Wednesday, February 21, 2018

kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe

Actually, bitcoin is a nice reward too; it's like crystalized machine sweat!
_- Steve

Against guilty pleasures: Adorno on the crimes of pop culture | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

He would later write of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which premiered in 1913, that it represented an 'uproar of culture against its own essence as culture' which is 'enjoyed as an enticement precisely in its opposition to civilisation'. The ballet's 'flirtation with barbarism' was not merely musical – it reflected social facts, and indeed showed evidence of a kind of cultural trend towards regression, and of the domination of the individual by the social whole.

_- Steve

Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence in InfoSec | Endgame

https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/malicious-use-artificial-intelligence-infosec


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Dread accompanies me through life but it is not without consolation | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/dread-accompanies-me-through-life-but-it-is-not-without-consolation


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August Macke - Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=August+Macke&safe=off&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinu8S5o7fZAhUFKawKHQqeAaAQ_AUIESgB&biw=1024&bih=1259


_- Steve

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.



Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.

From Politics, a Flipboard magazine by bradahill22

BERLIN — Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance,…

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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Computers.pdf