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Parker Molloy: This Fox News Segment Perfectly Illustrates How Off-the-Rails the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Attacks Have Become TODD PIRO, Co-Host: Joe, I wanna get your thoughts on this. There is a bizarre new Batman storyline that has the Joker becoming pregnant and giving birth. This is a statement you literally could
Luke Plunkett: Nobody Wants to Buy the Ugly Crypto House Originally listed in October 2022 for $1.2 million, a complete lack of interest in the property has seen its asking price plummet to just $949,000 in just a matter of weeks. It’s not just buyers who are
Iconfactory Blog: State of the Twitterverse Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app. As of writing, it's now almost 48 hours since most of the popular Twitter apps stopped working and there has been no communication at
Kathi Wolfe: A Smirk, a Smile, a Clenched Fist: What the Movies Taught Me to See At the movies, for the first time, close to the giant silver screen, I could see clenched fists, grimaces, smiles, nods and other expressions and gestures. Back in the day, I would have had
It's super short, so no quote here, but this post, No, I’m Not Selling You a Course, will surely resonate with lots of people. Too much of blogging has turned into a way to get people onto your site so you can show them a "I
Ryan Mac and Kate Conger: Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue It’s unclear if the project will move forward and if the plan affects all user names or only a subset, the people said. But Mr. Musk said last month that he wanted to start
Jeannie McGeehan: The Problem With the Favorite Button I now understand the problem with the favorite button and the path of least resistence. It removes genuine interaction and replaces it with a convenient click. It also creates an inappropriate response situation with regard to certain post topics. Sometimes I feel
Paul Stamatiou: Mastodon I no doubt expect Elon to reverse some of his decisions from the regular backlash from users and press, but there’s no trust anymore. Even if a new CEO or a new owner is announced, I don’t know if Twitter can ever be truly trusted
Just for fun, here's a bunch of what I think will happen with most of Apple's product lines in 2023. None of these are crazy, except my HomePod one which I just couldn't stop adding onto 😂 iPhone 15 A relatively minor upgrade once again,
Unexpectedly, I'm already linking to something about bubbles again! Here's Noah Smith in The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented: When I first got access to the internet as a kid, the very first thing I did was to find people who liked the same things I
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
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
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
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
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