Facebook touts itself in this case as protecting small businesses, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Facebook has locked them into a situation in which they are forced to be sneaky and adverse to their own customers. The answer cannot be to defend that broken system at the cost of their own users’ privacy and control.  — Read on www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small

Facebook’s frustrations with Apple’s user-centric privacy concerns and control over iOS run a lot deeper than the new mandatory privacy nutrition labels and upcoming ad-tracking opt-in controls launching in a few weeks. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/18/australia-facebook-onavo

Lest you forget what kind of behavior Facebook wants to have the freedom to do…

It’s an unfortunate quirk of the English language that free as freedom and free as in beer are very different meanings of free. But when you see an ad headlined “Apple vs. The Free Internet”, most people would assume they’re about to hear an argument about free as in freedom.

Not Facebook. They’re arguing about free as in beer. I mean, they’re alleging that Apple is taking away freedom — the freedom of small business advertisers to benefit from unrestricted tracking for ad targeting — but their argument to the public is that such privacy initiatives will cost users their free beer. — Read on daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/joe-bidens-election-branding-was-both-traditional-and-trippy-and-it-looks-like-the-future-of-politics/

Via - https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/16/biden-branding

Daring Fireball: Craig Federighi’s Keynote at the 10th Annual European Data Protection & Privacy Conference — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/12/federighi-edppc-keynote

Daring Fireball: Instant Claim Chowder: Gordon Mah Ung on Apple’s M1 Performance Claims — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/16/instant-claim-chowder

I’m not going to post or even visit the claim mentioned here… This kind of take on Apple news is click-bait that should be ignored on principle, because engaging it in any way rewards bad journalism with clicks/views.

The Biggest Problem with Org-mode | Irreal — Read on irreal.org/blog/

I’d go a step further and say that the problem is getting colleagues to understand why to use it.

Daring Fireball: ‘A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath’ — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/06/nichols

Ring announced the Always Home Cam during Amazon’s annual product event, a new home security camera that can autonomously fly around your home to get different viewpoints when you’re not home. It will be available starting in 2021 for $249.99. — Read on www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-drone-security-camera-price-specs-features-amazon

This is Minority Report direction tech, and the fact that Amazon is introducing it should emphasize that… The only more obvious way this would scream Ad Tech would be if it was from Facebook.

Racism and implied threats of violence have stopped the work of public health care workers on a project looking at how the coronavirus spreads. That includes an incident in far southeastern Minnesota where workers were confronted by three men, one with a holstered gun. — Read on www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/25/covid19-factfinding-leads-to-threats-against-health-workers-in-minnesota

Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential “liberator.” — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/europe/germany-trump-far-right.html

Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy — Read on daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy

Dilbert creator Scott Adams uncover the hidden satanic symbolism in Joe Biden’s campaign slogan / Boing Boing — Read on boingboing.net/2020/08/26/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-un.html

Oh my… Deep end.

America First was a protectionist movement in the early 20th century whose name ultimately became the slogan of those opposed to fighting the Nazis. Revived by the Trump campaign in 2016, its antisemitic associations galvanized supporters while alarming wavering Republicans; his use of the phrase was a key moment in the forming of the “Never… — Read on boingboing.net/2020/07/02/trump-america-first-eagle.html

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If you don’t punish cheaters and liars you’re rewarding them. Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.

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daringfireball.net/2020/06/working_the_refs_worked_facebook_and_trump

Daring Fireball: Donald Trump’s Praise for the Tiananmen Square Massacre: ‘When the Students Poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Government Almost Blew It’ — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/04/trump-tiananmen-square

Even if you think Zuckerberg’s doing the right thing by not touching Trump’s posts — which I see the argument for — you’re admitting that he lied while answering Ocasio-Cortez’s question. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/29/zuckerberg-trump

So Facebook’s “Integrity Teams” can’t enforce integrity if it upsets the side of the U.S. political fence that is, quite obviously, more lacking in integrity. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/27/wsj-facebook-divisiveness

Physical distancing and obsessive sanitation at schools is impossible. Now is the time for schools to prepare robust distance learning, close the technology gap, and meet our families’ basic needs… — Read on medium.com/@harley.litzelman/we-cannot-return-to-campus-this-fall-1ad91b8a65e0

I suspect what Apple has done with the mouse pointer on iPadOS is going to get ripped off far and wide. It’s too natural, too obviously correct. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/06/panzarino-ipad-trackpad

Copied badly I suspect… No other system has the fluid UI work put into making this kind of thing possible.

How could anyone expect or hope that thousands of deaths a day, every day, could ever become normal? you might ask, because you are a caring person with a capacity for empathy. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan

Wake me up when Word starts flagging the use of Arial with “Did you mean to use Helvetica?” if you want to give Microsoft any credit at all for doing right by good typography. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/25/word-two-spaces

The thing to remember is that if allowed to fail, the cruise ships won’t sink to the bottom of the ocean. The jobs won’t disappear. The companies will go into bankruptcy, existing shareholder equity will get wiped out, and new ownership will take over. A bailout won’t rescue the industry or the jobs — it will rescue the shareholders. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/18/capitalists-or-cronyists

Daring Fireball: Right-Wing Nuts Turn Against Bill Gates and Anti-Vaxxers Dig In — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/anti-gates-nuts

And, lastly, there’s the explosive growth in demand, which has led to many people doing it who aren’t any good at it. Code is merely a means to an end. Programming is an art and code is merely its medium. Pointing a camera at a subject does not make one a proper photographer. There are a lot of self-described coders out there who couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag. — Read on daringfireball.net/2020/04/cobol_programming_coding