Dr Justin Lehmiller’s blog post comparing his official (academic style) and real biographies is interesting [1]. Also the rest of his blog is interesting too, he works at the Kinsey Institute so you know he’s good.
Media Matters has an interesting article on the spread of vaccine misinformation on Instagram [2].
John Goerzen wrote a long post summarising some of the many ways of having a decentralised Internet [3]. One problem he didn’t address is how to choose between them, I could spend months of work to setup a fraction of those services.
Erasmo Acosta wrote an interesting medium article “Could Something as Pedestrian as the Mitochondria Unlock the Mystery of the Great Silence?” [4]. I don’t know enough about biology to determine how plausible this is. But it is a worry, I hope that humans will meet extra-terrestrial intelligences at some future time.
Meredith Haggerty wrote an insightful Medium article about the love vs money aspects of romantic comedies [5]. Changes in viewer demographics would be one factor that makes lead actors in romantic movies significantly less wealthy in recent times.
Informative article about ZIP compression and the history of compression in general [6].
Vice has an insightful article about one way of taking over SMS access of phones without affecting voice call or data access [7]. With this method the victom won’t notice that they are having their sservice interfered with until it’s way too late. They also explain the chain of problems in the US telecommunications industry that led to this. I wonder what’s happening in this regard in other parts of the world.
The clown code of ethics (8 Commandments) is interesting [8].
Sam Hartman wrote an insightful blog post about the problems with RMS and how to deal with him [9]. Also Sam Whitton has an interesting take on this [10]. Another insightful post is by Selam G about RMS long history of bad behavior and the way universities are run [11].
Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus about free markets with a focus on DRM on audio books [12]. We need legislative changes to fix this!
- [1] https://tinyurl.com/yevmmyga
- [2] https://tinyurl.com/ydnaoluj
- [3] https://tinyurl.com/yb2bjmtm
- [4] https://medium.com/predict/bd635102b0da
- [5] https://tinyurl.com/qxkppsu
- [6] https://www.hanshq.net/zip2.html
- [7] https://tinyurl.com/yznxhodl
- [8] https://mycoai.com/code-of-ethics/
- [9] https://hartmans.livejournal.com/100652.html
- [10] https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/rmsopenletter/
- [11] https://tinyurl.com/yh36dkop
- [12] https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/