I just started reading Walkaway: A Novel by Cory Doctorow.📚

⤑ A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 (via iosdevweekly).

Algorithms used for a good cause.

⤑ An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands.

Review of Freeze-Frame Revolution

The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts📚 was a book proposed by Amazon. The plot description sounded excellent and captivating, and I’ve tried the free reading example. I had some issues to get into the story and understand what’s going on, but once I passed this, the book was terrific, a good idea and perfect execution of it.

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The system goes so far as to track “time off task,” which the company abbreviates as TOT. If workers break from scanning packages for too long, the system automatically generates warnings and, eventually, the employee can be fired.

⤑ How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’ (via Techmeme).

Review of Murderbot series book two to four

I finished the Murderbot (📚) series, should have done it earlier but somehow lost sight of these books.

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I’ve so far never thought about this topic, but since I’ve read the article, it is stuck in my head. The main issue I see with it is the question of quality and health with the ordered food.

One thing that’s bad about this trend, though, is that when you outsource food preparation (and everything that goes into it) into Cooking As A Service, then you turn all aspects of food into something that’s being sold to you. And that includes healthiness.

But this is also covered in the article as well. It is as always the healthy option will be more expensive. I’m not yet sure where I stand on this whole “As A Service” topic no matter in which industry. I used to be quite pro for it but this has changed recently, and I’m a lot more critical now about it.

⤑ Cooking As A Service (via Kottke).

I hate being ill — but it looks I’m past it now; Not yet back to 100% but getting there.

The plan for our planet is remarkably simple. Reduce our impact by making sure that everything we do, we can do forever. ⤑ How to Save Our Planet (via Kottke)

I just started reading Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff.📚

I just started reading The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts.📚

I just started reading Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.📚

I just started reading Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.📚

I just started reading Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.📚

Review of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

I just struggled through The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells📚. The book has a good beginning followed by a big letdown in the middle and end :-( I think the message is significant in this book is essential and the author manages to explain the side effects of warmer earth quite well. But he then tends to drift off into philosophy and mystical ideas. Some chapters were nearly unreadable.

With all the current rumors in the Mac Blogosphere regarding Shortcuts on the Mac, my only hope regarding this would be if the actual Shortcut App would get a Mac version.

The screen of my iPhone is way too small for creating shortcuts on the device, this is my biggest issue with the app. Especially when you need to edit text fragments inside of the shortcut actions.

I should perhaps have a look at Twich sometimes, this sounds like interesting channels and communities.

⤑ The Gentle Side of Twitch.

Another fix to the homepage. I now do not display all blog post on the main page anymore. The loading times are just to long. I liked the idea of having a single timeline but it is no longer feasable. I now display 30 post by default and the rest on a second page.

I just started reading Against the Tide of Years: A Novel of the Change (Island Book 2) by S. M. Stirling.📚