Tuesday, 31. July 12018
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Thanks for the good times, Morgan.

Morgan Russell High Frontiers/Reality Hackers/MONDO 2000 Writer/Editor Publisher RIP 12/11/1957 — 7/16/2018.

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Relevant: Bring Morgan Home to Wisconsin!❤

Sunday, 29. July 12018
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Tesla is not normal.

This person, dubbed Montana Skeptic–who was not a troll–irked Elon Musk to the point that the Tesla founder figured out the writer’s identity and contacted his employer. Montana Skeptic has since taken his Twitter account down and announced he is no longer writing about the company.

We need a new model for tech journalism.

Time and again tech reporting gets caught in the hype rather than reality; a super-fast but impractical rail alternative proposed by Elon Musk gets tons of coverage, but it’s difficult to get real rail projects funded. Breathless reporting on Bitcoin and blockchain risks getting readers caught in get-rich-quick scams. And even in consumer journalism, the tech press often misunderstands its audience: VR and 3D television are greeted more enthusiastically by journalists than by consumers.

Walbaum – the graceful restoration of a 200-year-old serif typeface shows the problem with digital fonts.

Despite its technical excellence, Walbaum has largely been forgotten and eclipsed by similar high-contrast serifs such as Didot and Bodoni.

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The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism.

Just what I have been looking for since the last years.

Bitwarden – the alternative password manager: open-source with cheap licensing, running on all popular platforms and easily deployable to your own server.

Fomo3D is a decentralized, trustless blockchain game running directly on the Ethereum network (via fomo3d.hostedwiki.co).

The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime’s Free, Fast Shipping.

Your Prime Day shopping spree came with free, fast shipping — but experts say there’s a hidden environmental cost that doesn’t show up on the checkout page.

The work of Dennis Wojtkiewicz.

Dyslexie font, the revolutionary font for people with dyslexia.