Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
Remember when Google’s april fool’s day pranks were fun, instead of being getting-rid-of-inbox-forever?
Cyberfeminist Index (~1990s-present) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_ZlbZhstBTfnZL4QP11ebivXgsvrf8shuG-QX146nw/edit#gid=1949020646
Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html
patience diffing algorithm https://https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com/flak/post/patience-diffing-algorithm
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
anything to ditch those pesky google products!
I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year “ Here’s What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack
Neal Stephenson: “Anathem” | Talks at Google - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE
Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world
Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/
How to Backup Your Allo Conversations Before Google Shuts it Down https://lifehacker.com/how-to-backup-your-allo-conversations-before-google-shu-1830922541
The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/
Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout
Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/
Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
Thread by @morganknutson: “Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I’m still pissed about the ba […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1049523067506966529.html
Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/
Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone
A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/
programmer interfaces - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bEgysfDmb8PDV6iCAjH5JIvaI/edit#slide=id.g1da0625f1b_0_56
Prolog Basics Class https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3KMzm7tx_py67vc__JgoO1imlscNkVQ7_6ppvxOCoTWOUVQ/viewform
Googleâs Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
if comcast replaces its entire tech support department with google duplex, would it still be part of the marketing branch?
What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict
Yeah, this is almost exactly what I did too: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions
Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change
Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.
Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself - Silly Bits https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
song2comdemo https://sites.google.com/site/song2comdemo/
A letter about Google AMP ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/4Dn
TIL: doing google image search for ‘japanese ’ is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. ‘anime ’ works much better.
Google and Others Are Building… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609762/google-and-others-are-building-ai-systems-that-doubt-themselves/
Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.
Tech Ethics Curriculum - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jWIrA8jHz5fYAW4h9CkUD8gKS5V98PDJDymRf8d9vKI/edit?imm_mid=0f852c
FeedBurner History: Why Google Can‘t Kill It https://tedium.co/2017/11/14/google-feedburner-rss-history/
GitHub - google/bottery https://github.com/google/bottery
Fact Checks | Search https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/factcheck