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Lake Nona · Christine Young
Orange County Library System (OCLS) has been popping up at Valencia College’s Lake Nona Campus (12340 Narcoossee Rd., Orlando, FL 32832) all year offering Lake Nona residents free, monthly family-friendly events. The Library Pop-Up: Lake Nona series brings library programming to Lake Nona, one of the most-requested…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
this month's release of StyleGAN2 makes these images much harder to recognize
The Morning News
Using a specialized camera, two journalists revealed massive amounts of invisible methane escaping at Texas petroleum sites. ↩︎ The New York Times View Post →
Asymco · asymco-admin
At time of writing (December 12, 2019) AirPods Pro delivery wait time is over 4 weeks. It’s been like this since they shipped. I tried stores in several countries and although units can make an appearance on a shelf, they sell out immediately. AirPods are part of the “Wearables & Home” category for Apple which ……
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
clears up many of the visual artifacts of StyleGAN, see it in action on This Person Does Not Exist
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Nicholas Carr: Larry Page and Sergey Brin spent the first fifteen years of their careers building the greatest information network the world has ever known and the last five trying to escape it. Having made everything visible, they made themselves invisible. Larry has even managed to keep the names of his two kids…
Blog - Micromobility Industries · Horace Dediu
When we think about mobility we tend to think about the means of conveyance, the vehicles or the tools of transport. These are the things in or on which we ride, the tangible connection to movement. Some of us may also think about the factors that enable the journey: the roads, asphalt, parking, curbs, traffic…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
next-level deepfake from the creator of the Bill Hader/Arnold Schwarzenegger swap
Dinosaur Comics!
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Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Spammy bots are searching Twitter for images to illegally sell on t-shirts, so the indie artists they're ripping off teamed up to subvert them.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
Facebook has bought Beat Games, a company of the future, and not just because they made a game for VR. Then, why it is the old world that needs capital, and why Oculus is still confusing strategically.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
she trained GPT-2 on over 10k opening lines with incredible results
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Vinny Troia of Data Viper, a security firm: On October 16, 2019 Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a wide-open Elasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts spanning more than 4 terabytes of data. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
the powerful podcast/video editor continues to evolve in interesting ways
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
on parasocial relationships, the Chinese internet, censorship in Turkey, BigTech consolidation, and more
The Red Hand Files · molly
View ArticleWhat are your political leanings, in a broad way? SNORRI, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND How ‘woke’ are you? STELLA, PORTLAND, USA Dear Will, Snorri and Stella, One of the reasons I write is because it allows me the freedom to move beyond the declared world into the uncanny and unfamiliar world. As a songwriter I…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
a third-party named Syniverse was responsible for firing off 168,149 messages, 265 days late
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
My experiments with Spleeter, a jaw-dropping new library that quickly and freely separates vocals from music with machine learning.
Stack Overflow Blog · Ellen Spertus
As a computer science professor, I encourage students to learn from mistakes, whether their own, mine, or famous examples. I feel it’s time to shine a light on my own mistakes to keep myself humble and in the hope that someone can learn from them. The post My Most Embarrassing Mistakes as a Programmer (so far)…
The Morning News
"Even if you think you know what happened, you may not know how or why." The true story of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. ↩︎ Insider View Post →
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Hillbilly Elegy Anybody who’s a friend of Peter Thiel is not a friend of mine. Well, not exactly, but what bugged me about the press for this book is that they neglected to point out J.D. Vance’s entrenchment with right wingers, as in this book was seen as an insight into the poor white underbelly […]
Signal v. Noise · Wailin Wong
As part of a mini hiring boom at Basecamp this year, CEO Jason Fried went looking for a position that had never existed before at the company: head of marketing. Over a thousand people applied for the role. In the latest episode of the Rework podcast, Jason explains how he narrowed a very competitive pool… keep reading
Signal v. Noise · Jason Fried
Today I got an email from a fellow who asked: I’ve been trying to think about my next B2B play but everytime I think of an idea I stop myself due to how saturated the markets are. How do you still win in a packed category? I feel like it’s a lot harder to win… keep reading
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Bloomberg’s publication of a story about Chinese intelligence intercepting the supply chain of Supermicro, a company which has built and sold servers to Amazon, Apple, the U.S. Department of Defense, and dozens of other companies. Apparently, they developed a chip that looked…
