Linkdump 19-10-2017
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gominokouhai- How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record | Boingboing
"Welcome to the digital stone age". Recall that V'ger^WVoyager was launched in 1977, and employs technology available at the time. This clearly explains why the aliens are all avoiding us. They think we're all wearing bell bottoms and deely boppers, and encoding image data as analogue audio. Kinda haunting to listen to the raw recording.
- People matching artworks | Stefan Draschan | Tumblr
Stefan Draschan clearly spends a great deal of time sitting in galleries, waiting for serendipity to occur. And he gets results.
- American Kakistocracy | The Atlantic
Inevitable. Someone had to say it.
- What Facebook Did to American Democracy | The Atlantic
And this is whose fault it was. Contains discussion of blogocubes^Wfilter bubbles.
- The Airport Bomber From Last Week You Never Heard About | The Intercept
TL;DR he wasn't brown