Apple PR:

An election is not just a contest; it should raise conversations and spark national discourse.

Dit.

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 disclosed the manner in which it pre-processes photos on the iOS camera roll, meaning if a user has any Facebook app installed on their iPhone, then Facebook accesses and analyses the photos the user takes and/or stores on the iPhone, the complainant alleges.

Erger dan Cambridge Analytica, als je het mij vraagt…

John Gruber op Daring Fireball:

It feels like Instagram is to today’s teens what MTV was to my generation.

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

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 my friends, my family, and my work being held hostage in order to keep me pressing these stupid buttons.

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 instead to be so wrapped up in doing things that are hard and important and meaningful that they forgot where they left their phone in the first place.

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.

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 company, has encouraged this development. It goes out of its way to coddle the elite: It broadcasts their impressive follower counts, it serves them up a lovely ad-free experience, it showers them with blue checkmarks.

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.

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/