EU should regulate Facebook and Google as ‘attention utilities’ on.ft.com/2VBGcHU

the moment a crime is committed in it

If you use Giphy, you need to read this story about all the data it collects when you use its gifs. With today's acquisition, all of that data will become Facebook's. onezero.medium.com/how-facebook-c…

#Timelapse: Sudden explosive development of the #CZUAugustLightningComplex #fire burning tonight in San Mateo & Santa Cruz Counties. NWS Bay Area 🌉 CAL FIRE CZU #CAwx

I've had the amazing opportunity to work on the Ruby GC during my time working at @shopify. I'm excited to announce that I'm working on a series called "Peter's Adventures in Ruby" documenting the things I've learned along the way. blog.peterzhu.ca/adventures-in-…

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# ok cool >> "0".next => "1" >> "a".next => "b" # you are the wind beneath my wings >> "0z".next => "1a" >> "bz9".next => "ca0"

REAL SEMANTIC VERSIONING: "We have big plans for the next version of Rails and that requires big versions." 🚀🚀 github.com/rails/rails/co…

Love Ruby 💕

Noise is a remarkably insidious form of pollution: a 10db noise increase (from dishwasher to vacuum) drops productivity by 5%. But the kicker is you don't notice: noise hurts your ability to think, not your effort. You work as hard but do worse! And poorer areas have more noise.

1/ Astronomers made the first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet, using @ALMAObs , in which ESO is a partner. 🔗eso.org/public/news/es… Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al.

Mars. Just Mars. As seen by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

3 days later, but finally finished my #AdventOfCode polyglot+ challenge 😅🎉 25 languages, without repeating any of 2019's 25 languages! Thanks to Alfredo Beaumont for the inspiration and for participating in this madness, and to Belén 😱 for hosting the best ladies' AoC Discord!

Progress is improvement in the diversity, complexity, and harmony of all forms of life. To use the word progress in connection with economic activity is a form of brain damage.

I have come to believe that beauty is embodied care quartey.com/writing/why-be… That wherever attention accretes and care pools, regardless of how fine or modest the canvas, the focus of that concentrated loving intent cannot help but produce the quality of beauty.