Join Platy’S Readwise Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Platy's read, .
Stage Manager’s workspace-oriented design doesn’t fix the underlying problem of managing windows: it merely swaps it. Now instead of managing windows, you’ll be managing a long list of separate workspaces.
Stage Manager in iPadOS 16: At the Intersection of Bugs, Missing Features, and Flawed Design
macstories.net
But in a world where social media platforms stand to monetize and profit from the graffiti on their digital walls — which contains not just porn but also misinformation and hate speech — the absolutist stance that they have total protection and total legal “immunity” is untenable.
Beyond Section 230: Three Paths to Making the Big Tech Platforms More Transparent and Accountable
niemanlab.org
Sound effects emerged in the late nineteenth century, as the motion-picture industry experimented with accompaniment to silent films. Theatres brought in live bands, orchestras, lecturers, and hidden actors who stomped and clattered in conjunction with movies; they tested strategically placed phonographs and the Kinetophone, a contraption introduced by Thomas Edison, which attempted to synch sound to movement. Enterprising inventors created effects “traps,” small machines meant to imitate everyday sounds such as a baby crying or a nose being blown.
The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
Anna Wiener
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise