markjgsmith

2019/04/03 #

Today’s links:

• Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Applewww.nytimes.com #

• Apple News+ wrangled more than 200,000 subscriptions in first 48 hours - This article has a video walk through of the app, it does look very nice, lots of interesting looking content, one thing regular internet users are going to miss though is urls, doesn't seem like there is any way to link to articlesappleinsider.com #

• Brussels on Brexit - would EU leaders say yes to an extension?www.theguardian.com #

• An interesting take on the south border crisis in the US, previous to Trump taking office there wasn't much of an issue, but all the campaigning has had a Streisand effect and now more people want to migrate to the US via the southern border because of all the publicitylite.cnn.io #

• Time for some mexican punk - San Felipe es Punk - "Polo Pepo came from the 60s hippie movement, survived the government repression of the youth during the 70's and 80s, and finally found in punk the true spirit of rock and roll"lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com #

• Facebook Removed Hundreds Of Indian And Pakistani Political Pages For Spreading Bad Information Before India's Electionswww.buzzfeednews.com #

• Why there’s so little left of the early internet - I love the idea behind the internet archive but in practice I can never get the internet archive's wayback machine to actually archive links.markjgsmith.com, even though I have gone in and clicked save now several times recently, the saves never show up in the archives for the site, the last time it got archived was in August 2018www.bbc.com #

• Sort of an interesting Brexit development - Junker has said that the UK would have to agree to the main points in the proposed agreement anyway even in the case of a no deal exit, which is a bit like saying that no deal doesn't really exist as a possibility, isn't it a bit late to say this now 5 days after the initial exit date?www.independent.co.uk #

• French Pres Macron says EU cannot be held hostage to the UK political crisis - Apparerntly the new angle from France is that Brexit is actually Euxit - it's the EU that's leaving the UK, it's reversal time!inews.co.uk #

• Nasa says that when India shot down a satellite from orbit using a missile that it sent lots of space debris into unknown orbits that could collide with the international space station - Serious question: how could it be that their space scientists did not envision this?techcrunch.com #