In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created (or that we all created with the help of the internet). In my opinion, there is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive. image
Thereโ€™s a Kodak camera in the novel Dracula:
Have smart glasses finally hit an inflectionย point? I know what many of you may be thinking now, as you read the headline of this post. You might be remembering the photo reproduced below, in which Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (who, it must be said, has a large and rather egg-shaped head, no offense intended) is standing with Bill Maris, the head of Google Ventures, and veteran Silicon Valley investor John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byersโ€ฆ
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" started on this day 100 years ago. Clarence Darrow won, right? No he did not. He lost and then lost on appeal โ€” all four challenges rejected. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and the law it was fighting existed for another 40 years
Why Substack shouldnโ€™t be the future of online publishing:
Mozilla shutting down Pocket pisses me off. I know that things can't last forever but they said they bought it to keep it operating, and I have about 100,000 bookmarks saved in it
The ankle monitor was inspired by a Spiderman comic strip:
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We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All
This week in The Torment Nexus, why you should be careful what you post on social media part two: image