Smash it into pieces.
Fakebook is helping husbands 'brainwash' their wives with targeted ads.
“You probably wouldn’t drug your wife to have sex with her when she’s passed out. You shouldn’t be trying to brainwash her either.”
Stanford’s robotics legacy.
Learn about robots our faculty have developed and studied since the 1960s, hear from some of our current robot makers, and see how our students are learning to create the robots of the future.
I can relate to that.
The Critics Must Be Crazy: 'Mute' Is A Powerful New Netflix Original.
Zum Tod von Horst Stern: Der erste Umweltjournalist.
Stern wirkte vor der Kamera immer bekümmert, als sei gerade die Hauskatze gestorben. Das eigentlich Großartige: Er machte keinerlei Versuche, einmal zu lächeln oder gar heiter rüber zu kommen. Er blieb authentisch schlecht gelaunt.
Just like democracy…
The Rise and Demise of RSS.
RSS, an open format, didn’t give technology companies the control over data and eyeballs that they needed to sell ads, so they did not support it. But the more mundane reason is that centralized silos are just easier to design than common standards. Consensus is difficult to achieve and it takes time, but without consensus spurned developers will go off and create competing standards.
What 2000 years of cryptography can teach us.
(…) a perfectly secure cipher – perfect in both the mathematical and the practical senses – does exist, and it was invented more than 100 years ago during the First World War by US Army officer Joseph Mauborgne.
Why, certainly because of “Little Sister”!
Parade Ground: Moans.
While classical melancholy was defined by isolation and introspection, today’s tristesse plays out amidst busy social media interactions. Geert Lovink on ‘technological sadness’ – the default mental state of the online billions.
Jumieka piipl dem taak wah Ingglish-bies kriyuol Languij we deh kaal Patwa, ar jos Jumiekan.