One of the greater treasons against Freedom in the history of America. (more)

Was Richard Nixon's war on drugs a racially motivated crusade? It's a bit more complicated. Last week, the internet exploded with a fairly shocking allegation: President Richard Nixon began America's war on drugs to criminalize black people and hippies, according to a newly revealed 1994 quote from Nixon domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman. (more)

Filecoin is an open-source, public, cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based digital storage and data retrieval method.[1][2][3][4] It is made by Protocol Labs and builds on top of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filecoin (more)

Hyperlink is a course platform and online school built for seriously effective learning. https://hyperlink.academy/

High Fidelity provides a social virtual reality platform for users to create and deploy virtual worlds, and explore and interact together in them. The software is free and open source, and it supports the Oculus Rift (DK2 and CV1), including Oculus Touch controllers, and the HTC Vive, including HTC Vive Trackers.[5] On April 27, 2016, High Fidelity entered open beta.[6] In 2017 High Fidelity started offering original programming to players. HiFi has the first network ordered VR show titled Glitched: A VR Talk Show from Studio Capon and followed up with a weekly streamed dance party series with in VR DJ Tha Phlash... High Fidelity was founded in April 2013 by Second Life founder and former CEO Philip Rosedale, and Freidrica Heiberger... Plans for gatherings on the High Fidelity platform to use virtual reality were scrapped by the beginning of 2019, and the platform became audio-only. Users appear as dots in a birds-eye view of a space, and can move their dots around the space to have conversations with individuals or groups. Audio is spatialized (spatial audio), so that users will hear other users at different volumes depending on their relative locations within the space... In May 2019, High Fidelity announced it would focus its efforts on an application for remote and distributed teams.[29] The yet-to-be-named application, accessible through both desktop mode[30] and VR,[31] provides a virtual space where people can collaborate using High Fidelity's spatialized 3D audio and realistic avatars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fidelity_(company)

Canadian software engineer. He is the principal co-author of the OAuth and WebFinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.[1] He has worked for Yahoo on the Fire Eagle project[2] and is currently a member of OsmoSoft, a small team of Open Source developers at BT Group.[3]... He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.[4] Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Cook_(programmer)

Proof of stake (PoS) protocols are a class of consensus mechanisms for blockchains that work by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of holdings in the associated cryptocurrency. Unlike a proof of work (PoW) protocol, PoS systems do not incentivize extreme amounts of energy consumption. The first functioning use of PoS for cryptocurrency was Peercoin in 2012. Other uses have followed, and the Ethereum Foundation has announced a plan to switch Ethereum from PoW to PoS within 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake

P2P web browser running over DAT protocol. Beaker uses a new peer-to-peer network called Hypercore Protocol. https://beakerbrowser.com/ (more)

Jason Pereira: Retreating to values. In the past, my values were expressed through the technology I used. The fathom project was intertwined, from the start, with Ethereum, and peer-to-peer (P2P) technology more broadly. During one night of the retreat I was explaining why that choice made sense at the time. I had a vision for an educational system rooted in both individual agency and collaboration and interdependency. A positive-sum replacement for the zero-sum, competitive educational system we have today. Ethereum was a practical choice to implement such a system, but it also shared many of the same values. (more)

Hypercore Protocol is a peer-to-peer (p2p) data network built on the Hypercore logs. Hypercores are signed, append-only logs. They're like lightweight blockchains without the consensus algorithm. As with BitTorrent, as more people "seed" a dataset it will increase the available bandwidth. https://hypercore-protocol.org/

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Jared Pereira: What's Next. Last week I decided to go back to the project that started off this newsletter, Fancynote (more)

Tools for Thought Interchange: Part 1. We hosted Part 1 of a talk series called Tools for Thought Interchange on May 27th, 2021. Tools for Thought — also known as second brains, digital gardens, or simply personal note taking apps — is seeing a lot of interest right now, with more being built every day. The question we posed was: how do we work on interchange between these systems? (more)

Steven Levy: It’s now the fifth anniversary of Pokemon Go. (more)

In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages only for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. Part of the vision of linked data is for the Internet to become a global database.[1] Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), coined the term in a 2006 design note about the Semantic Web project.[2] Linked data may also be open data, in which case it is usually described as linked open data (LOD).[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data

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A Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) is an online computer Role Playing Game (RPG) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a Virtual World. (subtype of MMO); Computer Game type; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG (more)