Brad Barrish
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CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
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Tell you what: if I was Europe, & I was feeling feisty, I’d imagine some new kind of “digital tariff” & slap it on all the big tech platforms.
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The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?
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Forever Obsessed and Hardware is hard
Great video, courtesy of Andy Baio. I got to visit the Panic office when I attended XOXO. They had an open house, which was amazing. It was like going to see Oz or something.
Very often I sit, with my laptop open in front of me, staring at the mountain of emails I have in Gmail, most of which I could give a fuck about. And I get mad. I get mad because Google makes it impossible for me to whitelist instead of blacklist senders. And then I start thinking about switching away from Google. I really do want to. But it’s so
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In life, erasure is a sort of luxury. In death, some platforms, like Meta or Apple, allow users to appoint a “Legacy Contact” to manage their accounts. Without that however, the law tends to prioritize the “privacy” of the deceased, making it difficult to remove anything from these accounts posthumously.
The Right to be Forgotten
Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow. If we lose herd immunity, we will bring back diseases that had formerly been eliminated, and some children who would otherwise have been protected will perish. But... See more