My niece just earned her degree in cybersecurity, so of course, I had to give her an encrypted hard drive filled w/ 1337 h4x0r media and some incoherent ramblings for her to decipher. Told her to start w/ WarGames (1983), Hackers (1995), Sneakers (1992) then Primer (2004) and just binge
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I'm spending the week at FAB26, the Fab Lab network's annual gathering, camped out at MIT with several hundred people who own more laser cutters than shoes. I'll send around my conference thoughts next week. Signals Worth Tracking The man who invented the metaverse
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Tom Cruise promised you real jets, not CGI. You got both. "Everything you see is for real," went the Top Gun: Maverick marketing. Danish VFX supervisor Jonas Ussing examined the finished film and found CGI jets nearly everywhere, then kept going for four more videos covering Oppenheimer, Mission:
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I gave the assistant that runs my calendar the power to refuse me until I name a reason. Turns out the obstacle is the feature: learning science, behavioral economics, and HCI all drew the same line between friction that works for you and friction that works on you.
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A band with no humans in it, an actress who doesn't exist, a five-star write-up sitting on a hundred food-poisoning complaints. The machine isn't the scandal. The unlabeled swap is.
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I lost twenty minutes to a website that lets you chop firewood, and it handed me something my work keeps withholding: a finished pile.
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