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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The radio stations of the world, visualized.

Last night, a friend pointed me to Radio Garden. The site (or iOS app) is simple, presenting a swipe-able digital Earth covered in green dots. Some represent collections of local stations, and some, like the lonely, all-shellac-78s Arctic Outpost AM1270, solemnly broadcast into the Earth’s farthest reaches.

James did a good job documenting the unexpectedly simple, nostalgic joy of Radio Garden in his Verge story years ago.

Radio Garden

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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Google’s Jigsaw team created a free tool for small platforms to deal with terrorist content.

Wired reported yesterday that the “Altitude” tool gives small user-created content platforms access to a central database of content deemed to be created by terrorist organizations. Altitude joins similar past Jigsaw tools for toxic speech moderation and CSAM identification.

The database, maintained by the UN-backed online counter-terrorism group Tech Against Terrorism, is already used by major tech companies.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Free pizza coupons are a risky business when the internet is involved.

Domino’s apparently flew too close to the sun this week when the internet figured out, via the always-reliable Wario64 and others, that its free pizza codes were infinitely reusable.

Read all about the chaos in Kotaku’s story.