The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X) and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

I’m inclined to put Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and any other interested billionaires into low earth orbit on an indefinite basis.

https://theoutline.com/post/4572/international-space-station-iss-nasa-ted-cruz-gerstenmaier-bridenstine

A single bitcoin transaction is so energy intensive that it could power the average U.S. household for a month.

A fluctuating bitcoin price, along with increases in computer efficiency, has slowed the cryptocurrency’s energy footprint growth rate to “just” 20 percent per month so far in this year. If that keeps up, bitcoin would consume all the world’s electricity by January 2021.

https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/

Partially staged.

https://www.axios.com/google-ai-demo-questions-9a57afad-9854-41da-b6e2-5e55b619283e.html

This is Late Capitalism. Why be surprised by any of this?

Wait for it.

https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/994123649534705664

Necro

Nomicon

by Microhazred

+Jews!

Remote attackers just need to send a message 💬 on Signal to inject & execute malicious code onto targeted systems—without requiring any recipients’ interaction

Electron is not a secure platform.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/05/signal-messenger-vulnerability.html

Lines crossing

Via Luke Wroblewski