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In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers on our streets — to protect the legitimate interests of taxi companies and the revenue they create for our city.
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-overview-search.html
Your free ten-minute introduction to Stoic philosophy and its application to modern living
Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar. So I can report more details about what the new thing is and how it came to be.
But none of them are music books
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
Excellent blog post by Valerie Aurora about sexual harassment at the DefCon hackers conference. Aside from the fact that this is utterly reprehensible behavior by the perpetrators involved, this is a real problem for our community. The response of “this is just what hacker culture is, and changing it will destroy…
Lessons learned with (no) blood and (all) tears
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.
Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.
How to “embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of today”
Posted on Wednesday 21 Feb 2024. 1,196 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.
This essay can be read in my 2020 book, Essays on Free Knowledge. Perhaps ironically, it is no longer free. UPDATE: I've posted a very long set of replies. UPDATE 2: I've decided to reply below as well--very belatedly...
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.
The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. ... Read more
Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more
As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-
