Notes

Remember all the “news” reports about us evolving new bones because of smartphones? The study wasn’t about new bones, had nothing to do with evolution, and has now been updated to avoid blaming smartphones: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49153-6

I hope the next President of the US brings @JosephEStiglitz into management of the economy.

I have a new Gopher space: gopher://tilde.club:70/1/~gerwitz

If your browser isn’t GopherReady™, try https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=tilde.club+70+312f7e6765727769747a

My employer randomly sends out simulated phishing messages to test our vulnerability to social hacking. I’m legitimately impressed.

Highly recommended: @matthewstoller’s “BIG” anti-monopoly newsletter. See this one on how the tech industry’s internet scale has been an algae bloom leaving no oxygen for market-driven innovation: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-monopolies-broke-the-federal

I share @pxlnv’s less-than-flattering opinion on Apple’s reaction to Project Zero. It feels amateur. https://pxlnv.com/blog/dont-speak/