Interesting stuff

  1. Read: The businesses that make money by helping ruin your reputation on the internet and the (same) businesses that will take your money to save it.
  2. Read: Can’t buy cannabis? Pay a psychic to find what you “lost” 😉
  3. Read: Yahoo has destroyed more internet content than any other company (so, yeah, the internet DOES forget some things…)
  4. Play: How does a cat-shaped iceberg float? What about a California-shaped one?
  5. Read: Female soldiers are getting more responsibility, and they may be better at soldering than men!
  6. Read: Web 2.0 was about user-created content that corporations monetised (think Facebook or YouTube ads). Web 3.0 will allow everyone to charge for everything.
  7. Listen: A podcast on the impact of social media on society and what to do about corporations (e.g., Facebook) that can destroy countries (e.g., civil war in Myanmar or the US…)
  8. Read: Testing wastewater to improve public health (and detect COVID)
  9. Watch: Why Jakarta is sinking (Answer: unfunded drinking water infrastructure)
  10. Read: In 1953, Hillary and Norgay reached the summit of Everest, but they were not wearing Rolex. Rolex has spent decades implying they did. Liars.
  11. Read: Why do beavers build dams?

H/T to DG

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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