Month: November 2017

Looking for a new watch for harder use, but which still looks pretty.

Massdrop has my favorite flashlight right now. It’s not very bright, at 110lumens, but it is so close to perfect. It feels amazing in hand and the CRI is great. Highly recommend. $36.99 is a good deal.

Fuck putting this into an iPhone, give me my Westworld phone/tablet.

Studying and notes with iPads, typefaces, and writing themes.

Christopher Mims: His example was DDT, a pesticide and probable carcinogen that nonetheless saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in India as a cheap and effective malaria prevention. Today, we can see how one technology, Facebook groups, can serve as a lifeline for parents of children with rare diseases while also radicalizing […]

Farhad Manjoo: As I’ve argued before, Twitter has become the small bowel of the American news landscape — the place where the narratives you see on prime-time cable are first digested and readied for wider consumption. It’s no accident that it is President Trump’s social network of choice. And it’s also no accident that foreign […]

Great update to keep the app feeling perfect with iOS. The new D12 theme is also really great, I think a lot of people are going to love using it.

GORUCK started their deals on all bags (just not black ones) this week. $250 for a GR1 is a fucking steal, I grabbed another one. If you’ve been waiting: get on it. Ranger Green and Steel are both awesome colors. These are easily the best backpacks money can buy.

Sandy Parakilas: Facebook is free to do almost whatever it wants with your personal information, and has no reason to put safeguards in place. That’s got to be a terrifying sentence for any Facebook user.

Keith Collins: Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have been collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers—even when location services are disabled—and sending that data back to Google. The result is that Google, the unit of Alphabet behind Android, has access to data about individuals’ locations and their movements that go far beyond a […]

One complaint I kept hearing when people started getting access was: “I can’t see how many followers I have”, or “there’s no one here”. But that’s thinking about it wrong. Micro.blog in my eyes is a platform for openly sharing your content to other places. That’s why the content starts on my site and get’s […]

I have one of these as well, love it.

Suppress notifications with prejudice, hidden feature reminder, and personal hotspots.

Melissa Hogenboom: Misleading by “telling the truth” is so pervasive in daily life that a new term has recently been coined to describe it: paltering. As noted, this is very common in business.

When I first saw this, I was ready to say “Fuck Twitter” yet again (and still, they deserve that monicker for many things), but the more I think about this, the more I think this might be borderline accidental genius. Think about it like this, the people with these badges really seem to care about […]

In short, iCloud unless you like to be, umm, particular about file management. Also, I in no way agree that the speed differences are negligible. DEVONthink is slow as fuck.

Focused, attentive, diversion-less, but not precious, work.

Kevin Roose, in an otherwise uninteresting article: The sensors on cars used by Waymo, the self-driving-car division of Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent, have struggled in heavy rain and snow. Editor: “Waymo, that’s the Google company right? Be sure to point that out to juice the SEO.” Roose: “Actually it’s an Alphabet company.” Editor: “Yeah, they […]

Cory Doctorow: That presents a paradox: if the purpose of lifehacking is to mindfully choose your priorities, what can you do when that process leads you to a position where no more choices are possible?

Quinn Norton: Technically Americans work slightly more hours per year than the Japanese, but neither of those numbers include unpaid overtime or extra work you’re supposed to do around and for your regular job. Uncounted, this work remains unreal, though its consequences are harder to dismiss. The Japanese have defined a form of death-from-productivity: karōshi. […]