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Well, I’m sure the banks learned their lesson. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
“A culture of fealty compounds itself; conformists thrive, and dissenters depart or refuse to join.” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
This delightfully inventive lettering is a pretty good way to start your day. thisiscolossal.com/2018/05/multi-…
By happenstance, I just finished a rewatch of all nine seasons of Seinfeld, so I’m pleased to be perfectly primed for this. twitter.com/mattsinger/sta…
“It’s like watching a swiss clock maker explain his machine.” kottke.org/18/05/a-world-…
This interactive piece by @adamrpearce is easily the best explanation of how the NYC subway got so fucked up. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Even absent the obvious dangers of inviting giant corporations to spy on you, the smart speaker’s appeal eludes me. nytimes.com/2018/05/10/tec…
“Glover forces us to relive public traumas and barely gives us a second to breathe before he forces us to dance.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
“It would be nice if those [using] their talents as entrée into another realm would do so with the same care […] they took in their craft.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
“It’s difficult to imagine a narrow research question about fonts whose results could be extrapolated to every possible context.” twitter.com/kupfers/status…
“[M]ore weapons tend to create more violence, and cyberweapons may be even harder to regulate than guns.” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
How Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, were enabled by NYC’s political, media, and celebrity elite. A must-read. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
Great long read by @praddenkeefe on H.R. McMaster’s doomed stint as National Security Adviser. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
Here @janetreitman unpacks the double murder that exposed Atomwaffen Division’s frighteningly humble origins. rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
Atomwaffen Division is a far-right extremist group with five murder charges in the past year. Among its ranks are active-duty military. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…
“Hazardous waste facilities were more likely to be located in minority communities.” Learn from @TaliaBuford about environmental justice. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think I’ve seen the word “bellicose” more times in this presidency than in all the time before it. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
Links: April 2018
Hello, dear reader!
April is gone, but its links remain.
I’ve been obsessed with my current personal project lately (more on that soon), so apart from a handful of very brief movie reviews, I didn’t do much writing in April, though the web designers in the audience might want to take a look at my notes from last week’s Generate conference.
The links this go-round include some gems for Prince fans on the second anniversary of… See more →
Apparently the Secret Service doesn’t believe that more guns equals more safety. Interesting. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
I thought brunch was just a late breakfast with maybe a bit of booze, not this drunken bourgeois douchebaggery. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
“[P]art of the conditioning of the ‘patriarchal ideal’ is to make women feel empowered by it on their ‘own terms.’” nytimes.com/2018/04/23/mov…
“They made — gasp — compromises. They declined to let the ideological perfect be the assassin of the achievable good.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-wo…
Sweet Jesus I will be spending a lot of time with the annotated discography just launched by the Prince Estate. princeestate.com
“He realized he had to socially handicap himself to be the artist he wanted to be […] he had to be a complete enigma.” twitter.com/guardian/statu…
Prince’s original 1984 recording of “Nothing Compares 2 U” was just released for the first time. 💜 pitchfork.com/news/listen-to…
“Assume that anyone you’re teaching has no knowledge but infinite intelligence.” adactio.com/journal/13747
And if you want to work on projects like this with us, apply to be @propublica’s next editorial experience designer! propublica.org/jobs/editorial…
Congrats also to Pulitzer finalists @jasongrotto and @sandhya__k of @ProPublicaIL and @RayLong of @chicagotribune! pulitzer.org/finalists/jaso…
Congrats to @propublica and especially @ByNinaMartin on being a Pulitzer finalist for the Lost Mothers series! pulitzer.org/finalists/staf…
The sun is out and @frank_chimero has a beautiful new site. Pretty good Thursday so far. frankchimero.com
Happy 102nd birthday to the great Beverly Cleary! I still call lamps “dawnzers” in solidarity with Ramona Quimby. newyorker.com/culture/sarah-…
Superb @davatron5000 post of collected wisdom. (In the spirit of Cunningham’s Law, I say Sturgeon’s Law is missing.) daverupert.com/2018/04/eponym…
Contrasting the political climate surrounding Trump’s impeachment rumblings and that of Nixon’s resignation. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
🚨 JOB ALERT: Want to do what I do at @propublica? We’re hiring a designer! Learn more and apply: propublica.org/jobs/editorial…
Bad design is bad. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
Molly Ringwald on John Hughes: “How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose?” newyorker.com/culture/person…
“Crisis pregnancy centers,” which use fake facts to steer women away from abortion, are often government funded. youtu.be/4NNpkv3Us1I
FWIW, @TwitterDev, being forced to use Twitter’s site or native apps is a dealbreaker for me. Please reconsider. apps-of-a-feather.com
Fascinating documentation of ISIS governance. A tyrannical theocracy is still a bureaucracy. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
If men flirted like birds. thenib.com/if-men-flirted…
“Fingers crossed the future is more diverse.” @davatron5000 finds that Android’s proprietary grass isn’t greener. daverupert.com/2018/04/dave-w…
A teenager risked his life to give the police vital info about the MS-13 gang. He’s being repaid with deportation. features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betray…
Links: March 2018
Hello, dear reader!
March is gone, but its links remain.
I gave a brief talk about designing information at the annual Society for News Design conference, and also shared my notes from the other talks I took in.
Always ahead of the trends, I left Facebook at the beginning of the month, a little over two weeks before the news about Cambridge Analytica broke (news which long-time readers may not have found shocking). Since think… See more →
“Maybe we should think about Google and Facebook as the new polluters.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I figure if I can just get a delivery gig at the White House’s preferred pizza place, I’ll be a shoo-in for Secretary of Transportation. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
Even at a generally clueless age 19, when I was told I’d be paid $2.25/hour, I was like, “How is this legal?” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Awesome milestone for an awesome site! twitter.com/kottke/status/…
If, after Tillerson’s ouster, you’re looking for Cabinet turnover context from past admins, here’s a cheat sheet. fivethirtyeight.com/features/tille…
Today’s brain training in polyrhythmic minimalism is provided by @dawnofmidi’s Dysnomia. dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com/album/dysnomia