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2020/06/02 12:21
Jonathan LaCour (cleverdevil.io)I just wish things would get back to normal. Its a refrain we’ve all heard since the emergence of COVID-19. The world has been thrown into chaos, our way of life has been threatened, and many people have lost their jobs. The best minds in medicine and science are encouraging life-altering precauti...
2020/06/01 19:21
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2020/06/01 15:00
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Yes, America is burning, and it has always been burning. And then, in the middle of a pandemic and a financial crisis, with millions of people suddenly out of work and unable to so much as greet each other for fear of contracting a deadly illness, a Minneapolis Police Officer called Derek Chauvin ho...
2020/05/27 13:13
Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)The Wayback Marchine, part of The Internet Archive, is an absolutely essential part of the open web and, as it happens, my work. I use it for all sorts of things, most visibly finding archived versions of web pages that have vanished for whatever reasons. I support them with an annual donation, but ...
2020/05/21 21:10
The two main theses of my professional career have been that distributed is the future of work, and that open source is the future of technology and innovation. I’ve built Automattic and WordPress around these, and it’s also informed my investments and hobbies. Just today, we announced an invest...
2020/05/18 14:13
2020/04/16 15:29
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Thanks to everyone who responded after my previous post about recording life on the ground. Lots of people had ideas about which questions would be useful to ask on an ongoing basis about life under quarantine; lots of people also told me that 10 questions was far too many. Most people were circling...
2020/04/14 14:21
One of my jobs as community manager at Micro.blog is to sort through everything posted to the platform and select posts to highlight via our Discover timeline. The Discover timeline is where new members of the community can find other members to follow, and where the community can find introductions...