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You're Not in a Bubble, That's Whay You're So Mad
Greg Morris: Can We Try to Remember How to Disagree Please?
There is also a real issue of the bubbles we all live in now. Social media algorithms creates a space where we see posts and updates that we agree with. YouTube and Netflix force content on us that we will like, and issues arise
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The Wild Hunt (365 Albums)
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Apologies to the Queen Mary (365 Albums)
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If Blogging Surges in 2023, Then That's One Thing I Can Thank Elon For
Monique Judge: Bring Back Personal Blogging
Watching the demise of Twitter under the helm of Elon Musk has made me nostalgic for the personal blogging days. The decline of Twitter with the current erosion of legacy media has left me thinking we need to bring personal blogging back with a vengeance.
And:
The biggest reason
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Going from Three Codebases to One
Standard Notes: No, React Native Is Not the Future
When we first launched in late 2016, we started with three codebases: our web app (which our Electron desktop app contained), a native Swift iOS app, and a native Kotlin Android app. This was immediately untenable. Coordinating bug fixes across three platforms was hard enough, but
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Contra (365 Albums)
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The Birchtree Newsletter, January 2023
Happy new year! I'm sending this one out a bit early just for fun. Enjoy your new year's and here's to an excellent 2023 🎉
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The Web is Eating My Mac AliveJason Snell: My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere Likewise, my use
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Hot Fuss (365 Albums)
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Dark Sky was Always a Bit of a Weirdo
Russell Jacobs: The World’s Best Terrible Weather App
Indeed, Dark Sky’s big innovation wasn’t simply that its map was gorgeous and user-friendly: The radar map was the forecast. Instead of pulling information about air pressure and humidity and temperature and calculating all of the messy variables that contribute to the weather—
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If You’re Feeling Sinister (365 Albums)
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The Unlikely Rise of Barnes & Noble
Ted Gioia: What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
“Staff are now in control of their own shops,” he explained. “Hopefully they’re enjoying their work more. They’re creating something very different in each store.”
And:
Then it started to happen—book sales at Barnes & Noble began rising
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The Unnamed Baddies
Joshua Rivera: 2022 Was Pop Culture’s Year of Violent Denial
In the final season of The Good Fight, unrest is always present. On one side, there is a crowd protesting. On the other, there is police. Across all 10 episodes, it’s never said what the assembled crowd is angry about. The only thing
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Social Media Companies are Economically Motivated to Make Us Hate Strangers
Sarah Frier: Why Your Friends Are Disappearing From Your Social Feeds
When I accidentally tap on any one of the alerts, I enter apps desperate to guide me to content from people I don’t know — posts that I might be momentarily mesmerized by and never remember, touting gardening hacks or unique pastry designs.
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Miss Anthropocene (365 Albums)
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Rubber Soul (365 Albums)
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Licensed to Ill (365 Albums)
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Benchmarks Need to Represent Actual Usage
DXOMARK: Always-on Display: How Does It Affect Battery Life?
The results of our battery tests revealed that autonomy was largely impacted by this always-on screen feature, draining the battery about 4 times faster! The battery will last roughly 100 hours in idle when activating the feature, instead of 400 if the feature is
