The MacBooks are the Subscription Service (Birch Bark #94)
Hello and happy Friday!
The Links
Must “read”: someone sorted all the emoji from smallest to largest
Twitter is adding automatic captions to all new uploaded videos, which is a great win for accessibility (as well as watching videos on mute)
25 classic films are being added to the National Film Registry, which will ensure they are preserved the best they can for the future
Guess who objects to the new FCC chair’s nomination because that nominee supports encryption?
Some crazy numbers in this story about how podcast advertising has changed over the past few years
The Tweets
The Videos
Kirby Ferguson might be the best YouTuber out there, and his new Everything is a Remix series is just making that case more strongly.
I’m not an Xbox user, but this multi-hour series on the history of Xbox is engrossing. Here’s the trailer.
The Matrix “Unreal experience” was mildly exciting to me before it was released, but it ended up being an unbelievable achievement, and a great showpiece for the Unreal 5 game engine. Definitely a big janky in parts, but the visuals on display here are unlike anything we’ve seen before. The Digital Foundry folks do a predictably great job of explaining why this is so impressive.