Victor Loux — bookmarks

How I Got My Attention Back — by Craig Mod

craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/

There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so. Technology is commanding our attention in infinite, insurmountable loops. A country trip off-grid helped me escape.

Retrobatch, from Flying Meat

flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/

Retrobatch is a unique application for automating actions to tens, hundreds, and even thousands of images at the same time

239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-one-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html

The silence is deafening | Devon's Site

devonzuegel.com/post/the-silence-is-deafening

Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling, the other people quickly hush their voices and start glaring at you. None of the onlookers have to take further action—it's clear from their facial...

Is It Okay to Go to the Beach? - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/it-okay-go-beach/613849/

People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.

VICE - How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

Our Ability to Process Information Is Reaching a Critical Limit

onezero.medium.com/our-ability-to-process-information-is-reaching-a-critical-limit-3c761fee3259

BuzzFeed once called 2016 “Actually The Worst Year.” It didn’t hold the record for long. In six short months, 2020 has already delivered Australian wildfires, election controversies, the coronavirus…

Lights and Shadows – Bartosz Ciechanowski

ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows/

Racism and Grindr: how ethnicity filters factor in | British GQ

gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/grindr-racism

For many Black gay men and gay men of colour, the ethnicity filters allow them to find other men and befriend and build a community with them free from othering, fetishisation and white gaze. Many gay men of colour are only invested in romantic relationships with other gay men of colour for this very reason. The ethnicity filters allowed them to curate an experience centred on them for a change. Treating the elimination of the ethnicity filters as a kind of utopian largesse positions...