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My Favorite Things This Week (2019 #5)

Keenen Charles

03 Feb 2019 — 1 min read

Articles

Android TV Is Good Now
I got a Android TV box recently and I have to agree. It took a few tries but the UI and features Google has now create a great smart TV experience.

Apple is getting closer and closer to spelling out its TV strategy
Rumours of Apple making a proper TV have stuck around forever but it seems like their plans for TV are a lot wider. It looks like they're planning to be the new cable provider for streaming services and it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

Comedians are coming for one of Instagram’s biggest joke aggregator
The #FuckFuckJerry campaign this week caught my attention after watching the Fyre festival docs. Seems like this has been brewing amongst comedians a while now.

Videos

Software is replacing lots of traditional jobs and the trend looks to be accelerating. I wonder how we'll live when there aren't enough jobs for anyone. Will we adopt policies to do so or will new jobs arise to fill the spaces?

Vice has a great look at the deadly fires in California last year.

Music

Meta is Getting AR Right

It seems that major tech companies are placing two major bets on the "next platform:" Artificial Intelligence and Augmented/Virtual Reality. Meta has dabbled in AI, but it's poured a ton of money into AR and VR in the past decade. They've been tackling

AI is Not a Friend

The following tweet might easily be one of the most unintentionally dystopian posts I've seen. At first, it seems fine. Changes to APIs on iOS can harm the app ecosystem and what's possible for developers. But this part sticks out. Have you seen it yet? a

People Power

For a long stretch of human history, meritocracy would have been a foreign concept. People were born into positions and no one expected to be in a different position at the end of their lives. The promise of meritocracy must have been intoxicating for the masses when it became a

Dark Mode Sucks

There I've said it. The decision by major tech companies to add native dark mode support to their operating systems is the biggest mistake in the last decade. Does it look like you're doing some cool hacks with Angelina Jolie? I guess. But does it look