Tristan Harris @ The Senate Commerce Committee.

How technology companies use algorithms and machine learning to influence the public.

The race to the bottom of the brain stem (…) leads to the kind of algorithmic extremism (…)

OpenStreetMap's Blinking Beacons.

How Google eats a business whole.

Google’s Featured Snippets are not only often wrong, they’re also damaging to small businesses that depend on search traffic.

HTML Includes That Work Today.

Note: this post describes an experimental technique that we still need to test for performance implications. It may end up being a useful tool, and it may end up being a practice we won’t recommend. Either way, it’s fascinating to us that it works!

Made by Firefox.

Track This – A new kind of Incognito.

Feel like ads on the internet know you too well? It's because they do. Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers into thinking you're someone else.

intermezzOS is a teaching operating system, specifically focused on introducing systems programming concepts to experienced developers from other areas of programming.

The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews.

How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head.

Relevant: poopsenders.com.

How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained.

free speech (ph) A constitutionally protected right in the US that is primarily invoked by tech bros and internet trolls when they are asked to stop being assholes. Syn: hate speech. See ideological diversity.

Company for Norhi and Kracha.

Deno – A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.

Life could exist in a 2D universe (according to physics, anyway).