Alec Bellos
Alec Bellos writing for Atlas Obscura: Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw—generally considered one of the greatest playwrights in the English language—was a controversial figure, who infused his many plays with his strident political and social views.>> One of the causes he embraced most passionately was the
Hack
Tom Warren writing for The Verge: Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews. It’s the latest breach in a series of high-profile YouTube accounts being hacked, with
Gaming
The animation, writing, and voice acting in this is absolutely perfect. I loved this game when it came out and I truly would watch a whole series of this show.
AI
Elizabeth M. Renieris writing for The Walrus: And now, argues tech writer Paris Marx, “new technologies like AI are framed as offering us various forms of empowerment and liberation: We’ll be able to work more productively, spend less time doing our chores, and anything we want will be a
Ashley Esqueda
Ashley Esqueda has been making a great mini-series withing Vergecast called Solo Acts where she interviews solo entrepreneurs making awesome things on the internet. In her final episode she had Marco Arment on and it did not disappoint. I have long been a fan of Marco’s work and to
Subscriptions
Leticia Miranda writing for Bloomberg: If it feels like you’re drowning in subscriptions, you aren’t wrong. It’s hard to keep track and, even if you do, you may eat at Panera a lot less than you thought after the first few months of guzzling free tea. For
Elon Musk
Twitter, AKA the “Free Speech” platform is now changing how they respond to journalists looking to get information from the company. Instead of a reply either giving journalists doing their job or even a simple “no comment” Twitter is now auto-responding with a poop emoji. If you’re wondering if
Jason Kottke
I will always listen to Gruber and Kottke talk about their tenured careers as bloggers and hearing them talk about the past 25 years of blogging made me really consider how I want my writing online to look like. In fact, after listening to this episode I did the following:
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: There is a new trend among websites where they want my email address before I’m allowed to read their free content. While I sympathize with the struggles of the media business, I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is
Creator Economy
Kate Lindsay wrote a piece on Embedded about making content for yourself and how it is more authentic than most content out there today. In it, she spoke about scrolling on TikTok and finding several videos where she was among the first person to watch a video posted. What I
AI
Recently, I read an article that said that in the next 5-10 years, AI would generate 90% of all the content on the internet. That number seemed a bit high to me, but it got me thinking about how AI is changing the landscape of content creation. Now, mere weeks
Apple
As you probably saw, Apple has announced a new line of iPads, one being a new base iPad and the other being the new M2 iPad Pro. I would say that the responses online are primarily dunking on Apple’s odd decisions for the iPad lineup, and for good reason.
Podcasting
Mitchell Clark writing for The Verge: Spotify is acquiring Kinzen, a startup that specializes in using machine learning to analyze content and report potentially harmful statements to human moderators. In a press release, Spotify says the acquisition is meant to help it “deliver a safe, enjoyable experience on our platform
Productivity
I wanted to write to you about note taking apps, I had a whole plan to go over the different apps and what issues I had with them. I thought is was going to be a great post to share with you all. By the time I got it halfway
Blogging
Lee Peterson: I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and it’s apparent lack of care for it’s users. To the platform you are a potential revenue maker. Selling you to advertisers and not putting in controls to stop hate and harassment. I’ve been looking to
Craft
Today I am happy to present a Craft 101 video with James Eaton where he walks me through how to set up my Craft notes system, what I can do to make it more useful, and how to get the most out of this app. This was a lot of