Fawkes is a piece of software that modifies your photos in a non-visible way to stop facial recognition models from indexing them and associating them with you. Basically poisoning the machine-learning well.
An interesting project that takes books from the public domain and cleans up formatting, typography and more. So if you're looking for some free classic reads for your eReader, it looks like a great source. I have my eye on a few.
There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all—the lack of vision, the absence of any moral sense or shame, the inability and unwillingness not just to fix but even reckon with the dangerous and ungovernable thing he’s made—is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. It is embarrassing and not a little enraging to realize that you are subject to the whims of an amoral and incurious capitalist posing as a visionary optimist. It is especially humiliating when the all-bestriding and inevitable figure in question is such a dim, dull nullity.
An excellent assessment of Marc Zuckerberg and his complete lack of character and morality.
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos.
You've probably already seen the miniature worlds created by Tatsuya Tanaka. Before watching this video, I was unaware he 3D-printed a lot of his content. His process is impressive and the results even more so.
