”The computer says it’s you.”
We are now entering the era where systemic prejudice and oppression has grown stronger rather than weaker. 😢 x.com/ACLU/status/12…
Hey, your e-mail matters more than hype.
I walk you through why the HEY e-mail may be a poor choice and how it can help you choose better
#HeyEmail
axbom.blog/hey-email-hype/
On LinkedIn I was asked if my biggest gripe with HEY is that it’s not free. It’s not at all. My biggest gripes are accessibility, software lock-in, and the hype of HEY being an e-mail saviour. :)
I may need to rewrite stuff if I give that impression about paid.
Paid can certainly be good and if you are going from free to paid, that’s a reason to be more diligent in looking at other paid solutions as well. The services at the end of the article all offer paid variants. I like how Protonmail offers both.
Thinking more about it, and looking at how many novel ways of managing e-mail that HEY introduces, 14 days of trying all these things out (before giving a lot of people your e-mail address) is nowhere near enough to make a sound judgement about committing.
↪ Replying to @ibogost
@ibogost Right!? The seven (7!) e-mails that immediately clutter my Inbox*, with tutorials on how to use the service, seems like a disconnect from any message of simplicity. Off the bat I don't even know how to get those e-mails out of my inbox.
*No, I won't say that other 'word'.
↪ Replying to @unknown
@per_p Apparently there are 54 different types of notifications in Google Maps. Dare I suggest there are many different product teams all competing for attention. 😁
When you suddenly realize why it's called a demogorgon...
#StrangerThings x.com/jenmercieca/st…
↪ Replying to @dagensindustri
@dagensindustri Förtydligande: Om du inte avslutar övergår provperioden till en årsprenumeration (12 månader) utan möjlighet till uppsägning under den perioden. Den totala kostnaden blir 2.868 kr, med rabatten. Du kan säga upp för att inte bindas i ytterligare ett år.
axbom.blog/dagensindustri
Stumbled upon one of my blog posts from 1999... my worry then with misinformation on the net was beer... oh and Mariah Carey.
"THE INTERNET IS the largest contributor of misinformation today."
That yearly cleaning though... that would be ace.
axbom.blog/misinformation/
↪ Replying to @Terejs
@Terejs Har skickat fakturor på fyra olika sätt till offentlig sektor de senaste 3 månaderna... ett av dem var snigelpost... 😭
I'm working on some commentary, but it will never be as good as this. x.com/WolfgangBremer…
↪ Replying to @WolfgangBremer
@WolfgangBremer Absolutely brilliant. Wish I had time to do things like this 😂
Yesterday I listened to @GretaThunberg's "summer talk", a Swedish series of people sharing 90 minutes of matters closest to their heart.
It's also been made available in English in the podcast feed. I encourage you to listen:
#ClimateEmergency
overcast.fm/+BXwqAWGg
I think there's a lot to learn from the HEY e-mail approach without actually having to sign up for a locked-in, inaccessible service with some questionable subprocessors. Adding it to my list of blog posts for next week. :)
↪ Replying to @kimgoodwin
@kimgoodwin @cydharrell @MDEckersley A goldfish sounds like something Lefty would sell to Ernie. Couldn’t find that, but air is one of my favorites. youtube.com/watch
Twitter does not have a formal accessibility team.
#a11y x.com/arhayward/stat…
For my take on this, here’s a slide from my @WIAD_Zuerich talk last year.
”When accessibility is a side project, you are always designing for exclusion.”
↪ Replying to @kolombiken
@kolombiken It's the same. I'm going back to basics. All will be made more clear in the next issue ;)
↪ Replying to @Marm_Design
@MarMurube 😂 I did not want to be reminded of this.
↪ Replying to @SonaliVaid
@SonaliVaid Thank you @SonaliVaid. 🙏
Here is a previous talk of mine that can be watched online. From @WIAD_Zuerich
vimeo.com/329652188
Finnish Border Guard opening up the border between Finland and Norway.
Things to note:
* This is a EU border (Norway is not part of the EU).
* Yes, this is the official border guard account.
* This is at midnight. x.com/lapinraja/stat…
My intelligence sources tell me at this location (Nuorgam) the previous sunrise was on May 15 and the sun will set next time on July 28.