Directed by Alex Graves. With Alan Alda, Kristin Chenoweth, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. The Vinick campaign struggles with the impact of the nuclear accident in California; Josh and Donna have a "moment".
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📺 "The West Wing" Duck and Cover | Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Alan Alda, Kristin Chenoweth, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. A nuclear accident in California sends the White House and both campaigns into overdrive. Meanwhile, China and Russia appear headed for a showdown over elections and oil in Kazakhstan.
👓 O’Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal | NPR
Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious. So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s. When 19-year-old Sandra Day entered Stanford Law School in 1949, her frequent seatmate was 26-year-old Bill Rehnquist, attending Stanford on the GI Bill. The two shared their equally meticulous class notes and eventually were dating regularly. But by December of their second year, she broke up with him while somehow retaining what she called their "study buddy" relationship; she even entered the moot-court competition with Rehnquist, and the pair finished second.
👓 I live among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it’s terrifying | Anonymous | Opinion | The Guardian
Chemnitz is the tip of an ugly iceberg, says an anonymous writer
👓 What Does Gab’s Demise Mean For Federation? | Interdependent Thoughts
The Twitter-like platform Gab has been forced offline, as their payment providers, hosting provider and domain provider all told them their business was no longer welcome. The platform is home to people with extremist views claiming their freedom of speech is under threat. At issue is of course wher...
👓 Syndication Links 4.0.0 Released | David Shanske
David Shanske (David Shanske)Today, from my hotel room in Berlin, Germany, where I am preparing to attend Indiewebcamp Berlin, my first European Indiewebcamp, I released Syndication Links 4.0.0. The major version number change is because in this version, Syndication Links takes on a new role. As promised previously, I’ve buil...
Yet another update from the unstoppable David Shanske! I can’t wait to try this out.
🎧 The Rise of Michael Avenatti | The Daily | New York Times
The lawyer’s self-sure ways and penchant for media spectacle have led some to characterize him as the anti-Trump.
🎧 How Paul Manafort’s Plans Backfired | The Daily | New York Times
The story of the former Trump campaign chairman and his ties to foreign governments begins long before the 2016 election.
🎧 The Daily: The Strange Case of QAnon | New York Times
A fringe online movement makes a front-and-center appearance at a televised event for President Trump.
📑 Reply to Ben Werdmüller | Interdependent Thoughts
They can spew hate amongst themselves for eternity, but without amplification it won’t thrive. ❧
This is a key point. Social media and the way it (and its black box algorithms) amplifies almost anything for the benefit of clicks towards advertising is one of its most toxic features. Too often the extreme voice draws the most attention instead of being moderated down by more civil and moderate society.
👓 Reply to Ben Werdmüller | Interdependent Thoughts
I think this is a false dilemma, Bernd.
I’d say that it would be great if those extremists would see using a distributed tool like Mastodon as the only remaining viable platform for them. It would not suppress their speech. But it woud deny them any amplification, which they now enjoy by being very visible on mainstream platforms, giving them the illusion they are indeed mainstream. It will be much easier to convince, if at all needed, instance moderators to not federate with instances of those guys, reducing them ever more to their own bubble. They can spew hate amongst themselves for eternity, but without amplification it won’t thrive. Jotted down some thoughts on this earlier in “What does Gab’s demise mean for federation?“
👓 Gab and the decentralized web | Ben Werdmüller
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)As a proponent of the decentralized web, I've been thinking a lot about the aftermath of the domestic terrorism that was committed in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life synagogue over the weekend, and how it specifically relates to the right-wing social network Gab. In America, we're unfortunately used ...
I couldn’t have put it any better myself.
👓 Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts | Flickr
Today, we’re announcing updates to our Free and Pro accounts that mark a new step forward for Flickr. To be candid, we’re driving toward the future of Flickr with one eye on the rearview mirror; we…
Nice to see that they’ve looked at the data to come up with what will hopefully be a reasonable dividing line.
Having a worthwhile community there would be the only thing to make me want to syndicate my photos to it, particularly with backfeed coming from Brid.gy. I haven’t gotten much, if any, interaction from Flickr in quite a long time.
I suspect that having a curated community there will actually dovetail with helping out the IndieWeb in the long run. What they’d like to have sounds a lot more like what micro.blog has become for me in the past year. It also sounds a lot more like how SoundCloud works to some extent.
📺 "The Great British Baking Show" Bread Week | Netflix
Directed by Andy Devonshire. With Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood. The bakers face an ovenless technical challenge and a three-flour showstopper.
This show makes me wonder a bit about the bread culture in England. Are people really baking larger plaited loaves either at home or even in restaurants? Why isn’t it more of a thing here in the US?