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Latacora - Stop Using Encrypted Email

latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html
Email is unsafe and cannot be made safe. The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be mitigated. Avoid encrypted email. Technologists hate this argument. Few of them specialize in cryptography or privacy, but all of them are interested in it, and many of them tinker with encrypted email tools. Most email encryption on the Internet is performative, done as a status signal or show ...

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

fs.blog/2020/02/mental-models-in-space/
There isn’t a harsher environment for a human being to live than outer space. Chris Hadfield shares some of the thinking tools he acquired as an astronaut to make high stakes decisions, be innovative in the face of failure, and stay cool under pressure. 

Old Book Illustrations

oldbookillustrations.com/
Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free images scanned from old books. Searchable galleries include animals, plants, techniques, artists names, books titles, and much more...

tegabrain

tegabrain.com/
Tega Brain is an Australian artist whose work work reimagines infrastructures, technologies and institutions that structure our relationship with environmental systems..

The high-tech secret behind the stunning cinematography of ‘Uncut Gems’

inputmag.com/features/uncut-gems-secret-cinematography-light-ranger-2
How did the Safdie brothers keep a perpetually moving Adam Sandler in focus? With a device called the Light Ranger 2.

Google Maps hack

simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
" 99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic. " #googlemapshacks

iHateRegex - regex cheatsheet for haters

ihateregex.io/
Stop hating regex and start learning. iHateRegex is a regex cheatsheet that also explains the commonly used expressions so that you understand it.