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"It is capitalism that incentivizes the degradation of our news media — disinvesting in local journalism, weaponizing social media to capture our attention and data, and devaluing media workers’ labor conditions."

After Google Reader disappeared, a lot of people drifted away from RSS readers. For many, social networks like Twitter filled the void, leading some observers to declare the death of RSS. However, a funny thing happened in the aftermath of Google Reader’s demise. New sync services arose, and RSS readers flourished on iOS, where competition

Twitter announced yet another version of Twitter Blue, which is launching tomorrow. And in all honesty, if this was announced 6 months ago, I'd be all over it. I mentioned this a few days ago, but it's now official. Twitter Blue will cost $8 a month if you sign up

pCJR · Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast   There’s a famous scene from the final season of The Wire—y’know, The One With the Newspeople—where cub reporter Alma Gutierrez, new to the show’s (thinly) fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun, receives a crash course in the paper’s lofty lexical standards: “Gutierrez!” her editor shouts across […]/p

Apple announced today that later this month, it will update its Music app with a new feature called Apple Music Sing. According to Apple’s Oliver Schusser, its vice president of Apple Music and Beats: Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service. We already know our users all

Play “select” Ubisoft PC games via cloud streaming.

Over on YouTube, I streamed for 6 hours on Monday continuing my work on the Shortcuts Library logging process and sharing the shortcuts I'd built on-stream a few weeks prior. I did some experiments on the stream too, including watching Chris Lawley's videos (who appeared in the chat), testing music, and taking longer breaks.

Use these open source tools for jotting down notes.

I bought an iPad with an Apple Pencil 2 quite a while back, and I’ve just been storing the pencil on my nightstand. That frustrated me ...

Brand new products launched today, Affinity V2 Universal License ownership tier announced, and Affinity Publisher comes to iPad.

These are the photographs that capture the year, from the Supreme Court class picture to the first James Webb Space telescope image.

We put the M1-powered iPad Pro to the test to see if it can finally replace your laptop.

The iPad Pro 2021 (12.9-inch) is the most advanced tablet ever although the new upgrades aren't always noticeable

How many commands and third-party apps does this take?

Q&A with James Muldoon

The latest iteration of my iPadOS-focused layout for a 34-key ergonomic split keyboard.

Cue the 30 for 30 voice: what if I told you some of the best sports journalism in 2022 lived in 300+ page password protected .pdfs exclusively available to subscribers of a digital only publication?

Like many others over the past month, I’ve been thinking deeply about my experience with Twitter and whether I want to align my social media usage with the kind of platform Twitter is rapidly becoming. It’s a complex discussion (if my readers are still on Twitter, am I doing them a disservice by not using

“People like to talk about music. This is a tool to easily see other people’s music taste.”

Notes on an economic model for independents

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. Read Paper View Code View Model Card Whisper examples: Reveal Transcript Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask

It's release day again at Infinite Flight and today we're releasing the much anticipated, and fully reworked F/A-18E Super Hornet!

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 …