www.propublica.orgMachine Bias — ProPublica
On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter.
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a16z.comThe Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses.
sallylait.comFive months at Monzo
Since joining Monzo as an engineering manager at the start of December I've experienced a huge amount. In this post I wanted to capture some of what I've been up to, and what I'm looking forward to next.
axesslab.comAlt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life. I use a combination of magnification and screen reader when surfing the web.
www.theatlantic.comThe Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
Ever since Donald Trump made Twitter his preferred medium for communicating with the country, the platform has taken an outsize hold on the American imagination. Once a forum on which users could discuss the day’s news, Twitter now just as often sets the day’s agenda.
knowyourteam.comDo I truly want to become a manager?
We don’t ask ourselves this enough. Here are 6 critical questions to reflect on when considering if you should become a manager or not. When we’re asked, “Do you want to become a manager?” we often assume there is only one answer. “Oh, of course I want to be a manager.
www.washingtonpost.comIt ‘makes you feel invisible’
It happened again. Nicholas Pilapil got an email clearly meant for his co-worker, Jonathan Castanien. Previously, Pilapil had missed a meeting invitation because their white co-workers couldn’t tell them apart. So they came up with a cheeky way to address the problem.
www.bbc.co.ukWhy Champions League semi-final comebacks show unique pull of 'tribal' football
Football is tribal. The pleasure comes not only from winning but from seeing others lose. You can love your team and yet detest one a few miles away in the same city supported by people just like you.
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writing.markchristian.orgYou should have a personal web site
Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. After nearly a decade of just barely existing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it.
www.saturdayeveningpost.comWhy Did Henry Ford Double His Minimum Wage?
As Obama presses for a higher minimum wage, the Post recalls Ford's shocking move 100 years ago to boost productivity by investing in his workers. The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox!
blog.ed.ted.comCritical thinking is a 21st-century essential — here’s how to help kids learn it
If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 simple questions.
www.wired.co.ukThe unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder
I did not know Bryan Njoroge. I had never met him, talked to him, or encountered him online. In ordinary circumstances, I would have never heard of his death, more than 6,500 kilometres away. Yet in late June 2018, a message arrived in my inbox.
www.wired.com‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
On a brisk day in March 2016, Stephen Allwine walked into a Wendy's in Minneapolis. The smell of old fryer grease hung in the air as he searched for a man wearing dark jeans and a blue jacket. Allwine, who worked as an IT support technician, was lean and nerdy, with wire-rim glasses.
www.theverge.comInside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was frustrated. Microsoft’s Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn’t made much progress by the summer of 2017.
www.theverge.comThe Pixel 3A puts Google’s phenomenal camera in a $400 phone
I am going to break an unwritten rule of tech reviews and tell you the ending right at the top: if you want to buy a new smartphone that costs between $300 and $500, you should buy a Pixel 3A or Pixel 3A XL.
www.nytimes.comWith Uber’s I.P.O., Dara Khosrowshahi Is Taking Travis Kalanick’s Company Public
Dara Khosrowshahi had a problem. His name was Travis Kalanick. That, of course, was nothing new. When Mr. Khosrowshahi took over as chief executive of Uber in 2017, he became the best-compensated janitor in Silicon Valley, with a mandate to clean up the mess left by the company’s exiled founder.
www.getrevue.co? The Chris Hughes apostasy
Thanks to everyone who wrote with warm wishes about jury duty. Sadly, I was not called upon to serve my democracy. The good news is that it left me with time to write today’s emergency edition. I’ll be back to full strength on Monday.
www.irishtimes.comKen Early: Football’s new age neutralises philosophies of the past
When Liverpool scored after 15 seconds against Huddersfield Town on Friday night, one common reaction would have been to bemoan the lack of competitiveness in the Premier League, and wonder if there was anything else on television.
blog.chriszacharias.comA Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.
alexdanco.comCooking As A Service
First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening.
www.nytimes.comWe Should Worry About How China Uses Apps Like TikTok
In 2009, after internet-fueled race riots between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese in China’s northwest territory of Xinjiang, the ruling Communist Party took drastic action: the digital kill switch. Beijing disabled Xinjiang’s internet, sending military police to restore order.
www.singhkays.comIt's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video!
