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TikTok and the network effects of creativity
TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and allow for emergent creativity. It only takes a handful of innovators to unleash a meme tsunami.
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Lena
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver". This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Mi...
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Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore
Ethereum isn't fun anymore. There I said it. And although, the last time I developed an app using it has been more than a year ago, I stand by my word. Developing dapps on Ethereum has become ann
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I paid for Spotify playlist placements so you don’t have to
As part of my ongoing mission to throw money into thin air I decided to promote some of Corserine’s songs on Spotify. Objectives: increase monthly streams on my Spotify artist page so I can g…
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How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing...
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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)
A note from the author This is an older version of this story, from 2007. Here's the latest version, from 2022. Tim already had his bag and overcoat on and his keys in his hand and was about to leave when Diane stopped him at the door. "I just got this thing working....
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“I will slaughter you”
You might know that I've posted funny emails I've received on my blog several times in the past. The kind of emails people send me when they experience problems with some device they own (like a car) and they contact me because my email address happens to be visible somewhere. People sometimes say I should … Continue…
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The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
History is bound to repeat itself and it has almost every year
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When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?
Clubhouse draws the ire of journalists
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Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process
Authoritarian muscle memory and the twists and turns of lying
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AirPods as a Platform
01 Intro One of the favorite activities of tech analysts, VCs and similar Twitter armchair experts is to predict what the next big technology platform might be. The usual suspects that come up in these conversations are VR/AR, crypto, smart speakers and similar IoT devices. A new contestant th
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Windows Refund Day (1999)
Anyway, a few people from SVLUG , including Don Marti, Rick Moen (yes he was there ), Chris DiBona, the world famous Nick Moffitt, and Tabinda Khan, organized the Bay Area windows refund effort. Since at the Linux tea party , microsoft showed up at our meeting point to try to deter us from going to their offices in…
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Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile
I am watching a lot of investing videos on youtube recently. I like to watch them while I eat, or they play in the background while I do something else. I…
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In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics
Some thoughts on the New York Times' Slate Star Codex profile
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The Shame of Swedish Education: J’Accuse
The following article was written by Swedish high school teacher Filippa Mannherheim and translated by retired Swedish educator Sara Hjelm. It appeared in the Swedish publication Expressen. Sweden …
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Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
One of the constant refrains which has bemused me during the pandemic is all the people saying how much kids want to go back to school.
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Short fat engineers are undervalued
Professionals supposedly come in two shapes: either short and fat, or tall and skinny, meaning their skill set is either broad or deep.
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Fictional Cryptocurrencies
I said they were fictional! Stop trying to invest in them!
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Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic
Modification of Kobayahsi Maru for all-virtual classes
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What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. But for security nerds who’ve been warning about this sort of thing for ages, the…