Animated map shows the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video stores in the US from 1986 to 2019. Fascinating to view. Source: buff.ly/31np1fI

A cartoon by @AliCoaster. #NewYorkerCartoons

Amazon boasts about its efficiency, ease of use and speed, which means when it's inefficient, hard to use and slow, assume this is deliberate. Like, when it's giving you data it's collected on you: Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK buff.ly/3tLZ0Vw

OpenBB is like an open source version of Bloomberg Terminal. It launched today with $8.5M in seed funding from backers including @OssCapital and early Google investor Ram Shriram: venturebeat.com/2022/03/30/ope…

🕵️🏻This was a fascinating (and a bit fucked up, like the world) piece to write. Because every one of us has fallen victim to the #manipulation and #deception that's simply prevalent in #UX today. thenewstack.io/critics-of-dec…

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's via Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 . The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.

On this day in 1995: Bill Gates sent an urgent memo to his executives It was about the Internet. He called it a “tidal wave”… … “the most important development since the PC.” At the time, just 0.4% of the world’s population was using it. And on TV, it was joke material:

So today is my first day at TechCrunch, where I'll be covering UK and European startups, as well as other areas of the global technology sphere. You can pitch me on: paul.sawers[at]techcrunch.com.

Incredible that someone NOT tweeting can be news.

Amazon agrees to make unsubscribing from Prime easier after EU complains. Cancelling your subscription was a maze-like ordeal, pushing you through a purposefully complex process. Now will be 2-clicks away.

Boris Johnson: Yes, I met with Russian intelligence without officials present...but I didn't inhale. (He really needs to study Clinton better. Perhaps a trip to Arkansas would help?)

Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent theintercept.com/2022/07/13/ama…

There are price increases and then there are price increases. I'm happy to support products that I like, but tripling a subscription is not the best way to keep subscribers.

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He's in for a disappointment.

“Ban remote learning. Ban any learning. Ban anything that makes me think too hard. Ban any thought at all.” In The New Yorker Humor, Sean Lavery adds some items to the ban lists. nyer.cm/KGnNWDp

From Linux to AI, Jim Zemlin explains how the Linux Foundation helps build the future of tech openly, collaboratively, and sustainably. A great read via TechCrunch from Paul Sawers (not on here much)→ hubs.la/Q03hsPwl0

My first feature for Resilience Media: As European governments combat ‘digital sabotage,’ open source startups stand to benefit resiliencemedia.co/p/as-european-… tip Techmeme