Sunday, June 30, 2019
Black Sabbath super fan's living room rebuilt in museum - I didn’t listen to that much Sabbath back in the day but I did have a few Ozzy Ozzborne albums that I was listening to on my walkman a lot, such a distinctive voice and riffs that sounded like nothing else, years later when he did the reality TV I thought that was pretty cool, I watched what I think was his last interview, that’s what he said anyway, it was a good interview but he seemed really happy to be done, I found that a bit weird because isn’t it great fun to be a musician? I guess playing the music is fun but the captivity of an interview probably wears thin pretty quickly bbc.com #
David Attenborough praises Glastonbury for going plastic-free theguardian.com #
In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms - Setting up an AI adversarial network around our kids has to be a bad idea, sure it's just audio detection now, but how long until the operators want a way to infuence and poke the children stuck in the secret AI matrix? And then how long until the kids or parents decide they need to fight back, where does it end? How long until it's linked to a chinese style social credit system? How long until they move from audio tech to brain wave monitoring tech? And who knows what attrocities people might end up doing with such an oppresive system in place, there are already mass shootings, do we really want to know what the next worste thing could be? features.propublica.org #
I'm kind of amazed by the versatility and variety of Boris Johnson facial expressions, just spend a few minutes cycling through them using you keyboard arrow keys, not that that is in any way an important factor in becoming PM...but it was definitely aliens google.com #