Friday Finds, XV
Every Matt Damon Movie Performance, Ranked (Vulture)
Damon has shown a certain pragmatic efficiency in his choices of roles, valuing respected directors rather than taking huge risks on passion projects himself.
🤷🏻‍♂️ Enjoy.
Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights (Amnesty International)
The tech giants offer these services to billions without charging users a fee. Instead, individuals pay for the services with their intimate personal data, being constantly tracked across the web and in the physical world as well, for example, through connected devices.
A key reason why I blog, and why I specifically use the Write.as platform, is to express myself through an alternative means where I have to pay for the privilege to do this.
But I'm not in the clear. I'm half-committed. While I have fully disconnected myself from all of Facebook's grasp, Google still has me captured. I love YouTube. And while I've flirted with the idea of paying for an email account (with the likes of ProtonMail or Fastmail), Gmail still houses all my emails from the last 15 years. I collaborate with Amy using Google Docs and Sheets. I know what's happening in my life with Google Calendar. And Google's search is just way better than the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo.
Marias Massacre (Wikipedia)
...the U.S. Army raid was a massacre of mostly women, children, and elderly men[...]
While Amy and I were vacationing in beautiful Montana earlier this year, I lay awake one night unable to sleep. So I opened up the Wikipedia app (I fucking love Wikipedia) and read about the history of Montana.
After 30 minutes my heart was heavy, full of anger and sadness. What a way to try to sleep.
This country was founded and expanded on the blood of many innocents. The only appropriate response to anyone who claims America is a Christian nation is to laugh in their face.
21 Restaurants to Try Along Atlanta’s Buford Highway (Atlanta Eater)
Buford Highway is a gourmand’s paradise featuring foods from nations like Vietnam and Korea to Mexico and Colombia
Sorry to the non-Atlantans this listicle doesn't apply to (unless you plan to file this away for when you visit 🙂). Being close to Buford Highway is one of the best perks of living in Brookhaven. Looks like there are a bunch of places I still need to check out.