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Long, interesting profile of Robin Hanson. His book is Age of Em (which is great), he blogs at Overcoming Bias, an interesting blog post of his is This is The Dreamtime.
Best chase scene ever, via Planet Earth 2.
How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima
CGP Grey: The Rules for Rulers (youtube). Based on The Dictator’s Handbook, which I now very much want to read.
Amazingly advanced device for cheating at poker.
“Upon ordering the poker cheating device I kinda expected, based on the screenshots I had seen early on, to get a dedicated piece of hardware that kinda looked like a fake phone. However, to my surprise, the device, showcased in the picture above, far exceeded my expectations by being a fully functional phone with extra hardware dedicated to cheating. Also to my surprise, the device not only allows to cheat at Poker but to cheat at almost any kind of card games you can think of.”
Scroll up for a cool story and pictures about an old typewriter museum.
Hardware bitflipping attacks in practice — rooting an Android phone. And Eliezer Yudkowsky comments.
Amazing photos of Nepalese honey hunters.
The Channel Islands and Andorra have bizarre sovereignty status.
This is what the future looks like.
Inside Magic Leap, a highly secretive and exciting augmented reality startup.
“High expectations, high support” charter schools show impressive results.
Götterdämmerung is a lovely and timely word. And the top 5 word lookups from Merriam-Webster: fascism, socialism, xenophobe, bigot, polarize.
