Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. A Facial Recognition System… for Cats
2. Parkour is damn impressive.
3. Elaborate Paper Origami Tessellations and Kusudamas by Ekaterina Lukasheva.
4. My new favorite Twitter account is all about fun Hacking/DIY projects.
5. For people raised in chaos, risk-taking is hardwired.
6. Why the Web 3.0 Matters and you should know about it
7. Robots can now solve Rubik’s Cubes in under HALF A SECOND
8. Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law
9. With their latest album “Felt”, Suuns has become my favorite rock band. I urge you to listen to all their album.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Hey you,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

1. Scientists are stunned. North Pole temperature are above 0ºC and the sun won’t rise until March 21.
2. What’s more normal than worshippers with AR-15 rifles wearing crowns made of bullets? Everything.
3. Seeing Depression or Anxiety only through the biomedical lens is wrong. Is Neoliberalism Making Our Depression and Anxiety Crisis Worse?.
4. Mental health is produced socially: The presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions. We need new ways of treating depression.
5. Bio-like robots which all parts are printed as one at once by Additive Manufacturing.
6. I couldn’t really explain what is a waveform until I read this. Let’s learn about Waveforms. (This link does not work in Firefox, open it in Safari or Chrome).
7. How would you use Bitcoin as a display of wealth?
8. I dig the hip-hop vibes from Rejjie Snow’s latest album Dear Annie.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

Here are some links I think are worth sharing.

In this week edition: A lot of music (from afro-latin electronic to hip-hop to unplugged guitar), tips to control your phone, some scientific insights about work, our addiction to convenience, and some impressive pie work.

1. The afro-latin project Penya released their first EP “Super Liminal“. It’s good! It’s always a pleasure to listen to Run The Jewels.
2. Do you want a downtempo hip-hop vibe? Listen to Milo – Who Told You To Think ??!!?!?!?!. Do you want to House club vibe? Dance to Peggy Gou – Six o Six.
3. Take control of your phone. I started using my phone in greyscale mode and removed the clutter on the first screen. I hope it helps.
4. Why “Deep Work” is Becoming a Competitive Advantage for Companies. Being a remote worker for many years and still having issues focusing, I fully support this article. We need better ways to work.
5. “These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom in decision making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee health if also paired with freedom in decision making.”
6. ”If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second promised to make it easier to *be you.*The new technologies were catalysts of selfhood. They conferred efficiency on self-expression.”. Tim Wu delivers a spot-on analysis on the role of Convenience in our modern society.
7. Lauren Ko’s pies are original and beautiful.
8. I love OC Note’s work. He’s always surprising. His new album is innoncent and refreshing. Much needed. OC Notes – New Generation: Embracing the New Age

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

In this week edition: Urban Music, VR Graffiti, How Honor affects our brain, Facebook inexorable decline, an origami simulator, and decentralization.

1. NAS Performs “The World Is Yours” with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
2. Honor as a cultural mindset affects cognition . Activating honor improve performances in hierarchical thinking, but not in tasks requiring nominal thinking. Honor is mentally spatially located upwards and to the right.
3. If, like me, you are into warm and soulful house music, you will dig the vibes of Seven Davis Jr. Boiler Room set. Sweet disco love songs mix by Dj Spinna.
4. Some impressive GIFs of VR graffiti using this very cool-looking video game available on Steam.
5. German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal and Facebook might have lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year..
6. A very cool Origami Simulator.
7. The decentralized future is coming and it will change our lives in more ways than the web did.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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Aloha,

In this week edition: Decentralization, Ambiant, Streaming and the responsible music fan dilemma, society as imagined by tech bros, facing alcoholism, futuristic jewelry, and animal maths. Enjoy!

1. The decentralization movement is well explained in this Guardian article: The punk rock internet – how DIY rebels are working to replace the tech giants.
2. Some dark electronic vibe by Sophia Loizou . I recommend you list to her excellent ambiant album from 2016.
3. How to be a responsible music fan? Damon Krukowski explains the problem with the current revenue model for independent music creators.
4. Is this the society we really want? A critic on the cashierless AmazonGo stores.
5. My name is David Flink, I’m a leader in tech, and I’m an alcoholic.
6. Nora Fok’s inspiring futuristic jewelry.
7. Humans have launched their heaviest rocket ever, deployed a car into orbit, and recovered two of three boosters. The car sound system will play David Bowie on loop.
8. Many animals can count, and some better than you.

Thanks for reading!

Marc

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