Links
These are links I’ve saved and found interesting, funny, or useful. A mix of technical articles, random internet finds, and things that caught my attention while browsing.
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism // New Socialist
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Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co-leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. An AI-generated song combining kitsch schlager pop with crude racial stereotypes makes it into the German top fifty and becomes number three on Spotify’s global viral chart. Benjamin Netanyahu conjures a vision of an ethnically-cleansed Gaza connected by bullet train to the equally ephemeral Neom. Keir Starmer’s Lab…
The Light Phone
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Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
Moving on from 18F. — Ethan Marcotte
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How HLS Works
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HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) is basically just a bunch of text files in a trench coat pointing at a handful of itty-bitty seconds-long video files
Enhancing The New York Times Web Performance with React 18
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How upgrading to React 18 energized The New York Times website – and how we tackled some of the challenges we faced along the way.
I’m the Child of a Facetune Mom | Allure
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Similar to almond moms, a new generation of covert body-shaming parenting has emerged in the form of Facetune moms. Here, three daughters of Facetune moms reveal the impacts of having their likeness digitally altered over and over again.
Beachgoers amazed by large washed-up spider crab in north Wales
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A couple say they were "fascinated" to find an "extremely big" crab on a north Wales beach.
Getting buy-in to get things done | nicole@web
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