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April 7, 2016
Printfection – Looks like I’ve got a new favourite t-shirt supplier: Printfection has organic cotton Ts in fitted (“women’s”) sizes up to 54″ in 13 different colours, and at $19.99 each which isn’t too bad. They do zazzle/cafepress style fulfilment, though it looks like they’re aiming more for a pro market than a hobbyist one. Fine by me! I think I’m about to start selling t-shirts! (I’ve been putting it off for years because I couldn’t find tshirt stock I wanted to wear.)
Joshua Ellis revisits the Grim Meathook Future – This post pretty much reflects the contents of my brain when it comes to a) the fuckedness of the VC-driven tech industry, and b) dystopian futurism (or rather, presentism). Except for the bit where he blames technologists for the death of newspapers and record sales, because really, can’t we share that with Murdoch and his musical equivalents? Anyway, a must-read on the subject of the grim, meathook, unevenly-distributed, venture-funded, watching-cops-assault-people-on-YouTube present and/or future.
Salon.com » The case for telling everyone what you make – This is something I believe in pretty strongly. I’d also love to see a buttload more salary transparency when jobs are advertised (yeah, dream on) but at least an increased culture of sharing this info should be good for websites like glassdoor where you can find salary info when you’re jobhunting.
Popping the social media zit – sabreuse talks bucketloads of sense about those “share” buttons that are like acne all over websites.