Category: Link posts

• ‘“Magic” Might Just Be The Best Nas Album Of The Millennium‘ by Deen for Passion of the Weiss
• ‘Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network’ by John Goerzen
• [PDF] ‘iCloud Private Relay Overview’ by Apple
• ‘The Assassination of Drakeo the Ruler’ by Jeff Weiss for LA Magazine
• ‘Hikaru Utada Returns, With ‘BAD Mode’ & A Better Sense of Self’ by Bradley Stern for Billboard

• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• ‘Ghost in the ethernet optic’ by benjojo
• ‘Using a mild Twitter addiction to actually get things done’ by nick comer
• ‘The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts’ by John Gruber
• ‘Consistency Sin’ by Craig Hockenberry
• ‘Mint’s Games of the Year 2021’ by Mint
• ‘A Blockchain Primer for Blockchain Skeptics’ by Bruno Dias
• ‘BGP in 2021 – The BGP Table’ by Geoff Huston for the APNIC blog
• ‘Back To Normal Isn’t Enough’ by Kelsey McKinney for Defector

• ‘The new American dream: getting paid to do nothing?’ by Emma Rindlisbacher for The Verge
• ‘Five former SpaceX employees speak out about harassment at the company’ by Loren Grush for The Verge
• ‘A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution’ by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero
• ‘USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables’ by Glenn Fleishman for TidBits
• Vicious by V. E. Schwab

• ‘How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion’ by Louise Matsakis, Meaghan Tobin and Wency Chen for Rest of World
• ‘Twitter Is The Worst Reader’ by Fonda Lee
• ‘Tired of Netflix’ by Andre Garzia
• ‘Black Sun’ by Rebecca Roanhorse

It’s Halo Infinite review season!

• ”Halo Infinite’ Is a Fun Sandbox Stuck Inside a Very Old Video Game’ by Cameron Kunzelman for Waypoint
• ‘Review: Halo Infinite’s campaign finishes the fight—but arrives in tatters’ by Sam Machkovech for Ars Technica
• ‘Halo Infinite review: grappling hooks and jeep joyrides make up for a shaky sci-fi plot’ by Brendan Caldwell for Rock Paper Shotgun
• ‘Halo Infinite saves the series by finally doing something different’ by Nicole Carpenter for Polygon

And the rest of the non-Halo stuff I read this week:

• ‘China’s queer internet is being erased’ by Lavender Au and Weiqi Liu for Rest of World
• ‘How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation’ by Karen Hao for MIT Technology Review
• ‘Notable Sandwiches #7: Bánh Mì’ by Talia Bracha Lavin
• ‘The Complete History of the Kings and Queens of New York Rap’ by Paul Thompson for The Ringer