🎞 Watching The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Author: Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
🎞 Watching The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Chris Aldrich is reading “Decentralisation considered harmful”
How are the decentralised technologies we're working on going to make people more vulnerable?
Chris Aldrich is reading “Trump’s Breezy Calls to World Leaders Leave Diplomats Aghast”
The president-elect’s unfiltered exchanges prompted the White House to urge him to seek the State Department’s expertise in his encounters with foreign leaders.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Trump and Carrier: How a Modern Economy Is Like a Parking Garage”
It’s a constant state of flux, with jobs being created or lost. The challenge is to have a business climate in which you have more of the former.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Twitter has a new head of product who barely uses the product”
Twitter’s ceaseless search for someone to tell the social network where to go and how to get there has come to a momentary pause. The company announced today, on Twitter of course, that it has hired startup founder Keith Coleman as vice president of product. Coleman, according to his Twitter bio, is the CEO of Yes Inc., a relatively unknown Bay Area startup responsible for two social apps called Frenzy and WZD. Frenzy offers a way to make quick plans with friends, while WZD is a blend Facebook and Snapchat that lets you share what you’re doing with friends by posting photos and videos layered with emoji and text. Because Yes is joining Twitter alongside Coleman, both apps are being shut down, according to a note posted to Yes’ website. Prior to Yes, Coleman was a product lead at Google overseeing services like Gmail and its chat companion.
Chris Aldrich is reading “I Am a Dangerous Professor”
My inclusion on a new ‘watchlist’ is intended to shame me into silence.
Chris Aldrich is reading “A Yale history professor’s powerful, 20-point guide to defending democracy under a Trump presidency”
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Donald Trump speaks with Taiwan’s president—a massive diplomatic reversal that will enrage China”
Trump is also interested in opening a hotel there.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Holiday gingerbread cookies have a dark and violent past”
From Indonesia's Spice Islands to your local craft store.
Chris Aldrich is reading “A guide to writing recommendation letters that aren’t sexist”
Sexism in the workplace starts long before the job has even begun.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Do You Want to be Described as Hard Working?”
I visited Oxford this week to talk to the Women in Physics group, mainly made up of students and postdocs (not all of whom were women). Tea and excellent scones
Chris Aldrich is reading “Dwight D. Eisenhower: Address ‘The Chance for Peace’ Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. April 16, 1953”
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Chris Aldrich is reading “My 2017-01-01 #IndieWeb Commitment: Own All My RSVPs To Public Events” by Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)My commitment for 2017 is to always, 100% of the time, post RSVPs to public events on my own site first, and only secondarily (manually if I must) RSVP to silo (social media) event URLs. What’s your 2017-01-01 #indieweb commitment?
I love the idea of making an IndieWeb resolution for the New Year. Time to put my thinking cap on and decide which of the 100s of itches it’s (they’re?) going to be?
Chris Aldrich is reading “Self-Hosting kylewm’s Woodwind Indie Reader”
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)One of my favorite aspects of the IndieWeb community is that when you get things