1. Bitcoin surveillance helped feds take down a massive child abuse site (blockchain, MIT Technology Review) 2. How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? (new-food, NYT) 3. As the World’s Garbage Piles Up, Controversy Over Waste-to-Energy Continues (energy, Undark) 4. George Takei (book, Full Stop)
1. This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like (climate, The Atlantic) 2. Cows Need Friends to Be Happy (nature, The Atlantic) 3. Why it’s time to start talking about blockchain ethics by Mike Orcutt (blockchain, MIT Technology Review) 4. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf (food, The Guardian) Bonus: The Super Zoom
1. The well-educated person by C D C Reeve (aeon) 2. Got any Horrific Child? Discover the list of the world’s 291 weirdest bands (culture, The Guardian) 3. Blockchain: disillusionment descends on financial services (blockchain, Financial Times) 4. ‘There’s no end and no escape. You feel so, so exposed’: life as a victim of revenge porn (crime, The Guardian)
1. Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy” (technology, MIT technology Review)details are sketchy, additional information also in: Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Marking a Major Milestone in Computing (Fortune)What Is Quantum Supremacy, and Why Is It Such a Computing Milestone? (Fortune) 2. Blockchain hysteria: Adding “blockchain” to company’s name (blockchain, Economics Letters)one can compare this to the dot-com boom: A Rose.com by Any Other Name (pdf here)
1. The Old New Trend of Sober Curiosity (society, culture, JSTOR) 2. The Gospel of Oil by Kim Phillips-Fein (history, books, Boston Review) Oil executives themselves historically have been among the most active and enthusiastic promoters of apocalyptic Christianity in the United States, their zeal to drill representing their religious passion as well as their quest for self-enrichment. 3. The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence – How Cheaper Predictions Will Change The World (AI, Forbes) 4. […]
1. How American Colonialism Put Puerto Rico in Crisis (new book, MJ) 2. Can Apple Or Amazon Become Full Stack Banks? (Forbes) 3. Russia’s Huge Gold Stash Is Now Worth More Than $100 Billion (Bloomberg) 4. A most peaceful revolution by Nic Carter (Bitcoin)
1. The great book scare (history, Smithsonian) 2. Why Not Hi-tech Forms? by Robin Hanson A half century ago, when people tried to imagine a future full of computers, I’m sure one of the most obvious predictions they made is that we today wouldn’t have to work so hard to fill out forms. Filling out forms seemed then to be a very mechanical task, based on explicit mechanical rules. So once computers had enough space […]
1. The Prince and the Figurehead by John Nerst (social studies) Just like it’s obvious that our selective stupidity is just that — selective — it’s equally obvious to me that we don’t do this with full-on intentionality. We aren’t all sociopaths. We don’t typically get a full range of possible interpretations listed in our mind, think about it and then decide to go with a dishonest pick. 2. Tackling climate change with blockchain by Peter […]
Blockchain 1. BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols 2. A Bayesian approach to identify Bitcoin users Abstract When a user initiates a Bitcoin transaction, his Bitcoin client program relays messages to other clients through the Bitcoin network. Monitoring the propagation of these messages and analyzing them carefully reveal hidden relations. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model using a probabilistic approach to link Bitcoin addresses and transactions to the originator IP address. […]
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