Notes

Deciding how to support the #BlackLivesMatter can be complicated. So, in hope of inspiring others, let me highlight our personal selections:

The NAACP legal defense fund serves the black community in several meaningful ways, both immediately relevant and more strategic.

The American Civil Liberties Union is always a good choice. Today they are fighting such bullshit as putting open-air, masked protesters in indoor cells together while blaming them for not being safe.

It’s unfortunate that ActBlue’s mutual aid and bail funds collective can be labeled “blue” because taking care of vulnerable people has become a political statement. But even if you’re “red” this is a good way to broadly apply timely help.

Campaign Zero has been working towards sensible US police reform for some time, and is the leading focus fund for this issue today.

North Campus was founded by Antonio French, one of the strongest peacekeepers during #Ferguson. They provide social and education programs for youth in North St. Louis.

So many TV shows are currently using Zoom, Skype, etc. for interviews, with all of the variable quality we expect of these platforms.

Aren’t there any tools they can use to retroactively upgrade this footage for production, with local recordings transferred asynchronously?

Just another Fox-era bit of news for Americans, but incomprehensible from outside: Michigan government shut down in fear of “an armed protest and death threats”

This is a nice overview of computational vs ecological models of perception. Everything is information but we are not Von Neumann machines with distinct inputs and outputs.

1 pixel = $1000 USD: “We can have a world in which wealthy people exist…”

Donald Trump has a compass only for popularity. Americans, even “real” ones, both support lockdown and fear for the economic impact, so are not making any choices for him. Even Fox News fails to speak with certainty!

All he has left is ratings. The show will only get weirder.