Bad idea of the day: bumble bee mounted wifi mesh network APs

We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites

My Life at a Russian Propaganda Network - POLITICO Magazine https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/russian-propaganda-sputnik-reporter-215511

The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review

[1703.00045] Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045##

Fracturing left unity to own the libs

Band name of the day: coordinated inauthentic behavior

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace “ but forgot one crucial detail… • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/

Parallel documents! Interview, August 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBeHDxcVSA

System dynamics - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics

Viable system model - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Allende’s socialist internet | Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/allendes-socialist-internet/

No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision

Why your favourite film baddies all have a truly evil laugh | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-your-favourite-film-baddies-all-have-a-truly-evil-laugh

Paris Review - Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1887/don-delillo-the-art-of-fiction-no-135-don-delillo

Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement

Smart Speakers and Thermostats Will Monetize Life at Home - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/smart-home-devices-data-privacy/578425/

What would space exploration look like if it starred more women? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-space-exploration-look-like-if-it-starred-more-women

Band name of the day: freestyle acupuncture

Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148

Stafford Beer, and Salvador Allende’s Internet, and the Dystopian Novel - tHE r H i z z o n E https://rhizzone.net/articles/stafford-beer-and-salvador-allendes-internet-and-d/

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

Band name of the day: cerulean process

Spider-Verse - The Ultimate Spider-Man Movie - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53WLwI9iIo

Edward Gorey’s macabre tarot deck from 1966 / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/18/edward-goreys-macabre-tarot.html

A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

Higher education in the US is driven by a lust for glory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/higher-education-in-the-us-is-driven-by-a-lust-for-glory

How to See the Poetry in Plants - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-of-poetic-botany

SomethingNew/Concepts.md at master · d-cook/SomethingNew · GitHub https://github.com/d-cook/SomethingNew/blob/master/Concepts.md

Prograph “ Noel Rappin ” Medium https://medium.com/@noelrap/prograph-c3caa90b89e8

Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html

Dymaxion Man | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/dymaxion-man

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

Aquaman pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s his worst nightmare. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/aquaman-movie-hp-lovecraft-racism-miscegenation.html

Band name of the day: horned werewolf

American Ghostwriter | Sean Patrick Cooper https://thebaffler.com/salvos/american-ghostwriter-cooper

Political tribalism in Trump’s America: what Andrew Sullivan gets wrong - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/11/18131370/andrew-sullivan-religion-tribalism-christianity-trump

It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/

Type erasure and reification - Eli Bendersky’s website https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-erasure-and-reification/

This Eccentric Academic Thinks the Zodiac Killer Is a Hoax - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/this-eccentric-academic-thinks-the-zodiac-killer-is-a-hoax

Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sedimentation-the-existentialist-challenge-to-stereotypes

PewDiePie vs. T-Series and Rewind 2018: the battle for YouTube, explained - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/14/18138916/pewdiepie-vs-t-series-youtube-rewind-2018

How the First World War gave medicine a new body of evidence | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-first-world-war-gave-medicine-a-new-body-of-evidence

Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5vwb/hacker-banner-ads-are-totally-wild

Band name of the day: modern sound synthesis

Band name of the day: manual of disasters

Band name of the day: fresh and desperate wailing

Band name of the day: silver gleaming death machine