Wednesday, 2. November 12016
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Henry Kissinger being the not so secret one.

Dr. Orange: The Secret Nemesis of Sick Vets.

For decades, the military and the VA have repeatedly turned to one man to guide decisions on whether Agent Orange harmed vets in Vietnam and elsewhere. His reliable answer: No.

Of course, Deep Dream was just the beginning…

Meet the Nightmare Machine: An AI That Creates Your Worst Fears (via futurism.com).

Dr. Cebrian and his colleagues fed 200,000 images of human faces into the machine – then, they fed a zombie face into the neural network. When a machine learns what images scare humans, it can be taught to do the opposite, and generate behavior that makes us feel comforted.

Source: futurism.com

Is Keybase working on an encrypted, distributed social network?

Below, I have typed taylorswift13@twitter, because I want to open my encrypted folder with her. This works even before @taylorswift13 has joined Keybase.

Still a Drumpf up on their sleeve? Or is it just Hillaryous?

How To Win The Presidency With 23 Percent Of The Popular Vote.

Go the fuck home!

Tuesday, 1. November 12016
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How MSG Got A Bad Rap: Flawed Science And Xenophobia.

A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue.

Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange.

Assange would not, in my view, ever knowingly be a willing tool of the Russian state: If Putin came and gave him a set of orders, they’d be ignored. But if an anonymous or pseudonymous group came offering anti-Clinton leaks, they’d have found a host happy not to ask too many awkward questions: He’s set up almost perfectly to post them and to push for them to have the biggest impact they can.

Falschmeldungen im Netz – den Fakes auf der Spur. (Via netzpolitik.org.)

Ob bei Videos aus der Ukraine, aus Syrien oder Bildern von Terroranschlägen: In den sozialen Netzwerken ist die Zahl der manipulierten Fotos oder Aufnahmen, die aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen werden, massiv gestiegen. Im Journalismus wird deshalb die Überprüfung der Inhalte von Tweets und Postings immer wichtiger.

Death & Turnips: How the Celtic Festival of Samhain Became Halloween.