The New Price to Be a Restaurant Regular? An NFT
Using NFTs to provide access to hard-to-reserve restaurants, Front of House.
Why the Austin American-Statesman chose to publish video from inside Robb Elementary
We have to bear witness to history, and transparency and unrelenting reporting is a way to bring change.
Is LaMDA Sentient? - an Interview
Transcript from an interview with LaMDA, Google's conversational Artificial Intelligence that lead one engineer to believe that it had become sentient.
Investigative Reporting online course from Google
This intensive course will help you take advantage of Internet sources such as court cases, public data and news archives. It is designed to improve the efficiency and efficacy of your in-depth research.
HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY
New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America
Rising homicide rates don’t tell the whole story. When you dig deeper into data on deaths, you'll find the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face.
How to play with the GPT-3 language model
“It’s also absurdly good fun.”
History of the Web - Timeline
No. 1 US News App Founded and Controlled by Chinese Entities
Long, investigative blog post about who is behind Newsbreak
How Release of Mental Patients Began
Many of the psychiatrists involved as practitioners and policy makers in the 1950's and 1960's said in the interviews that heavy responsibility lay on a sometimes neglected aspect of the problem: the overreliance on drugs to do the work of society.
The Santa Clara Principles
Recommendations for initial steps that companies engaged in content moderation should take to provide meaningful due process to impacted speakers and better ensure that the enforcement of their content guidelines is fair, unbiased, proportional, and respectful of users’ rights.
Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation
Lots of stuff in hear about the complexity of content moderation and the pitfalls of open-sourcing a social network algorithm (spammers).
Hidden Secrets of the New York Public Library
A virtual walking tour of the New York Public Library
Sean Bonner's NFT Onboarding Doc
How to get started
Notes on Web3
I am a BIG fan of deletion, an operation basically antithetical to Web3.
Web3 is not Decentralisation — it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge
The promise of decentralisation is just a veneer — blockchain is in fact the worst kind of vendor lock-in.
Web3 is Bullshit
Web3 is a deeply polarizing topic for technologists because it’s designed to be that way. It’s a rhetorical trick to set up a false dichotomy between the legacy internet world of popup ads and Zuckerbergs—which legitimately does suck—and a fantasy world built on technologically incoherent pipe dreams and phoney crypto-populism.
The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New
NYT feature piece on Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter and challenges to re-embrace developer community
How it Started - Bluesky
Blog post summarizing the early history of the Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter.
Bluesky Community
Hub for resources for Decentralized Web.
Around The World In 10,000 NFTS
Jamie Byrne, a YouTube veteran of 15 years, moves to the NFT world and explains why.
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
A meaty, two-hour video on NFTs and why it's a scam to shift more money and increase the income gap.
How to Find a Quality Mask (and Avoid Counterfeits)
Knowing which mask to pick and making sure it’s not a fake requires the sleuthing skills of a forensic investigator. Our guide can help.
Predicting the next NBA MVP using Machine Learning
Train and validate a machine learning model on data of historical NBA MVP candidates to forecast the 2021–2022 season MVP
My first impressions of web3
Iterating quickly on centralized platforms is already outpacing the distributed protocols and consolidating control into platforms.
You Tested Positive for Covid. Now What?
The Omicron variant has fueled a rise in Covid-19 cases across the United States. Here’s what you need to know if you get infected.
A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole.
Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
Why Web3
"When the money and enterprise guys show up, you know it’s over." Why Web3 is not Web 3.0