Interesting links: January 2022

A Wolfram Language keynote at reClojure 2021
A passionate denouncing of the false promises of crypto-currency
Using the congressional record to get around “big tech”
A more reasonable de-mystification of “web3”
A minimal writing service
An interesting person
C++ dissatisfaction
David Bowie speaking about the impact of the internet, in 1999
Overview of UAP news in the last few years
Richard Dawkins is still writing long-form pieces, and I think it’s worth reading it
On the role of COBOL
On selective crime reporting
Life on Mars
- Some hedging: “On Earth, the signal would be seen as strong evidence for ancient microbial life.” and “Still, the rover has seen no physical traces of ancient microbes, so the researchers say it’s also possible deep microbes might have jump-started the enrichment, with UV light driving it the rest of the way”
“Pandemic-era” movies
Amenhotep III’s sphinxes unearthed
Scalable web services as a commodity