A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

International Church of Cannabis in Denver, Colorado.

Science Friction – Finally, a documentary about scientists who get misrepresented by the media.

Those TV documentaries you see, and the science experts they feature? Did you know that producers often edit them out of context, and twist their words, to make it seem like they promoted some pop sensationalism instead of the real facts?

Algorithmenethik.

Eine Polemik: Wie man mit einem würfelnden Schimpansen Terroristen fängt – Überlegungen zu den Zwischenergebnissen der Gesichtserkennungs-Pilotstudie am Südkreuz.

Relevant: The Discourse, a bi-weekly newsletter about the collision of tech, media, and politics.

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.”