Chance The Rapper Bought Chicagoist And Announced It In Newly Released Song: Gothamist
I have a lot of time for Chance the Rapper and it’s precisely because he’s always doing things like this. Almost everything he does is a statement of intent, like this one supporting local, community-driven journalism in his home town.
Instapaper is going independent
Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013. The ownership transfer will occur after a 21 day waiting period designed to give our users fair notice about the change of control with respect to their personal information.
Worth noting that today, almost two months since GDPR came into effect, Instapaper is still unavailable for users in Europe. GDPR isn’t a particularly hard thing to enforce unless your entire business model is built around doing shady things with your customer’s data.
Scorched earth during heatwave reveals new monument at Newgrange
One good thing to come out of the heatwave Ireland is currently enjoying: the sun is basically X-raying the ground for underground monuments. Take a look at the rest of the pictures on Mythical Ireland’s Facebook Page – they’re genuinely stunning.
Stanley Kubrick Explains the Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey
I think the only time I’ve ever actually seen Stanley Kubrick explain the ending of 2001 in such unambiguous terms.
The clip is taken from a series of interviews (mostly with Vivian Kubrick) conducted by Jun’ichi Yaoi while he visited the set of The Shining for an unaired Japanese documentary on the Paranormal. The rest of the video is fascinating.
A pay-what-you-want font designed by indestructible type as an updated, modernized Futura.
Inside the Guild Wars 2 firing that’s rocked the game industry. – Polygon
This is a terrible precedent for the company to set, and you can see why in the reaction from the quote-unquote ‘fans’ on reddit: “We’re literally running the company now… the moment a dev steps out of line or try to talk back to a player, guess what, they’ll know we got their hands on their throat and we can squeeze any time we like”.
DJ Shadow Presents Find, Share, Rewind
This might be old news to other people, but I just found out that DJ Shadow has a podcast. Well, it’s a limited-series podcast of a 7-episode show he ran on an L.A. radio station last year. It’s basically a giant mix/unofficial new album. Two episodes out so far and they’re both really great.
Mondo to Release New ‘Jaws’ Screen Prints Recreating Missing Original Painting
The painting of the original Jaws poster was stolen in 1975, so Mondo hired Jason Edmiston to recreate it. The timelapse video of his process is so great.
Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall With the Macbook Pro Keyboard | iFixit
My 2011 MacBook Pro finally died (these models suffer from a graphics chip overheating problem) and I’m absolutely gutted because it was genuinely a beautiful machine to work on. It was rock-solid, had every port you’d ever need, and I sprung for the matte display, so it never had any problem with glare. And most importantly, the keyboard worked. The 2017 Touchbar MacBook Pro is the worst laptop I’ve ever used.
Facebook’s retreat from the news has painful for publishers—including Slate.
Slate is sharing some information regarding their Facebook traffic since the 2017, when Facebook decided it no longer wanted to be a ‘news’ site. One interesting thing to note is that while most news organisations are seeing a dip in their engagement numbers, Fox News’s numbers are actually up. There’s a joke to be made here about real news vs news entertainment, but I’m not sure even I can be bothered to make it.
