Mike Masonic writing at Techdirt
I feel like I keep needing to write this, but once again, no matter who does it and no matter which company they’re targeting, it’s wrong for politicians to promise to punish companies for their speech. For some reason, many people’s position on this point changes based on whether or not they like or dislike the politician, and whether or not they like or dislike the company. But it’s wrong.
Completely agree.
You can’t make this stuff up. Or maybe you can. I don’t know. Does anything really matter online?
Today in bad headlines.
Does The Verge think Samsung told Amazon that it’s okay to sell the TV for less than retail?
They realize that Amazon owns Woot and sets the price, not Samsung, right?
What a lovely painting by Wanda Koop titled “The Crossing”
Hey, look, Google is still making Google Glass. Who knew?
The tech press sure hasn’t been writing about it for the last couple of years. Google Glass and Google Plus were the products that people loved to hate in 2013 or so.
Today in bad headlines
Maybe there should have a course, or ten, on how to write factual and accurate article headlines in Journalism School?
Today in bad headlines:
From the actual article
Vacation-home demand peaked in March 2021, Redfin said. That was two months after Freddie Mac’s average 30-year mortgage rate hit a record low of 2.65%. Borrowing costs have shot up since the end of last year, landing at 4.67% this week.
No mention of vacation homes in the title even though that is what the article focuses on. What is the basis for the claim that a 2% increase is the interest rate shooting up and climbing steeply?
This is the perfect response.
Maybe, as a society, we kill off the Op-ed portion of newspapers.
Let the Newspapers focus on reporting “the news” and leave the commentary to all the other outlets people have.
Virginia Woolf
Tik Tok moderators sue
To fulfill their role as moderators, they witnessed “many acts of extreme and graphic violence”, including murder, bestiality, necrophilia and other disturbing images.
I wonder if websites and apps report all this violent crap to the authorities, or just not post it to their website or app and call it a day.
Cats, man.
Seriously.
No, you just used the Evernote web clipper to save a Evernote webpage into Evernote.
Definitely wasn’t me.
Don't Put It In email
John Gruber, commenting on Google’s ‘Communicate with Care’ policy:
If you don’t want it discovered, don’t put it in email.
Exactly.
If you don’t want other people to know about it don’t tell anyone about it.
But, how is a group of 100 (or however many) engineers working on a single project supposed to stay on the same page of a project?
Conference call every time there’s a question? Fuck that.
Try to get a group of more than 4 people working on the same project to discuss the project only in person or on the phone, in any organization, and watch chaos unfold.
Robert Reich starts off a substack with
He should know this culture war was been ongoing for decades.