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Spectral -- which makes an on-chain credit score -- provide their spin on the convergence of a critical mass of blockchain data sets and the processing power to use it.

Are you worried about scams specifically or the threat to privacy that transparent txns present?

The emerging web3 reputation stack

DeFi company writing about the history of credit. Posits that the history of credit has been one of increasing forgiveness and understanding.

What a strange essay. He didn't quite pull off his magic metaphor addressing coordination of WSB + magic + his own postcolonial trauma but it was an amusing read.

Enjoyed this:

To me, the most horrifying thing about January 6th was realizing that no one was actually turning the dial. It was all bubble and froth, small fiefdoms pushing for an advantage, with no one in charge, something undeniably strange and terrible had happened, yet everyone involved was just a jackal tugging at the remains, trying to assemble the footage into a picture resembled their worldview.

The title comes from the moment when video games went from representing reality directly (i.e. collisions meaning collisions) to becoming more: Pac-Man was eating dots, not just colliding with them. Also contains a lot of interesting strategies for finding new forms in video game design

Second article down is the interesting one:

Has your iPhone begun to anticipate what you’re about to write with unnerving accuracy? Big data projects like text prediction often require processing extremely sensitive data. Keeping it secure is a top priority. UC Santa Cruz Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Abhradeep Guha Thakurta created a system for Apple called differential privacy which allows algorithms to learn from keyboard entries without disclosing it. The way this particular system works it is designed from the ground up for privacy. “Privacy is an English word,” Thakurta said. “To protect you must create a semantic statement that can be refuted, meaning a mathematical statement that tells what it means for a system to be protected, and that can be refuted, so to that end there’s this notion called differential privacy which one kind of formalized statement that gives it semantic meaning.” Differential privacy essentially allows a large, decentralized system to process confidential information in situ without any other part of the pipeline coming into contact with that information. So those confidential messages you’ve typed to your spouse or doctor never leave your device.

Author combines a personal essay about getting swindled by a fake Cyber security 'expert' with a classic tome about swindling and cons. Lots of weird little insights into scamming and conning

How nice, especially since I have so much money left over from buying desks and ergonomic chairs

Oh, Jeez - I'm so sorry, I hadn't even considered that. I appreciate you pointing that out

An inspiring story about an engineer with cerebral palsy at UCSC who's just won a Google fellowship to develop gesture based control systems.

Some interesting interviews with OnlyFans performers - author says they use little Telegram groups to support one another