Anil Dash · Anil Dash
[CW: mental illness, self-harm]When my depression was at its worst, it felt almost like a constant, physical pain. Getting away from that crushing weight felt as urgent as pulling my hand away from a hot stove, but I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even imagine a respite
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
Artist and researcher Paul O'Neill takes Dubliners and curious tourists on guided tours of the HQs, warehouses, data centers and other infrastructures the internet relies on
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
AIB makes a mess of security upgrade, locking out thousands of customers Ireland’s largest bank, and they’ve really made a mess of this. Lots of false positives on the “rooted device” detection code it seems. It seems detecting “rooted” devices is a part of the PSD2 spec, and you have to wonder why… (tags: aib […]
Roughly Drafted · DED
Two years ago, Apple surprised the world with the tech-laden, $999 iPhone X. The usual suspects complained about its stratospheric pricing and assured their audiences that there was no chance it would gain traction because "some users" were assumed to find it too expensive. But this year, Apple made an even better…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Google Code Review Practices how Google do code reviews. pretty basic stuff but it’s good to have it written down from an authoritative source (tags: google code-review prs pull-requests best-practices coding collaboration) TERFs: the rise of “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” explained – Vox Good long-read on…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
ericflo/mediasummon: Summon your photos and videos back to you Mediasummon is an open source application that fetches a copy of all your photos and videos, and keeps them continuously backed up into one organized directory either on your computer or on a cloud storage provider. Currently supports reading from…
Prof Galloway · Scott Galloway
The story we were told about Amazon HQ2: The Seattle giant has outgrown its host city and needs to open a second hub and HQ. They are a thoughtful, data-driven firm and devise a process to vet cities, including municipalities that might not traditionally be considered. Try hard and you might win — deeply American.…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
The Official Google Blog
Chrome’s Incognito Mode is based on the principle that you should have the choice to browse the web privately. At the end of July, Chrome will remedy a loophole that has allowed sites to detect people who are browsing in Incognito Mode. This will affect some publishers who have used the loophole to deter metered…
Dave Trott's Blog · trottdave
For me, this story has a great ending. In 1959, when he was nine years old, Ronald McNair wanted to be an astronaut. He was too young to know it wasn’t possible for a little black boy to … Continue reading →
Stratechery by Ben Thompson Member Feed · Ben Thompson
An interview with Substack Co-Founders Christopher Best and Hamish McKenzie, who recently raised a Series A to enable newsletters from Andreessen Horowitz.
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield | GQ a spate of ultra-Christian would-be spokespeople have demonstrated outrage against congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for daring to use the term “concentration camps” to describe the camps in which thousands of migrants are concentrated in squalor, and…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Dara Sharif, the Root: Donald Trump ramped up his efforts Wednesday night to demonize the four progressive, freshman congresswomen informally known as “the Squad,” reveling in a raucous crowd’s chants of “Send her back! Send her back!” in reference to his latest target, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Despite a House vote…
Brad Frost · Brad Frost
This is a great read about how the Shopify team designed and grew their design system over the last two years. Note the focus on culture building, communication, and curation. Great stuff! Read: Tracking Polaris – Shopify UX
Jay Parkinson MD+MPH · Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH
Urgent care and telehealth exist because PCPs made themselves inaccessible. Both urgent care and telehealth are symptoms of dysfunction. Healthcare, at its core, is just communication. Now that humans communicate with far more modalities than just in-person meetings, why should some doctors say “I only talk with you…
Seth Godin's Blog · Seth Godin
The spread of TED talks means that more and more people are being put on stage and told to memorize their talk. This almost always leads to failure. It’s not because people memorize too much, it’s because they don’t memorize enough. Watch a great performance and you’ll see no artifacts of memorization. Instead, you…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns […]
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
The first workshop to define what is now the Santa Fe Institute took place on October 5–6, 1984. I was recently asked to give some reminiscences of the event, for a republication of a collection of papers derived from this and subsequent workshops. It was a slightly dark room, decorated with Native American…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Last year, I wrote a couple of articles for the Sweet Setup with my recommendations for great apps to shoot and edit photos on your iPhone. I wanted to be thorough, so I downloaded a couple of dozen apps to choose from for each review. And, just about every time, I was asked to confirm […]
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage was expensive.…