Supertramp on the brain

Button Coral
(Cynarina lacrymalis)

• Flopstarter | A platform for bad ideas
  Waiting for the #notflopstarter hash.
• Our data is valuable. Here's how we can take that value back
  We must challenge the current narrative dominated by Silicon Valley’s leaky surveillance capitalism and dystopian models such as China’s social credit system. A New Deal on data, based on a rights-based, people-centric framework, which does not exploit personal data to pay for critical infrastructure, is long overdue.
• English professors' fascination with monster children in movies turns into career
  This headline is my life story in an alternate timeline.
• Hacker Typer
  For mindless computating.
• Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance
  Observability vs. surveillance.
• Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual
  This is the problem: blockchain-based systems are thermodynamically unsustainable.
• The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise
  There's a lesson for the current state of our federal government.
• We need to an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms
  This is the Internet I miss.
• Old memories, accidentally trapped in amber by our digital devices
  Leave it to Marcin to find the magic in old data.
• 🚕🐀emoji-city
  Glitch app makes a new City of Emoji each time you click.