Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, has died.
Henry Kissinger called him the most dangerous man in America. Before Edward Snowden, before Chelsea Manning, and a year before Deep Throat, he revealed that the United States knew it couldn’t win the war in Vietnam. In an attempt to discredit him, Nixon set off the Watergate scandal that led to his own resignation.
The New York Times’ obituary for Ellsberg is free to read.
In Fast Company, I argued that it's time for the US and Canada to end right-on-red, a policy that needlessly endangers pedestrians and cyclists.
#safety #walking #biking #cycling
https://www.fastcompany.com/90908929/its-time-for-a-nationwide-ban-of-right-on-red
Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge. To make this step easier, we now have a default sign-up option that works with a server we operate. If you wish to leave or join a different server, you can do so at any time.
The reason why retweet-style post creation is important is because it turns every post into a prompt.
Normal people need prompts. And social tools like Mastodon need normal people participating.
Sean Hollister 
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