The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 3

The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge Join our discussion of The Night Ocean.

The Morning News
Academics won't prep students to enter an emotional economy—jobs left will require compassion computers can't mimic.
↩︎ Aeon 1m
The themes of Margaret Atwood's novels—and her life—are the themes that define our world in 2017.
↩︎ Vox 2m
TrumpBlocks.me lists those Trump has blocked on Twitter, a valuable archive of First Amendment encroachment.
↩︎ Wired 7m
Google now knows so much about you that it will no longer scan your email to gather advertising data.
↩︎ Quartz 8m

One called him “the face of corporate greed”, another labeled him “the most hated man in America” and a third gestured as if wringing his neck.

Lawyers for the Martin Shkreli trial are having a hard time finding impartial jurors.
↩︎ The Guardian
47m
When left alone, a pair of chatbots deviated into gibberish, but eventually reached a sense of compromise.
↩︎ The Next Web 49m
Architectural history/parody blog McMansion Hell gets cease-and-desisted by Zillow.
↩︎ The Verge 14h
Predictions from 20 years ago on Hong Kong's future under China were overblown. Then again, it's still early.
↩︎ BBC 15h
Burning lands where chronic wasting disease lies in wait may be the only way to save wildlife from an epidemic.
↩︎ The New York Times 15h
"I never thought there were so many of them": Pride photos from '70s San Francisco.
↩︎ The Bold Italic 19h
Fascinating slide deck of computing without electricity; alternate media include DNA, fluids, and crabs.
↩︎ Charles Reid 19h

The most startling flashback in the history of American television is the one that takes us from a black screen to the first successful test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico, on August 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m.

It's happening again. With the latest Twin Peaks episode, David Lynch and Mark Frost are rewriting the rules of television.
↩︎ Vulture
19h

Spoofing an Atari 2600 cartridge with an SD card to play the “Bad Apple” video and audio.

19h
The best places in the US to experience the Aug. 21, 2017, solar eclipse.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura 20h
Salvador Dalí's body to be exhumed to investigate a woman's claim she's the artist's sole offspring.
↩︎ VICE News 20h
To celebrate Harry Potter's birthday, a look back at the conspicuously popular Nimbus 2000 vibrating broom toy.
↩︎ The Morning News 22h

The system presented here extracts semantic meaning from an input text and uses this knowledge to generate ambient music.

Narrative can become music with this text-to-audio protocol.
↩︎ Computational Creativity
23h
Sign language in small Negev desert town defies linguistics—phonemes aren't reused or combined.
↩︎ Nautilus 23h
Previous losers of presidential races enjoyed a post-race bump—notably absent from Clinton's ratings.
↩︎ Gallup 23h
It's difficult to gauge Rex Tillerson's effectiveness when the State Dept. is missing in action.
↩︎ The New York Times 23h