Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
For what it's worth, several Uber employees have warned me that Uber execs might look into my travel logs »
The moment I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women | PandoDaily
Well said by @sarahcuda, who did not have to be this fair after the appalling comments made by Uber exec »
Building a complete Tweet index | Twitter Blogs
Twitter's complete archives are now available in search: Hoping it makes its way to the API and thi… »
Uber Exec Proposes Smearing Female Reporters Who Criticized the App
Uber’s plan to smear female reporters sounds like the machinations of a rank-and-file gamergate troll »
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1987: A painfully-shy 10-year-old me buys Maniac Mansion for the C64 at The Warehouse with an Xmas gift card. 2014 »
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@mantia Or downloadable on at the bottom. »
Open WhisperSystems >> Blog >> Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
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pamie.com/2014/11/barbie-fucks-it-up-again
“What the fucking shit, Barbie?” @pamelaribon nails it. »
Rides of Glory | Uber Blog
"@BenedictEvans: Rides of Glory | Uber Blog Was "you people are fascinating" from the lack of humanity department? »
Let's Encrypt
EFF, Mozilla, etc apparently are launching their own CA Appears to be keybase-style proof of serve… »
6 Uber Alternatives Because Uber Is Run By Dirtbags
Gizmodo: 6 Uber Alternatives Because Uber Is Run By Dirtbags »
Thimbleweed Park: A New Classic Point & Click Adventure! by Ron Gilbert & Gary Winnick — Kickstarter
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I started a thing over the weekend, and I need your help: Let's get designers involved in open-source. … »
Let's Encrypt
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Comet Landing 2014: Rosetta Probe Philae Discovers Organic Molecules: Report
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The Future of Tabletop Games on Vimeo
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Research Blog: A picture is worth a thousand (coherent) words: building a natural description of images
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The Apple Watch typeface, named "San Francisco". (via HIG download »
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Protracker module player for Web Audio
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Daring Fireball: Native Apps Are Part of the Web
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How Ferguson showed us the truth about police - YouTube
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Looked into deleting Uber accounts, realized I should end more awful sentences with “and for other business reason.” »
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Facebook Groups on the App Store on iTunes
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Copywriter — Instrument
Great Portland #jobalert at @instrument for a copywriter to join our team. »
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Whatsapp Just Switched On End-To-End Encryption For Hundreds of Millions of Users | WIRED
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Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
Uber Exec Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists »
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An Introduction to React.js — Instrument
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John Hodgman, I am deleting @Uber from my phone now.
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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai are launching Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority to encrypt the entire Web »
Uber’s CEO appeared to tweet an apology, but it was actually an internal memo – Quartz
Uber’s CEO appeared to tweet an apology, but it was actually an internal memo »
Fight for the Future
Retweet if you want an end to mass government surveillance, not the fake fix #USAFreedomAct | ht… »
Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs: Visionary Videogames for Girls by Rhizome — Kickstarter
I just backed Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs: Visionary Videogames for Girls on @Kickstarter »
FreeBSD Foundation: Updated! - FreeBSD Foundation Announces Generous Donation and Fundraising Milestone
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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web via @EFF »
The Unicode Blog: New Emoji Candidates for Unicode 8.0
Our long nightmare of a world without a taco emoji may soon be at an end. »
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Everything you need to know about marijuana edibles - Boing Boing
Informative feature on cannabis edibles, helmed by my beloved Twitter Cheech-out buddy @xeni: http:/… »
Flow, a new static type checker for JavaScript | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook
Flow, a static type checker for JavaScript from Facebook. Uses type inference and gradually introduced annotations. »
Daring Fireball: Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists
"It’s like Richard Nixon came back from the grave and is running a startup." - »
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-uber-proposes-digging-into-journalists-private-lives
To me, the real Uber news is that a company exec could—and did—casually look at a reporter’s riding history. »
Uber driver to cancer patient: you deserved cancer and are "an animal" - Boing Boing
.@Uber driver to cancer patient @alexcraigle: you deserved cancer, and are "an animal." »
How Ferguson showed us the truth about police -- Fusion
"Police are the enforcers of the state". On police violence and Ferguson »
Generated Detective #9
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Whatsapp integrates Moxie Marlinspike's Textsecure end-to-end crypto - Boing Boing
Whatsapp integrates Moxie Marlinspike's Textsecure end-to-end crypto »
Why it matters if Uber execs access user data: U.S. Congress loves Uber | digiphile
@digiphile I love that you describe @travisk as "a driven entrepreneur" »
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Apple Watch HIG: Different image specs for each watch, prerendered animations, more awkwardly-divisible screen sizes. »
In search of the starfish killer: The quest to save the original keystone species | The Verge
@pericat Thinking sadly about you and the masses of starfish at the beach at Gabriola Island. :( /cc @vruba »
New sf story: "Huxleyed into the Full Orwell" - Boing Boing
New @doctorow sf story: "Huxleyed into the Full Orwell" »
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“I go out to the dentist, the doctor, the bookstore and the marijuana store.” Hockney! »
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Oregon is exploring equity-based crowdfunding. And they want public comment on the proposed rule. #startups »
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iTunes - Podcasts - The ZED Show by The Weiszes
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Begin developing with Android Auto | Android Developers Blog
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nytimes.com/2014/11/18/world/coal-rush-in-india-could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html?_r=0
The web is fine. The internet is fine. Wanna worry about something? How about THE PLANET? »
And Lo, a Taco Emoji Appeared Among Them - The Atlantic
BREAKING: @unicode consortium considers adding "taco" emoji #fisteggplant »
Watch Google’s new auto-caption program nail all kinds of images – Quartz
I for one welcome our new caption-writing robot overlords »
Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines: Color and Typography
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The Shazam Effect - The Atlantic
Had no idea. Shazam started in 2002 as a dial-in service. »
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I'm going to tweet my takedown of Anonymous one last time. After that, you are on your own. http://t… »
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Adaptive Input - Refresh Portland
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Dollar a Day
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Against Sharing | Jacobin
Still worth your time »
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stop @mentions
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