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Lilium is building vertical take-off and landing vehicles that could revolutionise personal transport https://
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
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A documentary focusing on the writing and thoughts of William Gibson, about the present, and the future, real or not. Worth a watch, any time.
Sticky links, December 30th edition
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Sharing links for no other reason than having found them useful, entertaining, educating, or all at the same time. #stickylinks
- I've been fascinated by cephalopods for a long time 🐙. Reading that scientists in 2009 discovered that octopus, previously believed to be a solitary animal, are living in "cities" in the sea, with one of them called Octopolis, has not dampened my fascination. While gathered in Octopolis, the octopus are seen mating, fighting, and hurling objects at each other. Guess the odd one out. https://
www.earthtouchnews.com/ natural-world/ animal-behaviour/ welcome-to-octopolis-an-underwater-bat... - I didn't know computer-aided match-making was already creating couples in the 50s and 60s. Excellent long read on the topic at https://
logicmag.io/ 02-the-mother-of-all-swipes/ about the work done by Joan Ball, as she build the first computerised match making service. Think Tinder for the punch card generation. - "If we design space for conflict, we will have conflict". An observation on hostile architecture, brought on by an appalled citizen raging about spikes put on a tree branch, to keep pigeons from sitting in the tree https://
www.atlasobscura.com/ articles/ anti-pigeon-spikes-hostile-architecture - Peter Sunde's talk at Brain Bar Budapest lament's that we've given up as consumers and are blindly centralising the web in the silos of the big five. His call to arms is because he's tired of hearing people talking about what might happen in the future, while the full scale of what's happening, can be observed right now. Interesting interview with Peter Sunde here: https://
hackernoon.com/ weve-centralized-all-of-our-data-to-a-guy-called-mark-zuckerberg-says-pirate-...
An Afternoon with Josh Tetrick: the Man Who Wants to Bring In Vitro Meat to the Market by 2018 https://
For Christmas here's an extensive list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally: https://
I've started hosting my own RSS Reader on voss.co, which is working out a treat for me (: Glad to get back into reading content not only supplied by social media outlets.
#indieweb
Creating The Next Bechdel Test | https://
A righteous 3 minute introduction to jazz slang https://
Stream 74 Sun Ra Albums Free Online: Decades of “Space Jazz” and Other Forms of Intergalactic, Afrofuturistic Musical Creativity http://
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Netflix's adaption of Altered Carbon looks promising: https://
If it's a longer post, I rarely compose directly in the CMS, and never in Known.
I typically type up my posts in an editor (anything will do really), and save the file in a folder that I keep on Google Drive. I normally don't format a lot of my text, so that makes it easier. It would be marvellous if I could get Markdown to work with Known though, because I'm familiar with that, and that would allow me to compose no matter which application I'm typing up the content.