There are still plenty of remarkable “digital artifacts,” as I thought of them while I was combing through Ukrainian social media posts for Black Square—for instance, a Kyiv rockabilly musician posted a video of himself in his fatigues, crouching in a hallway, singing a song he wrote about Javelin missiles set to the tune of…

https://micro.blog/aaronpk/12584357 Yes luggage rolly-wheels do suck stringy fibres up into them. I also notice this with office chairs too. One could build a wig out of all the human hair wrapped around the axles of all the Herman Miller chairs in the offices where I work.

Today I learned about a book written in 1989 by a sociologist named Ray Oldenberg. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4119.The_Great_Good_Place But the way I came upon it was via a discussion between educators at UW-Bothell, who are trying to adopt more “open technologies” for teaching. Alternate paths to the Learning Management System are desired, in an effort to make…

Prototypes now available for testing Arm has made available for testing prototypes of its Morello architecture, aimed at bringing features into the design of CPUs that provide greater robustness and make them resistant to certain attack vectors. If it performs as expected, it will likely become a fundamental part of future processor designs.… Arm rages against…

https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%214v1639061032110%216m8%211m7%211sqJDMXY2OMf5uoccfSLXJ5Q%212m2%211d35.66136626724206%212d139.8730573971878%213f151.87546812732816%214f22.52521244923659%215f0.4000000000000002 This hotel room costs less than a deluxe bowl of ramen, but you’d better come prepared. For budget travelers in Japan who’re looking for a cheap place to spend the night, capsule hotels are the first thing that comes to mind, since they often charge less than 5,000 yen (US$43) a night. The downside, though,……

They only “said” they changed the recipe but it’s still the same. In this metaphor, I’m clapping back to Mark Zoidberg and his renaming of the FakeBook to Meta-statis. https://www.vox.com/recode/22761598/facebook-facial-recognition-meta Big announcement this week from the newly renamed FaceBook entity to “meta” by ZuckerburgCo. Facebook is changing the embrace and exploitation of Face Recognition (which…

Lots of fun with green screen on the BlackMagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme switcher, doing virtual studio “visits” to other youtubers. Much fun is had, and the quality of the key’d in backgrounds is pretty darned good for the price. BMD for the win.

Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said many internet service providers are sharing data about their customers, in defiance of expectations, and are failing to give subscribers adequate choices about whether or how their data is shared.… It’s ‘near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance’ by American ISPs,…

*Nota Bene: With full credit going to one Mr. Kilgore Trout and his essayist/biographer another Mr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (from the book Breakfast of Champions) “Gilgongo!” was about a planet which was unpleasant because there was too much creation going on. The story began with a big party in honor of a man who had wiped out an entire species of darling little panda bears.…

Instant ramen becomes fizzy drinks, and we’ve tried them all so you don’t have to.   Just the other day, Nissin, the creators of Cup Noodle, the world’s first-ever instant noodle, came out with their craziest 50th birthday announcement yet: they would be releasing Cup Noodle sodas. That’s right, the esteemed makers of the instant Cup… Cup…