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The Verge

The rise and fall of robots.txt

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

@Vitor Pamplona heads up I think if you log in with a public key then try to later log in with the private one to match it gives you the read only notice. Deleting storage on Amethyst clears whatever's making it stuck 👍

This video is such a great explanation of what money is and how it works in English that I think almost anyone can understand. Which is great because I think a surprising number of people don't actually know how our money works. One of my favorite moments: "Because money is only a distributional resource we know if a problem can be fixed by a distribution of money, we know that that problem can only have been a distributional problem. You cannot fix a lack of resources with money."

Google is killing their podcasts app. Truly nothing is safe from the chopping block.

Digital Trends

Google is killing another one of its popular apps, and it’s a big one

Google plans to discontinue one of its popular apps, Google Podcasts, in the new year. Here's what you need to do about the closure.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it..."

CNBC

Meet Airbnb's official party pooper, who reduced partying by 55% in two years

As the person in charge of Airbnb's worldwide ban on parties, Naba Banerjee has spent more than three years figuring out how to design an anti-part...

For whatever reason, flamingo doesn't seem to work consistently 🤷 It's very pretty though!

Hi! It's Friday evening. Relaxing and listening to Lo-fi ATC Boston today.

Listen to live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hop

Live radio from SFO, LAX, and other airports...

(you can pick your favorite airport or a random one)

Last week someone stole the bike rack off of my bike while I was working. They took an Allen key to the bike rack, unscrewed it and took the bike rack 😕 This is the third time someone has stolen things off of my bike in the last couple of months. 😔

This is really sad

Rest of World

Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work

Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and no control over their work.

I got a tiny little dehumidifier and it's been heroically pulling water out of the air in our apartment. 600mL today! Much more bearable here 😊

Good morning! It's not yet 10:30 and already 80⁰F outside. 😳

The Fairphone is finally coming to the US 🤔️

TechCrunch

Fairphone's repairable smartphone goes on sale in US for the first time -- in a 'deGoogled' Murena e/OS variant | TechCrunch

It will be interesting to see how much U.S. interest there is in an iPhone and (Google) Android alternative that packs sustainable and ethical smarts.

I would not have thought to have to worry about my clothing 😳

the Guardian

Are your clothes making you sick? The opaque world of chemicals in fashion

Our outfits contain BPA, PFAS and other dangerous substances – but we still know little about their cumulative impact

I finally got some thread and mended my pants by hand yesterday!

Today I was really looking forward to eating this mango from last week's produce. When I cut into it it was starting to brown and tasted bad 😧

Installed Ubuntu MATE on my raspberry pi this weekend! Fun little project. I still haven't figured out how to get Linux to boot on my old Chromebook but we'll get there.

This is exactly what I need in my life.

Ars Technica

Tetris on a chicken nugget is the game as it was meant to be played

Latest McDonald's China promotion is probably the weirdest official Tetris ever.

This week began the return to office 3 days a week at my job. Before, we were required to come in once a week on a day agreed upon by the team we were on. Now we will all come in. Our assigned desks are to be consolidated in a couple of weeks for increased collaboration, among other things. I *really* hope we don't all end up collaborating on COVID. 😵 That would be good for no one😷🤷

🎤🎤🎤 Is this thing on? 🤔