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I was going to experiment with selling NFTs, but then I found out it costs
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The Truth is Paywalled
Nathan Robinson: The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free:
A white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14.95, a price nobody in their right mind would
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The Lord of the Rings in 4K HDR is Unbelievable
I’ve spent the last 2 weekends watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy again (it’s been at least
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Dueling Athletes
Aaron Rodgers is my favorite quarterback in the NFL (on my favorite team, so that helps), but uh…he's fallen in my esteem over the past week. I hoped his appearance on the Pat McAfee Show would help him clear things up, but he only made things worse. As I tweeted tongue-in-
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I'm Trying Spotify Again and It's Not Going Well
Every once in a while I'll hear someone say how much they love Spotify and that Apple Music
Move Past Buzzwords
Reddit got some headlines over the weekend with their move to crypto, and the reactions have been exactly what you’
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Don’t Count Out the MacBook Air
The M1 MacBook Air is still the best machine for most people – LJPUK
An Air is around £929 currently and the Pro starts at £1,899. You really need to be able to justify that extra £1000. Don’t write off the Air just because it’s not the best, it’s an amazing machine
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Improving My Day-to-Day Workflow for less than $200
I wasn't expecting to write about this but based on the number of texts, DMs, and @ replies I
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The Impact of Monotype Gobbling Up Another Type Foundry
Some are not too pleased with Monotype's recent acquisition of Hoefler&Co:
The impact of H&Co’s acquisition cannot be overstated, says Nadine Chahine, […] "I think it’s about time that I can speak more openly about this. It’s the future of our industry at stake and it’
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The Best Way to Play Old Video Games Is Unfortunate
People are pretty grumpy about the quality of emulation on Nintendo Switch Online:
One of the draws of the Expansion Pack isn’t just the ability to play classic N64 games on Switch. It’s also the chance to play them online, something that wasn’t an option before. But players have similarly been encountering
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Facebook Switched to a Reverse-Chronological Timeline, Facebook Made More Money, and Users Hated It
Apparently in 2018 Facebook turned off the algorithm for a small percentage of users:
"What happens if we delete ranked News Feed?” they asked in an internal report summing up the experiment. Their findings: Without a News Feed algorithm, engagement on Facebook drops significantly, people hide 50% more posts, content from Facebook Groups rises
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Is the Lowest End 14" MacBook Pro Worth It?
I compiled real-world benchmarks from how I use my Mac and compared them to the M1 MacBook Air from
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Apple's Curious Reasoning Why the Mac Doesn't Have Touch
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac quoting Apple's John Ternus in WSJ (paywalled):
We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad. It’s totally optimized for that. And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven’t really felt a reason to change that.
Like okay, but I can use
The Most Dramatic, and Somehow Best Take on That Polishing Cloth
The Apple Polishing Cloth Is Everything Wrong With Society - Victoria Song
But the silly dumb thing that makes people laugh inevitably becomes warped into something it wasn’t meant to be. It gets co-opted by the Elon Musks of the world, corporate dingbats with more hair than brains who somehow hold all the power.
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This Way of Talking About the Web Does it a Great Disservice
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris (YouTube)
We talk about documents vs apps as thought it were a dichotomy, but it's not, it's a spectrum. When we erase the stuff in the middle we do the web a great disservice. It's a medium
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How Stupid is the Metaverse?
It’s easy to scoff at “the metaverse,” and the older you are, the more likely that reaction. After all, we already have this beautiful world that we all get to share, why would we want to create different worlds and interact there?
This is the question I’ve been rolling around in my head
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Galaxy Brain is Moving to The Atlantic
Charlie Warzel on his Substack:
I’m moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic. The newsletter will exist
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Glass Adds Public Profiles (and RSS!)
Introducing Public Profiles
With Glass 1.2 coming out today, you can now share your Glass Profile anywhere! We’re excited to open up profiles, letting you truly make Glass your home for highlighting your photography.
This is really cool, and I doubly love that they have enabled RSS on these profiles so you can