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Saturday 22nd December, 2018 #

  • I couldn't be bothered to read this article, however George Osborne does a really great Zuckerberg impression, don't you think?
  • Looks as though things could be turning for the worse in France, the police might join the protesters over unpaid overtime and difficult working conditions
  • The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity - Makes some good points but fails to mention the biggest risk - humans using ai to build and/or customize humans, then we will enter a recursive ai-human training loop and with our human capacity to self justify, will we even know when we are causing suffering, or will we think that we are helping? Will we all always remember or know about the recursive loop? And with the surveillance/monitoring infrastructure that is being built in recent years by almost all nations around the world, and of course the internet off things, will it even matter if it's running open source, free software or proprietary software...
  • Here's What It Looks Like When An Astronaut Tries To Walk On Earth After 197 Days In Orbit
  • Bootstrap 4.2.1 Released - Spinners, Toasts to display push notifications and toggle Switches, plus various smaller updates and additions
  • Photography - Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting
  • Seems like US companies are having to block users based on trade embargoes - slack is apologising for blocking the wrong users, it’s the first I’ve heard if such practices - if true it’s a massive blow to cloud software companies
  • React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks