, VISA, and banks • OnlyFans creators stripped (of their ability to earn money).
- How the media covers Afghanistan matters (and it’s not great) • What? The media is focusing on US apologists? No way.
- Does Uber charge you more if your phone battery is low? •
- The Taliban has seized US biometric and face recognition tech • Does it recognise shocked faces?
Jun 2021
- Apple’s developer relations woes • Things aren't looking good for app developers.
May 2021
- “Music Is About to Change Forever” • Spoiler – it didn't.
Apr 2021
- Google could do more to prevent men killing women •
- No, Bitcoin doesn’t incentivise renewable energy •
- Misinformation and the missing piece •
- Missing blogs is missing people in the machine •
- Languishing in the feed •
- What kind of world is Amazon selling? •
- Zhush up your computing life with Hannah Montana Linux •
- For whom the Mac bell tolls, it tolls for thee •
- WWDC ‘21 Wishlist •
Mar 2021
- Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, valued at $2.6 billion (or half the New York Knicks) •
- The “Amazon of South Korea” is worth billions, facing accusations of employees being worked to death •
Feb 2021
- Why does the Apple TV still exist? •
- Human society is just collateral damage in climate change •
- App Store scams and Apple’s priorities •
- The changing face of uwu •
- The oldest image on the internet (with a link that still works) •
- I’m Being Censored, and You Can Read, Hear, and See Me Talk About It in the News, on the Radio, and on TV •
Jan 2021
- Will people still pay for news without President Trump? •
- Neo-Nazis recruiting people to Telegram after Parler shuts down •
- Love the world anyway •
- You don’t get to be anti-murder but pro-stabbing •
- Trump’s “political genius” •
- The two Americas •
Dec 2020
Oct 2020
- The iOS Photos widget makes your home screen feel like home •
- Austin Mann’s stunning iPhone 12 Pro review •
- The paradox of social violence •
- Things that have set off Siri (Part 2) •
- Ad tech, content, and the next internet bubble •
- NYT: The Tangled Web We Weave review •
- “You big ugly. You too empty.” •
- r/IdiotsFightingThings is proof we’re failing young men •
- 1 + 2 = wisdom: Life lessons learned while playing Threes •
- The conspiracy theory classification model •
- Home •
- Coinbase is off base: the joys of politics at work •
- Twitter’s telling you who matters •
- Surprise: it’s worth taking a break from social media •
Sep 2020
- It’s okay to punch Nazis •
- “There’s no launch party for decay.” •
- Journalism is a team sport •
- “Doomer trad wife” and reactionary culture •
- The only good answer is “Yes” •
- Political leaders are sabotaging renewable energy •
- Windows 10 ignores your default browser to launch Edge •
- Microsoft’s console names make yet another good feature confusing •
- The world could use a little bit of tact right now •
- We don’t want everyone to understand us all the time •
- “There’s nothing novel about Netflix’s competitive culture of fear” •
Aug 2020
- kites can’t jive (August 2020) •
- Sleep tracking in watchOS 7: simple but thoughtful •
- Can Uber delete itself? •
Jul 2020
- kites can’t jive (July 2020) •
- The public helped fund great tech – what should they get in return? •
- Why time is weird in lockdown •
- China has been playing the long game. The US, not so much •
- TikTok, Douyin, and the “dystopian censorship machine” •
- Facebook’s civil rights failure •
- Tech exec wants to recreate the creepy surveillance tech from The Dark Knight (which was explicitly a bad idea) •
- Memeing law into existence: San Fran introduces the CAREN Act •
- What would it mean if Facebook and Google left Hong Kong? •
- Concern over TikTok is “international politics thinly veiled as a data ethics issue” •
- “Scream inside your heart”: advice for rollercoasters (and everyday life) •
- Hong Kong is the next battleground in the tech Cold War between China and the US •
- Apple never really gave Apple Arcade a chance (and that’s why it needs to change) •
- kites can't jive (June 2020) •
Jun 2020
- Everyone’s joining the ban train •
- iOS 14's widgets bring the Windows Phone dream back to life •
