Ranking Every Default iOS Wallpaper
iOS 16 is just around the corner (in beta form, at least) and that means I'll be using its new wallpaper on my phone for at least a few weeks. I thought it would be fun to rank the previous default iOS wallpapers from best to worst. All of these are pretty solid,
Podcasts I've Never Missed
I listen to a good number of podcasts, but shows end and others lose my interest over time. But some shows I was there from day one and have never missed an episode. My criteria for this list are:
1. I listened to episode 1 when it was released (or at least within a few
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How Web3 Folks See Video Games (it’s not what you expect)
Luke Winkie: Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.
“We started with a very simple thesis, which was to bring property rights to gamers. The idea behind that was that gamers are a little bit like slave labor. You play a game, you spend money in a game, you
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Nobody Wants to Go There
Casey Newton:
All of this sets aside the fact that there is a strong market demand for content moderation. Platforms that allow extremism to proliferate quickly become ghost towns; most people don’t want to see racist idiocy every time they log on. Platforms remove hate speech and various other forms of harm primarily because
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Round and Around We Go
2019: Apple poaches top Google machine learning expert as it continues to expand AI team
Apple has poached one of Google’s top artificial intelligence engineers as it continues to build up its AI team. Apple recently hired Google’s Ian Goodfellow to join its “Special Projects Group” as a director of machine learning.
Today:
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The Perfect Currency for a Fraud-Free World
This interview is pretty long, but it's worth a read. This bit stood out to me because it really does show the scale we're dealing with when it comes to Bitcoin.
The problem with the Global Public Square is that it is a single, limited entity, and you have only so
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Sometimes There Aren't Words
Internet Blue: Disregard the Words
Yet looking back on the last decade or two, the most transformative consumer products – and generational changes in behavior – have often been the most difficult to describe. The ones where words escaped us initially.
This is a really good article about how things like Notion, Snapchat, and the iPhone are
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The Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
Kaitlyn Tiffany: Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
Depp supporters have also suggested that Heard’s daughter, Oonagh, who was born via surrogate last year, is secretly the child of Elon Musk, and that Musk has some larger role to play in an immense conspiracy.
I'm only vaguely following along
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Zelda, Fonts, and Magic (Newsletter #112)
Happy…late Friday! I've decided that in order to avoid burnout, I need to be more flexible with this newsletter, and this week that means doing a late-Friday edition, which is just more fun anyway, right?!
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* Want to play the original Zelda in your browser? Why not?!
* Bakewell is a
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A Haven for Forbidden Apps
Jared Newman: How AltStore is building a haven for forbidden iPhone apps
“You would think that allowing high performance apps would be to Apple’s benefit as they keep making more and more powerful iPads, but the state of (allowed) iPad software has been stagnant,” says UTM’s developer, who goes by the pseudonym Osy.
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Dogecoin is Going to the Moon on WordPress!
I saw this headline,455 Million WordPress Websites Can Now Accept Dogecoin, and of course I had to see what this was all about.
According to DogeDesigner, a UX/UI specialist and graphic designer at Dogecoin Foundation, millions of WordPress websites can now accept Dogecoin using the WooCommerce plugin "Easy Dogecoin Gateway" built
A Fandom That Doesn’t Want Me
This post is a day late, but all the Star Wars talk yesterday and the new Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer got me thinking about where I am with Star Wars right now. I was about 12 years old when I first saw A New Hope, and I’ve been a huge fan of the franchise
Just Like the 5th Most Popular Bar in Town, Twitter Isn’t the Town Square
Some people like to call Twitter, “the modern town square,” and that this distinction means that everyone should be able to talk there, everyone should be able to say what they’d like, and any limits on those things is censorship.
I understand this argument to an extent. I’ve personally said that one of
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God This is Late! (Newsletter #111)
Happy Friday and man, it's been a bit! The combination of work, moving into a house, YouTube, and my freelance work have just made it so something had to give, and sadly this newsletter drew the short straw.
I hope you all like the tweets and videos, because I'm just going
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Android Apps on Windows are a Match Made in Hell
Will Sattelberg: Android apps on Windows 11 review: Not like this
You can fill all of these absences elsewhere on Windows 11. Many of these titles have versions on Steam or the web — you don't need the Android version of Among Us to play on Windows. The same goes for those missing apps,
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How to Not Lose Your Mind These Days
Noah Smith: How to stay optimistic in these dark times
I’d like to think about what it means to be optimistic, and then think about how we can craft an intentional strategy for national (and personal) optimism.
A good read if only to remind yourself of some good news and that it's
