Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us.web.brid.gy

Meta investors, Zuckerberg to square off at $8 billion trial over alleged privacy violations > Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the Meta CEO is accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent. > > Shareholders of Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, sued Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders, saying they continually violated a 2012 agreement between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission to protect users' data. > Zuckerberg and Sandberg are alleged to have knowingly caused the company to violate the law. While Delaware law protects directors and officers for bad business decisions, it does not protect them from illegal ones, even if they are profitable. > The shareholders in pretrial court papers said they can prove that after the 2012 agreement, Facebook continued deceptive privacy practices, at the direction of Zuckerberg. The defendants said the evidence will show that the company built a team to oversee privacy and hired an outside compliance firm and that Facebook was a victim of Cambridge Analytica's "studied deceit."

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Frequency List A REALLY COOL WEBPAGE. You can look up words and see their frequency rank amongst the 60,000 most used English words, spread across genres—spoken, fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic. Then it has a function called "collocates": > The **collocates** show you the nearby words (shown here for moonlight), and these provide useful information on the meaning and use of a word. They are grouped by part of speech and then listed in order (most frequent first). Note that any collocates in parentheses (mainly for very low frequency words) are tentative. This is going to become an essay or an article. Ooh, fun tool.

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The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales > Mosses, to be sure, are scientifically impressive beyond measure — the amphibians of vegetation, they were among the first plants to emerge from the ocean and conquer the land; they number some 22,000 species, whose tremendous range of size parallels the height disparity between a blueberry bush and a redwood; they inhabit nearly every ecosystem on earth and grow in places as diverse as the branch of an oak and the back of a beetle. > ...mosses possess a kind of lyrical splendor that Kimmerer unravels with enchanting elegance — splendor that has to do with what these tiny organisms teach us about the art of seeing. > But the rewards of attentiveness can’t be forced into manifesting — rather, they are surrendered to. > > A Cheyenne elder of my acquaintance once told me that the best way to find something is not to go looking for it. This is a hard concept for a scientist. But he said to watch out of the corner of your eye, open to possibility, and what you seek will be revealed. The revelation of suddenly seeing what I was blind to only moments before is a sublime experience for me.

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Adidas now offers a laced version of its 3D-printed shoes Hadn't heard about Adidas selling 3D printed shoes. They look interesting. Called "Climacool Laced": > The shoe’s main structure is still 3D-printed as a single piece in a process that Adidas says “takes approximately 24 hours and includes spinning, baking, and compression using high-tech polymers.” The upper portion of the Climacool Laced features a slightly different design than the slip-ons that now incorporates printed eyelets, but the tongue and laces are made from different materials added afterwards that aren’t 3D-printed. > > The new version will potentially make the Climacool more comfortable and compatible with a wider variety of foot sizes while retaining the unique features of their 3D-printed lattice structure that was breathable and fast-drying.

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About Unbreaking A wonderful thing. And the website design itself—especially the typography—is absolutely beautiful. > The United States is experiencing institutional collapse at a speed and scale that are difficult to understand, especially through feeds and updates that atomize our attention. We believe that mapping the damage done and its human costs—and the pushback and resilience work already underway—is necessary groundwork for building and retaining political agency.

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This is how we build the future A podcast interview (with links for listening and the full transcript) around regenerative economics. The prompting questions, called out at the top of the episode: > How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming – which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible? I love the host's introduction to the podcast: > **Manda:** Hey people. Welcome to Accidental Gods. To the podcast where we believe that another world is still possible, and that if we all work together, there is still time for us to lay the foundations for a future that we would be proud to lead to the generations that come after us About the guest: > Jennifer Brownsburg Engelman is an educator, a regenerative, and I would say renegade Economist. Who is lead at the project for regenerative economics in secondary schools and lead author of the online textbook of the same name. Jennifer has been teaching economics for nearly 30 years, but as you’ll hear, the global financial crash led her to rethink the rules and structures of the system, the entire paradigm that underpins all the ways that we live and work and do business. And now she’s one of the world’s leading thinkers on regenerative economics. How we can focus away from business markets and the structures of neoliberalism to towards ways of being that are grounded in reciprocity, respect and responsibility in the realities of what it is to be a human being in the 21st century.

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Brining Beans With Baking Soda: An Investigation A really geeky and interesting article on the _why_ beans need to be prepared differently than other things, and then testing different brines to see what works best. > Clearly, using a brining solution with an excess amount of sodium by adding both salt and baking soda produced the best results in texture, and reduced the cooking time significantly for both black and kidney beans. For kidney beans and other hard-to-cook beans, I strongly recommend brining them in a salt and baking soda solution. Would I brine my black beans in the future? My answer honestly depends on time. If I were a better planner and wanted to cook my black beans the next day, I’d probably resort to brining them, but if I wanted to cook them the day of, then I won’t.

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Middle Number Calculator A _very_ specific calculator: finding the middle number between two inputs. That's all the website does and is. Really fun, and has interesting information on _why_ this is a useful little tool.

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Submitting talks to a tech conference Call for Papers 20+ tips from a conference organiser, Mathias Verraes, who's reviewed talk submissions for 10+ years.

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OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL Fantastic summation of why `oklch()` vs. `rgb()` and `hsl()` in CSS. Love the color modification section. Also, the Changelog at the bottom is really great. Want to replicate the feature on my site.

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s.e. smith I really like s.e. smith's homepage for their website, in its simplicity and clarity. It reads, "i'm good at writing stuff." with links to `/about`, `/clips`, `/books`, `/quilts`, `/hire`, and `/contact`. When hovering over each navigation item, there's a photo that takes up the full screen, that's really quite lovely. It translates so well across mediums, too.

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Periodic Face-to-Face > For people to work effectively together they need to trust each other, aware of how much they can rely on each other. Trust is hard to develop online, where there isn't the social cues that can happen when we are in the same room. Thus **the most valuable part of a face-to-face gathering isn't the scheduled work** , it's chitchat while getting a coffee, and conviviality over lunch. Informal conversations, mostly not about work, forge the human contact that makes the work interactions be more effective.

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The Animal Menagerie Nearly 1,400 animals that have been on the cover of every O'Reilly Publishing books. Had no clue there were so many.

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Relics of The Web > One of the great things about the World Wide Web is the ability for websites to link to each other, providing a never-ending stream of websites to explore. > This interconnectedness lets surfers quickly discover new content and information, enabling a rich and diverse online experience. It also creates complex and comprehensive resources that draw from various sources, making it easier for surfers to find the necessary information. > Overall, linking websites is a crucial feature of the World Wide Web that has greatly enhanced the accessibility and usefulness of the Internet.

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What I learned by creating a dark mode toggle It's on my mental backlog to revamp the dark mode toggle on my website, and do a refactor of the site to make use of the `light-dark()` pattern across the site. I'm really liking Richard Rutter's approach here: * radios are better than my current slider in accessibility, clarity, and function; * it encompasses system preferences as well as light and dark modes; _and_ * he built in typographic adjustments for dark mode (something been meaning to but haven't seen too many good examples). Thankfully, he's packaged all the resource files in his post! Looking forward to integrate into my site at some point.

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Making a Plan Zine > "It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a bridge between information and action." (Mariame Kaba)

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How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate Here, Mike Monteiro responds to the question, _"How do I make art without feeling stupid and/or inadequate?"_ Love the answer. The last three paragraphs really hit home. Here's the final two: > The best thing we will _ever_ be able to say about AI is that it could never create Divine. It can only create degrading copies of what we’ve fed it. But human beings can create connections that only human beings can make. Human beings can create what no one ever expected! Human beings create the stupidest, most glorious connections. And it’s because we’re stupid. And it’s because we’re inadequate. And honestly, it’s because we die. (Rut roh!) Only human beings can come to the conclusion that if not now, when? If not me, who? If not me at my most, why not? Human beings get one chance at this. Don’t take it from us. > > I want you to make art _because_ you feel stupid and inadequate. It might suck. It might be great. Sometimes they’re the same thing.

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Aspect value calculator A wonderfully useful calculator to understand the aspect value of a font. You upload a `font: src()` (URL or local filename), select the `font-style` and `font-weight`. Then it calculates the aspect value for your font! Super, super exciting tool (been wanting and have searched for something like it before). > The font-size-adjust CSS3 property allows you to specify the aspect value for a font. Browsers that support this property will adjust the x-height of a fallback font to match that of your desired font. By using this property you can ensure that font metrics are more consistent throughout a font-stack. Pro-tip...View Source then copy/paste into your own HTML your computer. It finally worked for me after I did that.

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Careful/Care-full Collaboration **About Place Journal:** a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society **Fromthe Editors' Introduction:** > Careful and Care-full Collaboration: When we coalesced on this theme, we wanted to make space for writers, artists, and their communities to share practices and processes that would invite reflection on what it means to enfold care and collaboration. Thank you to the Black Earth Institute for embodying the possibilities and potentials of such work, and the invitation to make such collaboration a reality and lived experience. > Given current actions that are moving so quickly to consolidate authoritarian power, we understood both the opportunity and need for this issue to celebrate, model, and encourage multiple artistic and relational possibilities of co-creation. > The contributions in this issue beckon us to take seriously this co-creative work, yes; but they also remind us to play and to laugh at ourselves. They invite us to stop, breathe, find a place to be quiet, to move, to re/create relationships with ourselves, each other, and the other beings—past, present, future—around us. They invite us to dream of being free in familiar and unfamiliar ways, and they offer paths to get free and stay free with joy. And with love, always love.

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Inclusive user research: building rapport Fantastic article, with links to the whole Inclusive research series about moderating sessions, analysing findings, and recruiting participants. > Being able to connect with people and earn their trust is key for user researchers. It makes participants feel at ease, not be afraid of giving their honest opinion, and enjoy the session. This ultimately leads to richer, more meaningful research insights. * Show care * Protect personal information * Compensate fairly * Limit activities * Ask necessary information only * Don't make assumptions * Appreciate the value of people's feedback in every session * React appropriately

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How to Fuck A great piece by Mike Monteiro. Some quotes: > TL;DR: Let people fuck. Fucking is great. > > _“Love is at the root of everything, all learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love or the lack of it.” —Fred Rogers_ > Let me be straight-up about this, I have never been in a polyamorous relationship. But I have several friends who are. Some of them seem very happy. And I believe that their happiness comes from liking the people they’re in that relationship with, not the number of people they’re in a relationship with. I’m in a relationship with someone I really like. Sometimes you like more than one person. Cool. > I can’t really speak about polyamory with any sort of expertise beyond “Hey, they seem happy” and honestly, that’s the real lesson to take away from here. > Like I said earlier, I can’t speak much about polyamory. It’s not my experience. And that’s ok. I love that we’re all having different experiences. I love that we’re all trying our own thing. I love that people are getting what they need. Try as I might, I will never understand what makes other people tick, but I love that they are ticking. I love that their hearts are working. I love that they’re getting what they need. I love it when people genuinely like one another.

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Getting started with view transitions Noting for future use & reference to add to my website.

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Webrecorder > The Webrecorder team has been developing open source web archiving tools for over 10 years. We strive to make web archiving tools accessible to anyone who needs to collect and preserve content that is meaningful to them. > > Our goal has remained steadfast since we started in 2014: To make quality, open source web archiving tools accessible to all!

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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? > Estimates vary on the amount of resources a ChatGPT search requires compared with a typical Google search (sans AI overviews), but a 2024 report from the International Energy Agency placed the chatbot's energy usage for a single query at nearly 10 times that of the search engine. > A 2024 analysis of the energy output of using ChatGPT by the Washington Post and researchers at UC Riverside found that just one 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour. > These companies certainly seem to be aware of the consequences of pursuing more and more energy- and resource-consuming AI. Environmental reports for 2024 from Google and Microsoft detail ambitious sustainability goals that include reducing emissions and water usage, while making clear they know they haven’t been meeting their targets. > McMillan Cottom categorizes artificial intelligence as “mid” tech — hardly the technological revolution worth the amount of waste and environmental damage it’s meting out: “[Most] of us are using [AI] for far more mundane purposes. AI spits out meal plans with the right amount of macros, tells us when our calendars are overscheduled, and helps write emails that no one wants. That’s a mid revolution of mid tasks.”

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#COFFEE is the color A fantastic site that has all the words that also equate to hexadecimal colors for use in HTML and CSS!

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USWDS Settings Documentation Interesting documentation on the United States Web Design System (USWDS). I geekily enjoy seeing the naming of all the tokens in the tables (column headers are: Name, Variable, Default, Type, Description). Each `type` is a link to the respective design token, and how to use it (e.g. `color` links to `/design-tokens/color/overview`.

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