🔗 I knew this - there have been mentions on this topic before. Sharing because I think Merriam Webster’s replies demonstrate a keen and fast wit IMHO. (Warning … Twitter thread.)

A list of 10 not counting when he ‘turns it up to 11’ turning points on the internet. Tedium writes: 🔗 What We Can Learn from the Past

🔗 Paleblue USB Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.

Rechargeable batteries have been around for a while but charging blocks always seemed clunky and yet another lump of plastic you need to keep around and still never be able to find when you need it.

This looks like a good solution.

Any experiences?

🔗 Why America and Britain Are Both Self-Destructing.

The problem with Umair is that his writing very often depresses me. The bigger problem is that I have a hard time disagreeing with his observations and conclusions ( yes he is guilty of hyperbolic phrasing ).

🔗 Elon Musk pays for Stephen King and LeBron James to keep Twitter blue ticks.

Now what we want is for those guys that have been granted free ticks to tell Musk to ‘de-tick’ them.

🔗 Daring Fireball: WhatsApp, Signal, and Other Secure Messaging Platforms Write Open Letter to the UK Government Defending End-to-End Encryption

I’m glad to see these companies defending end-to-end encryption, but this letter dances around the repercussions of this proposed legislation in the U.K. What they mean in the third paragraph quoted above is that if the legislation passes, people in the U.K. won’t be able to use WhatsApp or Signal or any other end-to-end encrypted service. Apple isn’t a signatory of the letter, but I think iMessage would be banned too.

💬 John Gruber

There is so much idiocy in the UK government these days.

🔗 From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers | Pentagon leaks 2023 | The Guardian

Alleged? I think they all are. Isn’t the question whether they should be punished?

Not only that, there is little commonality in their motivations.

The Guardian asks why are Americans being shot for knocking on the wrong door?

Good question, even as the article was being written, a third story emerges;

🔗 Woodlands Elite cheerleaders shot: Athlete Payton Washington hospitalized after 2 girls were shot.

(Apparently she got in the wrong car)