Ever been haunted by an online ad for an item you researched or bought? Targeted ads were designed to follow you around everywhere. Here’s how to banish them.
Author: Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
👓 Accessibility concerns large and small dominate conference discussions | Inside Higher Ed
Administrators and professors alike wonder how their institutions' progress in making course content available to all students compares with others, as advocates continue their push.
👓 QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning | Hapgood
I have been talking about Pinterest as a disinformation platform for a long time, so this article on QAnon memes on Pinterest is not surprising at all: Many of those users also pinned QAnon memes. …
👓 Scientists have accidentally created a completely new form of carbon | The Independent
'We now have the recipe for how to make these structures'
👓 My podcast diet: August 2018 | a.wholelottanothing.org
I listen to several dozen podcasts, usually when doing boring tasks like errands, dishes, or car trips, on the order of 5-8 hours per week, and mostly at the expense of time I used to spend listeni…
👓 Things that baffle me about WordPress in 2018 | a.wholelottanothing.org
So I’m back blogging! And I haven’t used wordpress.com in ages, but I wanted to share my running list of WTF moments over the past week of using the site and service, both at work (we j…
👓 Putting Stickers On Your Laptop Is Probably a Bad Security Idea | Motherboard / Vice
From border crossings to hacking conferences, that Bitcoin or political sticker may be worth leaving on a case at home.
I had a very short conversation at the IndieWeb Summit 2018 in Portland with Nate Angell about the stickers on his laptop. Who knew he was such a subject area expert that Motherboard/Vice was using his material?
Of course this also reminds me that if academics, journalists, and publications/outlets were using webmentions when they credited creative commons articles, photos, audio, or other content, then the originator would get a notification that it was being used. This could also tip the originator off that their licensed content is being properly used.
👓 Hundreds of Researchers From Top Universities Were Published in Fake Academic Journals | Motherboard
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
👓 With Felix Salmon, Axios Continues Its Push to Commandeer the Bloomberg Set | Vanity Fair
Axios is hiring Felix Salmon and Courtenay Brown to spearhead its foray into coverage of the public markets.
👓 Let’s Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word | Weekly Standard
Jonathan V. Last (The Weekly Standard)But if there is …
His track record is terrifically clear, I have no more hope for him, or anyone who can’t bring themselves to speak up against him.
Spent the last couple of hours banging on the next version of the Micropub plugin for WordPress. Too tired to troubleshoot anymore, so issues will have to wait until the morning.
👓 Put your multiple personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers | The Firefox Frontier
Our new Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox means you can finally wrangle multiple email/social accounts. Maybe you’ve got two Gmail or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook a...
👓 Let’s all go back to Tumblr | The Outlook
A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform.