I learned something thanks to the FB outage!
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
Chelsea Pope: Power Moves with Powlah!
As heard at the end of Brand New Cherry Flavor.
Concrete Blonde: Tomorrow, Wendy.
LingYourLanguage is a collaborative effort to bring the world’s languages to a wider audience in an entertaining, engaging way.
The usual suspects.
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data.
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements.
Using ASN prefixes, interesting.
“Google and Facebook, I am facilitating packet filtering to block your tracking.”
Relevant: The Internet's Original Sin.
Metarelevant: We were here already at least 7 years ago.
What animals think of death.
We humans like to think of ourselves as a unique species. However, little by little, all those traits that we have been relying on to ground this uniqueness have been falling, as the science advances and reveals the staggering diversity and complexity of animal minds and behaviour. We now have solid evidence of culture, morality, rationality, and even rudimentary forms of linguistic communication. The concept of death should also be counted among those characteristics to which we can no longer resort to convince us of how very special we are. It is time to rethink human exceptionalism, and the disrespect for the natural world that comes with it.
#ReclaimYourFace
Facial recognition is racist, sexist & creepy.
Facial recognition can and will be used against each of us by governments and corporations - based on who we are and what we look like.
A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity.
Or is there?
A look inside The War for Gaul.
There is no denying that this is a great work of literature, one of the greatest, and at the same time, there should be no denying that it is a bad man’s book about his own bad deeds. I think it is the best bad man’s book ever written.