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It’s a position particularly appealing to contrarians, and, like many contrarian arguments, can veer quite quickly from “vaguely intriguing” to “impossibly boorish.”

The coming pro-smoking discourse - by Max Read - Read Max

Over 15% of Black drivers experienced an escalated outcome such as a search, handcuffing, or arrest, while less than 1% of white drivers experienced one of those outcomes.

A police officer's first words to a Black driver signal how the car stop will go : NPR

"When officers began with orders without reasons, Black male participants predicted that the stop would escalate in over 84% of those cases," says Rho. And even though none of the stops in this study involved the use of force, Black men worried about the possibility of force 80% of the time when they heard a recording of a law enforcement officer issuing a command without offering a reason.

A police officer's first words to a Black driver signal how the car stop will go : NPR

Car stops that result in a search, handcuffing, or arrest are nearly three times more likely to begin with the police officer issuing a command, such as "Keep your hands on the wheel" or "Turn the car off."

A police officer's first words to a Black driver signal how the car stop will go : NPR

No one will notice you were gone because this video keeps playing.” As long as the computer’s awake, I can be wherever I want.

The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge

But you know what’s actually easier than tweaking a bunch of settings, especially for younger users accustomed to finding everything they need on YouTube? Just playing a video. One commenter on a blank-screen video called it “the perfect video to cast to your tv when you’re too tired to get up and turn it off,” which seems both ridiculous — if you can cast from your phone to your TV, you can probably use your phone to turn off your TV! — and telling. A blank-screen video is both a stupid solution and a strangely elegant one.

(via The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge)

In this case, it turns out, the outrageous length is the whole appeal. Across all these videos and many other silent blank ones, every viewer seems to have their own use case. The most common, by far, is to use these videos as a way to simply keep your device on. “I keep this playing overnight so that my laptop doesn’t shutdown while downloading games,” one commenter wrote. “I have to keep this open on my phone because it’s broken and will not turn back on if it turns off,” another said.

The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge

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Don’t just ask what the gadget does: ask who it does it for and who it does it to. That’s the foundation of Luddism, which is smeared as a technophobic rejection of technology, but which was only ever a social rejection of the specific economic arrangements of that technology. Specifically, the Luddites rejected the idea that machines should be “so easy a child could use them” in order to kidnap children from orphanages and working them to death at those machines…

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It is worth remembering that the internet wasn’t supposed to be like this. It wasn’t supposed to be six boring men with too much money creating spaces that no one likes but everyone is forced to use because those men have driven every other form of online existence into the ground. The internet was supposed to have pockets, to have enchanting forests you could stumble into and dark ravines you knew better than to enter. The internet was supposed to be a place of opportunity, not just for profit but for surprise and connection and delight. Instead, like most everything American enterprise has promised held some new dream, it has turned out to be the same old thing—a dream for a few, and something much more confining for everyone else.

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(via Perceptually uniform color models and their implications / Max Bo | Observable)

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Suddenly, instead of building their own system, they were working inside one.

(via How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks)

Every time we ask users for information, we lose their energy and attention bit by bit. On a scale of easy to hard, information gathering goes from: yes/no questions > multi select > free text entry (hardest)

3 lessons from Bumble’s onboarding | by Rosie Hoggmascall | Mar, 2023 | UX Collective

83% won’t willingly share their data, even to help make better products 47% think that their devices are listening to them (I’m in this bucket for sure…) 40% of respondents don’t trust companies to use their data ethically

3 lessons from Bumble’s onboarding | by Rosie Hoggmascall | Mar, 2023 | UX Collective

Juice is the non-essential visual, audio & haptic effects that enhance the player's experience. For example, the delightful chimes sound that plays when Mario collects a mushroom

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