#anildash

[biglisbonnews]

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling on Total Information Awareness https://www.wired.com/2003/04/i-want-my-tia/?pg=4

#20yrsago Chinese state sends 20m SMS messages to crush SARS rumor https://web.archive.org/web/20030618180119/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,928906,00.html

#20yrsago Found poetry from Rumsfeld’s speeches https://web.archive.org/web/20030415133226/http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/

#20yrsago OS X floppy disk RAID https://web.archive.org/web/20030601111810/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

#15yrsago Best practices for water imbibing: “Just drink when you’re thirsty” https://www.npr.org/2008/04/03/89323934/five-myths-about-drinking-water

#15yrsago Debating the feasibility of an in-flight liquid bomb https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_liquid_bomb.html

#15yrsago Boston judge: making files available to download isn’t piracy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/making-available-distribution-says-court-london-sire-v-doe

#15yrsago Air Canada: for $35, we’ll let you talk to customer-service reps who can actually help you with a cancelled flight https://www.thestar.com/business/2008/04/03/air_canada_to_charge_for_customer_service.html

#15yrsago Japanese creative packaging design solutions to ugly barcodes https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/japanese-creative-barcodes.html

#15yrsago Charles Manson uses Creative Commons licenses https://web.archive.org/web/20080403104925/http://blog.limewire.com/posts/1616-Even-Charles-Manson-Digs-Creative-Commons

#15yrsago China’s instant cities — jaw-dropping National Geo feature https://web.archive.org/web/20080402102202/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0706/feature4/index.html

#15yrsago Banks refuse to take title on repossessed crappy houses https://web.archive.org/web/20080406130131/http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/04/the-advantages.html

#10yrsago Iain Banks: I’m dying of cancer, this book will be my last https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/03/iain-banks-gall-bladder-cancer

#10yrsago Podcast to mark centennial of Marc Davis, co-creator of Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean https://mousetalgia.libsyn.com/remembering-marc-davis-with-alice-davis

#10yrsago Autonomous sensory meridian response — self-diagnosed neurological condition/superpower that makes you really enjoy whispering https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/maria-spends-20-minutes-folding-towels-why-millions-are-mesmerised-by-asmr-videos-7956866.html

#10yrsago Queen goes on austerity footing, receives mere £5M pay-rise from the taxpayers https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/02/queen-gets-5m-payrise-taxpayer

#5yrsago Offering users transparency and privacy is the only way Big Tech can avoid being turned into content cops https://dangillmor.medium.com/why-tech-platforms-should-give-users-more-control-and-how-they-can-do-it-6c6c48ab90c0

#5yrsago The technologies that would make the web more participatory https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc

#5yrsago Eight months ago, Panera Bread was warned that they were leaking up to 7 million customers’ data. They fixed it yesterday. Kinda. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/panerabread-com-leaks-millions-of-customer-records/

#5yrsago Even the telco industry thinks Ajit Pai is an asshole for maiming Lifeline, a broadband subsidy for poor Americans https://www.techdirt.com/2018/04/03/fcc-boss-under-fire-facts-optional-attack-low-income-broadband-programs/

#5yrsago Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/be-skeptical-of-anyone-who-tells-you-they-know-how-democrats-can-win-in-november/

#5yrsago Alex Jones falsely accused a guy of being the Parkland school shooter, so now he’s being sued for more than $1,000,000 https://www.thedailybeast.com/falsely-accused-parkland-school-shooter-sues-alex-jones-infowars-for-defamation/

#5yrsago 2018 tsunami: Teachers lead mass strikes in four red states that voted for Trump in 2016 https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/381307-teachers-flex-political-muscle-in-red-state-strikes/

#5yrsago The Manhattan property bubble is bursting https://www.ft.com/content/b0ab3fa6-36a7-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c544

[indirect]

How is the OpenAI board gonna fire Sam Altman just because he gave answers that sounded plausible but weren't actually accurate?

@anildash

[stoweboyd]

As evidenced by that famous phrase, “HBO and chill”. https://t.co/hhEE24zDvm

— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) March 7, 2019

[immigrationnewsdigest]

Pretty impressive — the free covid test ordering site is taking orders now, a day *ahead* of the announced launch. (I wonder if this is a test for all users or just some users?) https://t.co/aFmwzZ0Eqn https://t.co/uZ0zmVqhXc

— anildash (@anildash) Jan 18, 2022

[azspot]

I know this makes me a cranky old man, but when I look up how to do stuff on the Internet, I want to read an article that’s maybe 600 words that I can skim. I definitely do not want to watch a YouTube video that’s been padded out to 10 minutes to feed the monetization algorithm.

Anil Dash

[thesociologicalcinema]

Most of what gets shared as heartwarming stories are usually temporary, small-scale responses to systemic failures. I wish we found it just as inspirational to make structural changes to unjust systems, but I don't know if our culture knows how to tell those stories. ~ @anildash

[gtokio]

WordpressとTumblr

Verizon Media announces sale of Tumblr to Automattic

６年前にYahooに嫁ぐTumblrに対してWordpressのmattが書いたブログ記事。

On Yahoo-Tumblr

なんだかんだで親友だった彼・彼女と再婚した感じだろうか。

みんなのリアクション。

https://www.davidslog.com/186979222210/just-wanted-to-add-my-congratulations-and-thank

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1161015149563645953

https://twitter.com/JohnMaloney/status/1161013813677821952

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1161017121566003201

さっそくリクエストを募集している。

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1161026670788317184

[thezfc]

twitter,com/anildash/status/1183443899458752513 yesterday (Sunday) Tom seen on his way to the theatre i guess. Lots of sightings yesterday.

[jeanjauthor]

Oh my god, this is INCREDIBLY well-said!

[forgottenbones]

The beautiful thing about @hodgman laying out the value of culture, even while acknowledging the shortcomings of nostalgia, is that this is who he is on stage and off. It’s about the Mandalorian, but it’s mostly about us. pic.twitter.com/K7VTRIC5OP

— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash)

December 15, 2019

[zzkt]

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) December 10, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/anildash/status/1204415434709065731)

[ecologiadigital]

Do they have one of those "It has been [0] days since our last accident" signs like a factory does? https://t.co/0qC32NPzTB

— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) December 20, 2018

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