Interesting Links for 25-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Anyone I know want to be a Data Scientist for Full Fact

(tags:FactCheck data job viaDanielDWilliam )

2. Hungarian PM is a racist

(tags:Hungary racism OhForFucksSake )

3. Whenever I see the web3 people get involved in a medium it makes me feel like they've never actually enjoyed it for itself

(tags:books Blockchain OhForFucksSake )

4. When did children's songs start sounding like the kind of thing I danced to in the 00s?

(tags:music children video wtf )

5. Neil Gaiman Breaks Down 'The Sandman' Official Trailer

(tags:trailer neilgaiman sandman TV )

6. The "nice" option for the Conservative Leadership election is referencing Nigel Farage on immigration

(tags:immigration conservatives OhForFucksSake asylum )

7. British teachers give lower marks to children perceived to be working class, British doctors deny them pain relief.

(tags:uk Education class psychology OhForFucksSake healthcare )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I believe the marketing term is generally either "Crypto" or "Web3". I switched away from "Crypto" because Paul Crowley/Ciphergoth was disappointed whenever he saw it and then discovered it wasn't about actual cryptography :-)

[simont]

Yes! Now you mention it, the repurposing of "crypto" is also very annoying. Especially to someone like me who spends a lot of time trying to do useful things with what I think "crypto" has meant all along.

I must admit "Web3" is new to me in this links post, and I was completely baffled by it because I thought surely it must refer to some kind of evolution in either the WWW protocols (HTTP and/or HTML) or in site design philosophy (similar to "Web 2.0"). How did the name get attached to something so unrelated to the web as cryptocurrencies?!

[hilarita]

It's meant to be an advance in philosophy, but the alleged philosophy and the actual don't even slightly match up, and really it's there as a marketing tool to draw the suckers in.

[andrewducker]

"Web 2.0 has become too centralised and controlled by a few companies. Web3 will decentralise by *something something crypto Blockchain something*"

[simont]

But the confusion over "crypto" is less bad than the one over "blockchain" because at least nobody is hoping you'll conflate the two kinds of crypto. Cryptocurrency marketers don't care about us cryptography nerds who were already using the abbreviation, but at least they're not trying to weaponise us.

(That I've noticed.)