Tuesday 25th June, 2019 #
- An interesting article about how Australia has a history of grass roots movements against uranium mining and nuclear power - It's interesting to see a snapshot of the history on this topic in that region as I wasn't aware of it, I didn't realize that they don't have any nuclear power stations in Australia
- Anti-surveillence fashion is becomming a thing, these glasses reflect IR light which hinders facial recognition, I guess in the future everyone wears glasses
- The US migrant camps are quite expensive, apparently $775 per person per night
- An interesting comparison of the internet to high-trust and low-trust societies, with all of it's fakery the internet is apparently low-trust, but I would argue that like the real world, it's very much a mixture
- A Mental Model for Video - It's really just long lists of numbers that change over time
- Why AirPods - and Earbuds Like Them - Are Especially Bad for Your Hearing
- The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.
- In a parallel universe podcasting started in the 80s and was distributed on floppy disks
- Four restaurants in the Bronx feel the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez effect
- Arab world turns its back on religion – and its ire on the US
- USA edge past gritty Spain to set up mouthwatering quarter-final with France
- Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950 - This is the illustrated story of where it's gone - This plastic problem is really urgent, is it more urgent than climate change?
- Sky set to cancel Johnson-Hunt debate