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Brief discussion of the heyday of Antisec while being indirectly run by the FBI. I feel like there's a lot more to this story.

What's striking is how terrible the power consumption is for only marginal performance increases.

Extragalactic Neutrino is my David Bowie cover band.

I think we'll probably be saved by genetically targeted solutions, instead of finding chemicals that generally gum up cellular machinery.

Classically creepy robot short. Retro in places. I think it would have been better without some of the foreshadowing.

This is more amusing than it should be.

Oddly it took seeing tetration in theory of computation to understand that incrementing, addition, multiplication, and exponentiation were just steps in a pattern.

Very interesting. I wonder if the author's conclusion that it was intentionally disclosed to flex cybermuscle is true.

The market vastly undervalues teaching.

Apply phylogenetic to discover the origin of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and its variants around the world.

Number of features, quality, deadline: choose two. Healthcare.gov shot for all three and failed.

Awesome redo of the classic Beastie Boys to advertise GoldieBlox, the toy for future engineers.

Neat interactive music video. Weird to "see" his words coming out of random TV shows. I can't tell if it's custom editing or McGurk Effect.

It's nice to know that a company is willing to "overspend" and do some good.

Guess I should still get my license. It's going to be a while. Would be fun to get back into this area of machine learning. Of course they threw in an Apple Maps dig.

Some good pushback on the hard/soft distinction.

Cool short documentary on space colonization, mostly featuring teens and their plans to build a future there. I loved the space colony art as a kid, and Zubrin's "The Case for Mars" book in high school. I just slipped away from my dream of becoming an astronaut.

I think I may be ready to upgrade next year?

I had no idea how influential Snow Crash was on the creation of Xbox Live.

"Use the triforce, Link!" Amazing animated mashup of A New Hope with various Nintendo franchises, mostly Zelda, but a bit of Mario, Starfox, and others.

Mobile and free-to-play are giving the PS4 and Xbox One quite the uphill climb in the market.

Pretty cool swarming behavior with a huge murmuration of starlings.

There's no inventive for other countries to help mitigate superstorms via emission controls.

It's insane how far they've gone. We need to encrypt everything, and ensure HTTPS and DNSSEC are used everywhere.

I continue to be disappointed with the administration's legal arguments when it comes to national security.

Nothing new, but good summary of the agency run amok.

I guess I'm enough of a technoutopianist to believe we can find a solution, but I think he makes a good point that embracing the inevitable death of civilizations is the best way to stay alive.

The game industry amplifies the problems generally in the software industry, in terms of abusive labor practices, even for so-called white collar work. It would be fun to work on a game project, but the side effects would be terrible.

Beautiful gallery of renderings of the spaceship campus.