archive

The before times.

Nov 2021

Siri doesn’t know what time it is in Palestine (but it’s fine with Israel)

Nov 26, 2021
Cryptocurrency is now forbidden under Islamic law in Indonesia (and some fair points were made)

Nov 23, 2021
Another small reason to dislike Mark Zuckerberg

Nov 23, 2021

Oct 2021

Wikipedia is as contentious as you’d expect when it comes to China

Oct 31, 2021
Roblox went down, parents freaked out

Oct 31, 2021

Aug 2021

OnlyFans drops sexually explicit content after censoring from MasterCard, VISA, and banks

Aug 20, 2021
How the media covers Afghanistan matters (and it’s not great)

Aug 19, 2021
Does Uber charge you more if your phone battery is low?

Aug 18, 2021
The Taliban has seized US biometric and face recognition tech

Aug 18, 2021

Jun 2021

Apple’s developer relations woes

Jun 10, 2021

May 2021

“Music Is About to Change Forever”

May 17, 2021

Apr 2021

Google could do more to prevent men killing women

Apr 27, 2021
No, Bitcoin doesn’t incentivise renewable energy

Apr 23, 2021
Misinformation and the missing piece

Apr 22, 2021
Missing blogs is missing people in the machine

Apr 21, 2021
Languishing in the feed

Apr 20, 2021
What kind of world is Amazon selling?

Apr 19, 2021
Zhush up your computing life with Hannah Montana Linux

Apr 18, 2021
For whom the Mac bell tolls, it tolls for thee

Apr 16, 2021
WWDC ‘21 Wishlist

Apr 14, 2021

Mar 2021

Feb 2021

Why does the Apple TV still exist?

Feb 13, 2021
Human society is just collateral damage in climate change

Feb 11, 2021
App Store scams and Apple’s priorities

Feb 10, 2021
The changing face of uwu

Feb 10, 2021
The oldest image on the internet (with a link that still works)

Feb 4, 2021
I’m Being Censored, and You Can Read, Hear, and See Me Talk About It in the News, on the Radio, and on TV

Feb 1, 2021

Jan 2021

Will people still pay for news without President Trump?

Jan 28, 2021
Neo-Nazis recruiting people to Telegram after Parler shuts down

Jan 13, 2021
Love the world anyway

Jan 13, 2021
You don’t get to be anti-murder but pro-stabbing

Jan 10, 2021
Trump’s “political genius”

Jan 8, 2021
The two Americas

Jan 8, 2021

Dec 2020

A long list of short thoughts about movies I've seen this year (2020)

Dec 25, 2020

Oct 2020

The iOS Photos widget makes your home screen feel like home

Oct 25, 2020
Austin Mann’s stunning iPhone 12 Pro review

Oct 23, 2020
The paradox of social violence

Oct 18, 2020
Things that have set off Siri (Part 2)

Oct 18, 2020
Ad tech, content, and the next internet bubble

Oct 17, 2020
NYT: The Tangled Web We Weave review

Oct 17, 2020
“You big ugly. You too empty.”

Oct 12, 2020
r/IdiotsFightingThings is proof we’re failing young men

Oct 11, 2020
1 + 2 = wisdom: Life lessons learned while playing Threes

Oct 10, 2020
The conspiracy theory classification model

Oct 7, 2020
Home

Oct 6, 2020
Coinbase is off base: the joys of politics at work

Oct 5, 2020
Twitter’s telling you who matters

Oct 3, 2020
Surprise: it’s worth taking a break from social media

Oct 1, 2020

Sep 2020

It’s okay to punch Nazis

Sep 30, 2020
“There’s no launch party for decay.”

