Banksy Work Physically Burned and Digitized as NFT in Art-World First. A piece by famous street artist Banksy is to be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) – after the original was physically burned in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday (more)

The coronavirus is airborne. Here’s how to know if you’re breathing other people’s breath. Crandall’s restaurant is open again — with a CO2 monitor that displays a reading he tries to keep under 450 parts per million, only slightly higher than levels in the outside air, per state policy. Thanks to the human burning of fossil fuels, outdoor levels currently average about 415 parts per million, and are steadily rising. (more)

Lisa McNulty offers "philosophical consultations" (Philosophical Counseling) (more)

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Domain Name System (Domain) (more)

In computer networking, a Media Access Control address (MAC address), Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), hardware address, adapter address or physical address is a quasi-unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer's registered identification number. (more)

cf Object Identifier, Wiki Name, Automatic Linking, Link As You Think, Shared Language, Pattern Language (more)

Dan Hon: s09e18: Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper. (more)

Mike Solana: Misery and Joy. A honey trap for activists. If you’ve spent any time in San Francisco over the last half-decade you’ve seen a playful honey bear or two — or ten — on the side of a building, or in the window of a coy Victorian. (more)

Dan Hon: s09e24: Vestigial; Unions; Weird. (more)

Dan Hon: s09e21: Seeing Past The Horizon. Horizon, the UK Post Office’s IT modernization effort (more)

Balaji Srinivasan: Miami Tech Week: The Start Of Startup Cities. With Miami Tech Week, that moment has arrived. A critical mass of technologists just left San Francisco to alight for balmier climes. The movement that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Founders Fund Partner Keith Rabois began just a few months ago has achieved escape velocity. (more)

'Miami Tech Week' Wasn't' Planned. But the Hype Is Infectious. Founders and funders are flocking to the beach for an impromptu event that some are calling "South by Southeast." (more)

Dan Hon: s09e20: Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability. (more)

Mike Solana: Extract or Die. Digging for microcode. As the catastrophic state of California’s finances finally begins to set in among politicians, anti-tech media personalities, and far left cultural influencers, the narrative on California’s techxodus — that is, the migration of California’s technology industry out of the state — has shifted from mockery, and “we’ll be better off without you,” to a far more sober, and increasingly-desperate “leaving California is immoral.” (more)

Dan Hon s09e23: No, But Really, Where Do You Start?. Can you give me the bottom line up front? (2021-04-28-HoneS09e22ButWhereDoYouStart) (more)

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