Notices by Assaf 🌴 (assaf@mas.to)

That being said, TikTok is not your friend when it comes to mental health:

"Around 50% of the most popular mental health videos on TikTok were misleading, according to two licensed psychologists who reviewed them.

Additionally, over 50% of the creators making ADHD-related videos on TikTok appeared to be selling a product or asking for donations."

https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/mental-health-content-tiktok-rife-misinformation

"During this election cycle, for example, DoorDash has donated $625,000 to the RGA. This money has been used to support Robinson and other Republican gubernatorial candidates.“

also Google ($585K), Walmart ($570K), CVS ($550K), Microsoft ($550K), Amazon ($450K), Oracle ($325K), Pfizer ($300K), Coca-Cola ($250K), and some other usual suspects

https://popular.info/p/these-companies-are-bankrolling-a

feels so real

A complete implementation of Tetris in a SQL query

https://github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql

TL;DR Microsoft will spy on you — passwords, bank accounts, porn sites, everything

There was an option to turn the spying off, but turns out the "don't spy on me" option is a "a bug”

"It’s possible that Microsoft may need to add a Recall uninstall option to EU copies of Windows 11 to comply with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24233992/microsoft-recall-windows-11-uninstall-feature-bug

free tip

So the conservative boycott of Bud Light was successful enough that it kicked Bud Light down to third place (6.5% of beer dollar sales)

But the first spot?

Modelo Especial – a Mexican imported beer at 9.7%

(not my favorite, the Model Negra is much nicer)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/18/bud-light-beer-sales-ranking-boycott/74463050007/

To me that part is not a surprise

"Much of the American Bitcoin mining industry can now be found in Texas, home to giant power plants, lax regulation, and crypto-friendly politicians.”

https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

Unforget is a minimalist, offline-first, and end-to-end encrypted note-taking app (not using Electron.js)

https://unforget.computing-den.com

According to CNN on Monday, Dubai has the second busiest airport in the world

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/travel/worlds-busiest-airports-passengers-2023/

According to AP in Tuesday, Dubai has the most storm drenched airport in the world

https://apnews.com/article/uae-oman-rains-flooding-fatalities-7bf3881efbea998dfa4c1ed8d538217c

Sometimes news articles are timed to coincide with each other

Sometimes the timing is just a pure coincidence

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

Most of this reads like it’s documenting the demise of search engines (*cough*Google*cough*) and traffic-heavy websites, which was inevitable, and not AI’s blame. But … kid shows???

“All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact even in the media they consume. There’s no other word but dystopian. …”

The idea is interesting (I don’t actually have an account, just love the concept) …

Naymee — The social network for people that love domains

https://naymee.com/

@lain then this joke wouldn't be as funny and get that many boosts

One is a toilet cleaner, the other is for washing dishes. Choose wisely

Me? I'm just here milking my laundry

I’m old enough to remember using EDIT.CO

The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

From Sketchplanations, a weekly explanation in a sketch https://sketchplanations.com/

It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives

https://lifehacker.com/tech/best-evernote-alternatives

I use Notion (*cough*geek*cough*), didn’t get along with OneNote at all, used Bear for a while, wasn’t too happy about paying monthly, not going to touch Google’s Keep, don’t know much about the other options, but they do look interesting. What’s your favorite?

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query

Where’s Assaf?

The past three months have been quite the adventure. On May 4, I was headed home, walking back from my regular coffee shop, and was hit by a car going way too fast.

Seriously hit. Broken bones, torn liver, spinal cord injury, the works. I ended up in ICU, sedated for two weeks, underwent 7 surgeries. They were not sure that I’d make it out alive, or fully recover, possibly be paralyzed.

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