Even more books to read.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-2018
Now I can hear Laurel...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html
"It was a good death. We should be so lucky."
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-we-give-dogs-a-better-death-than-we-give-ourselves
90 degree banana
"We failed to realize that there were 2 kinds of advertising, and that 1 of them might be healthy… and the other probably wasn’t…
When someone’s saying, “Hey, I’m looking for this…” and you help them, I feel like that, generally speaking, is… pretty ethically sound...
As soon as you’re saying, “I need to put you under surveillance so that I can figure out what you want…” you really have to ask yourself: Am I in the right business?"
"A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman"
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/ethan-zuckerman-inventor-of-pop-up-ad-interview.html
Google is "pausing investment" in Allo
LMAO
Man, what Google has done in messaging for the past decade is pathetic.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17253308/google-allo-texting-paused-android-messages
Interesting.
>a new body of research at the University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies suggests that the reality is far more complicated. In some scenarios, traffic-beating apps might work for an individual, but make congestion worse overall. And autonomous vehicles, touted as an answer to traffic-y streets, could deepen the problem.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/the-perfect-selfishness-of-mapping-apps/555683/
Wooooo! Foundation is going to be made for TV series! The arc about The Mule is going to be epic :D
Oh twitter you so selfish.
https://m.androidcentral.com/flamingo-one-best-twitter-clients-android-dead
Finally bothered to activate camera2api on my Xiaomi Mi A1!
Now this phone's value just doubled. Why don't they just turn it on by default :/
>Long looonnnnggggg maaaaaannnnnnn
Isao Takahata has passed away :(
Thank you so much for all your memorable movies. I think I have to rewatch them again.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180406-00000503-sanspo-ent
>"As the Chinese saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate."
Lol
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/china-new-us-tariffs-including-soy-cars-and-chemicals.html
These acquisitions between global tech giants that happens lately are...how to say it...interesting?
Uber & Grab in SEA
Alibaba & Ele.me
Alibaba & Lazada
Now Amazon / Walmart & Flipkart
@scalzi just saw Hugo 2018 finalists list. Congrats on your nomination!
"The death of the newsfeed" by Benedict Evans https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed
This makes an interesting case against the chronological timeline.
