"In short, HTML emails are a security nightmare, are mostly used for advertising to you and tracking you, are less accessible for many users, and don't offer anything especially great for it."https://useplaintext.email/ He buried the lede. I went ahead and put it at the top. For more detail, read the below. Another in my ongoing … Continue reading Why is Plaintext Better than HTML for Email?
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Soundbeaming
"'You don’t believe it because it sounds like a speaker, but no one else can hear it…it’s supporting you and you’re in the middle of everything. It’s happening around you.'By changing a setting, the sound can follow a listener around when they move their head. It’s also possible to move out of the beam’s path … Continue reading Soundbeaming
Protecting Your Online Privacy is Tough—But Here’s a Start
"Algorithms make decisions based on statistical correlations. If you happen to not be a typical individual, showing unusual characteristics, there is a chance that an algorithm will misinterpret your behavior. It may make a mistake regarding your employment, your loan, or your right to cross the border. As long as those statistical correlations remain true, … Continue reading Protecting Your Online Privacy is Tough—But Here’s a Start
Cosmic Dyspepsia & Divine Excrement by Thomas Moyihan
"One pauses, and is suddenly struck with a vision: The Earth opens up and seeps fizzy pop. The carbonated fountains of the great deep break open. End-oriented teleoplexic history reveals that the world was created merely to spew forth Pepsi: everything else was merely a means to this end. They call it the 𝖕𝖊𝖕𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗. Pepsi, … Continue reading Cosmic Dyspepsia & Divine Excrement by Thomas Moyihan
The New Age of Bullshit
A definition and a theory of bullshit, which Frankfurt broadened into a book length treatment, is a very helpful place to go to make sense of our modern social environment. "Bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care … Continue reading The New Age of Bullshit
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