Sep 28, 2020
Journalism is a team sport

Sep 27, 2020
“Doomer trad wife” and reactionary culture

Sep 26, 2020
The only good answer is “Yes”

Sep 18, 2020
Political leaders are sabotaging renewable energy

Sep 17, 2020
Windows 10 ignores your default browser to launch Edge

Sep 14, 2020
Microsoft’s console names make yet another good feature confusing

Sep 14, 2020
The world could use a little bit of tact right now

Sep 14, 2020
We don’t want everyone to understand us all the time

Sep 12, 2020
“There’s nothing novel about Netflix’s competitive culture of fear”

Sep 12, 2020

Aug 2020

kites can’t jive (August 2020)

Aug 31, 2020
Sleep tracking in watchOS 7: simple but thoughtful

Aug 29, 2020
Can Uber delete itself?

Aug 29, 2020

Jul 2020

kites can’t jive (July 2020)

Jul 31, 2020
The public helped fund great tech – what should they get in return?

Jul 20, 2020
Why time is weird in lockdown

Jul 14, 2020
China has been playing the long game. The US, not so much

Jul 14, 2020
TikTok, Douyin, and the “dystopian censorship machine”

Jul 13, 2020
Facebook’s civil rights failure

Jul 13, 2020
Tech exec wants to recreate the creepy surveillance tech from The Dark Knight (which was explicitly a bad idea)

Jul 13, 2020
Memeing law into existence: San Fran introduces the CAREN Act

Jul 9, 2020
What would it mean if Facebook and Google left Hong Kong?

Jul 9, 2020
Concern over TikTok is “international politics thinly veiled as a data ethics issue”

Jul 9, 2020
“Scream inside your heart”: advice for rollercoasters (and everyday life)

Jul 9, 2020
Hong Kong is the next battleground in the tech Cold War between China and the US

Jul 7, 2020
Apple never really gave Apple Arcade a chance (and that’s why it needs to change)

Jul 6, 2020
kites can't jive (June 2020)

Jul 1, 2020

Jun 2020

Everyone’s joining the ban train

Jun 30, 2020
iOS 14's widgets bring the Windows Phone dream back to life

Jun 24, 2020
Platforms like Mixer, Twitch, and YouTube don’t care about you

Jun 24, 2020
Spaniards can't stop ruining important artworks

Jun 23, 2020
Women share stories of sexual assault in the world of video game streaming

Jun 23, 2020
A long list of short thoughts about things announced at WWDC (2020)

Jun 23, 2020
The picture 12 billion years in the making

Jun 22, 2020
Apple's Windows Problem

Jun 16, 2020
The WNBA is back

Jun 16, 2020
Minneapolis lawmakers: ‘Our commitment is to end policing as we know it’

Jun 8, 2020
Mates don’t let mates kill people

Jun 8, 2020
Australia’s relationship with the US started with deception

Jun 8, 2020
Amy McQuire: ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators’

Jun 8, 2020
The mine that ate up a town

Jun 6, 2020
Pakistan is managing COVID-19 with mass surveillance

Jun 6, 2020
Cities aren’t ‘facing protests’ – they’re taking part in them

Jun 3, 2020
An actual politician: ‘brumby lives matter’

Jun 3, 2020
‘They’re not moving. They’re not moving. Oh they got shot.’

Jun 3, 2020
Police Commissioner: the officer who threw a kid to the ground had a bad day

Jun 3, 2020
The man teaching cops to kill

Jun 2, 2020
Lao lao, Laos's very own moonshine

Jun 2, 2020
Gregg Popovich: ‘The System Has to Change’

Jun 2, 2020
kites can't jive (May 2020)

Jun 1, 2020

May 2020

“The guy is drunk! But there he goes!”

May 13, 2020
LeBron James had no regard for human life twelve years ago

May 13, 2020
Only monsters reply all

May 13, 2020
Bookwork Adventures is gone and there no words

May 12, 2020
Improv comedians are suffering because of COVID-19

May 12, 2020
John Gruber on the state of iPhone and Android CPU Performance

May 12, 2020
A guy tried to buy nudes with Animal Crossing money (in a Facebook group his fiancé was also in)

May 11, 2020
Mastering tech as an expression of power

May 10, 2020

Apr 2020

5 nit-picky changes I want to see in iOS 14

Apr 6, 2020
My essential self-isolation apps

Apr 2, 2020

Mar 2020

"Digital Air Jordans" and the future of collectibles

Mar 5, 2020
What will survive when the millennial aesthetic dies?

Mar 4, 2020
Facebook has chosen growth over safety too many times

Mar 4, 2020
"No Solutions: A Personal Examination Of Online Anger"

Mar 1, 2020

Feb 2020

Sending confetti is the superior way to text

Feb 26, 2020
The power China has over companies and countries (and how that shapes the world)

Feb 18, 2020
Apple News provides a mediocre reading experience

Feb 11, 2020

Jan 2020

Netflix softens their viewership metrics, which doesn't seem insecure at all

Jan 25, 2020
Police are using an invasive tool they don't understand

Jan 23, 2020
Why lie to journalists when you can lie to the people directly?

Jan 22, 2020
Things that have invoked Siri since updating to iOS 13 and watchOS 6

Jan 20, 2020
Nepal introduces jail terms for "offensive" social posts

Jan 18, 2020
Amazon is donating money to victims of the Australian bushfires (while raking in money from oil companies)

Jan 13, 2020
The lives lost due to Kashmir's internet blackout

Jan 12, 2020
The environmental destruction of the Australian bushfires

Jan 12, 2020
The Apple Watch is a sassy bitch

Jan 11, 2020
Picking apart Rupert Murdoch's influence on the Australian bushfire debate

Jan 10, 2020
Twitter's changes to replies are a decade too late (and barely address the problem)

Jan 9, 2020
Unloveable Apple, endless growth, and the ad hellscape

Jan 7, 2020
The governments turning off the internet

Jan 6, 2020
Let kids vote to save Australia (and the world)

Jan 4, 2020
Bird mimics fire engine sirens as Australia burns

Jan 2, 2020
8tracks shuts down and another music service fades out

Jan 2, 2020
Machine learning and the art of under-paying people to fix your problems

Jan 1, 2020

Dec 2019

5 great Christmas albums on Apple Music

Dec 24, 2019
The art of dying

Dec 17, 2019
Who goes Nazi?

Dec 16, 2019
A long list of short thoughts about movies I saw this year (2019)

Dec 15, 2019

Nov 2019

No-one cares about the cool bands you like

Nov 7, 2019
Muzak for tech bros

Nov 7, 2019
The death of local media and close-to-home accountability

Nov 3, 2019
Kindle hackers and resistance via submission

Nov 3, 2019

Aug 2019

Stratechery on privacy fundamentalism

Aug 29, 2019
The Cook Doctrine comes for your iPhone battery

Aug 9, 2019
Your wearable might be prejudiced

Aug 2, 2019

Jul 2019

Craigslists' founder is committed to helping the newspaper industry

Jul 25, 2019
How a trade dispute in Asia could affect Apple

Jul 23, 2019
Jeremy Renner has an official app (and a song)

Jul 23, 2019
The problems facing tech journalism

Jul 18, 2019
Everyone owns your face

Jul 18, 2019
Flight Control was one of the reasons I got an iPhone

Jul 14, 2019
How to regulate the internet

Jul 11, 2019
Microsoft champions progressive values while donating to Republicans

Jul 10, 2019
The App Store's search is a disappointment

Jul 9, 2019
Netflix isn't a storytelling company

Jul 5, 2019
Jony Ive and the Apple Watch compromise

Jul 2, 2019

Jun 2019

9 million people play Candy Crush for 3+ hours a day, but there are no but there's no 'addiction problem'

Jun 27, 2019
When complaints about censorship are about protecting the status quo

Jun 25, 2019
Media organisations liable for Facebook comments

Jun 24, 2019
The internet's right to partiality

Jun 24, 2019