Category: Weekly digest

• History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump
• Watch Michelle Obama’s Scene-Stealing DNC Speech – So good.
• Full Speech: President Obama addresses the DNC
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: “Just Tell Him You’re The President” (Season 7, Episode 1)
• WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
• Jeremy Corbyn and the paranoid style
• Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer
• What’s next for Flickr after Yahoo’s sale? – While it’s been stale for a while, it feels like I need to move my photo’s elsewhere. Shame.
• What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
• Platform wars: the final score – Smart analysis
• iPad-only is the new desktop Linux
• The New Desktop Linux
• You Know What? Fuck Drop Downs.
• Do you need to have that meeting?
• The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionised Emulation – It’s amazing what you can get for so little investment.

• How a racist, sexist hate mob forced Leslie Jones off Twitter
• Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos – The fact that Yiannopoulos is a conservative has nothing to do with this story. He is a manipulative bully that has crossed the line many a time. Twitter is all the better without him.
• I’m With The Banned – must read from Laurie Penny
• Your phone is now a refugee’s phone [watch on a mobile]
• Iceland – Monochromatic
• Clay Shirky, on avoiding complacency this election season – I laughed off Trump but Brexit told us anything can happen.
• First Lady Michelle Obama Carpool Karaoke – can’t see Melania doing this
• Master Plan, Part Deux – Elon Musk unveils the next steps. Wow.
• WONDER WOMAN Comic-Con Trailer – Looking good
• Justice League Special Comic-Con Footage – Looking good?
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Official Comic-Con Trailer [HD] – Guy Ritchie directs Game of Thrones
• Doctor Strange Official Trailer 2 – Marvel remakes Inception
• Sherlock: Series 4 Teaser (Official)

Another quiet week…

• Gun Deaths In America – Data behind the numbers.
• I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
• I Just Saw This Picture And I’m So Disturbed. Because It’s Me.
• After Dallas Shootings, Police Arrest People for Criticizing Cops on Facebook and Twitter – So now the police take social threats seriously.
• For The Record – Boom
• The Last Day at Number 10 – The changes in power this week in the UK have been breathtakingly quick. Insight here from 2010.
• A Short History of Boris Johnson Insulting Foreign Leaders – Be funnier if it wasn’t true
• Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox as the Three Brexiteers? Dream on.
• Labour is miles away from government, says man out to replace Corbyn
• Game of Thrones Beginner’s Guide: Uncensored (HBO) – Listen up mother fucker!
• R+L=J | Departure – Stunning fan made video on the Jon Snow theory.
• How technology disrupted the truth – who do you believe?
• Reversing the wall
• Indie bookshops turn a new page to fight off threat from Amazon
• Inside The Playlist Factory – Apple Music has a lot of flaws, but the surfacing of great music via their playlists is a definite plus.
• 3D geological models in Minecraft – Geological Glasgow in Minecraft.
• Inside the data center where Facebook trains and tests its apps
• Parading Bull – The Fujifilm X-T2 Review – My next camera
• Snow ghosts – stunning pictures of amazing architecture
• The Unusual Excellence Of Halo’s Most Iconic Level
• We’re The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer – Well done Channel 4

Shorter list this week thanks to the copious amount os sport this weekend. Well played Andy Murray and the other brits who performed amazingly well over the last couple of days.

• Neil Kinnock: ‘I’m bloody angry. Only anger is keeping me from falling into despair’ – Listen to the audio as well.
• Andrea Leadsom is the leader of an am-dram peasants’ revolt
• The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
• The incredible things that had to go just right for Juno to reach Jupiter – Almost lost in the news this week, but the Juno mission is breathtaking.
• The UX Secret That Will Ruin Apps For You – Must read
• Building My $1,200 Hackintosh – Apple’s lack of up to date hardware has some people looking at building their own Mac’s, but so much doesn’t work is it really worth it?
• Are We At The Start Of A Tech World War?
• Battlefield 1 – Immerse – Ultrawide 21:9 gameplay without the HUD. Looks stunning.
• We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets
• The Flying Sensor Network That Could (Finally!) Save Our Planet
• These Are the Top Drone Photos in the World
• The best iPhone photographs of 2016 – in pictures
• Inside the BBC at Wimbledon – a photo essay
• PHASED | LA – Stunning video

• How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot’
• Luck Runs Out for a Leader of ‘Brexit’ Campaign – Boris the schemer got out schemed by Gove. Shower of cunts. To do what they’ve done to the country all for the prize of being PM.
• Britain needs to pull together to beat this ugly rise in racism
• Here’s Why A Pro-EU Party Could Be Screwed At The Next General Election
• London’s New, $20 Billion Subway Line: A Tour
• Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode
• Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
• I, SNOWBOT
• How Apple obsessive John Gruber built Daring Fireball, the world’s most powerful one-man media company – Good listen
• The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
• See the Connections Behind Ned’s Promise With This Infographic – This season has been great and this infographic from HBO explains the family relationships at the heart of Game of Thrones.
• Tony Hawk Lands 900 At 48!

What a week that was. Leave won the day but the UK is divided beyond belief. It’s now clear there is a rise in racial targeting and hate crimes across the UK. This isn’t the country I want to live in.

• A tragic split
• I want my country back
• Eight reasons Leave won the UK’s referendum on the EU
• With a single vote, England just screwed us all
• How the United Kingdom voted on Thursday… and why – some good data in these polls
• EU vote truly signals the end of a Union dearer to me
• The Brexit debate is far from over: there will have to be a further vote
• Brexit is terrifying — and no, not because of the economics
• Post EU Referendum Racism Documented Online And It’s Really Scary
• Second EU Referendum Petition Started By Leave Voter William Oliver Healey
• How David Cameron blew it
• Faisal Islam, Sky News Journalist, Says Pro-Brexit MP Told Him ‘Leave Campaign Don’t Have A Plan’ – Fucking unbelievable
• 20 Years! – Iconfactory, one of the best Apple development houses is 20 and celebrate with a great website.
• Game of Thrones Season 6: Anatomy of A Scene: The Battle of Winterfell (HBO) – Epic TV.
• Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
• Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives
• Introducing SpotMini
• Blade Runner – Typeset in the Future
• Command And Conquer – Tiberian Dawn in HTML5

Another horrible tragic week. When will it end?

• The Guardian view on Jo Cox: an attack on humanity, idealism and democracy
• If you inject enough poison into the political bloodstream, somebody will get sick
• My friend Jo Cox: she was the best of us
• Project fear is a fitting name, you should be fucking terrified
• I’m fucking terrified.
• So Britain, are you ready to enter the United Kingdom of Ukip?
• Euan McColm: I want my country back from nasty nationalists
• How Orlando unfolded on @nytimes, in a GIF
• 48 people were shot during a 15-hour filibuster on gun control
• Thoughts and Prayers – The Game
• iOS 10: Our Complete Overview
• Meet Bozoma Saint John, Your Favorite Part of WWDC
• What is Differential Privacy?
• The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2016
• Here’s What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Acquisitions
• The Forrest Gump of the Internet
• Self-proclaimed ‘Thought Leader’ Gives Talk on ‘Thought Leadership’

• Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combined – Thoughts and prayers don’t cut it. Action. Laws. America needs a leader willing to do something rather than make great speeches.
• Old enemy rears its ugly head as England fans clash with police – terrible scenes in France over the weekend.
• Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
• How web search data might help diagnose serious illness earlier
• You won’t hear about this in the mainstream media – Because Laura Kuenssberg is a woman?
• Being an athlete and a mum is possible – just not for me
• Why smart homes are still so dumb – I so much want a smart home but it feels years away
• The Crappy Person Checklist
• We’ve Hit Peak Human and an Algorithm Wants Your Job. Now What?
• Bloomberg Global Tech Issue 2016 – What a wonderful design from Bloomberg.
• On Icons – Always love a good icon
• A Conversation About Fantasy User Interfaces
• Eve Online’s World War, Explained
• The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris
• “Slow Jam the News” with President Obama
• GUY MARTIN vs MICHAEL DUNLOP @ 200mph! PURE ADRENALINE! On Bike POV Lap! Isle of Man TT RACES – Heart pumping and thats just watching the video. So much respect for the guys that do this, especially with the deaths during this years TT.

Muhammad Ali. The Greatest. Such a feeling of sadness about someone I don’t know…but everyone knows. There is so much to consume…video’s, photographs and personal stories of how the great man touched so many people. So to start this week, a couple of my favourites.

• Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome, Houston, 1966 – An amazing photo, my favourite of Ali.
• The story behind the greatest photograph in sports history – This isn’t bad either
• Muhammad Ali Dies at 74: Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century
• The Greatest Comic Book Of ‘Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
• My time with the Greatest of All Time
• A slave in Scotland: ‘I fell into a trap – and I couldn’t get out’ – Almost unbelievable but awful story
• “Coincidence Detector”: The Google Chrome Extension White Supremacists Use to Track Jews
• Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider – A look at Corbyn, and some of his backroom staff. Amateurish springs to mind.
• UKIP MEP Jane Collins takes EU damages escape route – Jawdropping
• At the Border, You Either Want ‘The Wall’ or Know Why It’ll Never Happen
• Campus rapist given lenient sentence to avoid “severe impact on him”
• Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker – If you only have time to read one thing make it this.
• 2016 Internet Trends Report – Dense at 213 slides so this hot take tweet will help. Some good insights.
• Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon | Code Conference 2016
• Elon Musk | Full interview | Code Conference 2016
• Elon Musk thinks we all live in a video game. So what if we do?
• Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps – I’m maps geek so love the detail but its a long read.
• The Future of Work in 5 Charts

• China’s Science Revolution – The telescope is amazing. Nice presentation form the BBC too.
• This iPhone-only professional photographer is the future of sports photography
• Augmented Cognition: not science fiction, just smarts on our phones
• The Fraudulent Claims Made By Ibm About Watson And Ai.
• Machine Bias
• HYPER-REALITY – Amazing video of what the future could look like
• The End of the Office Dress Code
• Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years – How do you backup data?
• On Steve Rogers #1, Antisemitism, And Publicity Stunts
• Suddenly, national newspapers are heading for that print cliff fall – Oh oh
• New migraine drugs promise relief — but at a steep price – Interesting
• Uncharted 4 Game play in REAL LIFE
• Drone Star Wars – Drones really are changing whats possible for amateur moviemakers
• The whole Star Wars Episode IV in one picture
• Radiohead at the Roundhouse, London