- Platforms like Mixer, Twitch, and YouTube don’t care about you •
- Spaniards can't stop ruining important artworks •
- Women share stories of sexual assault in the world of video game streaming •
- A long list of short thoughts about things announced at WWDC (2020) •
- The picture 12 billion years in the making •
- Apple's Windows Problem •
- The WNBA is back •
- Minneapolis lawmakers: ‘Our commitment is to end policing as we know it’ •
- Mates don’t let mates kill people •
- Australia’s relationship with the US started with deception •
- Amy McQuire: ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators’ •
- The mine that ate up a town •
- Pakistan is managing COVID-19 with mass surveillance •
- Cities aren’t ‘facing protests’ – they’re taking part in them •
- An actual politician: ‘brumby lives matter’ •
- ‘They’re not moving. They’re not moving. Oh they got shot.’ •
- Police Commissioner: the officer who threw a kid to the ground had a bad day •
- The man teaching cops to kill •
- Lao lao, Laos's very own moonshine •
- Gregg Popovich: ‘The System Has to Change’ •
- kites can't jive (May 2020) •
May 2020
- “The guy is drunk! But there he goes!” •
- LeBron James had no regard for human life twelve years ago •
- Only monsters reply all •
- Bookwork Adventures is gone and there no words •
- Improv comedians are suffering because of COVID-19 •
- John Gruber on the state of iPhone and Android CPU Performance •
- A guy tried to buy nudes with Animal Crossing money (in a Facebook group his fiancé was also in) •
- Mastering tech as an expression of power •
Apr 2020
Mar 2020
- "Digital Air Jordans" and the future of collectibles •
- What will survive when the millennial aesthetic dies? •
- Facebook has chosen growth over safety too many times •
- "No Solutions: A Personal Examination Of Online Anger" •
Feb 2020
- Sending confetti is the superior way to text •
- The power China has over companies and countries (and how that shapes the world) •
- Apple News provides a mediocre reading experience •
Jan 2020
- Netflix softens their viewership metrics, which doesn't seem insecure at all •
- Police are using an invasive tool they don't understand •
- Why lie to journalists when you can lie to the people directly? •
- Things that have invoked Siri since updating to iOS 13 and watchOS 6 •
- Nepal introduces jail terms for "offensive" social posts •
- Amazon is donating money to victims of the Australian bushfires (while raking in money from oil companies) •
- The lives lost due to Kashmir's internet blackout •
- The environmental destruction of the Australian bushfires •
- The Apple Watch is a sassy bitch •
- Picking apart Rupert Murdoch's influence on the Australian bushfire debate •
- Twitter's changes to replies are a decade too late (and barely address the problem) •
- Unloveable Apple, endless growth, and the ad hellscape •
- The governments turning off the internet •
- Let kids vote to save Australia (and the world) •
- Bird mimics fire engine sirens as Australia burns •
- 8tracks shuts down and another music service fades out •
- Machine learning and the art of under-paying people to fix your problems •
Dec 2019
- 5 great Christmas albums on Apple Music •
- The art of dying •
- Who goes Nazi? •
- A long list of short thoughts about movies I saw this year (2019) •
Nov 2019
- No-one cares about the cool bands you like •
- Muzak for tech bros •
- The death of local media and close-to-home accountability •
- Kindle hackers and resistance via submission •
Aug 2019
- Stratechery on privacy fundamentalism •
- The Cook Doctrine comes for your iPhone battery •
- Your wearable might be prejudiced •
Jul 2019
- Craigslists' founder is committed to helping the newspaper industry •
- How a trade dispute in Asia could affect Apple •
- Jeremy Renner has an official app (and a song) •
- The problems facing tech journalism •
- Everyone owns your face •
- Flight Control was one of the reasons I got an iPhone •
- How to regulate the internet •
- Microsoft champions progressive values while donating to Republicans •
- The App Store's search is a disappointment •
- Netflix isn't a storytelling company •
- Jony Ive and the Apple Watch compromise •