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👓 When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work | New York Times
Twenty states suspend people’s professional or driver’s licenses if they fall behind on loan payments, according to records obtained by The New York Times.
This has to be one of the most un-ethical and painfully stupid laws out there. Far better would be for them to focus their efforts at shutting down the predatory for-profit schools which are causing students to have some of these unpayable loans in the first place.
It’s almost as a nation like we’re systematically trying to destroy ourselves and our competitive stance within the world just for spite.
👓 Uses This: Daniel Jalkut
Software developer (MarsEdit, FastScripts), podcaster
Looks like he’s got some interesting podcasts that are worth checking out.
👓 The Case for RSS | MacSparky
If you are thinking about using RSS, I have a little advice. Be wary feed inflation. RSS is so easy to implement that it's a slippery slope between having RSS feeds for just a few websites and instead of having RSS feeds for hundreds of websites. If you’re not careful, every time you open your RSS reader, there will be 1,000 unread articles waiting for you, which completely defeats the purpose of using RSS. The trick to using RSS is to be brutal with your subscriptions. I think the key is looking for websites with high signal and low noise. Sites that publish one or two articles a day (or even one to two articles a week) but make them good articles are much more valuable and RSS feed than sites that published 30 articles a day.
👓 Building Digital Workflows by Aaron Davis
Whether it is how we write or stay organised, technology is always adapting and evolving. Here are a few of the recent changes to my digital workflows.
An interesting philosophy of regularly changing workflows. I’ve done this for a long time, but never really given it a name.
There’s a nice tip about the Listen functionality in Pocket which I hadn’t yet heard about. I’m also curious how they’ve implemented highlighting and what I might do with it.
I suspect that if Aaron hasn’t come across Huffduffer as a tool yet (with a bookmarklet), he’ll appreciate it for both discovery as well as having his own audio feed to push to his mobile player.
👓 ‘How dare they’: Nutella changes recipe, sending its fans to the edge | Washington Post
A legion of snackers live for the hazelnut spread. And they're not happy.
Some interesting food history here that I didn’t know about.
👓 Journalists Boycott Disney Films After L.A. Times Snub | Hollywood Reporter
The L.A. Times is currently barred from attending advance screenings of Disney movies.
I’m betting this doesn’t end well for Disney’s corporate image. How shortsighted can they be?
👓 Something is wrong on the internet by James Bridle | Medium
What concerns me is that this is just one aspect of a kind of infrastructural violence being done to all of us, all of the time, and we’re still struggling to find a way to even talk about it, to describe its mechanisms and its actions and its effects.
This may be one of the must read articles of the year. It describes just a small microcosm of what is happening on the internet that needs to be fixed. It seems innocuous, but it’s long term effects will be painful.
I think this fits the definition of a Weapon of Math Destruction.
👓 Woman Fired For Flipping Off Trump’s Motorcade | Huffington Post
A photo of Juli Briskman giving the middle finger to the president went viral. Her employer was not pleased.
The note about the fellow male worker not being treated equally when his overstep actually featured his employer is a bit infuriating. The worst part is that their action brought new fire to the story and they Barbara Streisand-ed themselves at the same time.
👓 Here’s my blogroll by Khürt Williams
Khürt Williams (Island in the Net)Aperture—ƒ/5 Credit—Khürt L. Williams Camera—NIKON D5100 Taken—25 July, 2014 Focal length—85mm ISO—100 Shutter speed—1/400s I have a little over 100 RSS feeds in my Feedbin account. They covers a diverse set of topics around photography, Formula 1 racing, beer, diabetes, philosophy,...
Some interesting sources here, some of which I’m already following. Will have to sample some of the photography resources.
👓 Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Graham
One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. There may be a handful that just grew by themselves, but usually it takes some sort of push to get them going. A good metaphor would be the cranks that car engines had before they got electric starters. Once the engine was going, it would keep going, but there was a separate and laborious process to get it going.
This is a slightly older post, but still has some generally sound advice for start up companies.
As I read it, I can’t help but think about how the structure and set up of the IndieWeb community is mirrored in a lot of this advice. The fact that everyone is diligently selfdogfooding the ultimate product that we all love and are designing specifically for people gives me great hope that we’re all onto something that has great potential.
I’m curious how we can take the rest of the playbook and put it into action as well. This is certainly something I’ll have to come back and think about more in the near future.
Big portions of the article also skirt around the idea of tummeling without actually using the term. It such a useful concept, I’m surprised that it’s not more commonly known.
👓 Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says | Bloomberg
In 2015, a manager discovered a trove of accounts with Russian and Ukrainian IP addresses
The Russian part and the election part completely aside, having product security subservient to growth is completely the wrong way to build any product.
👓 Storiad Gives Indie Authors a Fighting Chance | Pasadena Independent
Founded by Ramzi Hajj and Nathan Tyler, Storiad technology helps independent authors and publishers manage bookselling campaigns and boost book sales.
Go Ramzi!
👓 Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service | Motherboard
Let this serve as a reminder that you have less control over your stuff online than it often appears.