"Of course it is incredibly unnerving when people accuse me of being “invasive” or “breaking their trust” for using [spy pixels], but that is not my intention. For me, it seems a smart way to do business." WTF??independent.co.uk/life-style/ema…
"She asked me: 'Do you not think it is incredibly invasive and encroaching for you to know how many times I read your emails?'.. But I kept using it.. Then a former teacher accused me of “intruding in her personal life” for using it. neither of these were enough to deter me" 😮
So you spy on someone, you get caught spying, the victim of your spying explains why its hurtful and harmful, and you just carry on.. because.. that's what you want? That's some seriously sociopathic behavior.
Also, would @Independent let a real-world stalker publish stories about the women they had stalked, how stalking is actually good if you need to know where someone goes, and how not even the pleas of victims would make them stop? Just. Wat.
But also, who feels good about making tools that enable these fucking creeps? How can you work on Superhuman or Mailspring or Streak knowing that you're arming these stalkers with the tools to do their business? We fundamentally need a reset in the industry about spy pixels.
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I'm hearing that the Arizona bill to stop app stores from forcing a minority of app developers to use the platform's exorbitantly priced payment processing systems will come up for a vote TODAY! As a refresher, here's my testimony from Monday. world.hey.com/dhh/testimony-…
In a truly bizarre twist, though, the main opposition to this bill is coming from Arizona democrats. After all the work that @davidcicilline, @linamkhan, and others put into the scathing congressional report on big tech/app store monopoly abuses, it's a sad turn of politics.
Remember the Web 1.0 vibe? It's out! It's called HEY World. The simplest possible way for @jasonfried and I to start writing emails to the world. Incredibly slim pages, zero trackers, zero JavaScript, minimal CSS. Like the olden days. I'll be writing here: world.hey.com/dhh
This will be fewer tweet storms going forward, and more HEY World emails. As much as I love the reach of Twitter, I can't stand the room half the time either. The platform rewards brevity, but also eggs on the worst in you. HEY World has no retweets, no likes. But you can reply!
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The Arizona House is voting on a bill to stop app stores from forcing their payment processing services onto developers today. I'll be testifying around 10am MT. Wonderful to see @recobbforazrep and @Leo4AzHouse make the case for why this should pass 🙏❤️ azcapitoltimes.com/news/2021/02/1…
This is a more narrow bill than what was first proposed in North Dakota. It focuses exclusively on giving all developers the same kind of freedom in payment processing that Uber, Lyft, Amazon, and other physical goods apps already enjoy. IAP is still there for those who want it.
That focus completely undercuts the opposition that Apple presented in North Dakota where they claimed that bill would "destroy iPhone as you know it". Hard to claim that here when Apple is already allowing lots of companies this concession!
This is an ongoing disgrace from @nytimes. It should not take 17 MINUTES(!!!) to cancel your subscription. imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t
"[The Times] said it added 2.3 million net digital subscribers [in 2020].. it had 7.52 million total digital and print subscribers, including 6.69 million digital-only subscriptions.. Net profit was $10 million", they don't need to be a roach motel. wsj.com/articles/new-y…
I'm a subscriber of @nytimes in both print and digital. But nothing makes me want to cancel my subscription more than knowing that if I had to it'd be a total fucking hassle. This is so fucking scammy. Beneath the NYT in every way.
24-year old Chinese graduate student is moved between jail, psychiatric ward, and an isolation cell in a notorious detention facility after self-reporting a visa overstay during her studies due to Covid. Grotesque story of willfully cruel treatment. thelocal.dk/20210216/denma…
But perhaps not so grotesque as expectable, given the current Danish regime on immigration. An overcorrection of epic proportions, where simply making things ever "tougher" has become a competition in itself. And counterproductive or cruel rules are never revisited.
We've gotten a front-row seat to the system after staying in Denmark for just three months required a bureaucratic maze to allow my wife to stay in the country with her Danish husband and three Danish kids. Met with nonsensical rules and demeaning officials every step of the way.
"'We don’t want to put the state in a position where we need to spend our taxpayer dollars in litigation, because these are some very big companies,' Jerry Klein, a Republican state senator, said", Apple & Google are now officially Too Big To Legislate 😵 nytimes.com/2021/02/16/bus…
This goes to the core of the problem with monopoly power. Once it festers, producing trillion-dollar companies, democracy becomes too scared to fight back. Apple in particular showed up with an army of lobbyists, thinly-veiled threats, and unlimited funds to cow North Dakota.
As Kyle Davison, the state senator who introduced the bill, said: "When banging heads with Apple you need to be able to match their intensity with resources, including lobbyists." And nobody can match Apple in terms of resources. They're literally the richest in the world!