Rome Rome did not fall when the barbarians were at the gates. It did not fall with the reign of Nero, or Caligula, or when Christians were fed to the lions. As my friend said the other day, empires take a long time to fall. It is a long slow…

A Story (in VR) of a Bipolar A “I act like I don’t care. Trust me, I care too much.” -Instagram Music: Smashing Pumpkins. 1979. I had a nightmare last night, a signpost or vision of a new world and the end of my mortal life. I was washing dishes…

Oil Queens “They were beyond burned. Nothing but char. The smell of flesh burning. … It smelled of crude oil.” — Jebadiah Stanfill, oil worker “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he…

It is not going to be surprising if vaccination initiatives for COVID-19 will be under mil spec level lock and key. I am prepping content for an Android Zine app on the distinctions between ALL options for a vaccine, no nationalism, politics, or corporate profit biases. Moderna. Pfizer. AstraZenica. That’s…

DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/30/1012712/deepmind-protein-folding-ai-solved-biology-science-drugs-disease/ The news: The latest version of DeepMind’s deep-learning system AlphaFold has cracked one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting the shape of proteins.

OF COURSE TECHNOLOGY PERPETUATES RACISM. IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY. Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. By Charlton McIlwain So the question we have to confront is whether we will continue to design and deploy tools…

Escape COVID-19 into a Virtual Reality (VR), Which One? COVID-19 has hit all of us over the head like a ton of bricks, leveling entire industries to the ground with not clear sight of what is to come next. No other industry is perhaps more damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic…