Sony Caves: The PS4 Will Soon Begin Supporting Cross-Console Play | Techdirt

| October 2nd, 2018

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“Back in June, we talked about a fun little bit of trolling that Xbox and Nintendo teamed up for at the expense of Sony and its PlayStation 4. At issue was Sony’s longstanding stance against inter-console play for multiplayer games that would otherwise allow for it, whereas Xbox and Nintendo players all over the world were happily playing MineCraft and Fortnite against one another. The end result of Sony’s stance has been both a decent level of frustration by gamers that expect modernity in their console’s features, and several YouTube videos and Twitter exchanges between Xbox and Nintendo highlighting that their own consoles had inter-console functionality. In that post, we said it was an open suggestion whether or not this public ribbing would change Sony’s stance on the subject.”
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Write on the iPad, Publish on the Mac

Chris M.

| August 28th, 2018

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M.G. Siegler on his writing workflow, which is kind of how I envisioned my idealised workflow (swapping the Mac for a PC though). In reality, it’s ended up a 60/40 split between writing on whichever PC device I’m using, and writing on my iPhone. Occasionally I’ll find my iPad more convenient — like if I’ve left my iPhone in a different room, or I was already reading something on the iPad. Editing is also split, although it more heavily favours the PC. My posts are a lot more short-form “micro blog” than M.G.’s, so writing on the iPhone is less limiting, and perhaps even the best tool for the job.

I do keep meaning to get a new keyboard for my iPad though. I’m not sure I’d spring for the Apple Smart Keyboard, as it’s very expensive for something I can’t imagine is that good of a keyboard, but I really liked using the last-gen Magic Keyboard with older iPads. Maybe the new version of that would be a good choice?

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Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests

Chris M.

| August 22nd, 2018

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Edit, 24-Aug-2018: The veracity of this study has been called into serious question. There’s a really good, in-depth article about the many issues with the study, on Techdirt. Rather than just delete this post, as it already gets a bit of traffic I thought it more helpful to add the (better researched) counter to it front and centre.

Dubious Studies And Easy Headlines: No, A New Report Does Not Clearly Show Facebook Leads To Hate Crimes

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The New York Times: Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests

Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz, researchers at the University of Warwick, scrutinized every anti-refugee attack in Germany, 3,335 in all, over a two-year span. In each, they analyzed the local community by any variable that seemed relevant. Wealth. Demographics. Support for far-right politics. Newspaper sales. Number of refugees. History of hate crime. Number of protests.
One thing stuck out. Towns where Facebook use was higher than average, like Altena, reliably experienced more attacks on refugees. That held true in virtually any sort of community — big city or small town; affluent or struggling; liberal haven or far-right stronghold — suggesting that the link applies universally.