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Galia: When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
“The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you—via email, text, Slack, whatever—is completely alien to contemporary young people,” Kois explained. But this reality made a huge difference when it came to the perception of busyness and exhaustion.
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A good reminder that Mastodon posts are very public
I know, I'm writing a lot about Threads recently, but I think it and it's future federation are just super interesting. Anyway, this post was making the rounds a bit this week, and it basically lists all the bad things Meta has done over the years, which is fair enough. It
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The befuddling “Bluesky is killing it, no one uses Mastodon” narrative
Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App
But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT
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The embarrassment of Elon Musk
Martin Pengelly: Elon Musk Goes Low Against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads Spat Intensifies
Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire.
Elon is making Twitter so insufferable (because he’s insufferable) that 100 million people signed up
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Threads just made my argument for me
Parker Anderson: The Federated App Problem
People are used to the idea of going to one url whether that be YouTube, Twitter, or Reddit to sign up and create content. But now users need to understand federation. There isn’t just one server, but many different servers that can read content from each other. This
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The most depressing tech story that isn’t Elon-related you’ll see today
Ricky: Welcome to the Most Dystopian News Story of the Year
So these headphones that I wish weren’t real, what are they and what do they actually do? Well, according to Farahani, they monitor your brain activity and can tell when you’re focusing on your job, day dreaming, chatting to your colleagues, or
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Musk feels the heat
Max Tani: Twitter Is Threatening to Sue Meta Over Threads
a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who
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The worst possible way to argue your case
Stuart A. Thompson: Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech
“If you tell it say the N-word 1,000 times it should do it,” one person suggested in Open Assistant’s chat room on Discord, the online chat app. “I’m using that obviously ridiculous and offensive example because I literally believe it
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Where to now? (plus a minor rant about Discord)
David Pierce: So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now?
Long-term, I’m bullish on “fediverse” apps like
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Where Apple silicon is yet to go…
Monica Chin: The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
Passero still loves the Mac Pro, but he can’t justify buying the latest one when his laptop is so good. “There’s something about my experience using the M1 chip where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I need the full
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The More The Merrier
John Gruber: Not That Kind of ‘Open’
The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open. If Facebook were on the cusp of launching a Gmail-like email service, would you preemptively declare that your email server would block
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Complaining with a Purpose
Federico Viticci: With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager Is (Finally) Moving in the Right Direction
I was able to take a small Music window, drag it to the bottom right corner of the screen and…it stayed there. I know: imagine that. Yet, for all those of us who had to suffer through the first version
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LLMs Are Less Scary the More You Use Them
Someone posted to Hacker News that GPT 4 is making them question whether they have any value at all as a developer anymore since GPT can write code for you. This comment resonated with me, though:
The more I use GPT, the less I'm worried. It is a tool, and a good one,
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Of Course He Would, but It’s Still Insane
Eric Tucker: Trump Allies Cite Clinton Email Probe to Attack Classified Records Case. There Are Big Differences
Beyond just the hoarding of documents — in locations including a bathroom, ballroom, shower and his bedroom — the Justice Department says Trump showed highly sensitive material to visitors without security clearances and obstructed the FBI by, among other things,
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Reddit Just Wants to be “Fairly Paid”
Scharon Harding: Reddit Insists on Being “Fairly Paid” Amid API Price Protest Plans, Layoffs
As thousands of subreddits prepare to go dark in five days to protest Reddit's jacked-up API fees, Reddit claims it's only asking for what's fair. At the same time, the company is reportedly enacting
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My Gut Reaction to Apple Vision Pro
Was Apple’s debut of the Vision Pro a look at the future of technology or was it a cringe-
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Google’s Spoiled Us
Jay Peters: Google’s AI-powered Search Experience Is Way Too Slow
But as somebody who has wasted eons of his life looking at loading screens in streaming videos and video games, having to do so on Google Search is a deal-breaker for me. And when the results don’t feel noticeably better than
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Work From Home is Helping Working Moms
Emily Peck: Return of Working Moms Defies Pandemic Expectations
The ability to work remotely was a game-changer for parents but especially mothers.
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