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Effect’s weekly ecosystem update: RcMap as module of the week, runtime performance work across Schema/Queue/Stream/Scope, and community notes including Effect Paris.
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The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
Amanda Shendruk's newsletter covers the United Nations' near-unanimous endorsement of a resolution promoting area-accurate map projections, backed by the African Union, which formally challenges the 500-year dominance of the Mercator projection in official cartographic contexts.
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Doomscrolling ourselves to deathJames Marriott's The New Dark Ages
Ed West reviews James Marriott's book "The New Dark Ages," which argues that the displacement of reading by algorithmic video content is producing measurable cognitive and cultural harm, especially among teenagers. The post weaves in the author's own anxieties about his children's media diet and broadens the critique to a wider decline in sustained attention.
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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
This newsletter post surfaces a 2003 internal email in which Bill Gates tried to download Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft's own website and found the process so broken, confusing, and slow that he could not complete it. Sent to senior engineering executives, the email became a point-by-point critique of Windows usability and Microsoft's web properties.
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