Saturday 20th April, 2019 #
- The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities
- How Selective Empathy Can Chip Away At Civil Society
- An interesting factoid about Winston Churchill that I did not know - "In 1945, George VI offered to make Churchill the Duke of Dover - the first non-Royal dukedom to be created since 1874 - as well as a Knight of the Garter; Churchill turned down both" - I don't know I'm just some smuck, but isn't that a bit rude, I mean the bloke won the war for us and you offer him to be the country's doorman, maybe it's an honour white cliffs of dover and all that, politics is a fucking minefield
- 420 - Seven charts on how cannabis use has changed
- Turpin captivity case - Children forgive parents for torture - 13 Children in captivity for years and starved them
- How Xi Jinping became a networked authoritarian thanks to his little red app
- Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating system
- Mozilla relaunches open source IoT platform Project Things as WebThings
- Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins (Now a security researcher) pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution
- A ransomware attack took The Weather Channel off the air
- There's definitely a devil / satan thing going on today
- Where pinball machines live forever - Some great bits of pinball history in this short, quelle collection!
- Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility - Has a logo that looks a bit satantic
- My internet got cut off a few minutes after I made that post about Google and old devices, and only just got reconnected now - just making a note of that here