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  • The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune (The New Yorker)

    Liu Mama, a loud-mouthed, ruddy-cheeked Northern farmer with millions of online followers, is one of many Chinese streamers participating in a virtual gold rush.

  • The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

    All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and…

  • How China complicates Apple’s chest-thumping about privacy by https://www.facebook.com/contentnewton (The Verge)

    A former Facebook executive points out that Apple likely has to make compromises, too

  • China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (iTnews)

    Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.

  • UK data watchdog fines Facebook maximum legal amount for Cambridge Analytica scandal by James Vincent (The Verge)

    The fine is just £500,000, but regulators say it should have been ‘significantly higher’

  • Server to Client by Ali Alabbas (alistapart.com)

    Before anything can happen in a browser, it must first know where to go. There are multiple ways to get somewhere: entering a URL in the address bar, clicking (or tapping) on a link on a page or in another app, or clicking on a favorite. No matter the case, these all result in what’s called a navigation. A navigation is the very first step in any web interaction, as it kicks off a chain reaction of events that culminates in a web page being loaded.

  • http://scottmallinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/44580389_504602653355225_534340483416876841_n-2.jpg

    Can I? Should I? Will I? A fellow @beijinghikers assessing one of the many peaks in the Baicheng Landform.

  • http://scottmallinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/43816407_128895578083109_1207915326575704037_n-1.jpg

    Thank you @mathiasheng for awarding me first prize 🏆 for this photo from our recent trip to Xinjiang. A special thanks to @beijinghikers for organising the incredible and eye-opening trip.

  • The Baicheng Landforms in Xinjiang are how I’d imagine the surface of Mars to look. Vast and barren with rich reds and browns.

  • The tool and the task. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com)

    Our design tools change the design of our products and, at times, they can change us. How do we talk about that?