"'You need to call the Green Gang.' The Green Gang. It was a strange, frightening phrase. Rajput had never heard of the group before. When she began asking about it in local villages, the details seemed too fantastical to be true. It was a gang of hundreds — no, thousands — of women, almost all of them poor and … Continue reading The Green Gang — The California Sunday Magazine
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Solein Because Soylent Was Already Taken | World Economic Forum
"...a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity. It's a high-protein, flour-like ingredient that contains 50 percent protein content, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbs. It reportedly looks and tastes like wheat flour, and could become an ingredient in a wide variety of food products after its initial launch in … Continue reading Solein Because Soylent Was Already Taken | World Economic Forum
Exceptional Access to Encrypted Communications
Bob Barr has recently added his voice to the ongoing call of law enforcement to provide exceptional access to encrypted communications. Here's why that's not going to work. "Exceptional access — as governments propose — is the problem of making a system selectively secure. I can tell you, it’s hard enough to make a secure … Continue reading Exceptional Access to Encrypted Communications
Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
"...'withered' technology usually means mature technology. It is much easier for companies to create best-selling products by using mature technology as this kind of technologies are abundant, well-understood and cheap. Mature technologies are often studied extensively by people, and it is easy to experiment with or make further innovations. Even if the technology might be … Continue reading Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
"Love, it seems to me, is a joyous self-deception, practiced by two people at the same time. No one is as wonderful as the object of one’s love appears to be, and yet who among us would trade that illusion for the truth? Being an illusion, it is not real, but despite not being something … Continue reading David Byrne on Love – Believer Magazine
The Mutable Web
...After a little research, I found two solutions to this problem [of changing a website's code locally and having those changes persist across browser sessions.] The first is to use a browser extension. You could make one yourself, but that's a little too involved for what I'm trying to do, so I turned to an … Continue reading The Mutable Web
Taking Control of Content and Breaking Algorithms With RSS
"Engagement isn’t a form of serendipity through algorithmically personalized feeds; it’s the repeated satisfaction of Present You with your myopically current loves and interests, at the expense of Future You, who will want new curiosities, hobbies, and experiences."—Dan Cohen. "Engagement Is the Enemy of Serendipity." DanCohen.org. July 23, 2019. In the post above, Dan Cohen … Continue reading Taking Control of Content and Breaking Algorithms With RSS
The Plastic Industry’s Fight to Keep Polluting the World
"A Bag’s Life is just one small part of a massive, industry-led effort now underway to suppress meaningful efforts to reduce plastic waste while keeping the idea of recycling alive. The reality of plastics recycling? It’s pretty much already dead. In 2015, the U.S. recycled about 9 percent of its plastic waste, and since then … Continue reading The Plastic Industry’s Fight to Keep Polluting the World
Commodified Emotions as Entertainment
"As with Fear Factor nearly two decades ago, it's worth asking what exactly what is being watched and why? It seemed to me then, and still does, that we are watching human beings whose emotions are extracted and commodified for our entertainment. I would still argue, as I did then, that this is dehumanizing, both … Continue reading Commodified Emotions as Entertainment
Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests
"The main idea of quantum Darwinism is that we almost never do any direct measurement on anything," Zurek told The Foundational Questions Institute in 2008. "[The environment] is like a big advertising billboard, which floats multiple copies of the information about our universe all over the place."—Kristen Houser, "Mind-Bending 'Quantum Darwinism' Theory Passes Experimental Tests." … Continue reading Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests
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