This situation—a single company controlling web standards—is what everyone freaked out about in the Windows 95 era, but the emergence of Google as de facto regulatory authority for the web doesn’t seem to rankle people as much as it should. https://t.co/X2tkFuToLl
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) August 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1293623586071044096)
A short essay where I argue that we should commandeer the toolkit of surveillance advertising to create an invasive, nonconsensual public health tracking system to help us control this pandemic https://t.co/k9dETPhyLB
— Pinboard 😷 (@Pinboard) March 23, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1242092501357346816)
This is turning into the “how do I do X in windows/just use linux!” of fowl-based tick management questions.
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) January 11, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1215813443862876164)
Even worse, petroleum is not vegan! Those are like zooplankton, man. https://t.co/Oamo4JxOrg
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1209946662967201792)
i have eaten
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 8, 2019
the $120,000 banana
that was duct-taped
to the gallery wall
and which
you were hailing
as a symbol
of gilded-age excess
forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so meaningful
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1203530906654261248)
People criticize tech companies for putting money above principle, but Github is holding on to a $100K ICE contract despite employee anger, and Facebook says it will continue to sell toxic political ads that are 0.5% of revenue. These are clear examples of putting principle first
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1190018795873681417)
The inability to talk honestly about relative magnitudes led to stupid stuff like the “we’re running out of landfills” panic of the 1990’s, the ban on straws and aviation-shaming today, and will lead to a backlash where we are all driving Hummers in a Venus-like environment
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 17, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1184867378393313282)