Monday 4th February, 2019 #
- It just occurred to me that in journalism when you "cover a story", I guess the origins are from print magazine journalism, but it's sort of unfortunate in other mediums because what you actually want is sort of the opposite of covering the story, you want to highlight it
- Soak the rich? Americans say go for it
- The world might actually run out of people
- The infrastructural humiliation of America - "A dying empire, one beginning to visibly crack and crumble as it is slowly hollowed out from within"
- The Perfect Rent-Controlled Apartment - A retired actor found what he thought was an ideal place to live in Greenwich Village in 1955, for $90 a month - He never left
- Unsecured MongoDB databases expose Kremlin's backdoor into Russian businesses
- Philippines tops world internet usage index with an average 10 hours a day
- Why captchas have gotten so difficult - Capchas make me angry, they make us all angry, the bots are now immune to them so guess what, they're going to start doing continuous captchas! All captcha all the time, in a few years when the internet has stopped being functional it will be reframed as a feature...what do you mean it's broken, capchas are the internet! It's probably for the best, there's too much crap on the internet these days anyway