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Chrome is glitching for me in amazing ways this morning. On one hand, it's beautiful. On another, I live out of my browser, so frustrating.

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Literally three episodes behind on Doctor Who. This has never happened to me before.

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I love this story so much. The global ransomware attack was halted by a 22 year old who lives with his mum: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/13/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-...

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Did a little coding this morning. Felt good. It's been a while, which is still amazing to me.

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I'm loving Keybase more and more. Cryptographically-secure chat, filesharing & publishing with people you know: https://keybase.io/

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A federal court has set precedent that the GPL, and licenses like it, are enforceable contracts by law. A big deal. https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contra...

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A lot of subscriptions now come with a community membership. If only someone had made a community platform that plugged into your website ..

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Open source communities: bug bounties are a horrible way to make money. The incentives are all wrong. Recurring support is much better.

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For the right person, the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship program looks amazing. https://mozilla.forms.fm/2017-ford-mozilla-open-web-fellows

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Reconfirmed for myself that Shake Shack is much better than In N Out. Come at me.

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Relieved that France saw sense. Let's turn the tide around.

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Deeply hoping is able to help halt the rising tide of fascism today.

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Anxy is a new magazine about mental health and creativity made (in part) by some lovely people I know. http://www.anxymag.com/

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Algorithmic feeds are socially problematic, but here's why companies switch to them. https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/29/sortchat/

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This. I was worried about The Handmaid's Tale, but it's clever, human, and viscerally terrifying. Worth watching. https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/04/the-handmaids-tale-is-the-most-horrific-thing-i-have-...

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Well, this is kind of a shitshow. Livejournal was such an important part of my early web life. Really sad. http://io9.gizmodo.com/russian-owned-livejournal-bans-political-talk-adds-ris-1794143772

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If this is true, it's just reason 5,000,007 not to use Uber. But none of you are anymore, right? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/uber-said-to-use-sophisticated-software-to-defraud-drive...

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I'm hosting Homebrew Website Club at @mattervc SF tomorrow. Join us at 6:30 for demos & talk about a stronger independent web.

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America being set up to be a backwards, anti-democratic state. This is so depressing. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-considers-far-reaching-steps-for-extreme-vetting-1...

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