Sure, it can backflip – but can a robot hold down a desk job?
By all means, keep watching in awe as roboticists continue to improve the mechanical feats of machines. But know that you yourself (yes, even you with a desk job who shirks the weekly exercise class), you do incredible things that we do not yet understand – that we do not yet even value.
Consent and refusal are not the only talking points in sex.
The mere fact that an invitation can be freely turned down does not give people licence to issue infelicitous or inappropriate invitations – which is something that street harassers, for instance, often don’t seem to understand.
Global Shark* Tracker.
OCEARCH is a non-profit organization with a global reach for unprecedented research on great white sharks and other large apex predators.
* and Tortoise
→ digg.com got some background.
* …but it looks a lot like Patton Oswald, doesn’t it?
Update: This cat does neither.
Update 2: Nor does this rental apartment.
DNS over HTTPS? Not so fast…
The big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM.
Given what we now know about the relative risks and benefits of DoC, it seems utterly unwarranted to decide that users should give their DNS to Google or Cloudflare because there is no credible claim it will actually improve their lives.
Just deserts. A lengthy but worthwhile dialog about free will.
Can we be held morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett. No, says Gregg Caruso. Reader, you decide.*
* Given there is free will, I assume.
Coda. A doc as powerful as an app.
Documents and spreadsheets haven’t changed in over 40 years. It’s time for the next generation of makers to break the grid.
Experience the Nightwatch. An interactive masterpiece.