It is 2019 and we need to make a decision about GIFs (no, not that one! Were never going to be able to decide that one!).
getpocket.comInside the Cut-Throat World of Toddler Bike Racing
There’s a video going around the Internet of a balance-bike race in Japan. A long row of pre-school-aged kids, aboard low-slung bikes with no brakes or pedals, takes off from a start ramp like a pack of greyhounds.
blog.mozilla.orgIt’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
Today, Mozilla is publishing the 2019 Internet Health Report — our third annual examination of the internet, its impact on society and how it influences our everyday lives. The Report paints a mixed picture of what life online looks like today.
paulgraham.comThe Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
At this year's startup school, David Heinemeier Hansson gave a talk in which he suggested that startup founders should do things the old fashioned way.
www.fastcompany.comSlack’s head of workplace design thinks open floor plans “suuuck”
Slack is the ubiquitous digital tool that’s making our workplaces virtual. Thanks to its hyper-efficient chat room software, telecommuting has never been easier. Which is why it may come as a surprise that Slack is paying particular attention to its physical office design, too.
www.bbc.comWill Gompertz reviews the 2019 Venice Art Biennale ★★★☆☆
This week's invite only "Private View" of the Venice Biennale (which opens today) was one weird affair. It was like being dropped into the middle of a Wes Anderson movie. The place was heaving with characters.
developer.sonos.comSonos on IFTTT: How We Did It and Why It Matters
Sonos has always had a focus on creating meaningful partnerships. From music services to voice to our Works With Sonos certification program, we want to listen to our favorite audio content whenever and wherever.
www.bbc.comBasic income of £48 a week in UK urged
Every adult in the UK should receive a weekly basic income of £48, according to the recommendations in a new report. The move could be paid for by scrapping more than 1,000 tax reliefs, a report by Professor Guy Standing, a professor at SOAS University suggests.
devblogs.microsoft.comIntelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
Developers today are encountering an overwhelming amount of complexity due to the growing emphasis on time-to-market, and a broader variety of technologies being used than ever before (e.g. polyglot apps, microservices).
www.nytimes.comThe Uber I.P.O. Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley
Ride-sharing was a good idea ruined by a deeply misguided start-up culture. In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a start-up called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’s joy was contagious.
www.thedailybeast.comBitcoin Couple Faces Death Penalty for Trying to Build Home in International Waters
Nadia Thepdet takes beautiful photos of the ocean. One recent picture on her Instagram shows the sun setting over the waves. In another, she stands on a boat off Thailand’s coast, holding a golden coin with bitcoin logo. But Thepdet’s love of bitcoin and the sea could cost her her life.
blog.chriszacharias.comCruise Ships
In July of 2010, I made the decision to leave YouTube. The first thoughts I had were “How am I going to explain this to anyone? How will I tell mom?” To my family, I had the greatest job in the world and the amount of money I was making was unfathomable.
www.hanselman.comA new Console for Windows - It's the open source Windows Terminal
"My fellow Windows users, our long national nightmare is over." The Windows Terminal is here, it's open source, it's real, and it's spectacular. It's very early days to be clear, but the new Windows Terminal is open source and it's up at https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal for you to check out.
www.hanselman.comSoftware Defined Radio is a great way to bridge the physical and the digital and teach STEM
One of the magical technologies that makes an Open Source Artificial Pancreas possible is "Software-defined Radio" or SDR. I have found that SDR is one of those technologies that you've either heard of and agree it's amazing or you've literally never heard of it. Well, buckle up, friends
www.bbc.comSocial media effect 'tiny' in teenagers, large study finds
The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably "tiny", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests. Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team.
clunkmag.comInterview | Plastic Mermaids
The experimental psychedelic band from the Isle of Wight are a rare gem in a music industry as vacuos as the one we have. They have complete artistic control from beginning to end, putting attention in every little detail.
www.bristol247.comMy Bristol Favourites: Jon Clark
Jon Clark is executive director of the Forest of Avon Trust. A recent survey carried out by volunteers recorded 600,000 trees growing in the city, with a net value of £280m.
www.ebony.comCommunity Outraged After Police Shoot 3 Children in the Head
The names of two officers involved in the shooting of three children in Hugo, OK have been released over a week after the tragic incident took place.
www.bristol247.comMy Bristol Favourites: Megan Oliver
Megan Oliver is the co-founder of Arbor Ales, which this weekend is taking part in the East Bristol Brewery Trail.
www.setsquared.co.ukBeinn Bike Ltd: Because life is better on two wheels
Beinn Bike is adventure at your fingertips. The company has designed an application to provide keen mountain bikers with routes based on their personal preferences.
daringfireball.netWhy Everyone Is Watching TV With Closed Captioning on These Days
Such a great point about accessibility. It really is for everyone. On the closed captions front — I use Apple TV’s “what’d they just say?” feature several times every episode watching Game of Thrones.