"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
I was wrong. CRDTs (Conflict-free replicated data type) are the future.
By Joseph Gentle
I increasingly don’t care for the world of centralized software.
Software interacts with my data, on my computers. Its about time my software reflected that relationship.
Now Apple files a ton of patents, all the time. So take this with a huge helping of salt.
The disclosed embodiments relate to the design of a portable and cost-effective fuel cell system for a portable computing device.
Explore the Codex Zouche-Nuttall:
A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript.
Although finished around 1556, the pictographic folding manuscript “is considered to be of pre-Hispanic origin,” Lejarazu writes, “since it preserves a strong indigenous tradition in its pictographic techniques, with no demonstrable European influence.”
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/explore-the-codex-zouche-nuttall.html
I am sure you all have seen this:
But what is important, is the short story that follows.
When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed
Watch along as hacked machine grinds, beeps, and spews water.
By Dan Goodin
Unauthorized Bread:
Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters.
Fabricius, a free machine learning-based Egyptian hieroglyphs translator.
The free app allows you to learn more about hieroglyphics, write them, and to decode them. Besides being a fun educational tool (and a way of sending coded love letters and hate mail), the program holds great promise for the study and instant translation of dead languages.
Where Intersectionality Meets Universality.
By Callum Watts
However I do want to argue that there is no deep philosophical or practical impossibility to being focussed on the needs of certain individuals and identities, and being seriously committed to a universalist program of some sort.
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/09/where-intersectionality-meets-universality.html
A Review of:
Seiobo There Below
by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
The subject expounded upon in this book ranges from Eastern aesthetic and religious traditions such as Japanese Noh theater and the Shinto rituals governing the rebuilding of the Ise Shrine every twenty years to Byzantine icon paintings; Baroque music; and the mathematical mysteries of the Alhambra and their links to crystal formations,
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/09/on-laszlo-krasznahorkais-seiobo-there-below.html
Book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25268538-seiobo-there-below
Researchers develop unique printing technology for 'invisible' images.
The ability to produce images invisible to the naked eye is due to the creation of special colloidal ink based on nanoscale cellulose particles capable of orienting themselves on a surface in a special manner.
These watermarks could potentially be used for added security of products, banknotes, tickets, and similar items.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-unique-technology-invisible-images.html
Paper
#CoSoBooks
Speculative Fiction
(Coming in 2022)
Joan of Arc Meets Space Opera: Announcing a New SF Trilogy From Author Neon Yang.
Neon Yang (they / them) is a queer non-binary author based in Singapore. They have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary, Ignyte and Locus Awards, and their work has been an Otherwise Award nominee.
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/28/announcing-a-new-sf-trilogy-from-author-neon-yang/
The Fight For Nagorno-Karabakh:
Documenting Losses on The Sides Of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnical and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, which are controlled by the self-declared Republic of Artsakh, but are internationally recognized as belonging to Azerbaijan.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2020/09/the-fight-for-nagorno-karabakh.html
Board of Inquiry in to the loss of the USS Thresher (SSN 593)
The Thresher was lost on 10 April 1963. In the decades since, all sorts of theories and conjectures have floated about the causes of her loss mostly due to the secrecy surrounding it.
Today a slightly redacted copy was made available of the Record of Proceedings of the Board of Inquiry.
(under heavy load, please be patient)
https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/THRESHER%20RELEASE/THRESHER%20pg%201-300.pdf
Why security experts are braced for the next election hack-and-leak
A well-timed dump of stolen data could change the 2020 election like it changed 2016.
By Patrick Howell O'Neill
"The effect of a hacking operation really comes from the underlying political context—and in that case, US is far worse now than it was in 2016."
On Executive Order 12333
By Mark Jaycox
is a Executive Order signed by President Ronald Reagan that, among other things, establishes an overarching policy framework for the Executive Branch's spying powers. Although electronic surveillance programs generally target foreign intelligence from foreign targets, its permissive targeting standards allow for the substantial collection of Americans' communications containing little to no foreign intelligence value.
To Read:
Social Democracy And Capitalism:
The Fraught Link.
By Pranab Bardhan
"The ‘democracy’ part of social democracy should apply as much to economic democracy as to political. Our preceding discussion on the voice of labor in the governance of the firm and outside has already involved a major part of that economic democracy."
Lara Elena Donnelly Enters Jim Henson’s Labyrinth
By Molly Templeton
This issue is described as a one-shot, but that summary certainly sounds like it could lead to yet more stories in this (potentially unraveling) magical world. Donnelly is joined by artists French Carlomagno.
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/28/lara-elena-donnelly-enters-jim-hensons-labyrinth/
And
http://www.boom-studios.com/archives/boom-studios-announces-jim-hensons-labyrinth-masquerade-1/
Zombie banks
It's an open secret that many of America's largest banks are "zombies" – institutions that are able to carry on despite having a negative net worth, thanks to "a combination of implicit and explicit government credit support."
By Edward J. Kane
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_136-Kane-Masters-of-Illusion-1.pdf
And
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-bankers-hide-losses
The best band you never heard of:
Ace of Cups
Ace of Cups reformed and they are putting out a double album on October 2. The new album includes contributions from Bob Weir, Jorma Kaukonen. Jack Casady, Taj Mahal, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Peter Coyote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KqPCFw-VHQ
More:
And
My Octopus Teacher
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Nothing about its subject would suggest greatness, but it was perfectly crafted.
It’s such a simple movie but it packs a surprising emotional wallop and is philosophically rich. Even (or perhaps especially) the bits that seem problematic are thought-provoking. Highly recommended.
Time to get my filters in shape.
Nope. I don't give a hoot about the damn debates.
It is all campaign theater, useless, and an attention suck.
When the debate starts, turn off the net, grab a drink, and open a book!
The minimal effects of TV debates between candidates
By Caroline Le Pennec, Vincent Pons, Vestal McIntyre
https://voxeu.org/article/minimal-effects-tv-debates-between-candidates
Believe it or not.
Tahlequah is the granddaughter of an Orca, I used to see around the San Juan Islands when I was just a kid in a dory.
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018