"The Erstwhile", B. Catling. An excellent sequel to "The Vorrh". Fantasy with that otherworldly inventiveness you would only expect from the best modern art museums, penned with craft.
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January 2018
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You're a committed ecologist, which is worst:
- the contribution to global warming from people eating too much red meat; or
- the ecosystemic risks from spreading a tick that causes meat allergy?
wired.com/story/lone-sta…
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I feel like getting all the @EffinBirds. I hope they do stickers at some point, my laptop could use a couple of those...
Quoting a tweet by @EffinBirds ↗
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Picked up "The Rules Do Not Apply" based on rave reviews that pitched it as hilarious. Haven't laughed once. It's possible I don't get memoirs.
Cyclic or cyclical?
Replying to @chrisheninger
What’s the other usage?
Replying to @alanstearns
Ah, that's exactly my approach. Since you agree I will now consider it canonical.
Replying to @alanstearns
Is it really bias if you're right?
The Gambler’s Ruin of Small Cities (Wonkish) nyti.ms/2EfXZsN
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Replying to @WKCosmo
I've long wondered if you could "solve" this by considering that a real number does contain an infinity of bits but since information requires processing you can only access them in infinite time. So the question is irrelevant because you'll never get to it.
Is there a way on OSX to have a different default browser for certain URL patterns? The primary use case is to open Google stuff in Chrome since it’s clearly optimised for that.
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Replying to @mnot
Well, the Web could never do much to prevent people from living in a single-browser bubble.
Replying to @mnot
Ethically I completely agree with you, obviously; I’m just saying that that’s not at all something that falls out of the architecture.
If you’re not a Chrome user but you’re tired of Google properties that often suck in other browsers, this is a neat solution.
Quoting a tweet by @glazou ↗
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Replying to @null and @siilime
Hahaha, yeah, I’ve thought along those lines too, but sometimes I just need to get shit done!
Replying to @anthony_ricaud
(But just for the small bits of the Web made by careless people.)
Replying to @anthony_ricaud
If they cared this would be fixed. If they don’t care they’re not looking at browser analytics.
Replying to @AmeliasBrain and @glazou
It’s not about the UA string. They accept other browsers, but they clearly have never checked that their stuff runs usably there.
Replying to @AmeliasBrain and @glazou
Oh no, that’s the nagware thing. I’ve been considering building an extension for that…
Replying to @jaffathecake and @tomdale
The suggested mitigations seem to change too — there used to be a third bullet point about predictable URLs and anti-CSRF in there. I’m guessing recommendations are evolving as more is worked out?
Replying to @jaffathecake and @tomdale
I’m pretty sure that same-site cookies were already recommended — but someone might have decided belts and suspenders weren’t all that stylish.
Il faut que vous le sachiez: aux États-Unis, le rosé se vend en pack de six canettes, en mode pétillant ou pas, avec un branding ultra hétéronormatif féminin.
Bon. Voilà.
Qui est partant pour une dégustation?
cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails…
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Replying to @zfrake and @Schtruckmolh, @Sniperovitch
Je confirme. Et ce n'est pas uniquement les effets: l'intrigue, l'écriture... J'ai essayé trois ou quatre fois, je n'ai jamais réussi à finir un épisode.
Replying to @alexvespi
I thought we had it bad in NYC with -13C feeling like -18C. I’m glad Boston can do better on this one ;-)
I’m waiting for all of my hair to turn grey.
Then I’ll grow it long, but just in the back.
And my superhero name will be… The Silver Mullet.
#GettingMyCoat
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Replying to @brucel
Hand in there! I’m almost at the one-year mark.
Replying to @glazou
C’est ma meilleure blague cette année!
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
OMG I need that coat!
If you haven’t watched autotuned Teen Spirit yet… vimeo.com/249694026
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Replying to @null and @amyvdh
It’s painful in a way that’s almost good. It’s certainly wrong. Oh so wrong.
American friends, I'm curious: how would you react if the Times acted like a global media and switched to Celsius (or at the very least labelled its units)?
