What Happens When a Space Is Designed Specifically for Instagram Likes?

emergentfutures:

I guess this make sense inside a commercial framework but really – is this what we have become. Or are am just a grumpy old man now

This is another reason I refuse to have an Instagram account.

What Happens When a Space Is Designed Specifically for Instagram Likes?

Wow Camille is actually coming here – after seeing her show at Carnegie Hall in my former life – the one in Poisson Rouge should be quite something. Even if I don’t speak French.
Of course I’m getting tickets and will do the damnedest to find a sitter for that night.

Last time I’ve been to a show was in London a year ago!!

Chronic forced sleep deprivation creates its own altered state – not unlike being high or drunk – the autopilot makes you move through the day, talk and even perform tasks, actions, that might appear conscious – but really they are not, and you have zero recollection of you actually doing them.

I am typing these words on my phone, but in an hour looking at my phone would be the only way for me to remember that the act of typing actually took place (though the fact that I just mentioned it might make a better memory imprint – it’s like a schroedinger’s cat in this regard).

And the pain when waking up is almost physical.

spaceplasma:

Sunspots are dark regions on the solar surface that contain complex arrangements of strong  localized magnetic fields and are often accompanied by intense solar activity (such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections), especially during the solar maximum. The dark central region of  a sunspot is called the umbra. It contains nearly vertically oriented magnetic flux tubes, which suppress the convective heat transfer. These magnetic flux tubes emerge to the solar surface at the activity belt (±30◦ latitude) and form bipolar sunspot pairs. Due to the energy deficit the inner part of the sunspot is about 1,500 degrees cooler than the surrounding quiet Sun, therefore it appears darker against the hotter and brighter background. The semi-dark outer section of the sunspot – the penumbra is surprisingly complex. It contains bright and dark filamentary structures with varying magnetic field inclinations. The inclination of the magnetic field plays a significant role in the formation of radial plasma currents, known as the Evershed flow. In the presence of increasing magnetic inclination the granular cells become elongated magnetoconvective rolls. 

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Image Credit: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Vasco M.J. Henriques/Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Sunspots have always made me think of pummelos.
And pummelos – of the surface of the Sun.

Sonos says users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”

emergentfutures:

OMG

My reaction, too, initially.

But then I thought this is inevitable and maybe a responsible thing to do, in IoT age, if we are to prevent Mirai-botnet-type attacks.

The alternative here is only to use hardware that runs open source software that we know can’t be used by a corporation for its own enrichment at our expense. 

We even have precedents (routers that run DD-WRT and Tomato).

Sonos says users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”