Not the ONION.
Austria burqa ban: Man dressed as shark falls afoul of new law.
From the Red Sea to Hong Kong in 10 minutes – a stunning cargo-ship timelapse.
Vienna Principles – a vision for scholarly communication.
People self-select into bubbles along all sorts of axes. Some of these bubbles are obvious and easy to explain, like rich people mostly meeting other rich people at the country club. Others are more mysterious, like how some non-programmer ends up with mostly programmer friends. Still others are horrible and completely outside comprehension, like someone who tries very hard to avoid abusers but ends up in multiple abusive relationships anyway. Even for two people living in the same country, city, and neighborhood, they can have a “society” made up of very different types of people.
It seems I am getting more and more dissociated from what’s happening net-wise.
Through the imho quite well done documentary Dark Net I learned that a company called Gaggle completely surveils and monitors online communication of US high school students.
(Another episode about how Western predators instigate and perpetrate abuse of children on the Philippines using the Web made me really cringe heavily.)
Tokyo’s “Black Box” exhibition creates a stir.
At the venue’s entrance was a bouncer selecting entrants – but the entry criteria were not made public. You might see such a system at exclusive nightclubs such as Berghain in Berlin, but not for an exhibition. This practice destabilises the more conventional relationship between the viewer and the artist.
The Ultimate Gupta vs. Nelson Blockchain + Supply Chain Throwdown in London.
A conversation for the ages with almost 2 hours of deep thinking on the history and future of global trade, currency and finance.
So if I get this – in fact, really lengthy – piece right, the blockchain might be opening up means to reënable small business entities to compete against the larger-than-life new megamonopolies that have surfaced in the last 10 years. It also could affect the banking sector and how such small entities can lend money for liquidity in the long-run. Some parts still makes me dizzy, but overall it is worth a very curious ride.
Balmorhea: Clear Language.
Aggregation Theory describes how platforms (i.e. aggregators) come to dominate the industries in which they compete in a systematic and predictable way. Aggregation Theory should serve as a guidebook for aspiring platform companies, a warning for industries predicated on controlling distribution, and a primer for regulators addressing the inevitable antitrust concerns
The Shirt Of The Future Will Be Made By Methane-Eating Bacteria.