An Eyelash-Freezing ‘Icy Hell’: The One Spot That Could Feel Like Minus 100 nyti.ms/2Eb1DU4
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Replying to @colmmacc
I would go all the way on that line of reasoning and switch to Rankine!
Replying to @tabatkins
I don't let my units define the boundaries of experience.
Replying to @frivoal and @tabatkins
In fairness he didn't spell Celsius right either so I'd call that one a draw 🤗
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Replying to @JasonWilliamsNY
I've heard that argument a few times, but I suspect it really works on the back of habit.
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Replying to @perigrin and @ndw
If you're outside by -100C it's even markedly worse 😄
Replying to @frivoal and @tabatkins
You're still arguing the point well after Jason made the decisive retort I'm afraid 🙃
Quoting a tweet by @JasonWilliamsNY ↗
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Do you too sometimes look up at a beautiful Moon and think that it would be neat to have a few more such natural satellites to spice things up? 🎑
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Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good nyti.ms/2EZJQ3j
Replying to @stshank
I was joking, I wouldn't want to inflict geotargeted headlines on anyone. It could be a great source of screw-ups, too.
Replying to @stshank
Unrelated but reminds me: are you aware of a NYT/CNET partnership in the (possibly distant) past? I have evidence of configuration pointing to download.com (and now CBS Interactive) from our end but no clue why.
Replying to @null and @_james_fuller
I can see the classy pick-up lines to go with, too.
Replying to @stshank
Thanks, that is might help me track down why some of that is still around 😀
Confession du samedi soir: je crois que j'avais 25 ans quand j'ai compris que la fève dans la galette était truquée.
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Replying to @null and @_james_fuller
Classy!
Replying to @null and @Floppy
I think @liedra has you largely covered, but I'm curious as to what you're looking for. Codable ethics? I've been wondering about implementation testing for ethical systems as a way to garner empirical results, but I haven't spent anywhere near enough time with it to crack it.
Replying to @LogicalAnalysis
It's gibberish English meaning they've applied a 17% tip and you don't need to add your own.
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Replying to @sil and @slightlylate
That's true the first few years. If you suck at it for twenty years straight, it's obvious you don't value it.
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Replying to @TzviyaSiegman
I think that could be possible in article bodies, in headlines it's likely too long so labelling might be the thing.
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Replying to @sil and @slightlylate
I think it's not just publicity: they also didn't immediately find a support network of like-minded people to help them make their ideas successful.
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Somehow I hadn't yet read any of Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels. In a weird way "Consider Phlebas" manages to be a fast-paced space opera about the absurdity of existence. It's the first space opera I enjoy in a *long* time.
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Replying to @alanstearns
I was thinking of leisurely going through them in chronological order (of writing). Is that less good?
Replying to @chrisheninger
My cat liked it too.
Every night my cat moves her water bowl to a specific position in the middle of the kitchen. Have you seen this before? Is it one of their summoning rituals?
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Replying to @andreisambra
I shudder to think what a cat's elf might be. It would be terribly mischievous to start with.
Replying to @rallyfora11y
Oh yeah, mine does that too but I know her: she's too lazy to go catch some innocent.
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Replying to @null and @amyvdh
She is indeed, and that's an interesting theory. Having said that, she's ten and only picked up this behaviour a few days ago...
Did you know the first ad-blocker was invented in the 50s and shaped like a revolver? 🔫
"The Attention Merchants", by @superwuster. Lots of fascinating background against which to understand ads and tracking today, should be required reading for tech folks.
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I mean, let’s face it: if ad-blockers were still this cool internet advertising would be dead already.
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I can cite seven Web Packaging (or before that, XML) initiatives from the past twenty years off the top of my head — and that’s likely not half of them. If @cramforce can pull this next one off, it would sure be exciting. amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/imp…
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Replying to @AmeliasBrain
It wasn't just a key selling feature: it's what it was invented to do! People were so annoyed with ads they invented remote controls! (Apparently it didn't work great, but still.)
