Unsupervised Learning is my weekly show where I spend 5-20 hours finding the most interesting stories in security, technology, and humans, which I then curate into a 30 minute podcast & companion newsletter. The goal is to catch you up on current events, show you the best content from around the web, and hopefully give you something to…
Why I Believe Postmodernism is Causing Depression
There’s a lot of confusion about the term Postmodernism. To people on the far left, it’s their shadow religion—basically a healthy disregard for any value system that has exerted influence (and caused suffering) in the last few thousand years. To the far right, it’s a rejection of all that is good in the world—like tradition, family, piety, and…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 154
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What I Found Most Interesting from Amazon re:invent 2018
Amazon has completely crushed it again at this year’s re:invent conference. They continue to innovate a truly frightening pace. And when I say frightening, I mean…in that it creates fear within me. It’s just doing so much, so quickly, that I can’t help but feel uncomfortable. But it’s a good thing. I think. It’s definitely sending a great…
My Friend Chris Romeo Died Yesterday
I used to work at Aflac with a bunch of cool guys. One of them was named Chris Romeo. He was always smiling and trying to figure out how to turn the previously uttered sentence into a joke. He called it checking someone’s oil. One day he came up behind me next to our cubes and tried to…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 150
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Why You Should Directly Support as Many News Sources as Possible
By now most people understand that there’s a serious problem with the news, but I’m not sure how many know how fundamental it is. Here’s the underlying issue: The companies that make the news we consume are for-profit businesses. These companies aren’t just pressured to increase profits, but will go out of business if they don’t constantly adapt…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 153
🛡️ Security News Ukraine has found another nasty piece of malware targetting their government systems. It’s a Windows backdoor called Pterodo. Link China has turned on their social credit system that was basically a Black Mirror episode, and it’s resulted in the blacklisting of millions of Chinese from booking flights. Their scores were too low. Unreal. Link The US…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 152
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Some of My Favorite Shell Aliases From Over the Years
Aliases are one of those things that follow you, from laptop to laptop, and server to server—like snippets of your educational DNA. Here are some of mine that have followed me for two decades: Type f to find things by name using find $ alias f="find . -name" A super quick speed test You can do this with…
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