- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (Hacker Noon) “After years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain—besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.:
- Eliminating the Human (MIT Technology Review) Lansdowne High School alum and former Talking Heads front man David Bryne on technology. Money quote, “I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has an unspoken overarching agenda. It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug—it’s a feature.”
- Ayn Rand Helped the FBI Identify It’s A Wonderful Life as Communist Propaganda (Open Culture) Yes, one more thing to hate that psychopath for, and I don’t even like the movie.
- U.S. judge orders oil-spill response plan for Dakota Access Pipeline (Reuters) The Dakota Access pipeline has been put on hold, because they have no oil spill reponse plan.
- Kicking Away Tiny Tim’s Crutch Because His Father Voted for Trump (This is So Gay) This is a common, and deplorable phenomenon of the left wing pundits, Eric Alterman in this case.
- Worst headlines bloopers of 2017: The best of Lower Case (Columbia Journalism Review) So funny. Oh Man! Oh God!
Oh Man! Oh God!