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Paul Ford

@ftrain
17 posts
2022-10-25
Once again, and in violation of all decency, Businessweek has locked some poor writer (@matt_levine) inside the Bloomberg building and refused to let him out until he thoroughly explains an exhausting technology subject. (It's useful and great.) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-25 View on X
Bloomberg

An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: the underlying tech, its uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community

- What If You Don't Like It?  — Digital Cash  —  Part II  —  What Does It Mean?  — A Store of Value  — A Distributed Computer

2022-10-01
These Twitter/Musk texts are a disaster for sapiosexuality.
2022-10-01 View on X
Big Technology

A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition

Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.

2022-09-30
These Twitter/Musk texts are a disaster for sapiosexuality.
2022-09-30 View on X
Big Technology

A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition

Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.

2022-05-20
Word on the street...this was an all-cache deal... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-20 View on X
The Verge

Fastly acquires Glitch, the web coding service formerly called Fog Creek Software; Glitch CEO Anil Dash will join Fastly as its VP of developer experience

it's a super tough business to be in with plenty of dead startups, but they built something special so I hope they can continue to exist! https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mm...

2022-03-20
This article about Torah training software by @sirosenbaum gently connects programming, the nature of archives, gender identity, religious identity, and the ways people connect to software in ways that I will think about for a long time. https://www.inputmag.com/...
2022-03-20 View on X
Input

A look at TropeTrainer, beloved Torah learning software that helped rabbis prepare kids for bar and bat mitzvahs, which became obsolete after its creator died

S.I. Rosenbaum / Input :

2021-10-27
Congratulations to the Web, you beat the final boss. https://web.dev/...
2021-10-27 View on X
Engadget

Adobe announces Photoshop and Illustrator web apps to improve collaboration, make quick edits, and more

Adobe has announced that it's taken “a major step forward for collaboration” by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web.  The idea is not to do let you do complex wo...

2020-11-26
Amazon is hiring Pinkertons and Apple's head of ethics is accused of bribing cops with iPads in order to get a concealed carry permit. Anyway that's Monday. https://morganhilltimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
Ars Technica

Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing”

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :

Apparently Salesforce may buy Slack. The amount of brand-name tech infrastructure stuff Salesforce already owns is bananacakes. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed

they've kind of become the tech acquirer of choice. Big enough to buy $20b businesses, small enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus ...

2020-11-25
Amazon is hiring Pinkertons and Apple's head of ethics is accused of bribing cops with iPads in order to get a concealed carry permit. Anyway that's Monday. https://morganhilltimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-25 View on X
Palo Alto Online

Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits

2020-11-24
Amazon is hiring Pinkertons and Apple's head of ethics is accused of bribing cops with iPads in order to get a concealed carry permit. Anyway that's Monday. https://morganhilltimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-24 View on X
Palo Alto Online

Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits

Defendants include Sheriff Laurie Smith's second-in-command  —  Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office …

2020-05-27
imagine twitter combined with a bank https://restofworld.org/...
2020-05-27 View on X
Rest of World

A look at OKash, a popular microcredit app in Kenya that threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when they fall behind on loan payments

Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments. Tweets: @ahmed , @lalehkhali...

2020-04-06
This is true. It sucks. Communication about it is confusing. MSFT Teams requires more resources. Kids don't have wifi or machines (or safe places to sleep). But you just can't have 1.1 million kids vulnerable to being shown porn or screamed at by racist channer griefers. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-06 View on X
Washington Post

Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams

Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massi...

This is an actual IT services trainwreck (even more than the guy in LA who tried to smash a train into the hospital ship). It's leaving so, so many kids behind. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-06 View on X
Washington Post

Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams

Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massi...

2020-04-05
This is an actual IT services trainwreck (even more than the guy in LA who tried to smash a train into the hospital ship). It's leaving so, so many kids behind. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-05 View on X
Washington Post

Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams

Some school districts around the country have started to ban the use of Zoom for online learning from home during the coronavirus crisis …

2020-01-31
It's been a while since I just stared at a screen shocked by a product decision. I'd never heard of @practicefusion before today but it'll be part of case studies for the next 50 years. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Practice Fusion, which offers free, ad-supported health records software to doctors, agrees to pay $145M DOJ fine for its role in boosting opioid prescriptions

and the fact that this practice went on until 2019, years after the opioid crisis had become a full-blown national crisis, make it even more scandalous. https://www.bloomberg.com/....

2020-01-30
It's been a while since I just stared at a screen shocked by a product decision. I'd never heard of @practicefusion before today but it'll be part of case studies for the next 50 years. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Practice Fusion, which offers free, ad-supported health records software to doctors, agrees to pay $145M DOJ fine for its role in boosting opioid prescriptions

- Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu  — 'It's evil.  There's really no other word for it,' doctor says

2018-01-15
I wonder if blockchain stuff will have that same wild implosion that the web did in the early 2000s, leaving only believers, who release what users actually want six years later (and then increasing, endless consolidation). http://www.nytimes.com/...
2018-01-15 View on X
New York Times

Inside the community of early cryptocurrency investors, now multimillionaires, and how they manage newfound riches and the explosion of interest in the industry

SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg.