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

[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*"