Peace sign selfies could let hackers copy your fingerprints Posing for a picture while holding your hands up in a peace sign could pose a security threat, with hackers able to recreate prints that are the key to phones, computers and tablets.  Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) have found that fingerprints can be easily recreated from photos taken up to three metres away without the need for advanced technology. So long as the picture is clear and well-lit, prints can be mimicked.  Richard Prince Disowns His Ivanka Trump Portrait, Possibly Increasing Its Value However, given the many layers of irony, filtering, and conceptual framing that characterize Prince’s oeuvre, it’s unclear whether his public disowning of the work will negatively affect its worth and status as an authentic Richard Prince, or, on the contrary, it will add to its resale value. Ram Pages Reflective Analysis | qwertyuiop While I have made efforts to improve my understanding of other ideas and beliefs, I don’t necessarily accept them as fact, but a possibility that should be considered.  RamPages has made me aware of the way I articulate my ideas and encouraged me to be careful when discussing controversial or sensitive topics.  It has also made me elaborate as to be sure my point came across the way it was intended.

Bankrupt Hertz Wants In on Robinhood’s Investors – BloombergThis theory is that the stock market is a fun casino, and you should buy stocks because they will go up and down in exciting fashion and might make you rich quick. This is a very old theory, and I suspect that for much of the history of financial markets it was considerably more popular and better supported than the discounted-present-value-of-cash-flows thing.  Will they suspend me? – PostsOfficial FB account of the @suspendthepres twitter experiment. A lot of people requested I ask the same question here and run the experiment on Facebook. Let’s see what happens. This account will post verbatim what the President tweets. Retweets will not be posted unless the President adds his own comment to them. You will see these as the Presidents comment followed by a link to the tweet in question. Let’s see if it gets suspended for violating Facebook’s TOS. Follow along with this social experiment and please share. Report any posts you think violate the rules. Facebook’s algorithm significantly differs from Twitter. On FB you need to interact with this pages posts in some fashion in order to continue to see updates. Otherwise, turning on notifications is an easy way to go as well. abcjsabc javascript notation into playing music and notation What Is Elite TikTok? – The […]

What’s Next for Hack EducationI am hoping that the shift away from compiling all the goings-on for that weekly news round-up will give me more time to think deeply and critically about education and technology, instead of perpetually being enraged by how many terrible and silly things are marketed as “solutions” by folks who just want to sell a product or service – some aware, some unaware that their very well-funded load of futurist bullshit is pretty damn dystopian. —best wishes to Audrey as I couldn’t do more than skim those weekly round-ups because I found them so deeply depressing The Chaos – Gerard Nolst Trenité classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Why Data Is Never Raw – The New Atlantis “Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea; to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.” “Raw” carries a sense of natural or untouched, while “cooked” suggests the result of cognitive processes. But data is always the product of cognitive, cultural, and institutional processes that determine what to collect and how to collect it. In this sense, “raw data” is indeed a contradiction in terms. In the ordinary use of the term “raw data,” “raw” signifies that no processing was performed following data collection, but the term […]