AT&T just declared war on an open internet (and us).
(…) AT&T made a dim prophecy official by announcing that its new DirecTV Now streaming service would be zero rated: it won’t count against its customers’ data caps. Zero rating isn’t new — T-Mobile has been writing the manual on how to get away with it — but now it’s finally happening at a scale that matters. And AT&T’s version is much worse than T-Mobile’s.
Poverty Line Prices (via mashable.com).
See how expensive things would feel to you if you were living below the poverty line. #PovertyLinePrices
There may be no worse place for mentally ill people to receive treatment than prison – yet a growing number end up in the ‘new asylums’.
As of December 31, there were 3,012 open mental health cases among county inmates in Massachusetts. But only 216 inmates—7 percent—were Massachusetts Department of Mental Health clients. For every 14 inmates with mental illness, only one had access to a full array of state services.
India’s Rape Problem Isn't Over. These Women Are Taking the Fight to the Next Level.
Until this year, law student Chandni Chawla didn’t take the bus after 10 p.m. Chawla attends school in Pune, a cosmopolitan educational hub, and she and other young women studying in the city have been living under the shadow of old-fashioned-seeming regulations: no shorts, not even in the gym, and curfew hours beginning just after sunset.
She is generatively doing cool stuff!
Liza Daly’s Generative Blackout Poetry.
For NaNoGenMo, @liza made Blackout—a Python script that generates blackout poems in the style of @austinkleon.
Leaving the digital schoolyard.
Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.
If you’re serious about making an impact in the world, power down your smartphone, close your browser tabs, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
Relevant: Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV.
Datalegreya is a typeface which can interweave data curves with text (via reddit.com).
Datalegreya can be used in all contexts where small space is available to synthetically display graphical data: connected objects, embedded displays, annual reports, weather report, stock prices, etc. It doesn’t need any specialized software: users just have to install it in the operating system and launch any software able to display OpenType fonts, such as Microsoft Word, Apple TextEdit, Adobe Suite etc. Standards compliance makes it equally available on the web or software embedded.
Please be aware of this when trying to sync your Toby tabs!
Restore Your Lost Tabs in Toby and How to Prevent It.
Everything is perfect until I turn on “Sync to Google Drive“ on my Acer Chromebook 15 with the same Google Account. It didn’t sync back from Google Drive but replaced with the new default tab groups. The Chrome on OS X detects the new version on Google Drive and replace my local version. All my saved tabs are gone.
Web development has a very short memory. If you're just another developer, you'll be forgotten within months of your last github activity. That's why if you're thinking of leaving tech, you need to be real damn certain.