Welcome to my weekly letter, where I share a few noteworthy articles and my own commentary. Without further ado…
Weekly Read
- The App That Monetized Doing Nothing (The Atlantic) – an app, stories read by celebrities, a partnership with LeBron James, movies. It is an impressive line-up of effort to bring CALM and mindfulness to our ever busier and more complex world today.
- Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Vice) – this brought back memories from the 90’s when it was very common to use something like ‘PC Tools‘ to modify game cache/save files to gain advantage 🙂 oh, I digressed. But this is a fun read about the profit (as in $ millions) and the risks involved in commercialising game cheats.
- More Content Moderation Is Not Always Better (Wired) – The war against all the misinformation and gaslighting is currently relied heavily on the tool of ‘content moderation’. While platforms are throwing resources and efforts to improve their content moderation, it is nevertheless a model that’s fixing the surface, not the actual cause. And there will continue to have a percentage of misinformation leak through the cracks…
- A New Way to Shape Metal Nanoparticles—With a Magnetic Field (Wired) – an informative piece that brings us back to reality from what we see in Tony Stark’s armor in Avengers: Infinity Wars…
- The Sneaky, Lying Flower That Pretends to Be a Rotting Beetle (Wired) – an incredible match making story of our nature: a fly that frequents the dead and lay eggs in the corpses of rotting beetles, and a flower that evolved to look and smell like those rotting beetles. I am picking up some Grimms’ Fairy Tales vibe here 🙂
- How to Protect Species and Save the Planet—at Once (Wired) – Time to do something to help is NOW… this article was from two months ago, along with the grim report released this week. Again, we need a Project Warp Speed for our mother Earth.
That’s it for this week! Have a nice weekend!
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