More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Out Society is an Escape Room.

- From the archives: Peter Thiel thinks you should be concerned about surveillance AI.

- More on Jack Smith and operation Arctic Frost. No wonder Smith was hoping for immunity.

- Bill Gates shakes up the climate discussion. But does Gates still want to block out the sun?

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- She's not wrong. The system was not broken over night and it won't be fixed over night either.

- Ben Shapiro on 4 big questions about Biden's health cover-up.

- The Left Hand Rule. Fascinated by the concept of anti-matter.

- Jonathan Haidt: Taking back childhood from phones - finally.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Supreme Court strikes down Biden/Harris Title IX stance. Big win for biological females.

- Social media and smart phones in schools.

- Elon Musk, X, and Free Speech must be protected. People used to value free speech - what happened?

- On price controls. Or as Kamala Harris calls it "price gauging," (HT Steve Layman)

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is to improve society." - Sebastian Junger

"Death makes everything else sad. But death only scares." - Ray Bradbury

"Having a phone in your pocket is like always carrying around a glazed donut that constantly temps you to snack on it - but if you do, you know it will ruin your appetite." - Ruby LaRocca

"More dreams die from a lack of confidence than a lack of competence. But while confidence is often a byproduct of accomplishments, it also comes from how you talk to yourself." - Shane Parrish

Screen Size vs How Much It Sucked Away Time and Attention

Via

The Morons We've Become

HT The View from Lady Lake 

Smartphone Disrespect

Excellent advice. I know I'm often guilty of Smartphone Disrespect - sometimes doubly (because I have two phones). I will endeavor to do better!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Using nuclear power to directly eliminate the root cause of global warming. Interesting, technical, long-read but the proposal means a 1 GW reactor could remove 3,790 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere PER DAY

- This gave me chills - people's beautiful expressions at hearing sound for the first time

- Interesting - the world first rooftop 360-degree infinity pool

- How to donate your body to science

- An app for iPhones can automatically start to record if you get pulled over by the police

- One stat where I want to strive to be below average

- Interesting map showing the most famous person born in different parts of the US. Worcester's most famous resident is listed as H. Jon Benjamin (Archer) - I would have guessed Dennis Leary (though historically it should have been Robert Goddard)

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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- NATO turns 70-years old this week. Austin Bay has a nice summary of what NATO means today. He doesn't mention Turkey and I'm not sure if Turkey still belongs in NATO

- China's economy is hurting and a trade deal with the US can't come soon enough. Keep in mind that an agreement for North Korea to give up their nukes will probably be part of such a deal.

- Israel becomes just the 7th nation to orbit the moon. The Beresheet spacecraft is not only in orbit but on April 11th it will attempt to land on the moon which would make it the first privately funded craft to do so. Only the US, Russia and China have landed a craft on the surface of the moon before.

- America F*ck Yeah!

- The miracle that is the smartphone

- So basically agreeing to do one of those ancestry DNA tests is the same as agreeing to giving your DNA to the FBI

- Janties? WTF

Smartphone Disrespect

Excellent advice. I know I'm often guilty of Smartphone Disrespect - sometimes doubly (because I have two phones).

I will endeavor to do better!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- How to keep marketers and others from tracking you via your smart phone. Basic stuff but it doesn't hurt to check every once and a while.

- Heh heh - he did warn them

- My bucket list of places to go keeps getting longer and longer

- Interesting - Amazon picks up rights to UFC PPV events via Amazon Prime Video

- So very sad

- My guess is that Obama didn't want his speech recorded for the same reason comedians don't want people filming their act - he planned on giving the same speech over and over raking in the speaking fees. Now that it's been leaked he has to come up with new "bits"

Apple vs the FBI

This is amusing. The FBI wanting backdoor access to people's phones is not.

When it comes to encryption - I agree with John Ashcroft 100%. That was written in 1998 - so don't give me the "war on Terror" argument either. The government should not have "keys" to your phone any more than the government should have keys to your home.

It's really that simple.