I know, I know—Amazon is the devil. But that devil is responsible for 50% of my company’s orders, so it’s a devil I need to impress. (That my business both depends on Amazon and is potentially impossible because of Amazon has not escaped me. Also, you could swap in the word “Ingram” for “Amazon” and the statement would also be true.)

Amazon is changing how we write - Notes from a Small Press

nevver:

Krazy Kat

hotelfred:

Works For Me www.patreon.com/hotelfred http://dlvr.it/RxMk6x

nicoladagostino:

È disponibile la mia nuova collaborazione con la casa editrice londinese Korero Press, il libro di illustrazioni “Sex and Horror: Volume Four”. Il libro è il quarto della della collana Sex and Horror e come i precedenti raccoglie e ripropone l’immaginario dei cosiddetti “pocket erotici” italiani degli Sessanta e Settanta.
“Sex and Horror: Volume Four” – Nicola D'Agostino (.net)

screenshotsofdespair:

Some years ago, people started noticing all sorts of things embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain. There are digital images, including one of Nelson Mandela. There’s the Bitcoin logo, and the original paper describing Bitcoin by its alleged founder, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. There are advertisements, and several prayers. There’s even illegal pornography and leaked classified documents. All of these were put in by anonymous Bitcoin users. But none of this, so far, appears to seriously threaten those in power in governments and corporations. Once someone adds something to the Bitcoin ledger, it becomes sacrosanct. Removing something requires a fork of the blockchain, in which Bitcoin fragments into multiple parallel cryptocurrencies (and associated blockchains). Forks happen, rarely, but never yet because of legal coercion. And repeated forking would destroy Bitcoin’s stature as a stable(ish) currency. […] Imagine someone using this idea to evade government censorship. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. What if someone added a bunch of Chinese-censored Falun Gong texts to the blockchain? What if someone added a type of political speech that Singapore routinely censors? Or cartoons that Disney holds the copyright to?

Illegal Content and the Blockchain - Schneier on Security

storiesofapple:

There’s a brand new Story of Appe on Patreon:
“Richard Williamson and Ken Kocienda about development APIs, frameworks… and making informed choices”