The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” declassified in 2008 and available on the CIA’s website, provided instructions for how everyday people could help the Allies weaken their country by reducing productivity.
Sounds like a regular office.
Introducing Luna to the great Australian tradition of running through sprinklers naked in summer
I’m not an anti-vaxxer I just enjoy typing those five words to trigger you.
Currently reading: Inside Steve’s Brain by Leander Kahney 📚
Will driverless cars do burnouts?
It’s cool that there’s a Catwoman, Batman, and Spider-Man, but where’s all the stories about Possumperson, Koalaman, and Wombatwoman?
Reminder today of the best coffee I’ve ever drink in the whole planet, two years ago in Tokyo: Sarutahiko Coffee, outside a train station. Their classic French blend will forever be my gold standard for coffee.
Seven years ago since Kim Kardashian broke the internet. Hopefully they’ll start fixing it soon.
Is this like climate change? How long have they been recording it? And by what measure do they define it being good or bad? I have so many questions.
What’s the best New York street?
If I can be real for a bit, I find it extremely disconcerting that the unvaccinated are being treated like this. Seriously. It’s scary how a society and government can decide to ostracise like this. Imagine if it was the same thing on a different vector.
The Metaverse already exists, it's just currently called the Internet
Here is the punchline: the Metaverse already exists, it just happens to be called the Internet. Consider the seven qualities Matthew Ball used to define the Metaverse; the Internet satisfies all of them:
- The Internet is persistent
- The Internet is synchronous and live
- The Internet has no cap to concurrent users, while also providing each user with an individual sense of “presence”
- The Internet has a fully functioning economy
- The Internet is an experience that spans both the digital and physical worlds, private and public networks/experiences, and open and closed platforms
- The Internet offers unprecedented (although not perfect) interoperability of data, digital items/assets, content, etc.
- The Internet is populated by “content” and “experiences” created and operated by an incredibly wide range of contributors
“Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.”
— Mark Nepo
Listening to radio on the Sunshine Coast and the announcer plays three grabs of three songs then says “find out which one we’re going to play after the break” so it’s good to know they’ve not invented any new ideas for daytime radio.
Proposal: Reclassify the Logan Hyperdome to a Logan Dome.
“Most people optimise for the day ahead. A few people optimise for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimises for 3-4 years ahead (or longer).
The person who is willing to delay gratification longer than most reduces competition and gains a decisive advantage.
Patience is power.”
– James Clear