[Executive Summary: Facebook-style Social Media needs to die now, before it gets a chance to grow into this monstrosity.] Given the distinctly Big Brother-flavoured response to the notion of China introducing a highly automated social credit system, an academic who has spent 16 months in China exploring attitudes to the idea of an automated social… Continue reading Social credit – a different view
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Alternate Macs
Macs from alternate timelines courtesy of Dana Sibera. Includes a Mac Pro Mini to die for: Mac Pro Mini pic.twitter.com/2SzXrlUkig— Dana Sibera (@NanoRaptor) May 10, 2020 [Via John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site]
Close, but not quite…
Further to my reference to that famous Lenin quote… “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” … turns out that @Pinboard has evidence that this is indeed a misattribution. Wrong author, right sentiments.
Night climbing
In principle I can see what Katherine Rundell gets from Night Climbing… [If…] you want to know what it is to have one thought only, go climbing without ropes. I am not elegant on the ground, but on a wall I feel I am and there is nobody who can see well enough in the… Continue reading Night climbing
Looking forward/backward
Some thoughts from Matt Webb about the shape of the post-lockdown future once it comes to pass: Even if we don’t get another lockdown for 10 years, the fact it’s a maybe means that our behaviour will change to account for the possibility. So I wonder about the long-term effects not of lockdown itself, but… Continue reading Looking forward/backward
Keep watching…
By some margin the biggest laugh I’ve had all day. [Via kottke.org Quick Links]
Hair Love
I realise I’m coming late to this, but Hair Love is a delight: [Via Matthew A. Cherry, via Storythings — 10 Apr 2020]
Crash 2.0
Donato Sansone’s video ghostCRASH is impressive work, editing out all but one car from a series of car crash videos: A small part of me can’t help but contemplate how oddly bloodless these scenes are, at least when viewed from a safe distance like this. How different did they look thirty minutes or an hour… Continue reading Crash 2.0
Who better?
Vulture asked various screenwriters/show runners to write part of a Coronavirus Episode for their characters. Michael Schur knows exactly who should be in charge right now… First of all, Leslie would’ve known the CDC protocols for social distancing already, and they would’ve been instituted within 24 hours of the first reports of the coronavirus in… Continue reading Who better?
Magnetism
You might imagine that a story that included the phrase… “My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.” … would be mean or cruel, but as you follow Dr Daniel Reardon’s story it just gets funnier and funnier. Our hero takes what… Continue reading Magnetism