"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
For your reading pleasure,
The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS,
for 2020/10/16
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For Everybody here:
It's Friday !
Every Friday I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I set them to expire after a month. So grab them now.
If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.
Find them here:
(weekly)
(monthly)
Plastic film protects surfaces against novel coronavirus on contact.
The material was quantified by PCR, showing a reduction of almost 100% in copies of SARS-CoV-2 after two minutes of exposure. "The silver-silica nanoparticles are added to the polyethylene during its production, so the film's antimicrobial action persists throughout its working life,"
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-plastic-surfaces-coronavirus-contact.html
More:
Here is the book he referenced.
It is magical.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass
I also know that, if we are to understand ourselves to be indivisible from nature, then to fall in love with it again will require us to love ourselves again. True love isn’t a one-way street, it’s a mirror, a reminder of who we are.
—William Defebaugh
https://mailchi.mp/atmos/overview-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it
This should lighten your spirit
Classical
( If you are not familiar with Federico Mompou, here is a great new introduction.)
Música Callada / See the Welter
by James Rushford
https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/m-sica-callada-see-the-welter
Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second.
The new camera, which uses the same underlying technology as Wang's other compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) cameras, is capable of taking up to 100 billion frames per second.
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-ultrafast-camera-d-movies-billion.html
(An article, and a book review on the state of AI.)
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data.
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of examples it is trained on.
by Karen Hao
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010566/ai-machine-learning-with-tiny-data/
A review of:
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
When AI Meets Environmentalism
By Angela Chen
https://undark.org/2020/10/16/book-review-ai-in-the-wild/
Book:
Facebook and Twitter’s no-win situation over Biden.
“There were just not a lot of good options here for them. If they let it run wild and let their platforms serve as accelerants like 2016 and the media breathlessly covered it without analysis, they would have been hammered. If they did what they did, we’ve seen the response and it’s turned into an issue of censorship and political bias.”
(A few people here, and I, enjoy this long running speculative fiction series.)
The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
By Charlie Stross
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/10/the-laundry-files-an-updated-c.html
Brexit: Standoff
An overview of the current disaster.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will today announce whether he plans to abandon trade negotiations with the EU and pursue a no deal. Last night, the talks were plunged into deep crisis when the U.K. reacted badly to the outcome of leaders’ Brexit discussions at the summit.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/10/brexit-standoff.html
The Planters
(I saw the trailer for this a week or so ago. But I did not know that the two lead actors, made this film completely by themselves, no crew.)
Now I want to see it even more.
And
To watch:
Students of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Dancing Through the Streets of NYC.
Eight company members, including co-producers Derek Brockington and Alexandra Hutchinson, hit the streets, to be filmed dancing throughout Harlem.
#CoSoCars
Or rather Vans.
Channel Island Vans
A pictorial archive of a former Golden age 2% SoCal Van club 70’s to 80’s.
‘The Sea’:
Read the story that won the 2020 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation
The winner: Haider Shahbaz’s translation of ‘Samundar’, by Khalida Hussain.
Melting Point
We have lost approximately 400 billion tons of glacial ice per year since 1994, a loss so voluminous and profound that it can be difficult to fathom. So, let’s put it in perspective.
Words By Max Moinian
Photographs By Milena Sekulic And Sonja Backović
Concept By Future Earth And Studio Ossidiana
California and Prop 22
Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies
Prop 22 also will not likely offer higher wages because of a complex formula that will be used to determine “minimum wage.” A study found that if Proposition 22 passes, many drivers could earn as little as $5.64 an hour once their considerable driving expenses are subtracted, which is not even half of California’s minimum wage of $12 per hour.
US Cyber Command and Microsoft Are Both Disrupting TrickBot.
U.S. Cyber Command’s campaign against the Trickbot botnet, an army of at least 1 million hijacked computers run by Russian-speaking criminals, is not expected to permanently dismantle the network, said four U.S. officials,
But it is one way to distract them at least for a while as they seek to restore operations.
By Bruce Schneier
To Read:
What Was California?
From Josiah Royce to the Silicon Valley “Thought Leaders”
By Justin E. H. Smith
"In the end, though, in Silicon Valley and its satellites, instead of thought one finds only plagiarism, or, worse still, cynical adaptation of the world’s intellectual traditions to the ends of antidemocratic capital."
"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