Text Network and Corpus Analysis of the Unabomber Manifesto.

After reading the original manifesto in the Washington Post’s archive I hardly can grasp, anymore, why it is mainly referred to as a criticism of technology and not simply a rant about leftism with critical remarks about technology. Well.

Frisking the whiskers.

Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance.

Toot toot!

Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again.

I have been using the open source Twitter competitor for almost a year, and I love it.

The Future According To Filed Patents.

Patents offer a glimpse of what our future may look like in 3-5 years. Here are some of the most exciting from Apple, Google, Boeing, and others.

With around 200 other people in 2010 I backed a project called “Punk Mathematics” by Tom Henderson.

Part math book, part online event, Punk Mathematics is an introduction to mathematical thinking for people who question everything.

I almost forgot about it until three days ago I was informed about an update. Of course you only can read this if you are a project backer of any sort. But I can tell you – although Mr Henderson’s life is pretty harsh to him most of the time (the reason why there is no book, yet, I assume) – I already got more than expected just from his musings about the book and its ongoing process of realization.

The Basic Grossness of Humans.

Content moderators review the the dark side of the internet. They don’t escape unscathed.

Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be.

Relevant:

• If we lived in a Bitcoin future, how big would the blockchain have to be? (Hint: It’s NOT pretty…)
• The future of Bitcoin technology: “Invest in education instead of speculation.”

A Forest of Furniture Is Growing in England.

Creating The Next Bechdel Test.

We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.

A different dimension of loss.

Inside the great insect die-off.

Scientists have identified 2 million species of living things. No one knows how many more are out there, and tens of thousands may be vanishing before we have even had a chance to encounter them.