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We've Tried Doing Nothing, and That Hasn't Seemed to Work
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives, by the editorial staff at Scientific American:
The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a
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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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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
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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
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The iPad is for Everyone
Numeric Citizen: Where Should The iPad Go From Here?
The iPad form factor dictates the rest of the story: the iPad cannot meet everybody’s needs with the same ease as a traditional portable because of its form factor AND the design decisions Apple made about its interaction models; iPadOS isn’t macOS.
I agree
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iPad Needs to Go Better When Bigger
Mark Gurman:
And, most importantly, a new “pro” mode that kicks in when the iPad is connected to a keyboard and trackpad, such as Apple’s own Magic Keyboard, or an external display.
This is an alternate to the studioOS idea I had a few weeks ago, and I don't personally like this
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1Password, KeePass, and Humanity
Josh Centers: Moving from 1Password to KeePass
If all this sounds like I left a smooth and perfectly functional app for a hodgepodge of cobbled-together solutions, it’s because I did. But now that I’ve hashed out the kinks, it works pretty well. I’ve created and changed several passwords on both my
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Why Pebble Failed
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, on why Pebble failed:
The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.
The whole read is worth your time, but Pebble gets tons of credit from me for validating that the smart
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The Land Grab
Peter Kafka: This is as good as movies are going to get
This glut of great streaming stuff is literally a glut, and no one in the business thinks that it’s going to last forever. The giant tech and media companies funding the production boom have no intention of doing it in perpetuity. Right
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Apple's Hide My Email Kinda Rocks
Mike Lapidakis: An Ode to Apple's Hide My Email
Last summer, Apple announced that as part of their iCloud+ service expansion, a new feature named Hide My Email was launching. The feature received little fanfare and was mainly swept up in the plethora of other news from WWDC. After using it for nearly
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Apple's Merchant Processing Aspirations
Back in January I suggested that Apple's Tap-to-pay solution would be something third party payment providers could integrate into because merchants aren't going to be interested in having their main payments happening in one place and their contactless stuff happening in a siloed Apple system.
This week, Mark Gurman