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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
A company catering to law enforcement and corrections officers has raised privacy concerns with a product that can locate almost anyone’s cellphone across the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html
Linguistics joke
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
I was looking at some of the concepts for the X-38 CRV (Crew Return Vehicle). It was planned to allow 7 astronauts to return from the ISS during an emergency. ISS crews are limited by the evacuation capacity of docked spacecraft so that meant 3 at a time with the Soyuz
The X-38 seems like a very well-thought out craft. It's a shame it never got completed. The program was cancelled by NASA at 90% completion which was a pretty controversial decision
"Muscle memory"
Is Stefan Urquelle the multiverse bridge between the Die Hard and Family Matters universes?
#movies #worldbuilding #multiverse #urkel
...or does Die Hard take place in the Family Matters universe?
#movies #worldbuiding
Does Family Matters take place in the Die Hard Universe?
Remember when SB Nation, a sports news site, published a lengthy transmedia fiction project on sentient satellites watching football in the very, very distant future? How come that didn't become a trend?
A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system
Algorithms Are Making Government Decisions. The Public Needs to Have a Say
Zuckerberg gives US users a big FU on data privacy. EU users slightly better off on privacy due to GDPR.
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/04/nerd-triumphalism.html
The Panopticon Singularity (2002)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/rant/panopticon-essay.html
Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems
London murder rate overtakes New York for first time ever after spate of fatal stabbings and shootings
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out - Motherboard
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out - Motherboard
David on Twitter
“My @Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app from https://t.co/0DOiuQ6dty and boy oh boy... this is worse than recent @facebook stuff.A thread...”
