Thursday 16th May, 2019 #
- An idea for Trump's new social media data collection drive - perhaps you could have some sort of website that allowed us to keep track of the total number of people killed by algorithms and also number of people held in debt bondage by algorithms
- Could abortion become illegal in America? All signs point to yes - It's amazing (not in a good way) how the language in these legal movements arrises, they introduce the "heartbeat bill" and then when they talk about it they call it a "heartbeat ban", but the heartbeat bill is expressly not aboud banning human heartbeats, it's about the opposite, it's about saving human heartbeats - If we named the parts of the software we develop like how they name the parts of the legal system, I'm not sure we would ever have any functional code - Of course there might very well be a reason this happens in the legal system that I don't see, many lawyers are very experienced in their profession, but I thought it was worth mentioning
- The five best Bob Ross pep talks - I watched the first one of these, peace, tranquility, paint
- Old Punk Rock and Hardcore Flyers - I really love the art work in these flyers, often gruesome but so much variety
- Fundamental design principles for non-designers - A pretty good list of high level design patterns that will make your websites look better in a lot of situaitons - As I read this article I was just thinking about website junk playgounds
- Trump signs an executive order barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms deemed to pose a national security risk
- Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous - The article talks about a new type of playground which has the rather catchy name of "Junk Playgrounds" that are becoming popular - "Playgrounds have everything already but it’s funner to build whatever you want”
- Whitehouse opts not to sign the Christchurch Call to Action at this time - Given how much unstability there is in this area it could prove to be a wise move to wait a bit, interesting that it's also starting to build it's own social media data gathering tools, I think that the free speech concerns are very valid, this is a bit like trying to regulate the weather, except it might be very easy to make it worse long term without realizing it
- White House launches tool to report censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter