Wednesday 1st May, 2019 #
- An oligarch’s wife paid £135,000 to dine with Theresa May - Perhaps this is the only way she can get a night out, hopefully she'll get more invitations now, Instagram or it didn't happen - I'd like to see the pics from the disco they clearly went to afterwards
- Dead people are going to outnumber live users on Facebook by 2050 - Not something a lot of website builders have probably thought about - social media "peak aliveness"
- Instagram is trialing the removal of likes
- Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail in 2012 - We are going to need a considerable increase in the facilites and protections for whistleblowers if Zuckerberg's privacy gangs tech is realised, whereas before it was just a few places where things happened behind closed doors (relatively speaking), the risk is that it will be pervasive across and throughout every part of human society
- I've noticed a lot of wierdly written articles in the NYT in tech, that appear to be news but are quite clearly some sort of soap opera version of the news, so it's interesting to read this article that is critical of how it handles other news topics that I am less familiar with - Also the author's stance on free speech is quite a good one IMO - It's always important to read these stories with a critical eye
- Intermediate vim - Some good tips in this article, my favorites are inserting text and start of end of line, and composnig the delete and change commands to made accurate deletions
- Huawei - US official warns 'no safe level' of involvement with tech giant - I'd like to see a report on how much western tech is in the Chinese network infra, I mean is there literally any?
- 'Instagram is like junk food' - the woman out to improve our visual diet - "Art books always provided me with a way to escape my own routine; they quickly became my door to new intellectual worlds full of exciting new ideas that were striking visually"
- Banksy artwork likely to remain in Port Talbot
- Facebook's Zuckerberg announces privacy overhaul at F8 anual developer conference - Judging by the picture they've made enormous progress when it comes to diversity at Facebook, though the picture might not be representative of the whole - As far as the announcement, personally I'm still a bit worried about the new focus on privacy for gangs, my current thinking is broadly "less secrets not more"