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Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app

Facebook is plugging a VPN app they own. It lets you hide your non-FB activity from your ISP and let Facebook collect that data instead.

Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app

Onavo Protect, the VPN client from the data-security app maker acquired by Facebook back in 2013, has now popped up in the Facebook iOS app itself, under the..

Harry Potter Parenting: Harry As Unreliable Narrator

Harry Potter Parenting: Harry As Unreliable Narrator

As you read Harry Potter, do you find yourself criticizing the adults for their many failings? Perhaps some of the fault lies in the fact that the stories are told in Harry’s point of view, and he is an unreliable narrator.

An example of how confused movie ratings have gotten: Logan’s director went for the R rating not so they could show the violence, but so they could do serious drama that adults would appreciate but 11-year-olds would find boring. @ComicBook

An example of how confused movie ratings have gotten:

Logan’s director went for the R rating not so they could show the violence, but so they could do serious drama that adults would appreciate but 11-year-olds would find boring.

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/02/09/logan-director-reveals-why-movie-had-to-be-r-rated/ @ComicBook

California Cities Could Wield Zoning Laws Against Offshore Drilling Plan

In the 1980s, California towns used local zoning rules to block offshore oil and gas drilling. State lawmakers are considering a similar strategy to push back against the Trump administration.

Nice: the Catalog of Missing Devices imagines apps, gadgets, toys and tools that are technically possible, but can’t be brought to market in a world with DRM.

The Dawn of Solar Windows

Future skyscrapers will harvest energy from the sun with photovoltaic windows

Interesting story about the history of the Los Angeles River (and paving it).

Paving the Los Angeles River wasn’t an egalitarian idea. The plan for revitalizing it should be

As we remake the Los Angeles River once again, we ought to allow the river to re-make us, too — into a more equitable city.

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Network Neutrality: A History of Common Carrier Laws 1884–2018

Good analysis of the Patreon fiasco from comicsbeat

Good analysis of the @Patreon fiasco from @comicsbeat: Patreon’s Silence Is Destroying Their Two Greatest Successes

Rolling up all my pledges for the month into one charge is a *feature*, not a problem to “fix.”

Well, this isn’t very encouraging. But it does have a couple of interesting diagrams showing how Santa Ana winds form.

Sheep with cameras.

How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View

The Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago that juts out of the cold seas between Norway and Iceland, doesn’t even appear on some world maps. But as of last week, the verdant slopes, rocky hiking trails and few roads of the 18 islands are on Google Street View — and a team of camera-toting sheep helped get them there.