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

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

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

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

Brutal, but we need to look this square in the eye. A lot of this just seems politically unviable in the U.S. Especially so with a president who — despite spending over an hour on TV every single evening — has not spoken in even vague terms about any actionable plan whatsoever. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/10/klein-normalcy-plans

The Times seems unsure how to headline this column. Right now on the web it’s running as “Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness”. The <title> element in the page’s HTML (which, as I’ve noted several times in the past, often don’t change in many CMSes) is the rather anodyne “Jared Kushner Will Not Save Us From the Coronavirus”.

But when it first hit Twitter earlier today, the headline read “Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed”. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/03/goldberg-kushner

The only reason Lord Dampnut gives Jared any respect is that he’s got the one thing he can’t have: Ivanka.

Daring Fireball: Mossberg on Chrome on Mac — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/01/mossberg-chrome

jwz: Zoom is bad and you should feel bad — Read on www.jwz.org/blog/2020/03/zoom-is-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad/

It’s pretty bad.

The More You Know!

Daring Fireball: The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/levy-brilliant

Daring Fireball: New Android Malware Can Steal Google Authenticator 2FA Codes — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/27/android-malware-google-authenticator

When Pollan decided to write about caffeine, he gave it up — cold turkey. “I just couldn’t focus,” he says. “I was irritable. I lost confidence.” Caffeine reshapes the brain in surprising ways. — Read on www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/10/803394030/michael-pollan-explains-caffeine-cravings-and-why-you-dont-have-to-quit

Daring Fireball: Wacom Drawing Tablets Track the Name of Every Application That You Open — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/05/wacom-tablets-track-your-apps

Daring Fireball: QAnon Conspiracy Theorists’ Magic Cure for Coronavirus Is Drinking Bleach — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/28/qanon-bleach

Daring Fireball: The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon’s Impeachment — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/30/republicans-who-opposed-impeachment

I wish I thought this would cause some GOP senators would think this through, but I suspect they’re in an endgame where they know they have no future, and only want to do what they can while they have the reins.

Daring Fireball: Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook’s Goal Is No Longer to Be ‘Liked’ — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/30/zuckerberg-liked