TED: Hannah Gadsby - Three Ideas. Three contradictions. Or not.
This is very good.
Blue Bonds: An Audacious Plan to Save the World’s Oceans
This is an elegant idea to simultaneously provide debt relief and conserve ocean habitats.
Steal This Show s04e18: Josephine Wolff - You'll See This Message When It Is too Late
This is fascinating. The shifts due to ransomware & bitcoin particularly.
Anders Hoff - On Generative Algorithms
There is some really cool and pretty stuff here.
Self-Solving Rubik's Cube Robot!
In our fully automated luxury communist future all our toys will have an "assist" mode like this for those of us who aren't smart enough to solve the old fashioned way.
UXY: Adding structure to the UNIX tools
This is a nice little tool.
Going Critical — Melting Asphalt
A nice interactive network theory visualisation.
Rich Harris: Svelte - Rethinking Reactivity
A promising JavaScript framework: svelte.dev
Medieval wood riving
This is fascinating. Manages to be so much work and also so efficient.
Brad Spencer - Project Gallery
These sculptures are really cool!
Sam Harris and Nick Bostrom: Will We Destroy the Future?
Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, "the vulnerable world hypothesis," the history of nuclear deterrence, "turnkey totalitarianism," the Doomsday Argument, and other topics.
Making a Rover For My Kid!
I can (and do) spend hours watching competent people build with appropriate tools...
Reply All #136: The Founder
Crazy story, kind of Elon Musk crossed with Ross Ulbricht.
TED: Greta Thunberg - The disarming case to act right now on climate change
Ouch. She has one hell of a point.
Sam Harris and Douglas Rushkoff - Digital Capitalism
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about Team Human and the digital economy.
TED: Douglas Rushkoff - How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
Join Team Human.
3Blue1Brown: Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
This is a very good intro/refresher on how cryptocurrencies/block chains work.
Resin-in-resin: how to make a literal "embedded" device
A Raspberry Pi with a display completely encased in a block of clear epoxy, but still able to be updated and used.
toothpick-like sequence exploration
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
Rusty Deadlocked Vise - Perfect Restoration
More hypnotic slow-tv... not just slow, competent well equipped tv.
The Future of Education - Yuval Noah Harari & Russell Brand - Penguin Talks
These two complement each other well, an interesting session.
Continuous paths across minor junctions
This is a very neat urban design technique.
Sam Harris and Chris Anderson - The TED Interview
Good interview of Sam Harris by Chris Anderson for his TED interview podcast.
After On Podcast #38: Laurie Santos - The Science & Practice of Happiness
Yet another interesting After On episode.
Omnibus Entry Entry 714.1CH0910: The Letter J
This one is fascinating. Also the letter &!