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Sunday, 2 December 2018
quote [ An MIT professor argues that misinformation boils down to one simple thing: mental laziness, exacerbated by social media... Social media makes it particularly hard, because a lot of the features of social media are designed to encourage non-rational thinking. ]
If you can get by the first couple paragraphs it’s quite an okay read.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018
quote [ November 27, 2018
InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA's InSight lander, took this photo on the surface of Mars. ] The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA's InSight lander, took this photo on the surface of Mars.
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Wednesday, 21 November 2018
quote [ Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded. ]
A nice “two minutes of hate” for Facebook.
A related LinkedIn article made a nice summary “To be sure, Facebook isn’t going away tomorrow. But in the same way we grudgingly use Microsoft Word with a complete absence of joy, the days of Facebook’s growth and inevitability are behind it.”
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018
quote [ An Amiga, Deluxe Paint and a mouse. From the late 80s to the early 90s, these 3 tools were at the core of numerous graphic designers’ workstations in the West. It took years for the Japanese industry... ]
Here is a fantastic read on how the tech of a CRT changed forever how video game art was designed and developed.
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Friday, 16 November 2018
quote [ David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath his feet lies a vast network of tunnels and chambers, home to a... ]
A new addition to the ant compilation in my profile.
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Moonwalking with Einstein -
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018
quote [ Matt, Will & Chris sum up the aftermath of the midterm elections, defend Western civilization from those who would destroy it, and check in on insufferable public intellectual Bernard Henri Levy's one ]
A nice little breakdown of the election with a touch of shittalking. Makes me miss Stewbeef a bit.
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Friday, 9 November 2018
quote [ Dmitriy stopped the car outside his dacha (summer house) in the tiny village of Shitovo, and jumped out ]
Check out the article on the site, it's pretty neat.
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018
quote [ Democrats take back House and Republicans hold on to Senate as Trump lauds ‘tremendous success’ ]
State ballot measures:
-Florida voted to restore voting rights to people convicted of felonies. -San Francisco voters passed a tax on big companies that would affect technology firms and fund housing and services for the homeless. -Voters in Massachusetts became the first state to affirm transgender rights in a statewide vote. -Legal marijuana continued to spread across the US. -Nevada voted to exempt feminine hygiene products from state and local sales taxes. -Four states voted on the expansion of Medicaid coverage to more low-income residents, a key aspect of the Affordable Care Act.
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Tuesday, 23 October 2018
quote [ New review finds that over 150 papers strongly support the view that herpes simplex plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease. ]
Neat-o. The up side is that maybe this can be prevented.
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Saturday, 20 October 2018
quote [ In Japanese, the word “chikan” refers to those who grope others in public or the unwanted touching itself. “AirDrop chikan” has entered the public discourse. ]
The future is now. #CyberCreep
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Which 90's Video Game Are You? -
If you remember the video games of the 90s, you'll want to take this quiz to understand exactly which game you are most like!
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