Ryan Broderick on Twitter: “We built a thing! I’m part of a group called @digivoidmedia and we recently teamed up with @wttdotm to build what we’re calling the Super Fungible Token. Simply put: You feed it a link to any image (or NFT) on the internet and INDEX — Deep Sea Diving on the Web […]
Month: January 2022
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-16
The Einstellung Effect – Futility Closet Psychologist Abraham S. Luchins discovered a discouraging phenomenon in 1942: When people find a problem-solving strategy that works successfully in multiple trials, they’ll tend to adopt the same strategy even in situations when more efficient solutions are available. –explains a lot about issues we have with technology analytics.usa.gov | […]
Detox Site – Energy-conscious website breakdown
The following is what I wrote for this year’s DLINQ Digital Detox. It was strange writing without footnotes. It’s also a lot less of my normal writing voice. I was writing for a bunch of strangers rather than you, my dear readers.1 It’s easy to use the web without thinking about it much. Modern processors, […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-09
John Schreiber on Twitter: “Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pen This whole thing is crazy . . . including the Twitter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-02
Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens The new company plans to let everyday Americans bet on civil lawsuits by buying and trading associated crypto tokens in “initial litigation offerings.” The Website Obesity Crisis “This poignant story of two foods touching on a hospital plate could almost have been written by Marcel […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-12-26
SurveillanceU – When Virtual Proctoring Goes Wrong After petitions against virtual proctoring launched across the U.S. and YR’s own coverage of this trend, we built a simulator to show how virtual proctoring can flag normal behavior as suspicious. This isn’t an exact replica of the software, but it’s real close. No worries, this interactive does […]