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Humans Being Creative Bros
2/2 "…blew them up to poster-size, and decorated the patients' rooms, so that as they came back to consciousness, they'd be comforted by seeing the faces of loved ones." There's still more love than hate out there. Merry Christmas… — Now JonRauch on ? (@jon_rauch) December 23, 2020
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RECOMMENDED: “Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood’s Image” by @mmasnick
Mike Masnick is one of the rare voices of sanity in the digital rights space. For this post I’m going to focus in on the most problematic idea in the bill: the notice-and-staydown provision. We’ll discuss other problems at a later date. The notice-and-staydown provision has many, many problems. To be fair, Tillis tried to…
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FOOD: Espresso FoodPorn HD Closeup (May 2020)
Looking back: one of my more successful YouTube videos of the year, fun to make, but required an insane amount of lighting to make everything visible. Not slow-motion. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-npuBaTZSY
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NEWS: “Twitter’s policy that deals with the infringement of copyright is increasingly being used to maliciously target accounts run by Tanzanian human rights activists in order to silence them, internet rights campaigners allege.”
Check my twitter timeline where you will find any number of arguments with (especially: music company executives, or former ones) people who call for more and pre-emptive copyright filtering of user-generated content, often pooh-poohing or ignoring the issue that would provide illiberal governments with censorship capabilities. Turns out: it’s happening. See this page from AccessNow:…
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TIL: Heavy Raspberry Pi User? Keep An HDMI-to-USB Capture Device Around | Hackaday
I was today years old when I learnt that these kinds of devices existed, and now I want one. It is something so stunningly obvious in retrospect… https://hackaday.com/2020/12/21/heavy-raspberry-pi-user-keep-an-hdmi-to-usb-capture-device-around/
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Unintended consequences of “protecting people from rude words” include leaving them open to defamation without the opportunity to respond:
Google is now automatically hiding reviews with insults or swearing. The problem is that those still count in the app overall rating and the developers cannot answer them anymore… so how how are we supposed to help those users now? — Podcast Addict (@PodcastAddict) December 22, 2020
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FOOD: 4kg of Coffee Beans should just about be enough for the Christmas break. All beans supplied by CoffeeGems Roasters of Farnham
Am just a very happy customer. Also: https://www.facebook.com/coffeegems.uk/
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FOOD: How did I miss the #Baogel?
Lunch with my partner, of home-steamed frozen char-siu Bao and stir fried vegetables, and a conversation that went a little like this: Alec: “…it’s wheat flour, isn’t it?” Partner: “Yes, and the combination of steam and dough.” A: “Yummy. Hm. Steam. Water. Boiling. I wonder if you could make a boiled Bao, but shaped like…
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ESSAY: Why is #GlitterBomb better than #Cyber? (HT: @MarkRober) #DontHaveNightmares
Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s series of glitterbomb parcel-theft videos, and the latest episode landed a few days ago, and it’s a delightful watch: One of the things which I really appreciate is that in the latter two videos Mark has gone out of his way to dispel the “negatives” around…