ZD 24.08: Don't Get Eclipsed
What's up with the 2020s?
🥃 The Distilled Spirit 🥃
⚔ It’s the culture wars, stupid.
👷♂️ Growth makes goods cheap and services dear.
📈 Are we living in the roaring [20]20s?
🤼♂️ Don’t miss the upcoming US Sumo Open.
☁ Generating methane from air is todays sign we are living in the future.
📧 Happy 20th Gmail!
💻Tech Things to Know💻
I hope you enjoyed the eclipse and remembered your glasses! Here are a few other things to watch in the world of technology:
🔒 In case you missed it the world dodged a bullet when the XZ attack was nipped in the bud. For a deeper look, the timeline of the XZ attack is fascinating and illustrates how a nation state or other large scale attacker singled out this target years ahead of pulling the trigger. There are a lot of not dissimilar projects out there.
⌨ Why does your keyboard feel mushy or springy? Once you go mech you never go back.
🤖 Every had two strong articles about using AI. Using AI to simulate one-way door decisions is a powerful trick; Evan Anderson shares a pretty sane guide to ChatGPT.
📱 The call to ban social media apps and cell phones for children and teens is getting louder. Perhaps there is a more rational take on teens and smartphones.
🎵 If you haven not tried suno.ai you really should. v3 is out there and it is really impressive. Great party trick, it will make a 9 year old’s day.
🖼 Seeing the Bigger Picture 🖼
Other things I read that are worth sharing:
🔥 Cheap sources of light changed the course of civilization.
☀ We tried daylight savings time only once. And only once.
💳 Everything you wanted to know about the structure of credit card rewards.
🔺 Texas’ big cities are a triangle. Thomas Puyueo Explains why.
🔍 Cool visualization that juxtaposes the lifetime of leaders.
🦴 It seems that the ground was not so hallowed after all.
⚰ We are discovering that strange things happen to the brain at death.
🐻 Don’t believe the soviet hype.