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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Internet of Things
Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
WIRED - Condé Nast
In early August, the enterprise security firm Armis got a confusing call from a hospital that uses the company's security monitoring platform. One of …
October 1
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The Hulk
NYCC ’19 Interview: Journey to the center of the id with Al Ewing & THE IMMORTAL HULK
comicsbeat.com - Beat Staff
If you aren’t reading The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, you are missing out. It’s terrifying, heartfelt, mystical, deeply disturbing, and …
3 hours ago
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Long-form Journalism
How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers
buzzfeednews.com - Craig Silverman
Asher Burke built his company, Ads Inc, on the back of one of the internet’s most persistent, lucrative, and sophisticated scams — the subscription …
5 hours ago
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Retrogaming
Retro favourite Game Boy has been given a new lease of life
Wallpaper* - Luke Halls
Game Boy has turned Game Man, just in time for the original device’s 30th birthday Vintage video games have been levelled up through a contemporary reinterpretation of the Nintendo Game Boy. Analogue by
8 hours ago
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Technology (China)
The apps using social credit in China · TechNode
technode.com - Oct 15, 2019
This article originally appeared on Trivium UB, a Trivium China project focused on exploring the human factors driving China’s user markets. China’s …
1 day ago
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Farming
Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning - Eos
eos.org
Ancient Maya civilization thrived for thousands of years beneath the cover of tropical forest in Central America, but once their civilization …
October 7
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Microsoft
Microsoft Puzzling Announcements
mondaynote.com - Jean-Louis Gassée
Microsoft has been on a roll and is back at the top of the tech industry by doing exactly what Satya Nadella said he’d do when he took the reins from …
October 6
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China
Brands are Wrecking Their Sales in China Over East-West Cultural Divide
jingdaily.com
If the missteps of Versace, Coach, and Givenchy over Hong Kong two months ago taught the luxury industry a valuable lesson about government control …
5 days ago
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James Dyson
Dyson has scrapped its electric car project
BBC News
Dyson, the technology company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed "fantastic
5 days ago
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Facebook
Facebook to Pay $40M in Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit
hollywoodreporter.com - Eriq Gardner
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit Advertisers would collect the bulk of the money after alleging Facebook inflated …
October 7
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David Byrne
David Byrne, Jonathan Demme, and 35 Years of ‘Stop Making Sense’
theringer.com - Elizabeth Nelson
Johnny Cash stomping out the footlights dressed head to toe in black. Mick Jagger whipping the stage with his belt to the strains of “Midnight …
1 day ago
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Sports
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
The Atlantic - Derek Thompson
As WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end. Several weeks ago, I met up with a friend in New York who suggested we grab a bite at a Scottish bar in the
1 day ago
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Stephen Cook - 100% CSS Mario Kart
vimeo.com
2 days ago
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Addiction
A ‘Sesame Street’ character’s mom has an addiction. Experts say that’s a valuable lesson.
The Washington Post
“Having a parent battling addiction can be one of the most isolating and stressful situations young children and their families face,” Sherrie Westin, president of social impact and philanthropy at Sesame
4 days ago
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Filmmaking
Trump Followed His Gut on Syria. Calamity Came Fast.
The New York Times - David E. Sanger
President Trump’s acquiescence to Turkey’s move to send troops deep inside Syrian territory has in only one week’s time turned into a bloody carnage, forced the abandonment of a successful five-year-long
1 day ago
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Will Oremus on Twitter
medium.com - Will Oremus
Inside the company’s powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals Like most social networks, Pinterest was …
2 days ago
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Accessibility
Supreme Court hands victory to blind man who sued Domino's over site accessibility
CNBC - Tucker Higgins
The Supreme Court denied a petition from pizza giant Domino's on Monday to hear whether its website is required to be accessible to the disabled, …
October 7
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intercom.com - Jonathon Colman
We hear how his IA and UX experience informs his publishing and curating decisions at Rosenfeld Media. You’ve probably heard the parable of the six …
6 days ago
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UI Design
How to design delightful dark themes
superhuman.com - Teresa Man
At Superhuman, we’re building the fastest email experience in the world. Get through your inbox twice as fast as before, and sustain inbox zero! Dark …
6 days ago
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MacOS Catalina
Why macOS Catalina is breaking so many apps, and what to do about it
The Verge - Nick Statt
Apple’s latest Mac update, macOS Catalina, was released earlier this week, and with it came a flurry of complications both minor and major. For one, this update is the first for Apple to drop 32-bit application
4 days ago
Noah Mittman
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Technology (India)
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
The Guardian - Ed Pilkington in New York
Mistakes have become endemic, with no obvious route for the victims to seek redress New high-tech approaches sweep through social services, work, disability and health, often with minimal public debate
2 days ago
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Internet
Is Anyone Going to Get Rich off of Email Newsletters?
The Atlantic - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Venture capital has finally come for the least sexy communication style. It’s unclear to me whether anyone has ever fallen in love over email, but it’s true that the only friendship I’ve ever succeeded
October 7
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Traffic
Cars Were Banned on 14th Street. The Apocalypse Did Not Come.
The New York Times - By GINIA BELLAFANTE
Recently, I wandered around the vicinity of 14th Street and encountered a quiet that was almost eerie. I was unnervingly reminded of the days after 9/11, when cars were prohibited from making their way
2 days ago
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HBO Max
‘Sesame Street’ Is Sacred, and Everyone Needs Access
indiewire.com - Ann Donahue
As HBO Max assimilates Big Bird, Oscar, and Elmo, the neediest kids are going to be blocked from seeing the most timely, important shows. When my son …
5 days ago
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Fortnite
Fortnite has reached The End – changing video game storytelling for good
The Guardian - Keith Stuart
On Sunday evening, more than 6 million people gathered online via streaming services such as Twitch and YouTube to watch the end of the world. Not our world, thankfully, but the world of Fortnite, which
2 days ago
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Finland
Me, Mikko, and Annikki |
tcj.com - Leonard Pierce
In an era when institutional memory is being lost at an alarming rate, one of the greatest services that art can serve is to help us remember. …
2 days ago
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Pigs
Watch the first-ever video of pigs using tools with no human prompting
Vox
Chimpanzees. Elephants. Crows. Dolphins. All these animals have been observed using tools, a behavior that’s often seen as a hallmark of intelligence. But we’ve never had a record of a pig engaging in
5 days ago
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Grand Theft Auto
RE:BIND
rebind.io - Mx Medea
Hatred, Postal, Grand Theft Auto, Untitled Goose Game. What do these games have in common? Violence is a go-to staple of video game design to say the …
4 days ago
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Tariffs
How Trump’s tariffs are creating jobs — for Canadians
Salon - Lydia DePillis
FILE- In this Dec. 19, 2018, file photo packages await delivery inside of a UPS truck in Baltimore. United Parcel Service Inc. reports financial results Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky,
4 days ago
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Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia workers greet new cashless-store ban: ‘I feel like we can serve everyone now’
inquirer.com - Oona Goodin-Smith
In the brightly lit cafe nestled in the shadow of Philadelphia’s City Hall, Marla Barnes smiled as she rang up the customer’s coffee order, sliding …
October 4

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