Kevin Kelly is the biggest traveller I know and he recently shared some of the advice he’s learned over his 50+ years on the road. Here are a few of my favorites:
If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ord...
From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK. “whenever AnYONE running the CLIENt Presses caPs LOck, it PRESSEs for everyone ELsE.” (i wrote tHIS POST WItH IT.)
Hey, everyone. This week has been a little wonky/distracted for me — I was tending to a sick kid for a couple of days and am trying not to get sick myself, so I didn’t get to spend as much time as I would have liked here at KDO reporting on the coup and what we can do about ...
Annie McEwen went to a mountain in Pennsylvania to help catch some migratory owls. Then Scott Weidensaul peeled back the owl’s feathery face disc, so that she could look at the back of its eyeball. No owls were harmed in the process, but this brief glimpse into the inner wor...
Jay Peters and Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
Nearly a month after it was banned in the US, TikTok has returned
to the App Store for iPhones and other Apple devices as
well as the Google Play store for Android phones and
tablets.
The return follows US Attorney Gen...
Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weeks into a Venn diagram (above) with “five broad domains that correspond to features of proto-authoritarian states”:
Undermining Democratic Institution...
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? “If we cannot organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large enough to combat the forces that would destroy us.”
Jessica Valenti on why there’s no room for compromise or middle ground on abortion rights.
Anyone still holding out hope for a ‘compromise’ on abortion rights needs to give it up. Right now.
Over the past few days, a Louisiana mother was arrested for getting abortion pill...
Jack Ewing, reporting for The New York Times:
The department’s procurement forecast for 2025, which details
purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for
armored Tesla vehicles. The document does not specify which Tesla
model, but the electric Cybertruc...
House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to show a passport or birth cert. when voting as proof of citizenship. But 140M Americans don’t have a passport and 69M women don’t have a birth cert. matching their current last name.
Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important, apartheid is a business plan. It’s a system designed to exploit cheap Black labor, without ever letting Black people reap the financial and social gains of hard work.”
Tim Cook, on X:
Get ready to meet the newest member of the family.
Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch
Most people are guessing, I think correctly, that this is about the iPhone SE 4. We’re also right on schedule for the M4 generation of MacBook Airs, but I don’t thi...
Sean Heber, of The Iconfactory:
It appears that Apple’s new account migration stuff does NOT work
for TestFlight access. That by itself is fine - whatever. The
problem here is that it appears when someone does an account
migration, it kind of half-migrates TestFlight som...
