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Fastmail and 1Password have teamed up to make it easy for you to create and manage unique email addresses while signing up for services online.
🔗 Fastmail: feel good about your email
Two of my most used services decided to tie the knot…
Get vaccinated. Fuck.
This is called marketing. A little romance with your sales pitch.
where privacy is afforded, it is afforded by the grace of inefficiency.
🔗 Why Were Daniel Hale’s Leaked Drone Wars Documents Ignored?
Eco-consumerism may expiate your guilt. But it’s only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis.
I know bookmarklets are an old-school web nerd thing, but I have a few I use frequently
🔗 Daring Fireball: Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS
Just used one to post this!
I might hate the new Safari already, without even trying it.
Beebo Russell loved Jesus, craft beer, and cargo shorts. He was not the kind of man you’d peg for grand-theft airplane.
🔗 The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell’s Last Flight - Rolling Stone
I literally hold my breath when shampooing my hair, and laundry is a terrible experience. Even fresh-cut grass is terrible
🔗 Covid Survivors Smell Foods Differently - The New York Times
consuming four or five eight-ounce cups of coffee (or about 400 milligrams of caffeine) a day has been associated with reduced death rates.
🔗 The Health Benefits of Coffee - The New York Times
I will live FOREVER!! ☕️
they became known as the Slave Islands where West Africans were gathered in their thousands and shipped to work plantations in such colonies as Portuguese Brazil.
🔗 The Portuguese Colonization of São Tomé and Principe
The dark past of the islands.
What do lots of people want from their phone? A cool look, simplicity, longer battery life, low costs for the device and internet surfing, and better resistance to our clumsiness.
🔗 Tech Forgets About the Needs of the 99% - The New York Times
There is no worldview so dangerous as the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
If you are in search of a no-cost photo editing app for your iPhone, Android, or tablet — this is it.
🔗 The Best Free Photo Editing Apps in 2021 | PetaPixel
For you, @ohBananaJoe, if you’re still thinking about this…
change their names, ate thousands of dollars’ worth of sushi, and then changed their names back.
🔗 Taiwan’s punishing work culture is forcing young people to game the system - Rest of World
As long as the pandemic persists, we will all need to be flexible and solicitous of those around us, and we will all need to wear a mask in certain situations.
That is one more reason why Belarus’s devilish gambit should lead to stiff punishment: The law is little protection, so if norms go, there won’t be anything left.
It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America.
🔗 Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database | The Guardian
It’s a sad, LONG, page 😢
all of them hark back to an era when millions of people sat, at set times, to watch specific programmes.
people with a low profile and just a few followers often become targets for abuse after tweeting about controversial subjects, because harassers might search for specific terms or hashtags
183 countries and territories — out of 195 — will have fertility rates below replacement level by 2100.
🔗 Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications - The New York Times
That’s an understatement. Airfares from the U.S. to Lisbon are down a staggering 48% compared to pre-pandemic 2019.
🔗 Greece Is The Word: Why It’s The Most-Booked European Destination For Summer
I wonder how this will play out…
Epistemologically, this is where we are as a country: when content gets expurgated because of blatant misinformation, it is taken as a sure sign of that source’s truthfulness.
🔗 [Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers, By Barrett Swanson | Harper’s Magazine
Manokaran’s team began thinking about why people love Lego during lockdown, and realised that a big hook was how it sounds. Inspired by the online craze for white noise as an aid to relaxation and focus, they began recording.
a waterfall of colour with 11 brand new minifigures striding purposefully towards an imagined brighter future
🔗 Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set | LGBT rights | The Guardian
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There are three main reasons: money, money and money.
🔗 Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn’t Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. - The New York Times
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