Noah Mittman

Web professional since '96; Technologist; UX and IxD; Survivor of the era of Internet Optimism; I wish all the bunk MCs turn to fish.

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"Throughout the last decade of researching platform politics, I have never witnessed such collateral damage to society caused by unchecked abusive content spread across the web and social media. Every …
Technology
Covid hoaxes are using a loophole to stay alive—even after content is deleted
MIT Technology Review - Joan Donovan
April 30
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Writing
1983 and the Future of Videogame Writing
unwinnable.com - Levi Rubeck
Levi turns back the clock on videogame crit.
May 7
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A Requiem for the Final Generation
noescapevg.com - Posted byTrevor Hultner
The angriest game I’ve ever played is one in which you never pick up a weapon. You never kill anyone. You don’t even hurt anyone. Mechanically a …
5 days ago
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Final Fantasy
I Trained My Hair Like Sephiroth for 14 Days and Now I’m a Living Weapon
fanbyte.com - Ginny Woo
Final Fantasy VII Remake has been the game on everyone’s hit list recently, and for good reason. Everyone in it looks really fucking hot. Literally …
4 days ago
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The Street Fighter Movie is Perfect, Actually
rebind.io - Emily Rose
For you, the day Rebind.io graced your screen was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday. Street Fighter (1994) – Capcom / …
May 20
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Gamer Mom: Animal Crossing Is Teaching My Kid Financial Literacy | Sidequest
sidequest.zone - Wendy Browne
Animal Crossing is not the game for me, which is why I paid no attention to the goings on around the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But two …
April 28
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Video Games
Do you have to play games to experience them legitimately?
noescapevg.com - Posted byTrevor Hultner
Ever since I started writing No Escape (and honestly, well before), there has been a topic floating around in my mind that I’ve desperately wanted to …
May 5
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Nice!
Tuca & Bertie
‘Tuca & Bertie’ Animated Series Revived at Adult Swim for Season 2
Variety - Cynthia Littleton
4 days ago
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New Mexico Politics
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao
To perform their most recent analysis, the researchers studied more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or covid-19 since January. They …
5 days ago
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong shop offers 'tear gas' flavor ice cream
post-gazette.com - By NADIA LAM and ALICE FUNG
HONG KONG — Tear gas is among the new flavors at a Hong Kong ice cream shop. The main ingredient is black peppercorns, a reminder of the pungent, …
May 15
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Entertainment
30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
The Atlantic - David Sims
These films, each unforgettable in its own way, are essential viewing. The word unique has to be one of the most overused descriptors in show business; if every movie that got touted as one-of-a-kind its
3 days ago
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QAnon
The Prophecies of Q
The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFrance
If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be a mother, picking leftovers off your toddler’s plate. You could be the young man in headphones
Now
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Books
'Economic duress is nothing new': Can America's oldest black bookstore survive the pandemic?
The Guardian - André Wheeler
Since 1975, Oakland’s Marcus Books has survived one of the most dramatic gentrifications in US history, aggressive competition from online stores, and the inevitable racism directed at a space that celebrates
May 15
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Quibi Will Be A Multi-Billion Dollar Company
Substack - Nathan Baschez & Adam Keesling
Short-form premium video is here to stay. This essay was written and researched by Adam Keesling and Nathan Baschez. A couple months ago, at an MGM …
April 6
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Pandemics
★ No Mask, No Dice
daringfireball.net - John Gruber
Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo, “Unpacking the Mask Debate”:Here’s an article that is very current among mask skeptics. It’s a review …
5 days ago
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Nursing
Coronavirus threatens autistic people living in group homes
spectrumnews.org - Marcus A. Banks
“Gray skies are gonna clear up,” Susan Epstein sings into the phone.“Put on a happy face,” sings her daughter, miles away in a group home for adults …
5 days ago
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Notes from a Nervous Nation — Emma Mowat
emmamowat.co.uk
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Universe
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
newscientist.com - By Jon Cartwright
IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a giant balloon …
April 8
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愛してる (Aishiteru): How to Say “I Love You” When the Language Doesn’t Exist | Nina Li Coomes
catapult.co - ninacoomes
愛してる (Aishiteru): How to Say “I Love You” When the Language Doesn’t Exist | Nina Li Coomes On love as idea, labor, and action, and how it is …
Mar 26, 2018
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Movies
Zack Snyder Will Release the ‘Snyder Cut’ of ‘Justice League’ on HBO Max
Variety - Matt Donnelly
6 days ago
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Artists
Edvard Munch's The Scream needs to practise physical distancing, say experts
The Guardian - Daniel Boffey in Brussels
It is a masterpiece that seems to speak to the later horrors of war in the 20th century and even the anguishes of the 21st. Now Edvard Munch’s The Scream has another claim on modernity, after it emerged
May 18
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Web Design
How To Convince Others Not To Use Dark Patterns
smashingmagazine.com - Paul Boag
How To Convince Others Not To Use Dark PatternsHow To Convince Others Not To Use Dark PatternsPaul Boag 2020-05-13T12:00:00+00:00 …
May 13
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Web Design
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar
theconversation.com - Sam Goree
Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look the …
May 6
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Privacy
A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project
daringfireball.net
A Washington Post story today on Apple and Google’s joint effort on COVID-19 exposure notification project, from reporters Reed Albergotti and Drew …
May 15
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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Substack - Ranjan Roy
There is such a thing as a free lunch Editor’s Note: As this post has gotten a bit of attention, we wanted to add in the name of my friend’s …
May 17
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UFOs
Will the New York Times Ever Stop Reporting on UFOs?
WIRED - Keith Kloor
In December 2017, the New York Times published a front page story about a ”shadowy” UFO Pentagon program that investigated encounters between Navy …
May 17
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Technology
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
The New York Times - Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 27, at a regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting with top executives at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg turned the agenda to the coronavirus. For weeks, he told his staff, he had hearing
5 days ago
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Women's News
Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown | Free to read
Financial Times - Edward Luce
When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control
May 14
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Gaming
Animal Crossing is home to 2020’s hottest late-night talk show
The Verge - Megan Farokhmanesh
Gary Whitta is seated behind a thick wooden desk, hair perfectly coiffed, wearing a suit and a smile that curls upward like a macaroni noodle. He’s halfway through introducing his next guest, Greg Miller,
May 14
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UX Design Methods In A Mind Map
uxplanet.org - Mei Zhang
TL;DR: If you are wondering when to apply which design methods, or if you are interested in a knowledge map of Product/UX design, 👉this mind map may …
May 4