The Weekly Weird - 2016-05-13
- Yay, I fixed my SSL. Also picked up Stellaris which is going to consume my soul.
- You got your machine learning in my narcissistic gasbag.
- With automated politicians taken care of, obviously automated lawyers are next. What could go wrong.
- I think this whole drone package delivery thing is either coming soon or totally jumped the shark.
- Cinema audiences reproducibly vary the chemical composition of air during films, by broadcasting scene specific emissions on breath. Seriously.
- Holy hell, you don't realize just how fast freefall in near-vacuum is until you're reentering
- Planets. Like, a lot of them. A few of which seem to be Earth-sized and in their stars' habitable zones. Quick, get build a bigger telescope so we can check some of them for industrial pollution.
- Ever notice that planets in scifi always have roughly the same gravity as Earth? Well, turns out that's actually real.
- Finally, an ETF worse than HACK.
- Municipalities pretending to be Google. What a time to be alive.