Weekly Review #154 - Transparent Technology, Emoji propositions, and Hypertheticals
I watched Over the Garden Wall this weekend, a delightfully creepy cartoon about two children lost in a wood. It's by the creator of Adventure Time and shares that same spastic irreverence, but is slightly spookier in a non-scary way, wrapped up in an engaging metaphor about death and the Unknown. Recommended!
In case you didn't know, the government is pushing Native Americans off their Standing Rock land in North Dakota in order to build an oil pipeline. Somehow this is legal for them to do?!
Like most social justice, it makes me wonder what a normal citizen can do to help the oppressed here beyond donating or raising awareness.
Difference here is that many protestors are Facebook livestreaming the intimidating police lines pushing them off, bringing it to a global stage. Technology transparency FTW!
Tech
The Computer Science Of Human Decisions
In which the author argues that any heuristic you use to make decisions is an algorithm. And that some algorithms have objectively best answers - like how long you should look before committing on something (like a spouse or house - 37%). I dig it.
Lifehacks
California propositions laid out in common language (and emojis!). This is the site the modern voter needs! Nonpartisan and easily understandable - so great
Fun
HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations: Chuck Klosterman:
Ersatz author presents 50 crazy questions for your next dinner party, like "assuming you have to resort to cannibalism, would you east the babies or the old people first?" It's a bit more intellectual than most Would You Rathers, and deliciously weird.