"...Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, is apparently ruining the lives of teenagers all across the United States...Parents can now remotely check their child’s browsing histories and social media accounts, watch their movements via motion-sensing cameras, and track everywhere they go with location-sharing apps. In a Pew Research Center study last year, 58 percent … Continue reading Safety or Stalker App?
Category: writing
The Fourth Option
We always have three options. You can change it.You can accept it.You can leave it. But, there's a fourth option. 4. You can experience it. Is experiencing something the same as accepting it? It isn't. The world is not static. Change is a constant. And, we are too busy reacting - choosing change, acceptance or … Continue reading The Fourth Option
Run Your Own Social Network
"I suppose I'll repeat what I said multiple times in this document, which is that running a small social network site for your friends is hard work, but it's worth it. It is first and foremost the work of community building, and only secondarily is it a technical endeavor. And it's completely possible to do, … Continue reading Run Your Own Social Network
52 Blue — The Atavist Magazine
In short, the best piece you'll ever read on the 52 hertz whale. "In 1894, a wealthy amateur astronomer named Percival Lowell built a telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona. He spent the next 20 years looking through it and finding things no one else could see: a series of canals extending from the poles of Mars, … Continue reading 52 Blue — The Atavist Magazine
Lettuce is the Cure For Your Soggy Burger
"How often do you get a restaurant burger, or grill one yourself, and before you’re finished horking it down, the soggy bun has lost the will to live and has disintegrated in your hands? Here’s the fix for your fixins. Don’t place the meat directly on the bun or the condiments on top of the … Continue reading Lettuce is the Cure For Your Soggy Burger
What to Do When an Artist You Admire Reveals Something About Themselves Which You Feel Casts an Unhappy Shadow Across Their Work…
"I think perhaps it would be helpful to you if you saw the proprietorship of a song in a different way. Personally, when I write a song and release it to the public, I feel it stops being my song. It has been offered up to my audience and they, if they care to, take … Continue reading What to Do When an Artist You Admire Reveals Something About Themselves Which You Feel Casts an Unhappy Shadow Across Their Work…
The Monthly 45 Minute Physical Fitness Test
"Granted, Joyner and other experts I heard from estimated that the number of Americans who can do a single push-up is likely only about 20 or 30 percent. But that’s an issue of practice more than destiny. 'Most people could get to the point of doing 30 or 40—unless they have a shoulder problem or … Continue reading The Monthly 45 Minute Physical Fitness Test
Debunking Skepticism – Fake Nous
"A mathematician, a scientist, an engineer, and a philosopher are sitting in a cafe in a foreign country. Outside the window, they see a black sheep in a field by itself. The engineer says, 'Well, what do you know? It looks like the sheep around here are black!' The scientist gives him a skeptical look … Continue reading Debunking Skepticism – Fake Nous
Jorasanko Thakurbari, Kolkata
Goodhart’s Law & The Ivy League
"Two years ago I was at an event in Boston and I happened to sit at a dinner table across from a guy widely recognized to be one of the most brilliant people in the world. We talked mostly about AI but at one point the conversation turned to hiring, and he told me that for … Continue reading Goodhart’s Law & The Ivy League
Loving Day
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage on June 12, 1967. Topic has four films on The Loving Generation that "tells the story of a generation of Americans born to one black parent and one white parent. Their … Continue reading Loving Day
Tech Veganism
"One place where the veganism metaphor breaks down is that, although nearly anyone can be a vegan, tech veganism is mostly practiced by those who are expert enough or privileged enough to learn the elaborate workarounds to avoid the GAFAMs of the world. Setting up an Ubuntu laptop, a LineageOS phone, a Fastmail account, and … Continue reading Tech Veganism
Echinaceas on the Lake
Trump’s Tuxedo: ‘It’s wrong in every way!’
"And Patrick Murphy, the head cutter at tailors Davies and Son, who are based in Savile Row, London, told MailOnline that 'everything you can imagine' was wrong with Trump's tuxedo. 'Its totally disproportionate to his height and girth,' he said. 'The waistcoat is far too long, it should not show underneath his jacket." —Conner Boyd … Continue reading Trump’s Tuxedo: ‘It’s wrong in every way!’
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