An Open Letter To My CEO — Medium
my friend @itsa_talia wrote a letter to her CEO at Yelp asking for a living wage for employees. so he fired her. »
This isn’t about one iPhone. It’s about millions of them. — Backchannel — Medium
This isn’t about one iPhone. It’s about millions of them. — @RonWyden via Medium #NoBackdoors »
Joshua Browder's Bot for parking tickets - Business Insider
A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets »
How We Failed to Protect Kesha 
"Commercially reasonable". #uch #freeKesha »
The Outpost Is Here — Medium
Congratulations @waxpancake @andymcmillan on the @outpostpdx! »
ANATOMY by Kitty Horrorshow
ANATOMY a horror game available here: #gamedev #altgames #indiedev #screenshotsaturday http… »
Five Silicon Valley companies fought release of employment data, and won - San Jose Mercury News
Civil liberties heroes at Apple fought civil rights related freedom of information act request »
155 Ways You Can Help Alleviate Poverty in the Bay Area — Medium
“We all benefit from the unmatched environment and culture the Bay Area has to offer.” »
Statement-from-the-FBI-Feb-20-2016
Because this San Bernardino iPhone story continues to get crazier, I just got this statement from the @FBI. »
Baby Esther - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@Nnedi @vogon that photo is not of Esther Jones likely taken in 2008 »
Senior House Judiciary Committee Democrats Express Concern Over Government Attempts to Undermine Encryption | Committee on the Judiciary
Senior members of the House Judiciary Committee see FBI's case against Apple for what it is: a cynical power grab. https://t.… »
Andrew Shouldice's post on Vine
I heard there's a treasure hidden somewhere in the woods, past the old fortress... #screenshotsaturday »
Afghanistan's First Female Street Artist Brings Hijabs And Feminism To City Walls
Shamsia Hassani's amazing graffiti brings powerful images of women to the walls of Kabul. »
Tested Mailbag: YouTube Gold Play Button Unboxing! - YouTube
we got our youtube gold play button! and look who's here to help unbox it! »
The Swords on the App Store
The Swords is a gorgeous iOS game I played an early version of at GDC China last year. »
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL | Books in Browsers VII
our first Books in Browsers CfP is up! BiB VII will be Nov 3-4 at @GrayAreaorg in the Mission! »
For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins - WSJ
For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins »
Feeble Noise Pollution — Medium
#MustRead The FBI doesn't care about the phone. There's nothing on it. They want a precedent, built on terrorism. http… »
Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
Artists releasing covert scans of the bust of Nefertiti—which Germany won't return to Egypt—feels pretty cyberpunk »
We Are Now At Peak TED — Backchannel — Medium
"an audience that gave standing ovation to Snowden happily wears tracking devices on their badges" @StevenLevy @ TED »
Who Said It: Donald Trump or White Supremacist from "American History X"? - Cafe.com
Who Said It: Donald Trump or White Supremacist from “American History X”? »
Michael Bloomberg’s moment | The Economist
I forget this every four years. »
Instagram
Fyi @ Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke »
Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta, open to all to try!
