links, etc The Sick, Refreshing Honesty of Web3 - The Atlantic well, let’s all come to terms with reality and admire the grift. We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders yawn… ‘It’s a glorified backpack of tubes and turbines’: Dave Eggers on jetpacks and the enigma of solo flight | Dave Eggers yeah … i’ll hold off on my jetpack. I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality - The Atlantic...
20220101 can we survive technology in 1955 john von neumann wrote this for fortune magazine. there’s a ton of ground covered and it predates, but anticipates the rise of semiconductors, nods at the impacts of carbon dioxide on the climate, talks about weather control and climate control and the dangers inherent in the acceleration of technology. he is way ahead of the curve when it comes to seeing the impacts of what some of the most notable technologies to come out of the second world war would be....
20211201 The American Prison System’s War on Reading • Protean Magazine you know, cause of that whole, smuggling in books thing that is trivial to work around. oh, and there’s a grip of cash to be made on charging prisoners MSRP for books. 20211203 Could Covid Lead to Progress? - The New York Times i’m hopeful, but probably not. just in case you forgot you were owned. 20211204 The Mantra of White Supremacy - The Atlantic Xen-on-Nitro: AWS Nitro for Legacy Instances – Perspectives 20211207 On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke | The New Yorker...
20211102 ‘Dune’ Has a Desert Problem don’t quite know how i landed on this article. but i found it a fascinating read on the influences and whitewashing of dune over its various incarnations. research!rsc: Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco - great read; passed along to me during a crypto discussion at $DAYJOB. 20211106 Who Controls the Internet? And should they? - Bert Hubert’s writings gone are the heady dreams of my 20s....