WW26 ’18 – Spread the Word

One of the ideas behind this blog: A list of the most interesting (of course in my opinion) internet gems of the week which I found during procrastinating (surfing the web).

So I Spread the Word.

• The Opium of the Intellectuals, by Roger Kimball
  […] Why is it, that certain intellectuals are “merciless toward the failings of the democracies but ready to tolerate the worst crimes as long as they are committed in the name of the proper doctrines”? […]Wikipedia, links to  ISBN 1412809592, and further to “Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron”

• EE-News: DARPA Unveils $100M EDA Project, Programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’

[tgo] according to NYT, China has a little bit different approach.

• Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible, by Brian Leiter

• BBC – Hi-tech dreamcatcher defeats sleep amnesia

Blog of Adam Haar Horowitz

• Join the Federation!

ActivityPub, the basic idea and protocol behind OwnCloud, Mastodon …

• [YouTube] Peter Zeihan – Gulf Power Economic Symposium 21 

Geopolitical Futurist, Peter Zeihan, presents he read on the US’s roll in near future of global geopolitics: The shale revolution.

[tgo] Maybe not the US under Trump is fucked up, but maybe the world? US now  leaning back, watching the whole thing blowing up?

• Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record,

Stellarator record for fusion product / First confirmation for optimisation,

[tgo] A nice (german language) podcast about Wendelstein fusion reactor, via alternativlos.org.

• Mhm, maby very not so lecker: Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat?

[tgo] On a Monday morning, after weekend pub crawl…

• Poor people around the world are streaming into Malaysia in search of factory work. Once they arrive, they often find only hardship.

Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World’s Electronics Industry
Poor people around the world are streaming into Malaysia in search of factory work. Once they arrive, they often find only hardship.