This week brought to you by this stupid furball. Good bye Professor Mittens, we miss the heck out of you.

• I'm struggling to contextualize this but, "human-whale-robot hybrid organization" is a phrase that exists outside David Brin's fever dreams. Of course a blockchain is involved. Stay for the medieval legal structure.
• Or, for that matter, that we're just going to make an artificial meteor shower because it looks pretty. That's some Culture-level self-absorption right there.
• Aerocapture (not areocapture) is one thing, you've got this big source of drag so why not use it to bleed off speed from your interplanetary jaunt? But there's more stuff around most planets than just air, namely the gigantic magnetic field you can use to make a gigantic amount of drag.
• Solving FizzBuzz...with Tensor Flow. First of all, I would totally hire someone who did this on a coding interview. Second of all, I learned a lot about neural networks both from the article and the HN comments.
• Subaru. Lesbians. A love story.
• Because "those t-shirts with ampersands" is hard to google for
• I can hear the cries of "what's a 'unicode'" from bank programmers everywhere.
• Subaru. Lesbians. A love story.
• From this thread, criticality review
• Trust nothing.
• ...especially if it's written on the internet.
• ...unless Moxie says you can.
• More new physics! A good HN Comment thread as well.
• Handheld...CNC router?
• A microSD card with some weird behaviors.
• I don't know enough to really comment on this but Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter. The HN comments are almost senisble to me.
• Dropbox talks more about their big box to store bits in.
• The really horrifying thing about this hyperreality video is that there's a marketing exec somewhere becoming increasingly aroused by the possibilities.

Once again, no weird last week because I found myself inexplicably transported to Seattle. Weird.

• Behold nature's glory as you watch these elegant beasts ... plumment to the ground at terminal velocity.
• Is bitcoin becoming more stable than gold?. From the WSJ no less.
• I'm highly suspicious of this press release which looks a bit too much like an ARG promotion for the next Deus Ex but: First gene thereapy successful against human aging.
• Not only was Microsoft's underwater data center apparently not an April Fools' joke but they're building a bigger one!
• Watching the mainstream media discover NY4 is vaguely entertaining. I especially like the breathless recounting of the security procedures.
• Magic leap looks kind of neat but somehow I expect it'll all end in tears.
• I find this absolutely fascinating: maps you read with your fingers, especially useful when it's really freaking cold and you're wearing mittens. Similar stuff from Polynesia and a really fascinating HN thread where you can learn to navigate with your testicles.
• The world needed another version control system. Written in Rust. That implements DARCS' patch semantics. And has a terrible name: Pijul.
• Sticking with Rust, one thing I'm really enjoying about its popularity is that it seems to be attracting a good number of small, careful-sounding implementations of well-chosen algorithms. For example Shamir's Secret Sharing, and the Noise protocol framework.
• Writing Varnish vmods in Rust.
• Ok, that's actually fairly neat: paid energy transfer using Ethereum. I'd like a lot more detail on this, namely how the heck it actually works.
• Circuits! Javascript!
• ...but do they spontaneously self-assemble when exposed to a fricking Tesla coil?
• Neat, a 3D-printed save icon!
• Also, I guess Reddit's warrant canary died. Besides bringing attention to the problem it's unclear what exactly one can do with this information. I do absolutely adore the cleverness behind a yearly report instead of a single timeless canary and wonder if we'll ever see the old language return.
• Do you want to read more about the Big Eve War? Of course you do!
• <3 jwz