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Parenthood and Twitch: Making It Work | TwitchCon The biggest weekend in live-streaming, where characters from every realm collide and every fandom feels at home.

Been sitting on this a while, but with just a week and a half to go, it's finally starting to feel real:

On June 1, I'll be speaking on a panel at TwitchCon Europe! The topic? Juggling streaming and being a dad.

If you'll be in Rotterdam at the end of this month, let me know!

To assess the administration’s disregard of a court order, Axios spoke to or quoted two anonymous White House officials, Charlie Kirk and the White House press secretary.

Why the internet still needs Section 230 Sen. Ron Wyden on the birth of a foundational speech law.

Why the internet still needs Section 230

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

Bluesky post: “Hoo boy, the Bluesky community did NOT like this one,” in reference to an Atlantic article called “The Gulf of America is the Wrong Fight to Pick.”

One thing plaguing American media is a sizable portion of editors at prestigious outlets think a bad piece with a bad argument that gets a lot of criticism is a good thing.

It’s getting attention!
It shows the publication isn’t biased!

Publishing bad work that’s poorly received makes them proud.

Trump casually spitballing about the plane crash, on social media and in the briefing room, explains a lot about his appeal to political media. Feeding the content machines 24/7.

In a few months when people wonder how Elon Musk developed such an outsize influence over British politics, it’ll be worth noting the contribution of push notifications like this from the national broadcaster.

I love mine. Better than a microwave for reheating food, and easy to cook small meals and frozen food.

ELON CHANGED HIS TWITTER NAME TO KEKIUS MAXIMUS!!!!! headlines

There is a whole media carousel about this non-event that would just be boomer cringe shit if your uncle did it

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

🧵👇

Look, more H1Bs are a good thing for US tech leadership, AI, and competition.

But a lot of people on the tech right are memory-holing that Trump made the same positive noise about H1Bs in early 2016, only for Stephen Miller to lead an H1B crackdown.

Fool me twice...

I refuse to believe that Uber verified this driver's identity

The “research” was three focus groups.

Some people think that interesting quotes are the most valuable insight you can have into politics and love focus groups because it’s quotes dressed like polling.

graphic shows who students blame for tensions over campus speech. Students: 40 percent; Politicians: 36%, College or Univ. governing boards: 24%; Administrators: 19%; None of these/tensions not escalating: 9%; Faculty: 9%. So it's not faculty radicals.

Students' thoughts on campus speech. Turns out, very few say faculty are the problem. Students also say campus speech is more problematic at other places than their own campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Don’t write this story off as another celebrity spat. This is important reporting that illuminates how public opinion is formed and shaped in the digital age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Grindr to Give Staff $300,000 for Fertility Treatments, Adoption Grindr Inc., the LGBTQ dating app, will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy and adoption costs for employees — far more than what the average company offers its workers.

MY LATEST: Grindr, the LGBTQ dating app, will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy and adoption costs for employees — far more than what the average company offers its workers. (Gift link!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why the Salt Typhoon Hack Is Freaking Everyone Out Officials say hackers linked to China have unprecedented access to U.S. telecommunication networks.

All it took was China hacking our entire telecom system for the US government to finally get behind encryption for everybody, after demonizing it for years as a tool for criminals foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/19/s...

🔥 🔥 🔥 “What Apple is actually saying is they don't believe in interoperability,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
“Every time Apple is called out for its anticompetitive behavior, they defend themselves on privacy grounds that have no basis in reality.” www.reuters.com/tech...

Fascinating murder data from the Real Time Crime Index:

* NYC murders down 8% year-to-date
* San Francisco down 37%
* DC down 32%
* Philadelphia down 41%
* Atlanta down 10%
* Baltimore down 28%
* Detroit down 14%
* New Orleans down 37%
* Cleveland down 30%

Etc.

realtimecrimeindex.com

I wish I could just fly my hundreds of mysterious drones without it becoming a big news event 🙄

The big Q about the Trump-ABC settlement: Why did ABC agree to pay and apologize? The network won't say. It could have kept fighting in court, but decided to pay $$ to end the dispute and make the case go away. (A common move, but with an unusual plaintiff, the president-elect.)

Polio is scary but it was important to elect a president who will ban drag queen story hour

Amazing, Peak Design should release a law enforcement requests report like the tech companies

What a time to be alive

Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione's manifesto Reddit is taking down posts linking to the manifesto of the suspected shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a move that has angered many users.

Reddit is removing links to Luigi Magione's manifesto in a move that's angering a lot of users. The company says it's enforcing its longstanding violent content policy. Reddit appears to be automatically blocking links to the Substack where it was posted, which feels a bit unusual tip @techmeme.com

just ran a few things through my augmented reality powered bias meter and turns out when an owner steps in to spike an editorial it is demonstrative of bias

I liked the general idea of Mastodon but if your username has two @ symbols and clicking it opens your email client you are basically designing a Fear Factor challenge but for UX design

Content moderation in Trump's America is a political minefield In the battle between free speech and content moderation, who sets the rules?

Good history of the last 10-15 years of platform content moderation, with a preview of how companies are shifting their policies to the right for Trump II mashable.com/article...

Honestly “he needs a clip for the internet” describes most of our political dialogue these days.