The Weekly Weird - 2018-08-17

Skorgu

Movies love the trope: a boring meeting is interrupted by everyone's phones going off at once and you know Something Has Happened. Turns out, that's exactly what actually happens. (Content warning: gore, terrorism, French). It's also a great look at how preparation and pre-deciding really work when shit gets real.
Another day, another speculative execution attack. Ho hum.
Some neat analysis of gender trends in cities: nyc and sf.
A color 3d printer.
Not getting tracked online is really hard (pdf).
Too much CO₂ in your air? Make rocks with it! It would take 80 billion tons of this to match our carbon emissions but global coal production is ~8 billion tons which is many fewer orders of magnitude away than I would have guessed.
Do AI nerual networks build the same kind of patterns as biological ones? It sure looks like it.
Or, mayonnaise is actually disgusting and that's why nobody buys it. Fight me.