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Is there a reason why no matter how many times you select en-GB Thunderbird will insist on always reverting to en-US? Online sources point at clobbering the US dictionary as the only way around this (which you have to do with every upgrade).
Replying to @LogicalAnalysis and @logicians
Can you share the Dropbox link with all of us? 🤗
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
I think they know that already...
Replying to @versac
It looks like she started drawing a pentagram, but she fell asleep first. ⛧🙀
Who would be the right person to chat with about tracking protection at Mozilla?
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Replying to @mnot
I'll ask around, but I suspect that specific interactive may simply have been a bit too ambitious, especially on large screens.
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Replying to @null and @asadotzler
I'd like to have an informal chat about where it's headed, what the current thinking is, etc. My DMs are open if you want!
"Introduction to Programmatic Advertising", Dominik Kosorin. Compact and clear overview of the madness behind the scenes.
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Replying to @laurenancona
If we remove the incentive for code injection, it should give publishers the means to rule it out. I think that's one of the primary goals of w3.org/community/web-…
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Replying to @stubbornella and @jensimmons, @coates, @jenville, @rachelandrew, @karenmcgrane, @fantasai, @carywood, @halvorson, @zomigi, @standardista, @mholzschlag, @wendyabc
Liddy Neville, Libby Miller come to mind too. Sharon Adler! So much we take for granted was initially invented by a previous generation of markup people whom we've largely forgotten about.
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Replying to @MinaMarkham
Because it never feels that long.
To all you folks struggling to figure out how and where to apply consent in the #GDPR, you can at least know you'll never get it as wrong as the blockchain people.
Quoting a tweet by @johnregehr ↗
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Replying to @andreasbovens and @facebook
I don’t know, that’s more interesting than most of what I see on @facebook these days.
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You know, life could be so sweet were it not for printers.
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Replying to @LogicalAnalysis
I just got “Einstein” too, I’m eager to get started as it seems really good.
I’d be curious to hear if that “Time” one is any good!
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The whole thread is worth it, but this was particularly cogent.
Quoting a tweet by @Noahpinion ↗
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Replying to @wycats
They’ve been rebooting a lot of their capacity, I wonder if that may have had an impact.
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Replying to @liza and @dauwhe, @tabatkins
In fairness switching to a laser has much improved my life. Inkjets just need to die. Still. There are days when, finally no reason, nothing works. I only eventually managed to print by switching to another computer.
Replying to @null and @dauwhe, @tabatkins
Because of how we write it in JavaScript you mean?
🏃🏻♂️⏪
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Replying to @trekonomics
I just went to her website and, well... Where is her presidential committee and how do I sign up?
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Replying to @bertails
Actually, "model" really is just a fancy word for ontology that physicists came up with because they grew tired of people not listening to them 🤗
It's 2018. Those $8 KI potassium iodide on Amazon:
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Alone with the kids for a few days, taking fashion advice from them. What could *possibly* go wrong?
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Replying to @_Aneria_
Merci.
Replying to @AmeliasBrain
No, believe it or not that's actually a vertical shelf. So a choice entirely my own (un)doing! It's, hum, my reading backlog... 🙄
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Amazon Video does not work with @firefox ESR…
Introduction intéressante au problème du ciblage publicitaire en ligne avec @ElliotLepers et @SeverinNaudet, sur #SoftPower de @martelf. Quelques petits regrets néanmoins:
Quoting a tweet by @martelf ↗
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1/ L'invité précédent, juste avant ce segment, exprime une confusion assez forte entre consentement et #GDPR. C'est probablement un des aspects les moins forts (et les plus problématiques) de ce nouveau règlement.
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2/ Beaucoup de temps sur Facebook sans jamais mentionner l'usage qu'ils font du ciblage, par exemple pour permettre de ne pas louer son appartement à des Noirs ou des Juifs. Ce n'est pas un problème anecdotique.
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3/ Malheureusement, contrairement à ce qui est dit, Firefox n'utilise pas (encore?) de privacy par défaut: ça ne marche qu'en mode privé. Par contre c'est le cas dans Safari. Chrome vous laisse à poil, ça méritait d'être souligné?
4/ Finalement, l'idée de la "fin de l'ère du buzz" ça sonne bien mais c'est très centré sur Facebook, qui au social media ce que la TV est à l'Internet: un truc de vieux. Si le buzz quitte Facebook, les utilisateurs suivront!
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Replying to @null and @marksfromlife, @brianleroux, @mikeal, @github
That's a great idea! I wish I could get something like that in my browser, like, for the whole Web!
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Replying to @martelf and @ElliotLepers
Le consentement est à la vie privée ce que le référendum est à la démocratie: dans certains cas c'est absolument nécessaire, mais si l'on s'en sert trop facilement il ne faut pas s'étonner si les gens répondent en devers de leur intérêt. Ça mériterait peut-être un blog...
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L'ensemble @VallsStockPhoto: purement génial.
Quoting a tweet by @lucasgautheron ↗
Replying to @frivoal
On the contrary, for the her to run in a primary!
Replying to @frivoal and @TulsiGabbard
I'm not sure about your VP choices, but while 2020 is a bit far she probably has to start a bit later this year to stand a chance.
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The Calmer Seas of Privacy
berjon.com/calmer-privacy/ #GDPR
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I wonder if anyone has experimented with teaching analytical writing skills to adults who express themselves mostly through PowerPoint and spreadsheets to see if they get better at work too. My bet is yes.🖋 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… (via @LogicalAnalysis)
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I like the idea the folks at @iA have to bring back blogging. @Medium destroyed its UX, @facebook is dead, and @Twitter is the only RSS client I've ever liked so we got all we need!
I was serious about bringing NNTP back, too!
Quoting a tweet by @iA ↗
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@remarkablepaper Is there a way to manipulate files other than through the app? It’s *really* painful. Also, is it possible to get the device to remember which page you were on?
Replying to @frivoal
Whoa, I had forgotten it was there! Thanks, I updated my pipeline, something must have changed. I'll look into it!
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What kind of psycho writes “four times out of 10”.
I cringed just from copying it into this tweet.
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An outstanding article on parenting advice; funny, helpful, and well written. Heartily recommended to all parents! theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/…
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Replying to @The_Episiarch and @temptoetiam
So... that's an ontology with lots of berries and no grains, right?
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Replying to @null and @dauwhe
"You're", FFS.
Replying to @null and @dauwhe
That's definitely good advice. Technically you can make them sleep, I have heard first hand accounts from two generations up involving drops of alcohol and even kitchen gas. But it might prove inadvisable!
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Replying to @__apf__ and @roessler
Wait... you go on Twitter to get *less* confused? How... How does that work?
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Replying to @rdeltour and @glazou
LOL. There are practically no XML tools in JS. Your best bet might be to plug parser and serialiser into jsdom.
Replying to @rdeltour and @glazou
If you don't need DOM4, xmldom makes for a roughly passable DOM. The xpath module is usable, but if you use it a lot add a caching layer because it's slow as hell.
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Replying to @rdeltour and @glazou
Well, everything that is used there I guess? They've had ASN.1 support forever 😬
Replying to @mjackson
Isn’t the equivalent wearing a hat a little too tightly and getting a skin crease around the cranium for a little while?
Replying to @gchampeau
Ce n'est pas la valeur, c'est la familiarité. Si on te dit "ne fais pas ça, tu vas te faire mal" pendant 20 ans mais que rien n'arrive, tu n'écoutes plus. Regarde la communication qu'il faut pour la cigarette: c'est le même principe.
Getting people to care about their privacy is in the same problem space as getting them to quit smoking. The gratification from a free service is concrete and immediate, the damage is probabilistic and in an unspecified future.
We’re just not good at that.
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Replying to @csarven
I’m not sure it matters to the analogy :)
Replying to @tobie
I’m enough of an expert that you’re going to have to ask a more precise question :)
The GDPR brings privacy and data protection to natural persons. I’m not sure I see B2B being affected _except_ where data is exchanged.
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This stuff in Android has several times made me wonder about switching to iOS, despite the bad UX there.
Quoting a tweet by @gchampeau ↗
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Hi Twitterers, any books or courses you would recommend for a fast learner with a civil engineering background to gain some basic proficiency with data/SQL and JS (not necessarily Web)? Many thanks for suggestions!
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Replying to @justinph
Thanks a lot!
Replying to @tobie
If you manage a DB of personal data (email falls under that) then yes. But your obligations are pretty simple. It’s legitimate to have their email addresses in order to email them, which they asked you to do in the first place. You just need to document that’s what you’re doing.
Replying to @tobie
They need to have the right to fix their email address (and name if you have it), to be deleted, to know that they’re in the list. If someone steals that list you need to follow breach procedures.
That’s pretty much it, and even then there are exemptions for being small.
Replying to @_beauhaus and @beau_dev
Thanks!
Replying to @Churlwerth and @Hufflegwings, @FrancoisTheurel
On pourrait donc dire: “L’étrange odeur de sa distillation me faisait lui biglouser la cucurbite”?
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Replying to @tobie
You don’t need opt-in for data that you legitimately need to carry out your business and isn’t sensitive.
It may seem counter-intuitive but my preference is strongly that you should almost never ask for consent/opt-in for data processing. It’s just security perms all over again.
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Replying to @tobie
Yes, the GDPR actually makes a lot of sense! You basically need to match one of the reasons under Article 5.1 to be allowed to process data — it’s pretty sensible gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/
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Replying to @tobie
Yes, you essentially have an obligation of transparency. How it is implemented is not detailed, though it shouldn’t be obscure (so not hidden in unreadable terms of service for instance).
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Other than Ikea can one find European-level firmness mattresses in the US? It's hard to trust online reviews, even the excellent @wirecutter finds Ikea's mid-firm harder than they can tolerate, which I'll admit made me laugh 😂
Speaking of mattresses, has there been any progress in the lawsuit against @Casper for allegedly wiretapping its users? I don't see anything more recent than the announcement.
Periodic reminder that all illegal guns were initially commercialised legally.
Quoting a tweet by @kottke ↗
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Replying to @cconcolato
I didn't know that, that's cool! What are you doing there? Are you at the Amsterdam office or in California?
Replying to @cconcolato
Nice! NYC and the NYT are both great. We didn't get much snow this year so it's all long gone!
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Replying to @mikewest
Does that mean you have mornings that are not like that? If so I'm jealous 🙃
I support @nytopinion publishing from a broad range of opinions, including unethical ones like mandatory minimums, but Rod Rosenstein's is so poorly written it's hard to see how it would pass muster.
nyti.ms/2DmEwFV
I should get this as a tattoo.
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Replying to @null and @amyvdh
It exists as a sticker, it was in a phone booth at @PioneerWorks_, I'm sure it can be printed any size!
Replying to @versac and @wirecutter
Tu sais bien que je ne suis pas assez Baumanien pour ça.
Replying to @benwerd
Since my server is Express anyway I use code cobbled together from a few npm modules that automatically provisions a cert for domains and subdomains it knows about. It's likely totally overkill but since I'd done that for science.ai (where it makes sense) I had it around 🙃
Replying to @JasonWilliamsNY
They at least sell rosé in cans. Whether one can is sufficient for an individual largely depends on the political climate at the time.
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Replying to @JasonWilliamsNY
I'll admit to not having mustered the courage to acquire first hand knowledge of these rosés yet, so at best I can offer anecdotal evidence (albeit from a reputable publication). hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.am…
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🐘 "The Elephant Vanishes", Haruki Murakami. An excellent collection of short stories, magically real. I particularly enjoyed "The Second Bakery Attack", in which a bizarre curse leads newlyweds to rob a McDonald's in the dead of night.
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Hi @JetBlue, can you explain why your site requests access to browser audio? Any chance you would be fingerprinting users beyond reasonable expectations of privacy?
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One aspect of American institutions evades me: in the event of a shutdown, at what point does Twitter furlough the @realDonaldTrump account?
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Replying to @JetBlue
Firefox is not triggering that, your site is. It may be from an embedded third party, but still your responsibility. See techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/aud… and engadget.com/2017/12/03/cas….
Replying to @null and @amyvdh
Oh that much I know, I was just wondering if the Founders hadn't planned for a little silver lining in there 😉
Une idée pour Paris?
Quoting a tweet by @Noahpinion ↗
Is there a centralised place to report shady Web trackers (eg. that fingerprint) in the same way that for instance phishing sites have databases?
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Replying to @benwerd
Guess there's a reason I ended up moving here twice 😄
Replying to @ubiquitic
Yeah but that's tracking, not shady tracking. Cookies remain under user control in a way that fingerprints don't.
Replying to @ubiquitic
No, just the Disconnect Me list for instance has nothing shady. They’re just trackers. If you block third-party cookies they won’t track you — you may not like it but it’s under your control. Fingerprinting is well up nasty-wise.
Replying to @ubiquitic
But I’m not interested in an undifferentiated list of trackers — I know those, and I know there are plenty. But if they don’t distinguish between normal and nasty it doesn’t help me.
Replying to @ubiquitic
I understand that, but the domain blocklists come from cookie trackers.
Replying to @ubiquitic
Why do you think I’m asking if it exists? :)
Replying to @ubiquitic
Yeah, but that game is changing
Replying to @ubiquitic
It’s the other way around: the new generation of blockers is less brutal. It makes it possible to have a new conversation. See berjon.com/calmer-privacy/
Replying to @frivoal
Those are good questions for @Noahpinion. Mostly I was wondering if @CecileDuflot had looked into such alternatives.
Replying to @null and @amyvdh, @elemenopew, @koalie, @max_froumentin, @grorg
OMG I love it! With a glass of wine, too!🍷
"The prison phone system is a $1.2bn-a-year industry, dominated by big players like Securus. Securus has stated that it serves over 1.2 million prisoners across North America, and the company employs at least 736 people, according to its Bloomberg listing."
Quoting a tweet by @juliagalef ↗
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Replying to @AmberElkins411 and @BasilLeaf, @benwerd
I've heard good things about Unitarians welcoming Atheists as well, I'd reckon it's worth a shot!
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Replying to @FremyCompany
I know, it’s just… I don’t understand how you can be so cruel.
Disappointed by "White Hat UX". If you're looking for a first time intro to UX for someone who hasn't really heard of it before then it's probably pretty good. But there's precious little on ethical UX beyond "don't be a jerk".
Replying to @JetBlue
Any progress tracking that down? The issue is clearly still there.
Another great addition to the list of books about how the French have everything figured out. I’ll admit that seduction as an ideology is a new one for me.
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Replying to @macsym
If I do it's seductively so.
Replying to @roessler and @macsym
You can still feel it oozing out of those binary XML documents.
Replying to @skdh and @FQXi
Oh yeah, that happened to me in last year's contest. It was beyond my control.
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There’s a lot you can turn off on @facebook’s ad settings (don’t be daunted by their design decision to make the first box the most tedious to opt out of, if in a hurry start with the third box): facebook.com/ads/preference…
L’article @BuzzFeedNewsFR est malheureusement plein de bugs, mais les affiches “mauvaisecompagnie — Décoration d'infréquentables” sont excellentes: etsy.com/fr/shop/mauvai…
Quoting a tweet by @mariekirschen ↗
“In a recent survey(…), the percent of people who (…) would opt in to third party tracking across the web for ads was 3%.”
If you built a business on something 97% of your users don’t want, it should not be surprising if it’s not long-term sustainable.
thecapitolforum.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/j/…
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Is anyone still updating the HTML Design Principles? 🙃
Quoting a tweet by @pyjokes_bot ↗
Any good experiences or recommendations for exporting a long batch of JIRA issues to @GitHub? I only seem to find pretty half-baked, ad hoc tools for that out there.
Alternatively if someone wants to launch a Kickstarter to get @Atlassian to hire at least one UX designer, I’ll definitely chip in.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Just to be gently contrarian: the effect of even relatively subtle mood modifications (eg. anxiety, focus, curiosity, desire to drink) compounded over decades of one’s lifetime could IMHO lead to noticeable improvements in intelligence.
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I hadn’t realised it was possible to so throughly fail to understand the issues with AI being a black box.
Quoting a tweet by @nytopinion ↗
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Getting a relatively small cohort of more diverse invited experts shouldn't be very expensive but would have a huge and lasting impact on the Web. It's the sort of thing that I would expect organisations like @knightfdn or @travis_fnd to support.
Quoting a tweet by @tobie ↗
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@ElliotLepers Hey mec, je me souviens que tu avais fait une liste d’alternatives au Nutella pour un atelier dégustation — tu as un lien pour ça? On me demande en interne :)
Replying to @pfrazee
I recently ported my site to a new platform and the redirects broke, sorry. It’s there: berjon.com/linked-data/.
I might recommend taking it with a grain of salt :)
Replying to @pfrazee
I understand there are issues and I would certainly encourage solutions. I also wish I had a lot more time for Beaker stuff because there’s so much coolness there.
Replying to @pfrazee
But I would encourage working closely with the LD people around solutions. Everyone who’s come to linked data over the past twenty years has ended up creating a new format — we could collectively do with less 927ing!
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Replying to @pfrazee
It came on my radar, I’ve had it in an open tab for a few days but haven’t had the time to actually look yet, sadly.
Replying to @rektide and @pfrazee
Much agreed. JSON-LD has issues I can live with, Turtle is just a hindrance.
Replying to @pfrazee and @rektide
Yup. This problem is compounded by the fact that the jsonld.js library could really use some modernising, ergonomics, and performance tuning.
Replying to @rektide and @pfrazee
I think a lot of this could be addressed by improving jsonld.js to expose a JSONLD API that inherits from JSON and adds a few convenient statics. It’s possible to make this feel pretty much like JSON.
Replying to @julien51
You don’t build a better OS, you build something else that displaces it. If browsers actually had a vision in the application space they would gradually eat their way into window manager integration and down, until the OS is little more than a kernel no one cares about.
A few notes:
1) FB doesn’t seem to even be trying to fix its fake news problem.
2) What if the solution were for FB to just stick to personal updates?
3) 60k shares of an article make it #4 in engagement that week? That’s an interestingly small volume.
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Replying to @aakonc and @facebook
It’s the problem with wanting all the money of news but none of the responsibility. Somewhere, something’s gotta give.
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Are any of you fine thinkers going to the Night of Philosophy at the Brooklyn PL tonight? I won't be staying the whole night but I'll be there for the first few hours!
Replying to @seanmcarroll
Our tech teams are outstanding, they've come up with this new language called DWIM. It implements everything through machine learning on the blockchain.
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"Saving the media", from @CageJulia at #NightofPhilosophy. Apparently there is no way to be profitable making quality news. I may have some doubts. 🤔
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She claims that buying the @washingtonpost will give Bezos (indirect) influence over the coverage of Amazon in the press, through self-censorship. If this is true then it should be easily verified empirically, but unfortunately she does not suggest that.
It's not that I think there isn't cause for concern, but allegations of bias against the @washingtonpost are serious, and until they are grounded in evidence they are little more than conspiracy theories. #NightofPhilosophy
She also thinks that you could buy the @nytimes for $200 millions. I'm pretty sure that is a massive under-evaluation.
I'm very sympathetic to the idea of democratically owned media, but "crowdfunding" is a bit short as plans go. #NightofPhilosophy
Geneviève Fraisse on "Consent and the Refusal of Consent". Apologises for her English before launching into a perfectly fluid lecture. #NightofPhilosophy
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In France, the same question of consent was applied to both prostitution and the headscarf. "If she wants it" vs "it's bad consent". Is consent choosing or accepting?
We may need a better word. #NightofPhilosophy
The hard part is that then the product would have to be actually good. Wait... that would be a good thing too!
Quoting a tweet by @simongerman600 ↗
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"Power to the Imagination: Tackling Democratic Entropy", by @CynthiaFleury. Huge crowd! Democracy is grounded in inventing new rights, to stop that imagining is to enter voluntary serfdom. #NightofPhilosophy
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She brings up Tocqueville's democratic passions, how the passion of liberty is omnipotence. Quite the timely reminder. #NightofPhilosophy
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I love seeing so many French intellectuals lecturing, debating in English. Twenty years ago this would have been unthinkable. #NightofPhilosophy
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Courage is less a feature of leadership than it is a protection against democratic despair and entropy. People starting to believe that they can be the clandestine passengers of the erosion of morality. This cowardice costs democracy dearly. #NightofPhilosophy
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Vladimir Jankélévitch invented "just do it" before Nike. Courage, the time of morality, is serious because the act has to be now. #NightofPhilosophy
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Ecosystems of courage lead to inventive protections for democracy. #NightofPhilosophy
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Replying to @JasonWilliamsNY
There is... free coffee. I'm right now in a talk about how imagination and the emergent real areas the same thing so I'm going to say yes 😃
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Jean-Godefroy Bidima, "From Informed to Negotiated Consent". The presentation is rooted in evolutions in the ethics of biomedical consent in Africa. #NightofPhilosophy
Replying to @erikphoel and @BlaiseLucey00
Okay, that's almost as cool as the #NightofPhilosophy 😉
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Replying to @LogicalAnalysis
Last night:
Wife: Are you sure you want to attend the #NightofPhilosophy? You're exhausted!
Me: But, but, but they have two whole sessions on the ethics of consent!
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I really liked @CynthiaFleury's discussion of courage and democratic entropy last night. Are there specific articles that are good to dive deeper into these themes or should I just jump into "La fin du courage" or "Les pathologies de la démocratie"?
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«A Cat, A Man, And Two Women», by Junichiro Tanizaki. Excellently constructed short novel in which the attentions directed towards a cat reveal the real feelings of the protagonists.
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You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can. Mine Just Did. nyti.ms/2GhabdU
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Replying to @null and @ndw, @innovimax
😕 I have a response, waiting to see if it gets published there or on my blog.
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Replying to @fantasai and @annevk
It's not too late!
Replying to @brunogirin and @zeynep, @nytimes
To a point, but the GDPR still makes too many assumptions about consent being a useful tool in this area (or informed transparency, which I am willing to bet would have made zero difference here).
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Replying to @trekonomics
So you’re «monitoring» your Le Creuset so as to stay appraised of… the State of the Onion?
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Replying to @JamieXML and @zeynep, @brunogirin
This could do with a more developed response, notably about consent fatigue, the worsening of the consent issue in ePrivacy, consent delegation and automating consent through DNT... I'll try to step away from the GDPR a few minutes to write it up 😛
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Replying to @DrCigdemSengul and @c_sengu, @brunogirin, @zeynep, @nytimes
Indeed, but people get used to clicking through, just as with cookie banners or CASL. The Dutch have brutal consent requirements typically implemented with modal door-slams, but I've heard no evidence that it stops people from just saying yes.
Replying to @Gayle_McF and @brunogirin, @zeynep, @nytimes
Absolutely (I'm a big fan of the GDPR), and privacy by default is IMHO what might have helped here. But it's hard, and hard to enforce outside of training requirements. People tend to think that aggregate data sharing, like a heat map, is always fine...
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Replying to @Gayle_McF and @brunogirin, @zeynep, @nytimes
Yes! My daily experience is that the GDPR really helps non-malicious data people think about privacy and data protection. That is having a real impact. And maybe after ten years of this privacy by design will come to us more readily?
I still feel we're missing a piece, though. I've been wondering if folks like @sfiscience might not take on work around data privacy. It does seem to require the toolbox of complexity thinking to unfold.