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Snowden On Rogen

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This week, Joe Rogen published his monster interview with Edward Snowden. Poor Joe got about 6 sentences in during the almost three hour interview. In saying that, the account given by Snowden is fascinating because of the passion that he conveys when talking about what he discovered and why he decided to become a whistleblower. The conversation towards the end moves on to more up to date topics such as bulk data collection and Snowden's life in Russia.
Tech
Video

Podcast Of The Week: Darknet Diaries - Misadventures of a Nation State Actor

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Darknet Diaries is a great podcast about shady things in the tech world. This week while going through the back catalog I listened to episode 10 which featured an interview with a Nation State Actor, aka a government hacker! The fascinating story describes how the unnamed agency hacked into the network of an unnamed agency of another country, only to be foiled by a windows update!
Podcast
Tech

Music From Saharan Cellphones

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In 2010, a compilation of music from Saharan mobile phones was complied on tape. The oftentimes unlabelled tracks included were a collection of popular music doing the rounds on memory cards of mobile phones and shared via bluetooth. In 2011, the artists were tracked down and the collection was released commercially 50% going directly to the artists. The album is also available on Spotify.
Music

Microsoft SandDance

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Microsoft have open-sourced their SandDance data visualisation tool. The Microsoft Research tool allows data to be presented as unit visualisations for datasets up to 500k rows, instead of traditional data aggregation visualisation. The tool has been re-written from as an embeddable component in javascript stacks. It is also available as a Visual Studio Code and Azure Data Studio extension.
Data Vis

Overview Photography

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Overview is a photography project that uses satellite and aerial imagery to demonstrate how human activity and natural forces hape our Earth. Check out their great work on their website, where you can filter by topics such as cities, design, transport, waste and nature. An example in the waste category is the above pictured cattle feedlot in Texas where cattle weighing 250kg are stored and fattened until they weight 450kg+ to be sent to slaughter.
Environment
Photo

TV Review: Rhythm + Flow

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This week I started watching Rhythm + Flow. It's like a Rap X-Factor, where contestants compete for a prize of $250,000, supervised by Chance The Rapper, Cardi B and T.I. I lost interest in these type of competition shows years ago but I decided to give this a look because the production quality is high and I was interested to see how rap and hip-hop content would be delivered and judged, because I know very little about it.
Music
Review

Podcast Of The Week: The Tropical MBA - How To Get Rich Without Getting Lucky

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The Tropical MBA podcast is great every week, but recently they released a fantastic interview with Nick Huber, co-founder of Storage Squad. A few episodes previous, Nick was on the show to talk about Storage Squad but during this follow up episode, he described the somewhat untapped opportunity of starting a traditional service business where the competitors have little to no web presence, and subsequently crushing them!
Business
Motivation
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