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Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.

Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing? Probably …

Count me in the camp of ‘well now - there’s some new news’ ….

”The prevalence of Vin Diesel’s exposed upper arms may be associated with box office and critical success. According to this really important analysis from a Reddit user, the movies in which Vin Diesel wears four sleeveless shirts and spends 14–15% of the film wearing them are better liked by critics and make more money than movies in which he wears fewer sleeveless shirts for less time. Vin Diesel averages 1.95 sleeveless shirts per film and wears one in 16 of his 23 films, the analysis claims. Reddit is undefeated.”

💬 Morning Brew

“All of this is to say, Mastodon has its flaws and Twitter has its flaws. And, as I read in Dan Diamond’s newsletter, leaving Twitter also has its flaws. But you know what? I’m on Substack RIGHT NOW! And Substack has just introduced “Notes”. Why not investigate ITS flaws?”

💬 Mike Pesca

There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites ….

“Music making is like progressive enhancement in that you start with your drums (HTML), add the bass guitar (CSS), and then sprinkle screaming and synths and solos on top it all (Javascript).”

💬 Robin Rendle

I’m doing research on alien life, so I thought I’d start in America.

💬 Jim Woessner

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🔗 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.

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