“Five years ago, the National Security Agency (NSA) released 136 issues of its internal Cryptolog periodical spanning 1974 through 1997. The collection offered a look into the some of the discussions being held within one of America’s most secretive intelligence agencies. Today the GWU-based National Security Archive is providing a complete index of all 1,504 items in the declassified collection, including but not limited to articles, interviews, and puzzles.”
Category: bookmarks
Engineering Gift Guide – Purdue University
“The 2018 Engineering Gift Guide from Purdue University is filled with fun toys, games, books, and applications to engage girls and boys ages 3-18 in engineering thinking and design. Items included in the guide go through an extensive review process. Researchers looked for toys that would promote engineering practices ranging from coding and spatial reasoning to problem solving and critical thinking.”
Arbitrary Image Stylization in the Browser
Arbitrary Image Stylization in the Browser is an algorithm that will take any two pictures and apply the style of both of them to a third picture.
For an example, I took two posters from the Spanish Civil War that are out of copyright, i.e., Victoria and Izquierda, and I applied those styles to the official picture of President Trump on Wikipedia. The following was the result:
I did something similar with my avatar.
It took a couple of minutes to run on my computer. It helps to close a few tabs. The results were consistently interesting. Recommended.
The Red Hand Files
Nick Cave answers questions from his fans. His response answering a question on grief and communicating with the dead is simply great:
“It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable. There is a vastness to grief that overwhelms our minuscule selves. We are tiny, trembling clusters of atoms subsumed within grief’s awesome presence. It occupies the core of our being and extends through our fingers to the limits of the universe. Within that whirling gyre all manner of madnesses exist; ghosts and spirits and dream visitations, and everything else that we, in our anguish, will into existence. These are precious gifts that are as valid and as real as we need them to be. They are the spirit guides that lead us out of the darkness.”
—Nick Cave. “Issue #6.” The Red Hand Files. October 2018.
Instant Archetypes: A New Tarot For The New Normal by Superflux
“If you are familiar with the tarot you will recognise Instant Archetypes cards as direct (post) modernised substitutes of the classic Major Arcana. It is a condensed symbolic mythology of the present moment, in the way that the classic cards condensed a symbolic mythology of the past. The old archetypes have not disappeared, they just got new names and new manifestations.”
—Instant Archetypes: A New Tarot For The New Normal on Kickstarter until November 29, 2018.
The Dreams of Satoshi — SingularityNET
SingularityNET, the decentralized AI network, has released the first episode of a new graphic novel called The Dreams of Satoshi. The story is set in 2045 and users can view the episode for free.
Manyverse, Android App for the Scuttlebutt Social Network
Manyverse is an alpha Android app for Scuttlebutt, the off-grid social network. It needs a lot of work at this point. But, it’s an interesting model I hope gets some traction.
If you need a pub server, try: http://ssb.learningsocieties.org
There are others software efforts that are similar. Compare Manyverse to Riot.im, Keybase, Mastodon, the Safe Network, and others.
