Month: March 2018
Checkin Broxton Garage
🎧 The Daily: The Day Their Childhood Ended | The New York Times
“I feel broken, I feel defeated. Right now on my mind, it’s not going to be fine.” Six students at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., spoke to a Times reporter.
Checkin UCLA Campus Gateway
Checkin UCLA Store (Ackerman Union)
Checkin UCLA Mathematical Sciences Building
Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments illustrated by striking computer graphics Stephen Wolfram shows in this landmark book how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science, from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology, the ultimate scope and limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, the interplay between free will and determinism, and the character of intelligence in the universe.
Checkin CVS/pharmacy
Checkin 76
🎧 This Week in Tech 656 A Camel With Your Name on It | TWiT.TV
Social media and kids, Google fiber fail, 5G dreams, and more. Surprise: young people use social more than the oldsters. Some of them even use Vero. Samsung Galaxy S9 takes top marks for display and camera. Google Fiber didn't go quite as planned. Feds in your iPhone? It's more likely than you think. Amazon buys Ring, can now see and hear everything. US vs Microsoft II: The Revenge of the Irish. GitHub gets gotten by the biggest DDoS EVER.
There’s a great conversation in this episode about open platforms and why they’re important. The basic conversation starts around 12m19s, but really gets going at 16 minutes in and continues through to about 26:30. It includes some great examples of text messaging, social media companies, reservation systems and how they work either for the good or the bad based on how open or closed they are. It becomes a textbook set of cases for why the IndieWeb movement is important.
For those interested in just this short 10 minute section you can listen below on this bookmarked version of the audio:
Another interesting sub-segment is at 17:13 where Dwight Silverman comments that he knows many people who’ve removed social apps from their cell phones, including Leo Laporte. I’ve done this nearly a year ago and recently Dries Buytaert mentioned he’s done it as well. There’s also a recent article by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times that he’s done something similar with solid results. For a list of people who’ve gone further, check out this list of silo-quits.
🎧 This Week in Tech 653 X Stands for Nothing | TWiT.TV
HomePod should have been delayed longer. Elon Musk's rollercoaster week: Falcon Heavy sends a Tesla to Mars just as Tesla has its worst quarter ever. iPhone boot code leaked online. Chrome will shame insecure websites. YouTube suspends Logan Paul for generally being a horrible human being. Rethinking Facebook and Google. T-Mobile warns of phone hacking scam. Uber settles with Waymo. ESPN's new streaming service will not show ESPN.
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🎧 The Daily: Guns and the Midterm Elections | The New York Times
Will gun control be a dominant topic in races across the U.S.?
👓 Blogging more helps me appreciate things in life | Matt Maldre
I was just thinking I would blog more if I had an app like Tweetdeck, but for WordPress where I can open a simple text edit window. Drag over one image, and boom. Blog post. And then I realized, Oh! There are MacOS WordPress apps!
Lately I’ve been inspired by some of the web’s best bloggers.
- Om Malik: Blogs are “thought spaces”
- Dries Buytaert: Reclaiming my blog as my thought space
- Everything on Dave Winer’s scripting.com
- Chris Aldrich’s approach to posting everything on his site
I didn’t know I was doing so well to be included with some of the biggest heavy hitters in the space! Thanks for the kind words Matt!
🎧 The Daily: Trump vs. the N.R.A. | The New York Times
The president stunned lawmakers with calls for gun control. Also, Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, is to step down.
👓 For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. | New York Times
Our tech columnist tried to skip digital news for a while. His old-school experiment led to three main conclusions.