Yesterday's News 3-30-2019
No Entry Yesterday, I had One Story From Wednesday.
Don’t Launch, Patch - US Gamer has an article on how No Man’s sky typifies the way that game snow launch in shambles and through patches are evolved to be better.
Old Timey Buzz - Cassina was the morning buzz of choice for the Americas before Coffee and Tea. Atlas Obscura investigates why it hasn't survived.
Yesterday's News 3-28-2018
A bit heavy on debunking today
Traditional Fake News - Proliferation of our and out fake news is rare, more often it plays out like this story from Motherboard. Something is taken out of context, most often because someone wants to advance an agenda. Hand-wringing over Russian bots misses the fact they exploit our own tendency to believe before we verify. I think the best . . .
Vacationland
by John Hodegeman
If only know John Hodgeman from his appearances on The Daily Show, or as the PC in the old Apple ads you are missing out. He had a run of fake trivia books. He also has a podcast where he settles your petty social disputes.
Vacationland moves away from Hodgeman’s adopted personas and instead is a straightforward memoir. We start out . . .
Yesterday’s News 03-27-2018
Greg Ginn And Henry Rollins Still Not Playing Together
The Oracle Isn’t All Knowing - Aeon has an article on how algorithms pick up on their creator’s biases. The idea that algorithms are all knowing perfect mathematical beings is overstated.
Saving Publishing From Itself - The social media advertising model has made almost every site you go to a vacuum for your personal data. Doc Searls . . .
Yesterday's News 3-26-2018
Spot the Buzzcocks reference
A Different Kind Of Bias - We spend a lot of time talking about media bias under the guise of ideology. The data doesn't back that up. On the other hand, you have a cultural bias. On Monday Note Gilles Raymond breaks down the way that news is produced and the way it can distort our perceptions.
Homicidal Negligence - When a water . . .
Yesterday’s News 3-23-2018
I drafted before 12
In Case You Thought About Sleeping, Ever - Dangerous Minds has a story about a shrine to a drowned child using discarded dolls in Mexico.
Quantum Possibilities- Though Quantum Physics lives mostly as an excuse for every New Age bullshit belief, it is still serious science. Adam Becker lays out the several possibilities for the . . .
Yesterday’s News 3-22-2018
Can we get Google to ask TensorFlow to scan the Internet for terrible hot takes?
Green AI - Granted, we spend a lot of time talking about the various ways that AI is going to kill us all, here is it being used for something positive. Google's TensorFlow is being used to help listen for the sounds of deforestation. I assume that some people think that an always listening AI is dystopian enough for some people.
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