Uses This / Jesse Kriss
Why should I be using mobile data to stream music to a $1000 phone when I can get an MP3 player for $26 that can hold 7000 songs on a micro SD card and has 80 hour battery life? The ethical and ecological impact of cheaply made products isn't so great, but I think it's at least worth being somewhat aware of the tradeoffs we're making.
So true. And the headphone can have a jack too, if that's what you want.
A full test: how do show notes display in podcast apps?
If you care about anything apart from the audio of the podcasts you subscribe to, you may want to check that the app you use gets a good rating for how it displays show notes.
TextEdit goes out of its way to destroy data
Like so many other standard tools in macOS, TextEdit is another festering sore on the rump of Apple’s engineering indolence.
Yikes. (Not that I ever actually use TextEdit to do anything.)
All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts
As a side note, I think the $100 million in venture capital that Luminary raised is going to be $100 million flushed down a toilet.
The sooner the better, AFAIAC
Extinction Rebellion, David Blunkett and Me
Very interesting and thoughtful read. How one sanctimonious ex-MP turned "a stereotypically diffident Englishman who hates getting in other people’s way and making an exhibition of myself" into a potentional eco-anarchist, although he also very sensibly denies that label, it being utter tosh.
Mexican X-plainer: Balls, Nuts & Avocados
Because an article on Medium is obviously a lot more long-lived and citable than a Twitter thread, right?
Luckily, someone else is taking care of keeping it available. https://web.archive.org/web/20190125102937/https://medium.com/@davidbowles/mexican-x-plainer-balls-n...
Which is why I support The Internet Archive and not Medium.
Hearsay Festival is the Coachella of creative audio
I don't know what Coachella is (well, not directly) but I do know that Hearsay is the business.
We Built a (Legal) Facial Recognition Machine for $60 – Theoreti.ca
A particularly interesting take on a topic that most people have mostly reacted to with horror or naivete.
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019)
Great, great man and a terrific teacher. Why he didn't get the Nobel for triplets and mRNA will be a mystery forever.
Codename: nvUltra - BrettTerpstra.com
"it works with multiple folders and sub-folders"
This could be a game changer.
Julia Reda on Twitter: "Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternet… https://t.co/Wb2xwuNUZQ";
A sad day indeed.
"“But I’m not a lawyer. I’m an agent.”"
PESOS from Reading.am.
"Take my wife, please !"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book
logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.
Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I'd be out of a job.
h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And "little lexical tchotchkes from the past" -- even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes -- is too good to pass up.
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
PESOS from Reading.am.
The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
3. Make your own coffee. It's cheaper, it's better and it's therapeutic.
4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it's not cheaper.
Depends how you measure cost, obviously
h/t Matthew Lang
What counts? | The Enlightened Economist
Very interesting ideas on how classification systems affect the way we think, rather than vice versa.
"People can’t see what they take for granted until there is an alternative version not taking the same things for granted."
"After the perfect picture, what?"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Cheri's Blog - One Weird Tip for Losing Belly Fat
Losing excess weight might be good for your health, but a side-effect is that it reveals all the insecurity and nastiness around you in the same way a blacklight reveals fluid stains at a crime scene.
Maybe because I am not a woman, I don't see this as much, but I do believe it is absolutely true.
xkcd: Invisible Formatting
Ah, you try and tell the kids about reveal codes.
Manton Reece - Audio in email is not a podcast
So correct. I fear we may lose the meaning of podcast, just as we lost the meaning of blog post.
The Attorney Nominated to Replace Kavanaugh Backtracked on Her Defense of Dwarf Tossing
Great headlines of our times.
How Big Beer’s Fight Over Corn Syrup Explains American Brewing Today
Interesting piece from Tom Philpott at Mother Jones, pointing out that ALL the big brewers use additional sources of food for their yeasts. Some use corn, some use rice. A pox on all of them.