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Chris M.
| October 24th, 2019

💖 Liked: The Good And The Bad Of The ACCESS Act To Force Open APIs On Big Social Media

“As people here will probably know, I am a huge proponent of a “protocols, not platforms” approach to handling questions around big tech and competition (as well as privacy, content moderation and more). I even wrote a pretty long paper about…”

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Chris M.
| October 24th, 2019

💖 Liked: Kid with cerebral palsy skateboards for first time with help from mom and technology

“This will make you smile. And it’s real.”

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Chris M.
| October 23rd, 2019

💖 Liked: The BBC is Launching an Interactive News Service for Smart Speakers

“The idea behind this move is that you can ask Alexa to tell you more about certain stories or news items by using your voice. The idea is simple, you ask Alexa to “Give me BBC News”. You can then work through the bulletins by asking for “more from the BBC” if you want more context, or “skip” to skip through to the next story.”

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Chris M.
| October 22nd, 2019

💖 Liked: Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s "algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage"

“Jon Evans of TechCrunch zeroes in on Facebook’s big problem. Mark Zuckerberg wants you to believe that Facebook was designed as a platform where anyone can share their ideas, but as Evans poi…”

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Chris M.
| October 22nd, 2019

💖 Liked: Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings

“In 2018, Katie Porter flipped a Republican safe seat — it had literally never been held by a Democrat– in California’s 45th District, and since then, she has been a delightful, br…”

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Chris M.
| October 22nd, 2019

💖 Liked: a post by an author

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Chris M.
| October 21st, 2019

💖 Liked: Review: Jojo Rabbit walks a fine line between humor and heart by Jennifer Ouellette

“Taika Waititi’s new film is being billed as satire. It’s so much more than that.”

Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
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Chris M.
| October 17th, 2019

💖 Liked: Parker Molloy on Twitter

““Wow, there are some damning things in @JuddLegum’s piece on the conservatives who run things at Facebook… https://t.co/ERLztRCs2B””

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Chris M.
| October 17th, 2019

💖 Liked: The Shady 'Shadow' Trade Authority: A Costly Example of Government's Hollow Brexit Posturing – Byline Times by Byline Times (https://bylinetimes.com/)

“Sarah Hurst on her afkaesque experience of waste and confusion at the new Trade Remedies Authority.”

Byline Times (https://bylinetimes.com/) (Byline Times)
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Chris M.
| October 16th, 2019

💖 Liked: How We Built The World Wide Web In Five Days by Jeremy Keith

“This talk about recreating the first ever web browser was a joint presentation with Remy Sharp, delivered at the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam in October 2019.”

Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)
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Chris M.
| October 16th, 2019

💖 Liked: The far right is dominating the information wars through "keyword signaling"

“It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…”

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Chris M.
| October 16th, 2019

💖 Liked: The Most Important Pieces of Code in the History of Computing

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Slate recently asked a bunch of developers, journalists, computer scientists, and historians what they thought the most influent”

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Chris M.
| October 16th, 2019

💖 Liked: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting

“I’ve removed the option for Facebook cross-posting on Micro.blog. Facebook recently disabled our API access, and my initial request for re-approval was denied. While I hope to eventually get it enabled again, I don’t want to have a feature on Micro.blog that is broken.
A year ago Facebook turned…”

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Chris M.
| October 16th, 2019

💖 Liked: October 15th, 2019, 12:08pm by Jeremy Keith

“So… I just met Dieter Rams wandering around the market hall in Frankfurt.

I just about managed to stammer out something in German about being delighted to see him.

That was unexpected, awkward, and delightful in equal measure.
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Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)
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Chris M.
| October 11th, 2019

💖 Liked: How Flu Vaccines Are Made

“Ten years ago, in the midst of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, I wrote about the manufacturing process for the H1N1 flu vaccine. It i”

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Chris M.
| October 11th, 2019

💖 Liked: What to Expect When Expecting the Displeasure of the Chinese Government

“The partnership between China and Western governments & corporations has hit a rough patch recently, namely the Hong Kong prot”

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Chris M.
| October 11th, 2019

💖 Liked: The “P” in Progressive Enhancement stands for “Pragmatism”

“I often think of IE11 as a rancid smog that follows us around, spoiling things. This is not me criticising the browser, though. Instead, I’m referencing how it follows progress on the web around, hindering it.
I’m also seemingly putting the blame on the browser for that, too, but no: that blame …”

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Chris M.
| October 8th, 2019

💖 Liked: 18 Sweary Scottish Gaelic Words You Need To Use Right Now by Nina Glencross

“For when you need a more poetic way of telling some arsehole to fuck off.”

Nina Glencross (BuzzFeed)
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Chris M.
| October 8th, 2019

💖 Liked: How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) by an author

“How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight)

This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
If you’ve ever used Twitter, you’ve probably seen a tw…”

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Chris M.
| October 8th, 2019

💖 Liked: The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us by Rose Eveleth

“They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.”

Rose Eveleth (Vox)
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Chris M.
| October 7th, 2019

💖 Liked: a post by Ton Zijlstra

“Google’s Chrome is not a browser, it’s advertisement delivery software. Adtech after all is where their profit is. This is incompatible with Doc Searls‘ Castle doctrine of browsers, so Chrome isn’t fit for purpose.
Removing Chrome
image by Matthew Oliphant, license CC BY ND Read Chrome to li…”

Ton Zijlstra ( )
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Chris M.
| October 7th, 2019

💖 Liked: Scripting News: Monday, October 7, 2019

“It’s even worse than it appears.”

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Chris M.
| October 3rd, 2019

💖 Liked: 41 Strange on Twitter

““’Brothers Grimm’s Wanderings’ is a series of European landscape photographs by German photographer Kilian Schönberger, inspired by the Grimm’s fairy tales
(https://t.co/Cmdwaen55Q)””

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Chris M.
| October 3rd, 2019

💖 Liked: a post by an author

“I replaced Monocle’s Font Awesome SVG+JS icons with their SVG sprite icons and it loads soooo much faster now! There was always a visible delay while the JS loaded in the SVG icons. Now it’s just handled by the browser with no JS.

I always assumed that it was a slow network causing the issues, but …”

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Chris M.
| October 3rd, 2019

💖 Liked: A Modern CSS Reset

“I think about and enjoy very boring CSS stuff—probably much more than I should do, to be honest. One thing that I’ve probably spent too much time thinking about over the years, is CSS resets.
In this modern era of web development, we don’t really need a heavy-handed reset, or even a reset at a…”

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