Category: Social Stream

👓 College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street | Bloomberg

Read College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street by Claire Boston (Bloomberg)
Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.
Watched W1A (Season 2, Episodes 1-4) from BBC | Netflix
Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes
Continuing on to finish off the second season. Some of the characters are beginning to feel weary to me, but they’re also such over-the-top caricatures that this would have been better to watch in smaller doses rather than two seasons at a time.

👓 Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies | Nature

Read Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies by Holly Else
Nobel-prizewinning biologist pioneered use of C. elegans as an animal model.

👓 She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it | CNN

Read She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it (CNN)
Oregon medical students were shocked and surprised when they opened the cadaver of Rose Marie Bentley.

👓 Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret | Intelligencer | NYMag

Read Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret by Jonathan Chait (Intelligencer)
Congress has a clear legal right to examine Trump’s taxes. Republicans could not care less what the law says.
When a bad Democrat comes to power, the Republican party will have lost any moral authority for calling for ousters… We can’t have two sets of rules for our politicians. Either they follow the rules and mores or they don’t and Trump is wreaking a horrible precedent.

👓 Twitter’s Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 | Reuters

Read Twitter's Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 (Reuters)
Twitter Inc said on Monday it paid its Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey $1.40...
Surely I won’t be the first to have said it, but a penny per character in a tweet almost seems fitting if not overpaying. But they need to amend his contract to match the new 280 character limit.
Watched W1A (Season 1, Episodes 1-4) from BBC | Netflix
Ian Fletcher, formerly the Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, has taken up the position of Head of Values at the BBC.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Monica Dolan, Jessica Hynes
Quirky characters and biting satire. Sadly I’m probably missing a lot of the “in” jokes, though I did pick up what looked like Alan Yentob arm wrestling Salman Rushdie in a short cameo appearance. A lot of the comedy revolves around the premise of people who are paid professionally to be communicators are some of the absolute worst communicators on the planet.

👓 This simple tipping trick could save you over $400 a year | CNBC

Read One tipping trick could save you over $400 a year by Zack Guzman (CNBC)
Changing this one thing about the way you pay can save you money without being unfair to servers.
Clickbait for cheap people. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest not tipping at all in the states where employers provide minimum wage to cover missed tips…

👓 Trump is removing US Secret Service director | CNN

Read Trump is removing US Secret Service director by Jake Tapper, Evan Perez, and Betsy Klein (CNN)
United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.
Bookmarked Relative Font Weights Considered Harmful by Den McHenryDen McHenry (denmchenry.com)

Not exactly, but who can resist writing a "considered harmful" article when you can get away with it?

The real harm is that you can very easily conceal the semantics conveyed by font-weight depending on the font that's rendered, which is not always in your control. This all depends on how you define the base weight to which your relative values refer, and (1) whether that base weight is actually available in the rendered font and (2) which value is substituted if it isn't.

You get a webmention, and you get a webmention, and…

👓 Push notifications with Indigenous | realize.be

Read Push notifications with Indigenous by swentelswentel (realize.be)
Indigenous for Android has a new home. To celebrate, a new release is out which allows you to receive and send Push notifications! #indieweb https://realize.be/blog/push-notifications-indigenous
This is awesome!

👓 Logos in Slide Decks and WordCamp Videos | Make WordPress Communities

Read Logos in Slide Decks and WordCamp Videos (Make WordPress Communities)
A while ago, there was a discussion about the use of logos in slide decks and WordCamp videos. A consensus was reached as to what the permitted guidelines should be, but this was never documented i…
I did notice few presentations at Camp this weekend that were overly busy and had too much corporate logo splayed all over them. I can definitely be a bit too much.

👓 Right Here, in Santa Clarita | WordCamp Santa Clarita

Read Right Here, in Santa Clarita by Joe Simpson, Jr. (WordCamp Santa Clarita)
Thank You. You’ll never realize how much April 5 and April 6 meant to our fledgling WordPress Community here in Santa Clarita. Imagine, having your best friends AND the WordPress world descending on our north Los Angeles County valley, sharing twenty-four informative and entertaining sessions, gre...
Thank you Joe!