I think that's it for this blog.

Hope it was helpful, or at least interesting. Just really running out of things to link. Even when I try to find news articles I feel like all I find are meaningless pages with no real information, and lots of advertising. Or the article itself will be an ad for some service, or a solicitation for help with some project. It seems the battle between propaganda and facts has already ended, and propaganda has won.

Edit: I was wrong. Blog not dead yet... yet.

Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Hand Restores 100 Realistic Touch Sensations

https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/27/thought-controlled-prosthetic-hand-delivers-100-realistic-sensations/

Former PR worker on corporate 'shills':

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/31wo57/the_chevron_tapes_video_shows_oil_giant_allegedly/cq5uhse/

One persons quest to find food that rice makes worse:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2np694/what_tasty_food_would_be_distusting_if_eaten_over/

India Declares War On Unsafe Selfies

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/11/14/563255936/india-declares-war-on-unsafe-selfies

Magic

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5h7gq8/i_was_goofy_at_walt_disney_world_for_over_20/day38fu/?context=1

The World is Different for Billionaires

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7b6t0y/bernie_sanders_warns_of_international_oligarchy/dpfpb01/

By turning medical scans into adventures, GE eases children's fears

http://archive.jsonline.com/business/by-turning-medical-scans-into-adventures-ge-eases-childrens-fears-b99647870z1-366161191.html/

When people with no clue, try to make propaganda:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7aasrd/a_highlevel_defector_tells_us_congress_that/dp8pfp0/

The hilarious way a German town turned neo-Nazis against Nazism

https://thinkprogress.org/german-town-pranked-neo-nazis/

English is weird

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/43ly0b/the_phrase_dont_you_dare_is_actually_the_phrase/czjki1m/?context=2

The cult of Trump

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/78ve96/yes_the_russiatrump_investigation_is_real/doxaqf0/

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/

Cyber War. It's not just fiction anymore.

https://qz.com/1107023/the-inside-story-of-the-hack-that-nearly-started-another-middle-east-war/

Sometimes, life just sucks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/76wa8n/lpt_when_stressing_over_something_use_the_101010/dohi3m1/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/76wa8n/lpt_when_stressing_over_something_use_the_101010/dohg53m/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/76wa8n/lpt_when_stressing_over_something_use_the_101010/dohipb4/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/76wa8n/lpt_when_stressing_over_something_use_the_101010/dohfabt/?context=3

A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens

http://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10?IR=T

Why Are Bananas So Cheap?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/08/bananas-are-so-cool/

People learn faster with synced brain waves

http://www.futurity.org/electrical-stimulation-brain-1570952-2/

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/739kq2/revealed_johnson_johnsons_irresponsible_actions/

Cash vs Services

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/75nzvl/universal_basic_services_could_work_better_than/do8oxjd/

Experts confirm gender identity is biological and say insurers should cover trans health needs

https://thinkprogress.org/endocrine-society-transgender-health-coverage-4e0dfc96c652/

Climate change is not a small thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/73rtsv/donald_trump_heckled_with_you_dont_give_a_sht/dnsu44o/

Natural disasters are just going to keep getting worse as the world warms.

How Close Is Turing’s Dream of Conversational Machines?

https://singularityhub.com/2017/09/27/how-close-is-turings-dream-of-conversational-machines/

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/73vbh1/i_cannot_express_how_wrong_i_was_country/dntdoar/

The US Keeps Mistakenly Deporting Its Own Citizens

https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens

FTC slaps Lenovo on the wrist for selling computers with secret adware

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ftc-slaps-lenovo-on-the-wrist-for-selling-computers-with-secret-adware/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6wnhha/why_does_rape_have_such_deep_and_longlasting/

The IMF Admits It Was Wrong About Keynesianism

http://www.businessinsider.com/imf-admitted-their-economists-were-wrong-2013-1

What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities

https://www.wired.com/story/burning-man-reveals-chaos-cities/

Medieval Law

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6wpwmx/grrm_said_the_medieval_world_was_governed_by_men/

Growing Up with Alexa

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608430/growing-up-with-alexa/

Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

Huge Blobs of Fat and Trash Are Filling the World’s Sewers

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/fatbergs-fat-cities-sewers-wet-wipes-science/

The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine?

How the Trump Campaign Built an Identity Database and Used Facebook Ads to Win the Election

https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-built-an-identity-database-and-used-facebook-ads-to-win-the-election-4ff7d24269ac

VIOLENT BATTLE FOR TOURISTS IN NIAGARA FALLS (1986)

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/15/nyregion/violent-battle-for-tourists-in-niagara-falls.html

Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/

Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/facebook-cafeteria-workers-wages-zuckerberg-challenges?

Manchester’s bike-share scheme isn't working – because people don't know how to share

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/16/manchesters-bike-share-scheme-isnt-working-because-people-dont-know-how-to-share

Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/technology/personaltech/12pogue-email.html?_r=2&8cir&emc=cira1

There’s Now Very Strong Evidence We Really Are Killing Our Bees

https://futurism.com/strong-evidence-really-killing-bees/

The world's largest cruise ship and its supersized pollution problem

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/21/the-worlds-largest-cruise-ship-and-its-supersized-pollution-problem

The Tragic Story of Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse

https://historicaldigression.com/2015/10/30/the-tragic-story-of-minots-ledge-lighthouse/

A computer called ‘the Beast’ is untangling religion

http://www.futurity.org/computer-simulations-religion-1458492-2/

An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/artificial-intelligence-develops-its-own-non-human-language/530436/

Into the Woods: This Drone Goes Where No GPS Can

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/06/09/drone-navigates-without-gps/

Why being ignored can become a turn on for some women (and why attention can become a turn off)

https://www.reddit.com/r/niceguys/comments/6fisnl/could_be_wrong_but_i_get_the_feeling_this_wasnt/diinvwk/

ELI5: Why are the majority of boundaries between US states perfect straight lines?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6emer6/eli5_why_are_the_majority_of_boundaries_between/dibo0wt/

Why criminals should always use combination safes

http://blogs.denverpost.com/crime/2012/01/05/why-criminals-should-always-use-combination-safes/3343/

[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6e9jel/wp_you_are_a_supervillain_but_every_single_one_of/di8tq4x/

USA vs Ireland

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6evubl/walmart_is_accused_of_punishing_workers_for_sick/didxu2s/

Microsoft has built a chamber so quiet, you can hear the grind of your bones – and it’s helping to fine-tune the next-generation of electronic goods.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170526-inside-the-quietest-place-on-earth

There are bots. Look around.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/

ELI5: I get the war on drugs in the USA, but how did marijuana become illegal in almost every other country in the world as well?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6dtq8x/eli5_i_get_the_war_on_drugs_in_the_usa_but_how/di5ao9z/

How did the "heart shape" come to be when it is so massively different from a real anatomical heart?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5eedlt/how_did_the_heart_shape_come_to_be_when_it_is_so/

Grocery supply chains

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6djx11/this_american_produce_shelf_in_a_finnish/di3lsw1/

Orbital Speed

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

Post Scarcity won't happen.

I see a lot of posts on reddit, and occasional articles claiming that robots and AIs will lower the cost of goods and services to the point where everything is free. There is one major problem: Land will always be limited. As the cost of goods and services decline, housing will rise.

Teaching Machines to Draw

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html

Curious AI learns by exploring game worlds and making mistakes

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132916-curious-ai-learns-by-exploring-game-worlds-and-making-mistakes/

Sana Health aims to stop insomnia with smart goggles

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/sana-health-raises-1-3-million-to-hack-insomnia-with-smart-goggles/

Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers

https://futurism.com/googles-new-ai-is-better-at-creating-ai-than-the-companys-engineers/

The power of data

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/69xpuj/the_worlds_most_valuable_resource_is_no_longer/dhadcpv/

The US has been downgraded to a 'flawed democracy'

http://www.businessinsider.com/economist-intelligence-unit-downgrades-united-states-to-flawed-democracy-2017-1

‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/23/make-america-big-again-the-headache-of-translating-trump-into-foreign-languages/

Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/vigilante-botnet-infects-iot-devices-before-blackhats-can-hijack-them/

Teflon Is Forever

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2007/05/teflon-forever

Perhaps the worst example of pharmaceutical corporation misbehavior is the opioid epidemic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/65cbkb/pharmaceutical_giant_plotted_to_destroy_cancer/dg94z0s/

Memes You Probably Helped Spread Are Secretly Propaganda

http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-dumbass-memes-turned-into-modern-propaganda/

AI Learns to Read Sentiment Without Being Trained to Do So

https://futurism.com/ai-learns-to-read-sentiment-without-being-trained-to-do-so/

Game design patterns for building friendships

http://www.lostgarden.com/2017/01/game-design-patterns-for-building.html

TIL that Target has 2 U.S. based forensic labs where they solve retail crimes, felonies, homicides, and special circumstances cases for law bureaus that need the extra manpower, facilities, resources and time – free of charge.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/63n5h6/til_that_target_has_2_us_based_forensic_labs/dfvhrml/

When robots replace workers, the effects ripple throughout the community, and they last

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/02/when-robots-replace-workers-the-effects-ripple-throughout-the-community-and-they-last/

Why Automation is Killing Jobs

I've noticed a lot of people seem to have trouble understanding why automation is a threat to jobs now, when it hasn't been in the past. The basic answer is kinda simple: there's only so much stuff a single person can make use of in a day.

