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About negative feelings... (Owlturd)

About negative feelings... (Owlturd)

http://owlturd.com/post/164720304404

I can smash anything !! (Owlturd)

I can smash anything !! (Owlturd)

http://owlturd.com/post/163910609709

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit (Medium)

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit (Medium)

Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital world, and their weapons are the apps, news feeds, and notifications in your field of view every time you look at a screen. They are all

Patagonia veut rendre le capitalisme « responsable » (La Croix)

Patagonia veut rendre le capitalisme « responsable » (La Croix)

Aux États-Unis apparaissent de nouveaux statuts d’entreprises, associant lucrativité et intérêt général. Patagonia, société californienne spécialisée dans les sports de montagne, a été l’une des premières à adopter le statut de benefit corporation. http://www.la-croix.com/Economie/Economie-et-entreprises/Patagonia-veut-rendre-capitalisme-responsable-2017-07-03-1200859940

Light-based neural network does simple speech recognition (Ars Technica)

Light-based neural network does simple speech recognition (Ars Technica)

While there are lots of things that artificial intelligence can't do yet—science being one of them—neural networks are proving themselves increasingly adept at a huge variety of pattern recognition tasks. These tasks can range anywhere from recognizing specific faces in photos to identifying specific patterns of

The Library of Utility (Kevin Kelly, 2011)

The Library of Utility (Kevin Kelly, 2011)

I imagine a library atop a remote mountain that collects the essential information needed to re-learn practical knowledge essential to civilization. This depot, open to anyone who journeys there, is the cultural equivalent of the Svalbard seed bank, a vault on the Arctic Circle that holds frozen seeds of crop

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On (The Intercept)

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On (The Intercept)

Google, a data mining and extraction company that sells personal information to advertisers, has hit upon a neat idea to consolidate its already-dominant business: block competitors from appearing on its platforms. The company announced that it would establish an ad blocker for the Chrome web browser, which has become the

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity? (Corey S. Powell)

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity? (Corey S. Powell)

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn. It is the biggest of problems, it is the smallest of problems. At present physicists have two separate rulebooks explaining how nature works. There is general relativity, which beautifully accounts for gravity and all of the things it dominates:

Most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots for offline tracking

Most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots for offline tracking

[Yesterday], The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted

A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk

A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk

Computing on the road may be about to get more complicated, expensive, and risky. For this you can thank people who want to blow airplanes out of the sky — and US officials who see genuine danger and/or an opportunity to engage in “just shut up and do as you’

Business & Economy

Why don't more open-source projects monetize? (Ask HN)

Because monetizing your open-source project means you take on a second job. Here are your choices: * Turn your OSS project into a company (Docker). The pro is that you can capture a lot of the value, the con is that you're splitting your project into CE/EE and

Transhumanisme, notre liberté menacée ? (Jean-François Mattei, La Croix)

Transhumanisme, notre liberté menacée ? (Jean-François Mattei, La Croix)

Le transhumanisme s’installe dans le débat, il est vrai encore limité à une élite intellectuelle et à des médias spécialisés. Parmi ses objectifs, il a celui d’améliorer l’homme, voire de préparer sa transformation grâce aux nouvelles technologies dites convergentes (nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, informatiques et cognitives). Le philosophe Fukuyama

Les bienfaits de l'ennui (InternetActu)

Les bienfaits de l'ennui (InternetActu)

L’ennui accroît la créativité, nous informe Clive Thompson dans Wired [https://www.wired.com/2017/01/clive-thompson-7/], qui cite deux études « récentes » (sans donner de liens) qui confirment l’intérêt de cet état mental mal aimé. La première étude (menée par Sandi Mann, également auteure du livre La science

Messaging app Signal circumvents current ban in Egypt with the "domain fronting" technique

Messaging app Signal circumvents current ban in Egypt with the "domain fronting" technique

If I understood correctly, the privacy messaging app Signal configured itself to be reached after a HTTP redirection from Google servers, encapsulated in HTTPS traffic. This is a nice workaround. So Egypt, to enforce the ban of Signal, should now either ban Google or Man-In-The-Middle Google's traffic in

On Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport)

On Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport)

People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. As you might therefore expect, I’m incredibly optimistic about the role of computing and networks in our future. On the other hand,

Tyrannicide et justice d’exception (La Croix)

Tyrannicide et justice d’exception (La Croix)

L’historien Jean-Noël Jeanneney a choisi de s’intéresser à un événement qu’on pouvait penser réservé à la « petite histoire » : l’attentat du Petit-Clamart, le 22 août 1962, contre le général de Gaulle. Emmené par le lieutenant-colonel Bastien-Thiry, un commando opposé à l’indépendance de l’Algérie proclamée un

Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming (Curtis Bartley)

Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming (Curtis Bartley)

Airplane contrails are real, but we know what they are: water vapor and small amounts of other combustion products created by jet engines. The other pollutants may be somewhat harmful, but they are basically the same thing as produced by any other form of combustion. So what are chemtrails? Wikipedia

Enrayer l’inoculation perverse du virus de l’hyperconsommation (Jacques Muller, La Croix)

Enrayer l’inoculation perverse du virus de l’hyperconsommation (Jacques Muller, La Croix)

Rarement débat parlementaire aura été à ce point au cœur de l’actualité des fêtes de Noël : le Sénat examine le mercredi 7 décembre en deuxième et ultime lecture une proposition de loi relative à la « suppression de la publicité commerciale dans les programmes jeunesse de la télévision publique ». Cibles

L’impossible voyage connecté, ou comment le numérique a étouffé le sentiment d’aventure (Mais où va le web)

L’impossible voyage connecté, ou comment le numérique a étouffé le sentiment d’aventure (Mais où va le web)

Internet nous colle à la peau. Étrange rencontre de l’immobilité et du mouvement, il nous suit jusqu’à l’autre bout du monde et nous ramène sans cesse à l’immense toile dont un fil finit toujours par atterrir dans notre poche. Même lorsque nous partons en voyage, il

In Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies (ArsTechnica)

In Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies (ArsTechnica)

High in the trees on the Fiji islands, ants in the species Philidris nagasau are doing something extraordinary. They've brought in seeds from several species of a large, lumpy fruit from a plant known as Squamellaria and carefully planted them in the nooks and crannies of the tree

La liste de plantes anti-pollution de la NASA (MrMondialisation)

La liste de plantes anti-pollution de la NASA (MrMondialisation)

Si les plantes vertes sont le plus souvent décoratives, elles ont aussi une fonction purifiante bien utile de l’air ambiant. En effet, certaines plantes sont en mesure d’absorber des substances toxiques bien spécifiques qui se cachent dans l’air que nous respirons au quotidien. Et c’est une

The Next Great Stoic Competition (Existential Comics)

The Next Great Stoic Competition (Existential Comics)

Stoicism, which was founded by Zeno of Citium, is largely based on the acceptance of things which you cannot control. Zeno believed that the universe was determinisitc, and it was irrational to get angry or upset at the universe for existing the way that it does. Stoicism gained great popularity

Adblock Plus now sells ads (The Verge)

Adblock Plus now sells ads (The Verge)

Adblock Plus is launching a new service that... uh, puts more ads on your screen. Rather than stripping all ads from the internet forever, Adblock Plus is hoping to replace the bad ads — anything it deems too big, too ugly, or too intrusive — with good ads, ones that are smaller,

Ne tirez pas sur les élites ! (Gaspard Koenig, Les Échos)

Ne tirez pas sur les élites ! (Gaspard Koenig, Les Échos)

Dans le Land de Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale, le parti d'extrême droite Alternative für Deutschland vient de passer devant la CDU d'Angela Merkel. Aux Etats-Unis, les républicains ont choisi Donald Trump comme candidat. Les Britanniques ont voté en faveur du Brexit. Les Italiens ont élu à la mairie de

Beauty standards (Owlturd Comics)

Beauty standards (Owlturd Comics)