[SC 2.4.4] That's me editorializing
Apparently the theme of this week's newsletter is putting companion links by the main link I'm sharing out.
Know that if there's a link in a quote I include an except, that's me editorializing, and not the person quoted.
No one’s ready for this
"We briefly lived in an era in which the photograph was a shortcut to reality, to knowing things, to having a smoking gun."
The Wow! Signal Deciphered. It Was Hydrogen All Along.
This is a bit of a bummer, but also pretty cool. I guess that's sort of the overall vibe of this newsletter.
Infiltrating the Far Right
"'…But I think this is important work, and I am going to keep doing it, because I think some of these guys are legitimately dangerous.'"
2024 Grand Prize - The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Stay with it for the Odious Outliers section. It's worth it, I promise.
A Logo on a Prosthesis Is Like a Tattoo You Didn’t Ask For
"But the more she stared at the brand’s orange-and-black logo slapped across the top of the hand, the more she felt that she’d become a walking billboard, she told me."
The Breakfast
This is a neat idea, and I wish they'd come to Boston while the weather is still nice.
The Frontend Treadmill
In hindsight, it is tragicomic that the last decade of making websites was based on tech who claimed they’d fix performance in post, coupled with every major tech company actively trying to suppress web app capability to drive monopolistic surveillance capitalism.
What a new accessibility class action lawsuit means for agencies
"This lawsuit directly targets AccessiBe. But agencies play an important role in the overlay economy."
Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means
The resigned horror of all of this is too much.
The Great npm Garbage Patch
"In other words, among all new packages published to npm in the past six months, about five out of every seven packages are Tea spam."
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
Sorcery.
Cabel Sasser Found a McDonalds Mural That Led Him to Uncover a Secret Collection of Art
The fact that this happened to the co-founder of Panic is, just, chef's kiss.
Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
Shot and chaser.
Scientists have more evidence to explain why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska
Oh.
Forced by law to use one surname, Japanese couple chooses to divorce every 3 years
Petition to add this to Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.
A plea for the lost practice of information architecture
I will share any content that makes a reference to the Winchester Mystery House, especially if it's used to talk about information architecture.
Inside the bizarre 1978 doomsday bunker of las vegas with photographer alastair philip wiper
"'Yep, I did swim in the pool,' reveals the Copenhagen-based photographer."
Microsoft's Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered
Can you sue a stochastic parrot for slander?
Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?
Every part of the buffalo, except here the buffalo is a cocoa fruit.
Combating Access Trauma.
"I don’t expect everybody to understand my hesitation when they invite me to an unfamiliar location, but I am making them listen and pay attention."
RadioShack Catalogs
Should have sent a poet.