Want to Resolve the Maternity Leave Catch-22? Pay Dads.
The Scottish village Dull is twinned with two towns: Boring, USA and Bland, Australia (via reddit.com).
Internet Histories – Digital Technology, Culture and Society.
This.
Notes From an Emergency: Tech Feudalism.
(…) real problems are messy. Tech culture prefers to solve harder, more abstract problems that haven’t been sullied by contact with reality. So they worry about how to give Mars an earth-like climate, rather than how to give Earth an earth-like climate. They debate how to make a morally benevolent God-like AI, rather than figuring out how to put ethical guard rails around the more pedestrian AI they are introducing into every area of people’s lives.
Partylicious Metalisticles.
Awesome Party – a curated list of awesome lists.
My prospected transition from becomes easier and cheaper.
13" HiDPI display. Thin. Light. Aluminum. Backlit keyboard. System76 laptops are custom-built to run Ubuntu flawlessly.
history of the entire world, i guess.
A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps.
List: Unpleasant Thoughts You Had, and the Items You Purchased in Order to Stop Having Them.
Hacked in Translation – from Subtitles to Complete Takeover.
By crafting malicious subtitle files, which are then downloaded by a victim’s media player, attackers can take complete control over any type of device via vulnerabilities found in many popular streaming platforms, including VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io.