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Metafoundry 73: Our Cyborg Collective Body, Ourselves

*PROGRAMMING NOTE: *You’re receiving this email because you subscribed to Metafoundry ; I’m Deb Chachra , and this newsletter is where I...

Introducing the GitHub Availability Report

What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our belief is that we can collectively grow as a…

Jakub Geltner: Nest

"Please Scream Inside Your Heart"

A Time Lapse World Map of Every Covid-19 Death

From January to the end of June, over 500,000 people died of confirmed cases of Covid-19. In order to demonstrate the magnitude of the pandemic, James Beckwith made a time lapse map of each Covid-19 death. Each country is represented by a tone and an expanding blip on the map…

Is Instagram’s Move to Protect Photographers as Good as It Seems?

Early this year a photographer took Mashable to court after the publication embedded one of her Instagram photos without consent. Her attempt to sue the company was unsuccessful, sparking wide debate across the photography community. Many felt that Instagram needed to do more to…

Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Nerissa Zhang, who is a Black woman, sent her startup's pitch deck to several VCs who publicly stated wanting to invest in Black-owned startups. She got 0 responses – until she sent the same messages from her co-founder husband's email. [thebolditalic.com] Oprah Winfrey, Nikol…

The Ideology of American Policing

For What the police really believe, Vox’s Zack Beauchamp interviewed several former police officers and policing experts to find out how police think of themselves, their jobs, and the communities they are supposed to be protecting and serving. Police officers across America…

New Cartoons from The Far Side’s Gary Larson

In 1995, after his massively popular single-panel cartoon The Far Side had run daily in newspapers for 15 years, cartoonist Gary Larson retired at the top of his game and scarcely a peep has been heard from him since. Until recently. Back in September, Larson launched a websit…

Design systems on the Clearleft podcast

If you’ve already subscribed to the Clearleft podcast, thank you! The first episode is sliding into your podcast player of choice. This episode is all about …design systems! I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out, although as it’s the first one, I’m sure I’l…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Thanks @dottedmag for the video

Here’s How the Apple iPhone Triggers the Profoto B10 Professional Flash

Not long ago, Profoto updated its Apple iPhone app to let the Profoto B10 trigger a flash with the Profoto Camera App. Let's be clear here, no one is going to go out and buy the Profoto B10 just to shoot with their phone. I think that would be a pretty stupid idea. But instead,…

The Venus Effect

Velázquez’s Venus is perhaps the most naked on record: with nothing but her lovechild, Cupid, to hold up a mirror to her difuse reflection (deflection?), she lacks most of the mythic giveaways of her traditional representations. She is unlandscaped, unjewelled and unmyrtled.…

Why You Should Choose Mirrorless Over DSLR in 2020

My last DSLR was the Nikon D600. I paired it up with Nikkor 50mm 1.8 G and oh how I loved that combination. It helped me to create great pictures, and even though the model is eight years old, it would still serve any photographer well if they were to pick it up today. But as mu…

Doing my best to spread the word about masks, one wrong number at a time.

7 Weather Sealed Nikon Cameras That Aren’t Afraid of Mother Nature

If you're looking for a durable camera that's really built to last, perhaps it's time to take a look at some offerings from Nikon. Not only are Nikon cameras capable of producing gorgeous images, but they are also built like tanks too, and that applies to both their DSLRs and th…

The Indigenous Peruvian Trap Music of Renata Flores

Quechua is an indigenous language family spoken by millions of people in the Andean region of South America, primarily in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It was the main language of the Inca empire and today is the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language in the Americas. In her mu…

How "Starship Troopers" Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat

It has become clear, in these last decades of decadence, decline, towering institutional violence, and rampant bad taste, that American life is stuck somewhere inside the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe. For most of "Starship Troopers," humanity, in every possible facet, gets…

Sarah Begley, in GEN

Five Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon

Listen to Tom Hanks, people! "Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. That alone means you are contributing to the betterment of your house, your work, your town, your society as a whole. And it's such a small thing." [latimes.com] "The United States has formally notified…

Japanese Aquariums’ Flowchart of Penguin Relationships

A pair of aquariums in Japan have published flowcharts that track the relationships of their penguins. Penguins, the way they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic. But those who observe them for extended periods know they hav…

Behind the Scenes with Danny MacAskill

Trials rider Danny MacAskill (one of our favorite athletes around these parts) has recently started sharing some behind-the-scenes looks at some of the coolest tricks he’s done for his videos. The video above shows him trying to barrel roll his bike with a trailer attached,…

Talking Back To Fiction: or, Gee, I Really Hope Somebody Got Fired For That Blunder

In a 2004 essay on philosophical fiction the late, lamented Jerry Fodor argues that, though ‘the philosophical novel’ is a well-established mode, viz. ‘Comp. Lit. 102: readings in Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mann, Gide, Sartre’ (‘little or no philosophical sophistication requi…

Keeping Your Modules Compatible

Introduction This post is part 5 in a series. Part 1 — Using Go Modules Part 2 — Migrating To Go Modules Part 3 — Publishing Go Modules Part 4 — Go Modules: v2 and Beyond Part 5 — Keeping Your Modules Compatible (this post) Your modules will evolve over time as you…

Custom properties

I made the website for the Clearleft podcast last week. The design is mostly lifted straight from the rest of the Clearleft website. The main difference is the masthead. If the browser window is wide enough, there’s a background image on the right hand side. I mostly added th…

Doublespeak: Language Designed to Mislead While Pretending Otherwise

Linguist William Lutz, former editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, went on CSPAN in 1989 to promote his book, Doublespeak. The video above is a 7-minute distillation of his thoughts on what he calls “language designed to mislead while pretending not to”. (Watch L…

Ultra-Wide, Ultra-Sharp, and Ultra-Pricey: Sony 12-24mm F2.8 GM Review

The Sony 12-24mm f4 has been a staple in the camera bags of landscape shooters for a while, and so it should be, it's a great lens, but there has been a clamoring for a faster G Master version. If you're a photographer who has a need for speed, you'll be pleased to know that you…

Magic Leap Enterprise — looks like this company is going out of...

Magic Leap Enterprise — looks like this company is going out of business, but the enterprise use cases are interesting

A Portrait of a Direct Descendent of Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings

For his Descendents series, Drew Gardner takes photographs of people done up to look like their famous ancestors. The Smithsonian Magazine recently featured Gardner’s photo of Shannon LaNier recreating a portrait of his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Thanks for putting that DMG into ZIP, I guess

An Imperfect MacBook Pro Alternative: Asus ProArt StudioBook 15 Review

For a long time, MacBook Pros were the go-to option for photographers and creatives alike in need of a mobile computing solution. That's no longer the case with the recent influx of competitively priced and highly capable Windows mobile workstations. The Asus ProArt StudioBook 1…