Notes on tech

Cars Will Soon Be Able to Sense and React to Your Emotions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/different-wavelengths-science-finds-hummingbirds-see-ultraviolet-light-invisible-to-humans-11594688179

https://www.fastcompany.com/90524809/these-5-services-will-automate-all-your-most-tedious-tasks

https://www.fastcompany.com/90525132/i-spent-a-year-leading-a-team-in-complete-isolation-in-antarctica-here-are-4-strategies-you-need-right-now

As the city grapples with new restrictions on online speech, American tech giants are on the front line of a clash between China and the United States over the internet’s future.

“Is this someone who reads? Someone who likes a story? Operates on visuals?” Sanner said. “You figure out before you go in what that person needs from you.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/trump-intelligence-briefer-breaks-silence-349936

Detention camps are an abomination,” van Spronsen wrote. “I’m not standing by.”

Whether that’s a legitimate cause, van Spronsen’s words suggest a premeditated attack in service of a political goal — to federal authorities, that makes him a domestic terrorist. And a particularly rare one.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left

Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism

https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/10/18/technocracy-in-america