Lower prices is the main benefit of automation. However, there comes a point when no matter how much the price drops, demand won't keep increasing. Even if one could eat at their favorite restaurant for free everyday, there's a limit to how many meals one can eat. I know among gamers, a common "problem" is having a backlog of games they've bought, but not gotten around to playing yet. Another common problem for netflix subscribers is not having enough time to watch all the available movies and shows they'd like to watch.

We are reaching the saturation point, where reducing the cost of things, isn't increasing how much we can consume.

IBM's Watson Supercomputer May Soon Be The Best Doctor In The World

http://www.businessinsider.com/ibms-watson-may-soon-be-the-best-doctor-in-the-world-2014-4

Amazon Echo Hits Over 8 Million Sales

http://tech.co/amazon-echo-hits-8-million-sales-2017-02

Most Echo owners seem to be relying on the technology tend to use the gadget for informational purposes, such as requesting the most recent local weather report, getting recipes, calculating math problems and other data that can be provided from searching a traditional browser.

New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/new-ai-algorithm-beats-even-the-worlds-worst-traffic

Google Earth's Timelapse

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/

Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years.

Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2125761-virtual-lemonade-sends-colour-and-taste-to-a-glass-of-water/

'Outrageous': expert slams White House for denying school meals' link to learning

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/school-lunch-program-cuts-student-performance-link

Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users' sexual activity

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits

Someday, every device will be spying on us.

DeepMind's new algorithm adds 'memory' to AI

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-atari-learning-sequential-memory-ewc

GiveDirectly's experiment in Kenya

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/universal-income-global-inequality.html?_r=1

Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/wikipedia-bot-editing-war-study?

This Battle Between an Octopus and a Crab Has a Surprising Twist

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/octopus-crab-seal-underwater-battle/

IBM’s Watson proves useful at fighting cancer—except in Texas

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/ibms-watson-proves-useful-at-fighting-cancer-except-in-texas/

Pirate Site With No Traffic Attracts 49m Mainly Bogus DMCA Notices

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/

Time Warner Cable sued by New York on behalf of League of Legends, Netflix customers

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/9/14548880/time-warner-lawsuit-new-york-league-of-legends-netflix

Microsoft’s new AI sucks at coding as much as the typical Stack Overflow user

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/02/23/microsofts-new-ai-sucks-at-coding-as-much-as-the-typical-stack-overflow-user/

USDA removes online database that included animal abuse; activists cry foul

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/us/usda-animal-abuse-database/index.html

Noam Chomsky: American Foreign Policy Has a Long, Ugly History of Election-Rigging

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-american-foreign-policy-has-long-ugly-history-election-rigging

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse

High deportation figures are misleading

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html

Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research

http://blog.dennybritz.com/2017/01/17/engineering-is-the-bottleneck-in-deep-learning-research/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/5mr374/appalled_graphic_designer_shows_girls_life/dc5rzy9/

[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5mqsqe/wp_a_person_invents_a_time_machine_for_the_sole/dc5wp2y/

Amazon Is Already Winning the Next Big Arms Race in Tech

http://time.com/4624067/amazon-echo-alexa-ces-2017/

[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5lo4mc/wp_you_live_in_a_world_where_magic_exists_however/dbx9f2f/

Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161230/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

Healthcare workers prioritize helping people over information security

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/28/healthcare-workers-prioritize.html

The problem with retraining in the USA

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5jqp67/meet_the_chinese_billionaire_whos_moving/dbik9rd/

The Post Virtual Reality Sadness

https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/the-post-virtual-reality-sadness-fb4a1ccacae4

Microsoft Office 365 Ruined my Marriage

https://www.distilled.net/resources/microsoft-office-365-ruined-my-marriage/

The Free Trade Fallacy

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-free-trade-fallacy.html

An Artist Who Uses DNA to Make Life-Like Masks Is Wary of Cops Doing the Same

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-artist-who-uses-dna-to-make-life-like-masks-is-wary-of-cops-doing-the-same

Reddit For Sale: How We Bought The Top Spot For $200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk