When I shifted from academia to industry, I used to be very annoyed when people used “impacted”: as in “were you impacted?” I had always thought of “impacted” as being a way to describe wisdom teeth: “pressed firmly together” in a medical sense. I gave up on that one, and now find myself talking about … Read more
Reblog via Fred McCann The Verge: All 500-plus Whole Foods stores will soon let you pay with a palm scan
Reblog via Charles Я. Davis
“The study found that, compared to meat-heavy diets, vegan diets resulted in 75 percent less land use, 54 percent less water use, and 66 percent less biodiversity loss.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/climate/diet-vegan-meat-emissions.html
Reblog via Warner Crocker
Always remember to never forget that everything changes, dies or fades away. Especially if it holds your data.
#evernote #tech
https://warnercrocker.com/2023/07/10/evernote-like-everything-was-never-forever/
Reblog via Ben Werdmuller
I love Amber Case's framing of "truthy" tech: hype-driven technologies that promise too much too soon, are driven by FOMO, and are intriguing because of their depictions in popular culture. There are plenty of examples to choose from right now, and this is a great guide to spotting them. #Technology https://caseorganic.medium.com/how-to-identify-truthy-tech-trends-70f553c5a445?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
So I get (and appreciate) that brands are trying to be more sensitive in their messaging. But does it really help that in lieu of what might be two dozen Father’s Day promotional emails, we’re moving in the direction of this:
If I’m going to get a bunch of those for every potentially sensitive holiday (which is all of them in one way or another, isn’t it?) can I just unsubscribe altogether?
Reblog via Ben Werdmuller
Flag Day is, of course, the national holiday for content moderators
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This summer, we're doing a series of events on #OpenSocialMedia—the new explosion of alternative platforms and protocols. Up first:
OPEN SOCIAL MEDIA: ORIGIN STORIES
Next Tuesday, online and free for all. Learn more & register: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/06/open-social-media-origin-stories
Reblog via Ethan Marcotte
This is a remarkable thing @kissane just wrote. https://erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow