Amazeballs

Welp, today kicked off yet another day of chaos in Ferguson, Mo., where law and order have apparently evaporated, reporters are live-tweeting their arrests, and 14-year-old boys with Dark Web access seem like the most effective "justice" system around. This, for the record, is Wesley Lowery's account of his detainment, and this is a truly chilling video from the scene by the New York Times. I can't lend any levity to this subject, so let's just hit the links:

1. Algorithms, even scarier than you thought! It took days for Ferguson to show up in many user's Facebook trending topics and filtered newsfeeds. On the unfiltered web, however -- the web without algorithms -- we saw the conflict unfold in real-time. Here's what that means for information and democracy.

2. Podcasting, the first 10 years. Adam Curry wasn't the Internet's first-ever podcaster, but he was pretty damn close. Yesterday he marked his podcast's 10-year anniversary -- and reflected on how the medium has changed in the meantime.

3. Smartphones are actually not that smart. If a phone can track everywhere you go, it should also be able to put your contacts in a sensible order, right?!

Three years, one GIF. <3

Pocketable: The Internet's original sin. (4486 words/18 minutes)

Postscripts: Sushi socks. Beefcake yoga. Anagramatron. How to buy happiness and be polite. Menu designs, dissected. Chain restaurants, ranked. Where are all my fellow lefties at these days? Change we can believe in and change we cannot. Today, in lol, Tinder: techies, tackles and "earnest pop songs." Amazeballs, the ODO can do no wrong.

Until tomorrow!
@caitlindewey

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