Adactio: Journal—Words I wrote in 2019
I’m pretty sure that I will also continue to refer to them as blog posts, not blogs. I may be the last holdout of this nomenclature in 2020. I never planned to die on this hill, but here we are.
No, @adactio, you are not alone.
2019 was pretty good. 2020 will be pretty good too. That is all.
Eat This Newsletter 115 is up. Full version at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-115-chewy-bonus/
The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act?
John Naughton's view of the huge NYT investigation into smartphone tracking. And to people who moan that the NYT is complicit in enabling tracking, I say, sure, but that doesn't diminish the importance of the report.
Domestic Cozy: 9
"TikTok versus Instagram is pretty much the perfect synecdoche of domestic cozy versus premium mediocre."
Found via philgyford, I think I understand what this is all about, and I'm a little bit guilty as charged. I wonder what Grant McCracken would say.
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Reddit’s Best Mindblowing Facts of All Time at https://lifehacker.com/reddit-s-favorite-mindblowing-facts-of-all-time-fact-c-1840398431
My favourite: “Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in Vienna in 1913.”
h/t jgordon
What gets me about Jason shaving in the shower is not that he thinks he looks too young, but that he might have solved the problem of a mirror that does not fog up. If I could shave in the shower, gosh, how much more time I'd have to be productive the rest of the day.