Dave Winer writes why he won’t link to Facebook blog posts, and John Gruber reacts:

Content that isn’t indexable by search engines is not part of the open web.

Bingo.

Gary Bernhardt wrote a programmer-centric guide to network protocols describing how Ethernet, IP, TCP, and HTTP work together to form the Internet as we know it.

“Log Off!” is a comic by Joey Alison Sayers.

Looking back, it’s been a decade since Apple last produced a home stereo: the iPod Hi-Fi (2006). While most critics were satisfied, if not gushing in their praise (see iLounge’s review), Apple discontinued the speaker 18 months after launch. But judging by product designer Andrew Kim’s photos, the Hi-Fi still looks good all these years later. Working units sell for about $125 on eBay.

Rust by Example is a great resource for learning Rust. It has a built-in problem sets, and the chapters build up nicely, so you don’t need to understand heavy concepts like lifetimes to start.

Adam Rogers, writing for Wired, on Apple’s new Cupertino campus:

You can’t understand a building without looking at what’s around it—its site, as the architects say. From that angle, Apple’s new HQ is a retrograde, literally inward-looking building with contempt for the city where it lives and cities in general.

The title is clickbait, but it’s impressive to see Wired publish an article contrary to the prevailing unrestrained glorification of Apple’s new headquarters.

Olivia Solon, reporting for The Guardian, on how Facebook told low-paid contractors to use their personal Facebook accounts to moderate extremist content:

[The moderators] first suspected there was a problem when they started receiving friend requests from people affiliated with the terrorist organizations they were scrutinizing.

Astounding.

Rachel Abrams and Robert Gebeloff, reporting for the New York Times, on Johnstown, PA facing an economic era after manufacturing and retail:

But fewer people can afford his products now that the good jobs are long gone, and Mr. Apryle has had to make adjustments.

A cash-for-gold sign hangs in the window. He started selling knickknacks on eBay. Eventually, he stopped wearing a tie.

“I might as well be comfortable,” Mr. Apryle, 46, said, gesturing to his wrinkled T-shirt and tennis shoes. “There’s no one here to impress.”

While local retailers were never going to prevent the decline of small towns, they surely helped stem the economic bleeding. Even in a soon-to-be era of telework, most of these towns seem doomed to die in our generation. The few that will survive will be sufficiently niche—think Marfa, TX or Oxford, MS—to continue to lure tourists, creatives, and the wealthy who bring in outside money.

Danielle Tcholakian, writing for Longreads, summarizes some great articles on why we work so much, take so few vacation days, and fear ubiquitous automation.

Jeanette Hägglund photographs architect Ricardo Bofill’s The Red Wall, an apartment complex built in 1973 on Spain’s southeast coast. The building’s distinctive geometry and color may have inspired the designers of the smartphone game Monument Valley.