Michael Sheen turns himself into a 'not-for-profit' actor
"But when I came out the other side, I realised I could do this kind of thing and, if I can keep earning money, it's not going to ruin me." This is the coolest thing. [Link]
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Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers With ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos
““Someone is using a similar technique as ‘mass scanning’ to massively blast raw TCP data directly to printer services across the internet,” Morris told Motherboard in an online chat. “Basically to every single device that has port TCP 9100 open and print a pre-written document that references /r/antiwork
Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates
“Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis
Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
“Ressa has spent much of the last four years trying to point out that none of this is happening in isolation and that the “assault on truth” is doing the same to western democracies as it has done to her country. Muratov is even more gloomy. “It’s terrifying that
Smart Contract Bug Results in $31 Million Loss
"The basic problem is that the code is the ultimate authority — there is no adjudication protocol — so if there’s a vulnerability in the code, there is no recourse. And, of course, there are lots of vulnerabilities in code. To me, this is reason enough never to use smart
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)
In general I don't agree that movies have become less easy to understand - I have no trouble with Christopher Nolan dialogue, for example, and I don't get why people can't understand Tom Hardy - but this is an interesting look into the industry and how
Is web3 bullshit?
"The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain, to succeed the "Web 2.0" of Google and Facebook seems to be reaching a threshold of ambient cultural awareness such that non-tech pundits, news-engaged normies, magazine editors, uncles, online attention-seekers etc., feel
Fairness Friday: Jackson Women's Health Organization
I’m posting Fairness Fridays: a new community social justice organization each week. I donate to each featured organization. If you feel so inclined, please join me. This week I’m donating to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Based in Jackson, Mississippi, JWHO provides important women’s health services
US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots’
"Speaking at a meeting in Geneva focused on finding common ground on the use of such so-called lethal autonomous weapons, a US official balked at the idea of regulating their use through a “legally-binding instrument”." It may seem laughable now, but technology improvements will make this
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
"Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods. [...] “No one has done the work you guys are doing, which is looking at the data,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University who is a national
When COVID patients get new lungs, sould vaccine status matter?
"About one in 10 lung transplants in the United States now go to COVID-19 patients, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS. The trend is raising questions about the ethics of allocating a scarce resource to people who have chosen not to be
Reading, watching, playing, using: November, 2021
This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for November, 2021. It’s a little shorter than normal because I spent a portion of the month offline. Notable Articles Business Research: People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over