I've been on a bit of a kick of watching dramas with "people accused of crimes they didn't commit, and the media spectacle that ensues"... Exhibit A is "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" on Hulu... Highly recommend, whether you're familiar with this case or not:

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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox follows the eponymous American college student, who arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imp...

And last night re-watched 2014's Gone Girl... What I'm noticing as a common thread in both of these is, the late-00's and early 2010's media monoculture is still a thing. I remember there being some "salacious murder" every few months that would be on all the network news channels and dominate the national conversation. I guess that kind of stuff still happens today, but it's more of a local story, and/or confined to the particular online subcultures that connects to the people involved. This... seems like a good thing? Should the entire national news conversation be monopolized over whether Scott Peterson killed his wife?

#asknostr Apps like #pokey and #amber are great and all, but is there any way to not have a permanent notification dot when they're running? On the one hand I like the visual reminder that Pokey and Amber are maintaining connections to a bunch of relays, but it clutters actual "temporary" push notifications that I care about.

"Hidden Levels" is a new podcast spin-off / collab from 99% invisible, exploring the ways in which video game design spills out into the real world:

Hidden Levels, new series from Endless Thread and 99% Invisible

WBUR’s Endless Thread and 99% Invisible team up for "Hidden Levels," a six-part series about how video games left the arcade and started reshapin...

First episode is already hitting a bunch of nerd Venn diagrams for me... like, TIL that the guy who voiced "boom shaka-laka" in NBA jams was the same voice actor for the #pinball game Attack from Mars! #retrogaming