Friday, April 21, 2017

Sorry About Your Tattoo

Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Google image search is the bane of tattoo culture, Instagram inspires people to live in vans and Silicon Valley produces the most useless juicer.
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THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Tattoos Are Bad Now, And Other Facts
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Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Google image search is the bane of tattoo culture, Instagram inspires people to live in vans and Silicon Valley produces the most useless juicer.
GOOPS
The Unbearable Wrongness Of Gwyneth Paltrow
theoutline.com
What's at the heart of Paltrow's empire? Is she just a dedicated health-seeker taking us on her path for utmost physical and spiritual well-being? No. Paltrow's Goop is pure, unadulterated, blood-diamond free, organic-certified, biodynamic, moon-dusted bullshit.
INTERROGATING THE PROCESS
How Does The Government Decide Who's A Terrorist?
trial-and-terror.theintercept.com
The U.S. government has prosecuted 796 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.
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CLOSING THE BOOK
Torching The Modern-Day Library Of Alexandria
theatlantic.com
"Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them."
SUBSTANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Why Old Operating Systems Never Really Go Away
tedium.co
It ain't just about Windows, macOS, or Linux. Also-ran or fairly obscure operating systems, like OS/2, are everywhere — in some cases, hiding under your nose.
SOLID
Intel's Next-Generation SSD Technology Is Finally Ready And It's Really, Really Fast
theverge.com
Intel and Micron Technology have been working on a new-generation memory technology since about 2012. It's called 3D XPoint (not to be confused with 3D NAND), and it's absurdly fast.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HIGH FANTASY
Throwing Up A Handful Of M&Ms During A Zero G Pushover Is Totally Radical
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As a plane shifts from a climb to a dive, there is a fleeting moment where gravity lets up and everything seems possible.
IN THE NEWS
French Policeman Killed On Champs Élysé​e​s In 'Terrorist' Attack
Trump Had A Secret Meeting With Colombian Leaders At Mar-a-Lago, And Other Trump News From Today
US Prepares Charges To Seek Julian Assange's Arrest
What's Going On With The 'DaddyOFive' Controversy Roiling YouTube?
Alex Jones Testified In Court That He Smoked Weed Yearly To 'Monitor Its Strength'
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