Not really an optimal way to burp a baby.
Tales from a crypto-currency cruise:
“John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder.”
Workers are just ghosting their employers now, apparently.
SMS based 2-factor authentication hacked at scale.
My top five songs this year, according to Spotify:
Professional management for pet influencers.
From the Yokohama City Library - classic catalogs of Hirayama Fireworks.
A lot of our computer security problems can be traced to the way the default system languages handle memory. Next time I need systems programming, I’m going with Rust.
Exorcisms (and therefore maybe demon possessions) - are on the rise. Maybe I’m prepping for the wrong kind of apocalyptic future?
The little things that make Terrace House so damn fascinating:
Hublot blockchain watch - for an irrefutable, irreversible, immutable statement of time. This is getting out of hand.
Pinecoin - “Tokenized Maine Pine Cones - A pine cone with an ERC-20 token for Proof-of-Authenticity”
Continuous random elections - I remember covering this in Prof. Hilbay’s constitutional design elective
“Men Are More Likely to Act Unethically on Their Own Behalf, Women on Someone Else’s”
Don’t Want to Fall for Fake News? Don’t Be Lazy
Big Bird is retiring.
The Onion guide to blockchain technology.
The rise and fall of Ethereum.
I, for one, welcome our Headless Chicken Monster overlords.
Harriet the singing donkey
North Korea Hackers Tried to Take $1.1 Billion in Bank Attacks;
Tesla looking for a baby-sitter for Elon Musk;
Prog. Roubini’s testimony before Congress: Crypto, blockchain, the mother and father of scams;
Work on innovation, climate win the Nobel Prize for Economics;
I, for one, welcome our parkour-capable ROBOT OVERLORDS:
Classic Japanese wave and ripple designs.
The history of So I Married An Axe Murderer.
Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis.
Nintendo wins court battle over Mario go-karting.
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies.
Delete your Facebook. And your WhatsApp too.
Why the hell would you give a tree-climbing robot a chainsaw.
AI in the running to be mayor of a Tokyo ward.
Pet foxes. Of course I want one right now:
Deactivated Facebook, been off the platform for a couple of weeks now and so far not regretting it. And I’m also off Twitter and never been happier. Facebook has to ask why I was leaving so I had to be honest - “Because Facebook poisoned political discourse in my country and helped propel an incompetent, homicidal maniac into office. Fuck Facebook.
I still have that one Instagram account - perhaps the requirement of posting a picture is sufficient proof-of-work to deter the worst trolls. Still, the plan is to get back out into the open web.
New software helps uncover Mafia crime masked as ordinary business
What Does It Mean for Venezuela to Peg Its New Currency to a Cryptocurrency?
Sony's new Aibo's are pretty cool, but my standard for robotic dogs has been set by Megaman's Rush.
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode - fascinating article about "ghost kanji" in the Japanese character set of Unicode. Was just talking to class about how we build cities and legal systems through accretion, and how some provisions we may take for granted may still be there, lurking in the background.
Some Friendly Advice To New Law Students - " Law school culture often wants you to hate, resent, and fear your fellow students and see them as competitors. Resist. Make friends with, and be friendly with, different people. You'll learn from them. And you'll hate law school if you buy into the cutthroat narrative."
Television and the frequency of sex - So it's actually Netflix or Chill. Marginally.
Hello from Sapporo. I am writing this from what looks like a Showa-era hotel, trying to have a real vacation while everything falls apart around me.
Haven't been here in a while. Since my last update, I’ve been working on:
1. A paper on Philippine` Copyright law for a comparative law conference that will be held in the Philippines soon - DONE;
2. A paper on the pork barrel cases of the Supreme Court, to be presented before the IACL in Fukuoka - DONE;
3. A paper for the 2018 ASLI Conference in Korea, where I try to model the statutory definition of quasi-depicts using LKIF and Protégé. - DONE
4. Another paper for on ethical algorithms - and I don't even know where to begin, I mean what was I thinking when I submitted the abstract for this one. - DONE (sort of)
5. A paper on cryptocurrency regulations in the Philippines, hopefully to be published by the Law Center - DONE
6. Workshops and exercises for public health workers dealing with legal risks of implementing the RH law - DONE
7. A courseware package for Data Protection Officers - A package of lectures, exams, and exercises. - Still Pending
8. Chapters for an annotation of the draft federal constition, which we're supposed to pull out of the hat without transcripts of the consultative committee's deliberations - Status: 🤐
The new school year is opening and I have 6 classes full of bewildered, bewildering freshmen. I have a research load, possibly a new administrative post, a part time job as in-house lawyer, and who knows how many writing and coding projects. I try to cope with new gear: like a mechanical keyboard and smart speakers. It will be the dungeon for me, but at least the chains and the whip will be top notch.
