Life & Personal Interests: 2 of 10
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This ls The Sea
The Waterboys
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A startup’s “tablet” gears up to take on Apple’s iPad
The computer, de-invented. The eyestrain-relieving tablet designed for deep focus and wellbeing. We refuse to accept a future where our devices are exhausting, addictive, and distracting."
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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important
The Court, sitting as the Full Court, holds that the general and indiscriminate retention of IP addresses does not necessarily constitute a serious interference with fundamental rights.
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The end of non-compete agreements is a tech job earthquake
The FTC ruled this week that companies can no longer use non-compete agreements to stop workers from moving from one job to another — and businesses are having fits.
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Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism?
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America's Genocidal Trolley Problem
Will liberals support this genocide when Trump is doing it?
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On waiting until you're ready to get serious about your work
Writer Arriel Vinson on finding a book’s form, returning to your original intention, and prioritizing the work.
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HHS Strengthens Privacy of Reproductive Health Care Data
The new directive prohibits data disclosure when law enforcement agencies want to investigate people, healthcare providers, or others seeking reproductive care that is lawful where the care is given.
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Meet Paris’ black dandies, the Sapeurs
The members of the Society for Ambience and Elegance (Sape) are impossible to overlook. Born in Central Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, the style is now found from Paris to Dubai.
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I tested GeoSpy's photo location detection skills with my personal photos. Results: Wow!
If you upload a photo to GeoSpy, it will use AI and computer vision to try to determine the location where the photo was taken. I decided to test it out with a few photos from my personal library.
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Writing a Memoir Won’t Solve All of Your Problems
More and more people are writing memoirs than ever before. The trend is an extension of social media, and people being conditioned by algorithms to put their lives on display, and it’s creating higher levels of self-involvement, and one can easily be misled by feedback loops.
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I ate the Subway Footlong Cookie so you don’t have to
Subway has a new Footlong Cookie. I bought one and now it looks like a Candyland murder scene.
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What marijuana reclassification means for the United States
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’
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Camouflage Experts Describe the Feeling of Being Invisible
Private detectives, soldiers, and wildlife photographers explain what it’s like to disappear.
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The troubling trend with ghostwriting
Internationally acclaimed ghostwriter and persuasive writing coach Joshua Lisec has ghostwritten more than 80 books.
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Scientists Reinvent Chocolate With Secret Ingredient – It's Healthier And Less Wasteful
To make the signature flavor palatable as a sweet treat, chocolate manufacturers combine a paste made from cacao seeds with sugar. Lots and lots of sugar – often enough to rival all the other ingredients combined, in fact.
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Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream
Captalism is a cancer for humanity's excistence in general.
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The Uniqueness of the Human Writer
The fiction writer designs a plot, characters, and detail in order to create an intended effect or meaning. The best a bot can do is scramble for pre-existing literary patterns and throw something together. Its “creativity” depends on the massive collection of human-made content.
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The End of Reading
College students aren't reading anymore, unless you count texts, tweets, and social media comments (but I don't and here's why).