White House launching redesigned website on Friday | TheHill (Note: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ now runs on WordPress) http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365031-white-house-launching-redesigned-website-on-friday

Firefox is on a slippery slope | Drew DeVault https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html

Aristotle’s timeless advice on what real friendship is and why it matters https://medium.com/personal-growth/aristotles-timeless-advice-on-what-real-friendship-is-and-why-it-matters-c0878418343f

OpenBSD doesn't like Mozilla shenanigans in new Firefox, is killing ability for upstream to add unwanted extensions for shady promotional purposes https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=151337184303007&w=2

You can find my "original" social-media posts created on a computer at http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/updates/ and on Twitter. Not on Facebook. (I turned that off.)

Firefox may have damaged its own name to promote Mr. Robot | wccftech https://wccftech.com/firefox-damaged-user-trust-promote-mr-robot/

Let's just say that when WordPress is out of its comfort zone and relies on third-party development for basic functionality, things happen

Hard Questions: Is spending time on social media bad for us? | Facebook Newsroom (Remember, this is from Facebook ... not from somebody who is not from Facebook) https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/

Review of The UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook | Dan Moore (This book really needed an update, you can see from the review how much newness is in it)
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2538

The case for .NET in the classroom (this guy really loves .NET) http://luisquintanilla.herokuapp.com/2017/12/14/dotnet-in-the-classroom/

How a DIY network plans to subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet monopoly | Motherboard http://nycmesh.net https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5qb4/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly

Motherboard and Vice are building a community Internet network | Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5djd7/motherboard-and-vice-are-building-a-community-internet-network-to-protect-net-neutrality

Netflix rips net neutrality repeal: ‘This is the beginning of a longer legal battle’ | The Hill http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364937-netflix-rips-net-neutrality-repeal-this-is-the-beginning-of-a-longer-legal

62 rare nuclear test films have been declassified and uploaded to YouTube https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/62-rare-nuclear-test-films-have-been-declassified-and-u-1821302584

Jim Chanos: We think Tesla is worth zero https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is-worth-zero.html

Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California | State Sen. Scott Wiener https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/now-that-the-fcc-has-repealed-net-neutrality-lets-adopt-it-in-california-fa3bd02101ee

Facebook will launch pre-roll video ads in 2018. You don't them. Facebook didn't them. But here we are. | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16776314/facebook-watch-pre-roll-video-ads-video-2018

Millennials are screwed | The Huffington Post (This is literally dizzying to read. The graphics and animations might induce a seizure.) http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

iMac Pro: Apple releases its most expensive computer – starting at £4,899 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/14/imac-pro-apple-expensive-computer-creative-professionals

Google has its own domain-name service: Google Domains https://domains.google/#/

Using GraphQL & Node.js Express to build a neat e-commerce app https://codeburst.io/using-graphql-node-js-express-to-build-a-neat-e-commerce-app-af2e4997f3f6

Can a for-profit business be socially responsible? – written by my friend Julia Scott (aka @JScottMarketing) https://medium.com/@julia_42310/can-a-for-profit-business-be-socially-responsible-1a4d845a3433

Twitter will now let you publish an entire tweetstorm all at once | Recode https://www.recode.net/2017/12/12/16764470/twitter-tweetstorm-feature-threads-longer-tweets

Patreon to world: 'We messed up' https://gizmodo.com/patreon-to-world-we-messed-up-1821260027

Patreon says, 'We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change' https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

Taking React-based static-site generator Gatsby.js for a spin | dev.to https://dev.to/ardennl/taking-gatsby-for-a-spin-4je

Will robots take our children's jobs? | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/style/robots-jobs-children.html