You can buy AI on the cloud. Google is selling image recognition for 60 cents per M. First of commodity AI grid. »
“I can’t afford to buy groceries”: Yelp fired an employee after her scathing open letter to the CEO - Quartz
a v strange story unfolded yesterday. @itsa_talia wrote a scathing open letter to Yelp's CEO, shortly after is fired https… »
Apple Says the Government Bungled Its Chance to Get That iPhone's Data | WIRED
Increasingly clear that the FBI vs. Apple is more about punishing them for encouraging encryption than anything else »
ZeroTier | Blog
The IPv6 Numeric IP Format is a Serious Usability Problem <- This is holding back progress. »
Steve Martin Performed Stand-up Last Night -- Vulture
..but the real joy is watching an almost perfect Internet degeneration of the comments thread. »
America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria - BuzzFeed News
America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria via @mike_giglio @buzzfeednews »
Dear New York Times, — Medium
Wow. A must read for journalists. Hell, for anyone. “Dear New York Times,” by @MissLoreleiLee »
Betty Boop Was Not Black & This is NOT Esther Jones
@Nnedi @vogon that photo is not of Esther Jones likely taken in 2008 »
Meryl Streep on diversity: 'We're all Africans, really'
Oh man. Meryl Streep saying "we're all Africans"? A correction clarifies she _wasn't_ talking about diversity. »
Obama Ribs Republicans Candidates | User Clip | C-SPAN.org
This 7 min clip of Obama on Republicans is pretty funny. »
Apple and Think Secret Settle Lawsuit | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Civil liberties heroes at Apple sued teenaged journalist for conducting journalism. Stopped only when he closed blog »
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 197, Umberto Eco
The most important Umberto Eco interview. »
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 197, Umberto Eco
“I think that writing is an act of love.” —Umberto Eco »
A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength | Dan Kaminsky's Blog
A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength. Observations on CVE-2015-7547, the glibc DNS flaw you need to be a… »
Secret Memo Details U.S.’s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones - Bloomberg Business
A must-read Bloomberg story on why the FBI is moving so aggressively against Apple: the White House has their back: https:… »
Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives - Chicago Tribune
Campaign confirms photo of man arrested at 1963 protest on South Side is Bernie Sanders https:/… »
John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” - Salon.com
John Cale: "There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll" https://t.co… »
Live results: Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, county by county | US news | The Guardian
Cute, mesmerizing AND useful! Track Nevada and South Carolina results live, county by county! via @Gu… »
A Fond Curbed Farewell to the Way We Were - From the Founder - Curbed NY
In these final waning moments of Curbed's 12 years of publishing on Movable Type, I wrote a blog post @CurbedNY »
What Does the Academy Value in a Black Performance? - The New York Times
A close look at the roles that have gotten black performers Oscar nods »
Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Tribune archives - Chicago Tribune
Nice timing for the Sanders camp as they confirm this @chicagotribune pic is Bernie at 21 https:/… »
Does Amazon’s Data Speak for Itself? | New Republic
As part of fact-checking on this an editor came over and watched me do ad-hoc SQL queries over ssh for an hour. »
Introducing Silk — Medium
"Introducing Silk: #Markdown driven #API tests" »
Twitter’s missing manual / fuzzy notepad
i guess this is slightly different, but i wrote down every non-obvious twitter feature i could think of »
Kanye West Is Fixing His Album in Public. You’ll Want to Read the Edits. - The New York Times
This glowing review of Kanye's constant iterating overlooks effect of DRM and streaming-only. No revision history :( »
Paint like there's nobody watching (or buying)
A beautiful short film about Vincent Van Gogh and what it means to work for yourself, rather than an audience. »
Reflections on One Billion - Motor Trend
Old maxim for video was always: “Fast, good, & cheap; you can pick 2 of 3” @MotorTrend on reaching 1B YouTube views »
This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable - The Washington Post
The story behind the latest of the many moving photos of President Obama with black children http… »
Big Bud Lil Bud - YouTube
Kind of terrifying Too Many Cooks-meets-Master of None with @azizansari & @ericwareheim in "Big Bud, Little Bud" »
NASCAR issues rules, punishments for on- and off-track behavior
When @NASCAR has a Code of Conduct which is better defined & more actionable than Ruby ... /cc... »
Twitch
on my way to @hentaiphd & @sensitiveemmett's place to stream more RAW DANGER! Tune in!! »
Anthony Carboni is creating Videos about GAMESSCIENCECOMEDYMOVIESTVCOMICSLIFE
FYI, if you're enjoying the stuff on my personal channel lately and would like to help me make more, head to »
pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf
Eco was an absolute giant, but his spectacular novels notwithstanding, everyone should read his article “Ur-Fascism” ht… »
omocoro.jp/kiji/68838
Finally, a solution to the social awkwardness of taking a selfie with a selfie stick »
Layered Animation on Vimeo
dear @pasql thank u so much for this layered animation video »
Twitch
we are streaming raw danger now lol »