David Graeber over at Evonomics: It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here,… Read more “Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs – Evonomics”
Month: April 2018
Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe. – The Washington Post
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman for The Washington Post Up until recently, the cost of being careless about our privacy as everyday folk has been minor or… Read more “Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe. – The Washington Post”
Research Blog: Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation
From the Google Research Blog Holy moly this will be some next level spy shit. Guaranteed. In “Looking to Listen at the Cocktail Party”, we present a… Read more “Research Blog: Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation”
Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better – The Verge
Vlad Savov for The Verge I agree, but I also take issue with Vlad’s dismissal of the androidone initiative and seemingly the Pixel and Nexus phones as… Read more “Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better – The Verge”
Multivitamins are not only ineffective, but dangerous | Big Think
Vitamins in pill form have always seemed odd to me. DEREK BERES for The Big Think
Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors NOT SpaceX in Spy-Satellite Failure
Andy Pasztor reports for WSJ: Government and industry experts have tentatively concluded that engineering and testing errors by Northrop Grumman Corp. caused a U.S. spy satellite to… Read more “Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors NOT SpaceX in Spy-Satellite Failure”
A Tour of the Moon in 4K by NASA
This. Is. Awesome.
It’s hard to believe this is real life anymore.
It just feels so much like a B movie comedy script full of bumbling idiotic bafoons
All Hail King Zuckerberg?
One of the reasons I find it hard to believe that Facebook will be able to fix what is rotten at the core of the platform is… Read more “All Hail King Zuckerberg?”
Moving Beyond Loss Aversion
I came across this post by Cal Newport the other day and it brought some clarity to some self-examination I’ve been doing around why I want to… Read more “Moving Beyond Loss Aversion”