🔗 Coalition needs a miracle to win next election

“He’s an ex-marketing guy and he wasn’t good at that either,” Prof van Onselen said.

😂

Watching: Black Mirror: Arkangel (S4.E2)

After nearly losing her daughter, a mother invests in a new technology that allows her to keep track of her.

Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook

The privacy researcher collective App Census estimates that “approximately 30 percent of all apps in Google’s Play store contact Facebook at startup” through the company’s SDK. The research firm Statista estimates that the Google Play store has over 2.6 million apps as of December 2018.

Clickbait headline aside, that’s a pretty shocking number of apps that connect to Facebook even if you don’t have an account, specially considering some of the apps that do it, i.e. Tinder, Grindr, Pregnancy+.

🔗 We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It – WIRED

Public anxiety over the side effects of screen time—the hours we spend staring at our various devices—is the highest it’s been in years. That anxiety has manifested in The form of self-help books, social movements, major media outlets foretelling “the worst mental-health crisis in decades,” and no shortage of guilt.

@burk, that’s quite the list!

@EddieHinkle Here are “a couple..” 😀
Switch Games
– Zelda Breath of the Wild
– Super Mario Odyssey
– Octopath Traveler
– Stardew Valley
– Cat Quest
– Tricky Towers
– Pokémon Let’s Go
– Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
– Mario Kart
– Spaltoon 2
– Super Mario Party
– Golf Story
– Rocket League
– Morphite
– Overcooked
– Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
– Snipper Clipz
– Sparkle Unleased
– Celeste

Colin O’Brady completed the first solo, unaided Antarctica crossing

Using solely his own muscle power, O’Brady skied 932 miles pulling a 300-pound sled over 54 frigid days across the coldest, windiest, most remote continent on Earth.

Damn, that’s impressive! 👏

Liked https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HwKFlOu2EVU

Habanero Hot Sauce recipe, by Aaron Parecki

My favorite part of @patrickrhone‘s Reading Plan for 2019 is;

Reading is reading. Magazines, newspapers, Instapaper, etc. all count towards the goal of reading more.

This is something I get wrong. The last few years I’ve only counted the number of actual books I’ve read, which totally discounts the value of the various essays, comics, online articles, that I’ve read.

Watching: Shaun of the Dead (2004) 📺

A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.

🧟‍♂️

Watching: Paul (2011) 📺

Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.

👽