GielOpinion | The Last Apple Keynote (Let’s Hope) (Published 2019)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Charlie WarzelRoughly six minutes into Apple’s annual keynote presentation on Tuesday, I watched with grim fascination as a video game executive guided a digital frog across a bathroom floor in order to carefully avoid scraps of rogue toilet paper, while a second executive provided breathless color …
GielLA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictionsAssociated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized the drug. The county is working with the Code for America nonprofit tech …
GielHow the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San FranciscoWIRED - Daniel DuaneHuge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar. Then it …
GielResearchers Studied 160 Million Memes and Found Most of Them Come From Two Websitesverified_publisherVICE - By Samantha ColeResearchers at University College London developed a new way to measure how memes are made and spread. What they found won’t surprise anyone who’s peered into the darker parts of the internet in the last few years: The most toxic, yet most effectively spread, memes are first shared on two places, …
GielThe Science of the Psychedelic Renaissanceverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Emily WittOn trip reports from Timothy Leary, Michael Pollan, and Tao Lin. In 1960, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Timothy Leary, then a professor at Harvard. Leary had invited the poet to Cambridge to participate in his studies of the newly synthesized chemical psilocybin. Ginsberg responded with …
GielWho Is Lil Tay?verified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Taylor LorenzThe 9-year-old has built a huge following with profane Instagram posts, but the bravado of “the youngest flexer of the century” masks a sadder tale about fame and exploitation. In mid-February, a mysterious 9-year-old by the name of Lil Tay began blowing up on Instagram. “This is a message to all …
