How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designated for repair
Field's crew caught the cable on the first try and nearly had it aboard when the rope snapped and slipped back into the sea.
As social networks become cluttered with ads, misinformation, and irrelevant posts, the web just feels less fun, suggesting the old era of social media is over
The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.
Source: at a Meta-wide meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told staff to focus on growing short-video products, citing an “unprecedented level of competition” from TikTok
Mark Zuckerberg quipped that if he started to cry, it wasn't because of the day's news.
If the metaverse takes off, it will take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games
In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. — Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … Tweets: @michaelluo , @newyorker , @parismarx , @caseynewton ...
If the metaverse takes off, it will take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games
In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. — Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … Tweets: @michaelluo , @newyorker , @parismarx , @caseynewton ...
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features
David Pierce / Protocol : Tweets: @pierce , @jordannovet , @getmatterapp , @dlberes , @navalang , and @lainnafader See also Mediagazer Tweets: David Pierce / @pierce : Reading the...
Internal docs: Amazon plans to monitor keyboard strokes and mouse movements of customer service staff to stop rogue workers or hackers accessing customer data
As Substack expands abroad, writers say it needs local payment options and customer service in other languages; some worry about legal support in hostile states
The key for tech companies to make remote work sustainable is not through policy, but by shifting “work” away from in-person surveillance toward defined results
it can also change the very nature of our jobs into something more enjoyable, and productive,” @CalNewport2 writes. https://nyer.cm/K4YDDeg Tanmoy / @toymango : Just how many compa...
Apple says it parted ways with recent hire Antonio García Martínez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee petition citing “misogynistic statements”
unless a woke mob forms a boycott campaign, in which case termination shall be immediate. Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn : I have seen the “woke mob” discourse around a man who literall...
A look at the rise of “renderporn”, the aspirational, hyperrealistic interior design imagery on Instagram created using 3D modelling software like SketchUp
Anna Wiener / New Yorker : Tweets: @newyorker , @heathermallick , @lainnafader , @katiemoffat , and @annawiener Tweets: @newyorker : .@annawiener reports on the use of 3-D-modelli...
Staffers at Medium in editorial, engineering, design, and product units say they're unionizing; a majority of about 140 employees signed union cards with CWA
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Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs
Mike Isaac / New York Times :
Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs
Facebook is working on newsletter tools for journalists and writers, according to three people familiar with the company's plans …
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speec...
Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides
Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy.
Ex-Facebook staffers on how Facebook's focus on growth metrics in performance reviews prodded staff to game the system and ignore other impacts of their work
former PM at FB https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : “...When business page admins did something with FB's tools, they'd count as active. So the team wou...
Ex-Facebook staffers on how Facebook's focus on growth metrics in performance reviews prodded staff to game the system and ignore other impacts of their work
former PM at FB https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : “...When business page admins did something with FB's tools, they'd count as active. So the team wou...