September 15, 2018
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Sporting events compressed into single composite photos
“Photographer Pelle Cass has been constructing composite photos of groups of people for some time now, photoshopping the action from dozens of photos into a…”
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Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat Alex Jones
“In the early 18th century, satirist Jonathan Swift observed, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is…”
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WIT | Playing with AI Fairness
“Researchers and designers at Google’s PAIR (People and AI Research) initiative created the What-If visualization tool as a pragmatic resource for developers of…”
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Rebrand 2018 | Case studies | Design at Uber
“Illustration Introduction The System Logo Composition Typography Iconography Color Motion Photography Illustration Tone of Voice Summary Doing it the right way…”
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The problem with real news — and what we can do about it
“Design by Leon Postma and Harald Dunnink (Momkai) Forget fake news, a poisonous term. Real news is an even bigger problem. This realization is what inspired me…”
September 14, 2018
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New York 2140 (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2017)
The drowned world of New York in, well, 2140, shows us humanity’s resilience and inability to deal with sunk (literally) cost bias. The book lost me a few times with it’s many, many descriptions of the SuperVenice waterways and I didn’t quite buy any of the financial chicaneries which make up more of the book than I had expected, but overall it was a fun read.
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Can the sky get any bluer?
September 11, 2018
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The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
This was wonderful. I knew it was heartbreaking but didn’t realize it was also so funny. The kids are so natural, the adults so incredibly broken.
September 7, 2018
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This burger joint is playing “No Fun” by Iggy and the Stooges. 💯
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Working towards a complete theory of meme relativity
“ABSTRACT There was a point in time when you could actually finish reading the internet each day. At least, it sometimes felt that way. Up until the late 2000s…”
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Sex Robots Could Save Your Relationship – Future Human – Medium
“A nyone who has watched even a fraction of Hollywood’s sci-fi offerings is primed for a mind-boggling future of interstellar travel, superpowers, and brain…”
September 5, 2018
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Deadpool 2 (David Leitch, 2018)
This was very funny. More like Naked Gun or the Scary Movie series than a “real” superhero movie.
September 3, 2018
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Probably my third or fourth time watching this. I forget how many times I’ve seen it. 🙂
Glad to see the special effects are still holding up well.
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🎵 “It was the third of September, that day I’ll always remember.” 🎵
September 2, 2018
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“There’s an ugliness — an inelegance — to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy, counterintuitive…”
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In the future, you will be forever
“August 3, 2018 Digital immortality could be more than an archive of old social media posts; it could be a way to teach future generations A Hollywood director…”
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How Software Ate the Point of Sale
“Adam Hunger / Reuters I’m standing at the counter of a Vietnamese restaurant in Berkeley, ordering a pork bun. There was a time when I knew exactly what would…”
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It’s okay that your startup doesn’t have a communications strategy.
“When Marc Benioff’s Behind the Cloud was published in the Fall of 2009, it was declared required reading for all 50 Box employees. Because I was new to the…”
September 1, 2018
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Can we know what music sounded like in Ancient Greece? – Armand D’Angour | Aeon Ideas
“Terracotta amphora, c 490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead; They brought me bitter…”
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Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All
“In January 2016, technology incubator Y Combinator announced plans to fund a long-term study on giving people a guaranteed monthly income, in part to offset…”
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The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain
“One of SITE’s striking retail creations, the “Indeterminate Facade,” in Houston, Texas, around 1975. Courtesy of SITE In 1974, the American home goods retailer…”
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Is one drink per day really unsafe? That new alcohol study, explained.
“25,000 people would need to drink 400,000 bottles of gin to experience one extra health problem compared to non-drinkers. Getty Images/EyeEm “The safest level…”
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Spooky Theory on Ills of U.S. Diplomats in Cuba
“During the Cold War, Washington feared that Moscow was seeking to turn microwave radiation into covert weapons of mind control. More recently, the American…”
August 31, 2018
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The air show is happening in Toronto which means it is VERY noisy right now.
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The Price You Pay (Aidan Truhen (pseudonym), 2018)
Whoa. This is one in-your-face crime novel. Not for the faint-of-heart. That said, it can be fun to get inside the head of a charming sociopath every now-and-then. As long as you can get out again.
I saw someone guessing this is a Nick Harkaway novel and I’m pretty sure it is.
I am a fucking asymmetric criminal startup. I got limited expertise in criminal strategic warfare. I hotdesk and I outsource and I franchise, but what I mostly have is a core concept, forward momentum.
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From Errol Morris, a list of 10 things you should know about truth & photography
“In 2011, writer and filmmaker Errol Morris summarized the main points in Believing Is Seeing , his book on the nature of truth, belief, and reality in…”
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners | Quanta Magazine
algorithms The New Science of Seeing Around Corners By Natalie Wolchover August 30, 2018 Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals…
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Isn’t this poster gorgeous? Those fonts!
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I’ve been working on my blog for most of the summer (with help, I’m not a WordPress geek by any stretch of the imagination). My next goal is to automate distribution of posts from the blog to social media.
August 26, 2018
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Ball Lightning (Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen (Translator), 2005/2018)
Liu Cixin really is a worthy successor to A.C. Clarke – the first author I became obsessed while a mere wee tike). This is a new English translation of an older novel that doesn’t quite have the expansiveness of Three-Body Problem, but was still a joy to read.