An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Posted on Friday 25 Nov 2022. 654 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Hyperkin is reissuing it as the Xenon, with modern tweaks.

The Psychology of your 20’s is ranked higher than Call Her Daddy and The Daily.

Last week, the world’s largest electronics trade fair took place in Munich, so I had to attend. Electronica is so big that it happens only once every two years and fills up 14 airplane hangars. As …

The lovely page flip is gone.

That rate has doubled since 2018.

As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.

pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p

Musk spent $2 million building a satire startup — then he left, and it all fell apart.

“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”

Traders: 1. Creators who earned money by turning their art into non-fungible tokens: 0.Previously, those creators received a cut every time their NFT was sold—often between 5% and 10% of the sale price. But more recently some marketplaces have removed the requirement to pay royalties on NFTs. ...

Frustrate enough users and your product will stumble. Hint, hint, Elon

Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BuzzFeed stock has plunged more than 60 percent this year.

To what extent does the YouTube recommendation algorithm push users into echo chambers, ideologically biased content, or rabbit holes? Using a novel method to e

A requiem for a meme.

Today, Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny is its 2022 Artist of the Year. Un Verano Sin Ti, which Bad Bunny released in May, is the most streamed album on Apple Music and the biggest Latin album of all time. In Apple’s press release, Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said:

Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December. Officially, it adds the new Freeform collaboration app and improvements to the Home app. Under the hood, 9to5Mac found out that Apple has been working on a new “Custom Accessibility […]

A few years ago I bought a cheap Bluetooth keyboard from Amazon.it. At €14, it was mostly an impulse buy for exploring mobile typing on t...

An inquiry into the latest edtech wave.

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When Apple Music debuted last summer I switched to it from Spotify. I wasn’t on Spotify all that long, but I did have a few playlists I wanted to take with me, including a big one with all the songs I had favorited. At the time, I found a script that logged into both services,

For the better part of this year, I’ve been using both Spotify and Apple Music. In my opinion, each service does a few things exceptionally well, but, unfortunately, I can’t have all of them in a single music app. Spotify’s discovery tools for both old and new songs are simply unparalleled in the industry: Discover