Wellness day party. “It is partly to ‘rage bait the millennials,’ he added with a laugh.” Gen Z’s “wellness darty” trend swaps keggers for noon workouts, cold plunges, and energy drink shotgunning, and the intergenerational discourse is half the spectacle. […]
The age of wonders and terrors. “The test is this: if we took the news of these past few weeks and sent it back in time twenty years, would I agree that it looked like the beginning of an AI […]
Skincare without guessing. “Everyone owns skincare products, but nobody knows what’s actually working.” Maryanne Alhallak is launching Lumoscope, “a multispectral camera that clips onto your phone and scans your skin at home with the same light used in clinics,” then […]
Apple’s new acquisition makes ‘breakthrough sensing technology’. Sonera says it “non-invasively measures magnetic fields” generated by the brain and body. Use cases could include: “advanced prosthetics control, continuous monitoring of neuromuscular conditions, discovery of disease biomarkers, and sport performance tracking.” […]
AIs will hack everything. “Vulnerabilities are called loopholes, exploits are called tax avoidance strategies, and black hats are called accountants.” Bruce Schneier maps classic hacking onto the tax code, markets, and even democracy, then warns that AI will find exploits […]
Someone hacked the FBI. “A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees’ spouses.” I think this reinforces my default assumption that all of our data is effectively public, […]
People who are going to change the world. “In pursuit of a hyperhuman, beautiful, and sincere future.” Alexey Guzey keeps a running list of people he thinks will change the world. The second link is to a version I had […]
A foundry for bastard web fonts. For example: “It’s Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif.” Bastardica lets you mix, stretch, and squish fonts right in the browser, then export the result as a usable file. […]
Michael Levin’s mind-blowing new research agenda. He is the person who figured out that electricity is how cells know where to self-organize to build each body part, who made tiny living non-frogs from frog cells (xenobots), and who developed the […]
Our kids’ Montessori alma mater on blast by the NYT. Due to odd Covid circumstances our family has experience with three different locations across two states, one of which was fantastic. I do not necessarily endorse this article’s characterization of […]