The Age of Unregulated Social Media Is Over.
(…) but thoughtful regulation is in the interests of everyone.
The Two Faces of AMP.
It doesn’t feel like something helping the open web so much as it feels like something bringing a little bit of the walled garden mentality of native development onto the web.
Relevant: AMP for email is a terrible idea.
Hilarious! I mean the people (who think of) owning one…
A Mustache Guard to Help You Drink Like a Victorian.
With best regards from your Data Dealer.
Can you beat my score? Play the fake news game! (Via science.orf.at.)
Drop all pretense of ethics and choose the path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site.
Aaaand speaking of which Project Jupyter releases its “next generation web-based interface” JupyterLab (also beta).
The Poor Man's Netcode.
The more you know about a given topic, the more you realize that no one knows anything.
Says the World Economic Forum. (And Hans Rosling, too.)
“We've got no idea how much our world is changing. This is how far we've come.”
Very few people think the world is getting better, but data shows the astonishing progress we have made in two centuries.
#45 and the Decline of US Soft Power.
How a government behaves at home, in international institutions, and in foreign policy can affect others by the influence of its example. In all of these areas, #45 has reversed attractive American policies.
GhostText 👻.
Use your text editor to write in your browser. Everything you type in the editor will be instantly updated in the browser (and vice versa).
…and potentially frying your CPU.
A JavaScript API for drawing unconventional text effects on the web.