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Review: The Hollywood Economist 2.0
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies Paperback by Edward Jay Epstein First, this isn’t really a book. It’s a collection of somewhat repetitive articles. I don’t think the format detracts too much, but know what you’re … Continue reading
On Human Evolution, Personality Disorders, and the Environment
Some idle thoughts on the evolution of humanity’s relationship with its environment as sparked by this article, which states: Individuals who scored in the top 10% of manic features had a childhood IQ almost 10 points higher than those who scored … Continue reading
Fuck Your High-Minded Design
The approach of giving up, opting out, or, frankly, being a coward and not tackling the big problems – things like survival in war – reduces the field of design to pretty fucking pixels on a fucking screen. Continue reading
Remixing Today
I’m remixing today to see tomorrow. Pitch: OPM hack was obfuscation. Data was injected, not stolen. MS13 now has dozens of sleeper agents in the pipeline. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 22, 2015 Pitch: Pluto mission goes awry, New Horizons … Continue reading
Agbogbloshie and Formalizing the Supply Chain
…a scrap yard at the impossibly teeming Agbogbloshie market in Ghana’s capital, mining — along with hundreds of men and boys — for metal wires and parts that can be re-sold and burning the plastic that encases them. Hour after … Continue reading