Category Archives: Linked list
Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps
The Guardian: It also collected information sent by non-subscribers to friends or contacts who had Facebook apps installed on their phones, the court documents claim. Because these people would not have been Facebook users, it would have been impossible for them to have consented to Facebook’s collection of their data. En: Facebook has not fully […]
Instagram launches IGTV
John Gruber op Daring Fireball: It feels like Instagram is to today’s teens what MTV was to my generation.
In Praise of Extreme Moderation
Aviva Wittenberg-Cox op HBR: Wherever you look, whatever you do, performance has gone extreme, often policed by a tracking app or a competitive peer (sometimes masquerading as a friend). Moderation, in any form, is seen as nothing but amateurism, the habit of a slacker who won’t commit 10,000 hours of practice to master something. #whatwebelievein
My Tamagotchi is everything that went wrong with our future
Sarah Jeong bij The Verge: My smartphone, I’ve realized, is also a Tamagotchi. My laptop is a Tamagotchi. My tablet is a Tamagotchi. These new Tamagotchis have nicer screens and more than three buttons, but more importantly, they’re hooked into much more elaborate guilt trips. Now it‘s not just a virtual pet at stake; it’s […]
Digital Wellness for Grown Ups
Cal Newport: My sense is that more and more people in our current culture of digital excess are hungry for this type of strong challenge. They don’t want to depend on Apple to tweak their OS to be slightly less intrusive, or need to download an app that provides a fun reminder about disconnecting; they want […]
Cold Yeast
Seth Godin: If you want to understand where mastery and success come from, take a look at the inputs and the journey, not simply the outputs. Zo hard de waarheid.
Elon Musk and the Unnerving Influence of Twitter’s Power Users
Felix Salmon van Wired: Twitter is becoming increasingly concentrated on a tiny core of power users. It’s less and less a distributed mode of many-to-many communication, and more and more a broadcasting hub for the elite—a highly unequal place where their least-considered, Ambien-addled opinions get amplified to a global audience of millions. Twitter, as a […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters
Kevin Roose in The New York Times: And here’s my verdict: E-scooters might look and feel kind of dorky, but they aren’t an urban menace or a harbinger of the apocalypse. In fact — sigh — they’re pretty great. Ik wil dat zó hard eens testen, zo’n elektrische autopet.
Alexandra Bell
Dit is zo sterk: The artist and media critic Alexandra Bell revises biased news coverage, exposing racism that hides in plain sight—sometimes on the front page. https://www.facebook.com/newyorker/videos/10155758215833869/
How The Truman Show Predicted the Future
James Charisma voor Vulture.com: While the idea of living life under constant surveillance and scrutiny by an invisible audience of followers at all times may have been a nightmare in 1998, it’s become a reality in 2018. We each have the ability to broadcast our own life’s events, no matter how trivial or mundane, through […]