Of course, 808 State’s New Build album does not mark the “birth of electronic music”. I just learned that “90” was not their first album. 32 years later. Ah bon.

If Then – How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.

The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica.

The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you.

We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.

Conflicted art: how to approach works by morally bad artists.

You are looking at a conflicted artistic expression of a man who used and abused women.

»Digitale Disruption« in der EU: Wie Estland, Litauen und Lettland »KI-Strategien« entwickeln.

In Anbetracht der vielen aktuellen Debatten, die um diskriminierende Probleme wie automatisierte Triage oder Sexismus und Rassismus von KI-Systemen kreisen, ist es interessant, dass keines dieser Themen in diesen Strategien mehr Beachtung findet. Die problematische Intransparenz und das „Übervertrauen“ in solche Systeme wird zwar erwähnt, aber nur am Rande.

Hoppscotch – Open source API development ecosystem.

Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.

Still not sure we should cut it so carelessly, though.

The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Mini-Monster That Defies Aging.

(…) the hydra’s ability to rebuild itself is so powerful that the animal can even reform after being essentially blended at a cellular level.

Snapchat Surgeries‽

Social media and the neuroscience of predictive processing.

A recent survey found that more than half of cosmetic surgeons had patients explicitly asking them for procedures that would enhance their online image, while some surgeons have also reported patients using enhanced images of themselves as an example of how they’d like to look.

Should we rebrand REST?

Fielding's thesis was a kind of retrospective on the design decisions that led to the World Wide Web — a distributed hypermedia-driven information retrieval system — becoming the runaway success it was.

The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.

To ensure that the cones of Cerenkov radiation successfully reach the Super K’s PMTs, the water inside the tank has to be super-pure. It’s continually re-purified and bombarded with UV light to kill off any bacteria floating around in it. The resulting liquid is so pure, it’s more like an acid and an alkaline than the H2O we know.

Moar stunning pictures of Super-Kamiokande.