This. So much this.
I made the dangerous choice to see how much credit I have in the Google store and now I’m thinking it’s time to upgrade my Pixel 4 even though I am still happy with it’s performance.
Maybe I’ll wait until the Pixel 7 is released and upgrade then. That makes more sense since it will likely be this fall.
TIL that there are apps that will automatically skip ads in YouTube.
Today in Bad Headlines
Today in bad headlines
Judge Reduces Tesla’s Punitive Damage For Allowing A Racist Work Environment To Pocket Change
Awarded damages were reduced from $137 million to $15 million.
Is $15 million a lot for a company valued at $1 trillion?
No.
is $15 million a lot for an individual?
Yes.
Is it more than the #300,000 Tesla wanted to pay?
Yes.
The lawsuit wasn’t filed to stop Tesla allowing a ‘racist work environment’; it was filed because Owen Diaz suffered racial abuse while working there.
What’s the best laptop sleeve for a 2021 M1 MacBook Air? At least how makes the best quality sleeve?
Pro tip:
You don’t have to stop wearing a mask just because the local mandate is lifted.
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
Robert Reich starts off a substack with
He should know this culture war was been ongoing for decades.