Literary Hub
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
Literary Hub
10 min read · From 2020 · Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language; it’s high time to do the same for short stories. But before we go any further, you may be asking: What do… · Shared by 168, including Jesse Baer 🔥, Esther Schindler, Christian Surchi, Brad Brooks
Eater
There Really Is No Ethical Restaurant Under Capitalism
Eater
~13 min read · From 2020 · Building an equitable restaurant — where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination — will require undoing the way most restaurants are run · Shared by 42, including Christian Surchi
The Atlantic
Herd Immunity Is Not a Strategy
The Atlantic
6 min read · From 2020 · What the term actually means, and what it doesn’t · Shared by 93, including Bill Hanage, Matthias Lampe, Yale University, Christian Surchi, Merkstatt, Michael Mina, Rick Powell, Natalie E. Dean, PhD, Timothy Caulfield
VentureBeat
Why the connected car rides on open source
VentureBeat
3 min read · From 2020 · Connected cars require collaboration across auto makers, telcos, sensor-, infotainment-, and cloud-providers, and others. Fragmentation isn't an option. · Shared by 21, including Howard Getson, Christian Surchi, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Guardian US
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
Guardian US
4 min read · From 2020 · A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states · Shared by 146, including ❤️ Umair, barb dybwad, Kelsey D. Atherton, Katie Benner, Anne Thompson, Jennifer Ouellette, Esther Schindler, David Austin Walsh, Perez Hilton, Brad Brooks, Jason Stanley, zeldman, Anil, Yvette d’Entremont, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Hiroko Tabuchi, Mo Ryan, Berrak "Sparkling Consequences" Sarıkaya, Dave McClure, Ida Bae Wells
OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
OneZero
Summary · From 2020 · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it. · Shared by 432, including Chris Heilmann, Thomas Pleil, Kyle Bunch, Gerd Leonhard, Cory Doctorow, Christian Surchi, Bill Johnston, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt, Psymposia, Tim Bray, Matthias Lampe, Mathew Ingram, Josep M. Ganyet, getAbstract, ploum.net, Michael Seemann, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Ines Bieler, Anil
The Correspondent
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
The Correspondent
~17 min read · From 2020 · Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of… · Shared by 634, including Sebastien Meunier, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Moritz Stefaner, Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦 Слава Україні, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Tim Copeland, Rob Wijnberg, Rutger Bregman, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, tante, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Eric Vitiello, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Josep M. Ganyet, Andreas Staub, Dr Catherine Breslin, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jean-François Gariépy 🧬, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг)
The Guardian
An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!'
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2020 · It was the late director Alan Parker’s most enduring hit, capturing what it was to be young and ambitious in the hot, gritty New York of 1980. The cast and crew reflect on the acting, fighting,… · Shared by 58, including Rick Powell, Alex Selby-Boothroyd, Peter Shankman (shankman.eth), Keith Stuart, Christian Surchi
Tedium
Why Your Dongle Junk Drawer Will Never Be Empty
Tedium
~12 min read · From 2020 · Pondering the many ways that dongles have taken over or lives, for better and for worse. One port will never rule them all, apparently. · Shared by 14, including Christian Surchi, Esther Schindler, Ernie Smith
Literary Hub
The Real Criminal Masterminds in America Aren’t Working the System—They Created It
Literary Hub
~11 min read · From 2020 · Corruption is as old as government. Yet the brazenness, the method, and the global spread of the practices that are sparking indignation today were last seen during the late 19th and early 20th cen… · Shared by 8, including Christian Surchi
Scientific American
This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
Scientific American
~12 min read · From 2020 · A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality · Shared by 197, including Pascal Sulser, Jennifer Ouellette, Christian Surchi, Christian Fauteux
Hakai Magazine
A Tuna’s Worth
Hakai Magazine
~18 min read · From 2020 · Bluefin tuna are a luxury that feeds the egos of many, the bellies of few. Inside a Canadian fishery that pursues them. · Shared by 7, including Christian Fauteux, Christian Surchi
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · From 2020 · We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace · Shared by 1018, including Mathieu von Rohr, Austin Kleon, Nige Willson, Gary Marcus, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Michael Mina, Iain Brown, PhD, Oliver Reichenstein, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Rick King, Robin Wigglesworth, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #Abolishthemonarchy, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Mathew Ingram, emily bell, Taylor Lorenz, Yves Mulkers, Guy Kawasaki, Jim Marous 💯, AI
