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Bun B : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Bun B is half of the legendary hip-hop group UGK. His partner, Pimp C, died in 2007. Their new album is UGK For Life.
Mona: A Unique Mix of Customization Options and Features You Won’t Find in Any Other Mastodon App
Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona. Mona, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is a power-user app through and through.
Product Outlook: Write.as and WriteFreely
After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...
Happy Friday! Now you can verify your fediverse / Mastodon / open web website...
ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...
Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
A Tweet Before Dying
The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.
Turn Your Own Wrenches - by Scott Gilbertson
The Voice of a Generation Was Forged In Houston
Jia Tolentino's first essay collection, Trick Mirror, contains startling insights arrived upon through the New Yorker staff writer's own bizarre life experiences, many of which took place right here in Houston.
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston
Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.
As The Social Media Moral Panic Continues, People Keep Highlighting How Much Value It Actually Provides
I know we’re deep, deep, deep into the moral panic about social media being uniquely awful, especially for kids. It’s driving all sorts of nonsense, including the false idea that we’re in a uniquel…
Alone Enough
Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
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Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Spotify is launching a feed that will help you discover new artists, podcasts, and audiobooks.
A new generation of airships is taking to the skies | CNN
Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for logistics across the globe.
Spotify Asks What Would Happen if Artists Controlled TikTok
Audio company reveals new details about its big plans for video
Apple News too corporate for you? Try this app
OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."
Episode 166 – DaVinci Resolve with Shawn Carlson
DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macO…
Resize Video to Target Size: Routinehub's shortcut to re-encode video files on MacOS with ffmpeg
Resize Video to Target Size is a shortcut available on Routinehub that allows you to re-encode video files to a specific size using ffmpeg on MacOS.
Celebrating 8 years of Write.as 🥳 — Write.as Deals
It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...
Last Week in the Fediverse, ep 4: ⚡ — The Fediverse Report
Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today
The company has lost a major source of inspiration.
Things 3.17 Overhauls the App’s Shortcuts Actions
Things 3.17 is out for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with greatly expanded support for Shortcuts. That opens up a much wider variety of possible automations than ever before. It’s a lot to take in at once, but I’ve been playing with these actions since the end of last year, so I thought I’d highlight what
Inside Elon’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter
Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego
CHM is Partnering with The Verge to Look at Critical Innovations in Technology History - CHM
Mountain View, CA – Jan. 19, 2023: The Computer History Museum, the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, announced a partnership with The Verge this year to explore some of the most important innovations that changed the future of technology and the world. A respected tech news …
Apple’s Music and TV apps for Windows are now available in preview
Apple apps that you download from Microsoft’s store.
Weekly Musings 190 — Weekly Musings
Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...
TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2022
These are the photographs that capture the year, from the Supreme Court class picture to the first James Webb Space telescope image.