Links
Economics of Bitcoin
…will keep it from being very important. And to that I say, “Ha!” And “Ha!” And yet again, “Ha!” Bitcoin is really just very expensive play money right now.
Bread and circuses
How pleasure lulls us into accepting surveillance. We trade our liberties for so little.
Liberalism isn’t dead
Tolerance is not enough
A trip down memory lane
Byte Cellar reminisces on the computer systems he’s owned, ca. 1984 onwards. I am filled with nostalgia and envy.
Pollution is killing European trees
…but not in the way you might think. The link is actually symbiotic fungi thar is becoming parasitic because of environmental changes.
Alzheimer’s as Type 3 Diabetes
A review of cases linking Alzheimer’s Disease to diabetes, from the National Institute of Health.
…“type 3 diabetes” accurately reflects the fact that AD represents a form of diabetes that selectively involves the brain and has molecular and biochemical features that overlap with both type 1 diabetes mellitus and T2DM.