https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html
100 / 39.37 isn’t exactly 2.54
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City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP
W. Des Moines to build fiber conduits city-wide, let multiple ISPs offer service.
Source: City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP | Ars Technica
I’m a big fan of this public/private model.
Alon Levy: New York is Shrinking
The US Census Bureau has just released 2019 population estimates by county. Metro New York, after slowly rising for decades more than making up the 1970s losses, went down by 60,000 people, or 0.3%…
Cathryn Aison and Philip Glass’s lovely abstract animation for Sesame Street (1979)
In 1979, Sesame Street animator Cathryn Aison created “Geometry of Circles,” an abstract animation with original music by minimalist pioneer Philip Glass. It consists of four segments t…
Source: Cathryn Aison and Philip Glass’s lovely abstract animation for Sesame Street (1979) / Boing Boing
SPUR: No on SF Prop E – Limits on Office Development
What the Measure Would Do Prop. E proposes amendments to existing citywide limits on new office development. It would link the amount of new office space that can be approved annually in San Francisco to the city’s performance on building new affordable housing. It would allow projects that provide affordable housing and space for community arts or local retail, particularly in the Central SoMa neighborhood, to proceed sooner by borrowing from future allocations. The measure would also change the city’s criteria for approving new office development.
Knives Out, Last Jedi DP has a plan to end the film-vs-digital debate
Toward a greater good: Thirty Meter Telescope & Starlink
Let’s Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home
Scroll pay-for-no-ads subscription service launches
It’s a twist on similar payout schemes that services like Spotify and Apple News+ formulated to compensate their content partners. The difference is that Scroll creates individual “buckets” of usage for each user. That means if you spend a lot of time reading the Philadelphia Inquirer but not as much on BuzzFeed, your fees will be distributed accordingly; and if you don’t spend any time on Fatherly, that site won’t get any of your Scroll subscription.Another way of putting it: When you subscribe to Spotify, you end up sending artists like Drake and Taylor Swift (or, at least, the people who own their music) a lot of your monthly fee, even if you never listen to them because other Spotify users listen to them a lot. The Scroll scheme is meant to align publishers and users more closely so your money doesn’t automatically flow to the internet’s biggest publishers.
Source: Scroll ad blocking subscription service launches – Vox
I always assumed Spotify split up your subscription dollars to the music you actually listen to unlike say a cable tv package.
I don’t want to scorch the earth by using an ad blocker but ads are increasingly making the web unusable for me. Possibly because I have undiagnosed ADHD, I find it very difficult to read text, even just a list of headlines, if there is animation anywhere on the screen. If there was one click to stop all the animation on a given page, that would be enough for me; I don’t need to never see ads. Well, except remarketing/retargeting, I hate that and so does everyone else, I never want to see that.
What I really want is a browser extension that lets me right-click on an ad and say block this ad-format/network for 24 hours.
Watch David Lynch Interrogate a Monkey in Surprise Netflix Short
David Lynch turns 74 today. He spent the afternoon interrogating a monkey. Find out why.
Source: Watch David Lynch Interrogate a Monkey in Surprise Netflix Short