Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey

Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision.  As facial recognition becomes more popular as a means for police state identification, innovative makeup and hairstyle fashions can be deployed to foil the Orwellian algorithms.  Talk about weird.  Now we’re going to be dressing for the machines?

Philips has won the DOE’s L-Prize

The US DoE set up the L-Prize, modeled after the X-Prize, for durable, high quality, low power lighting.  Philips just won it, with a remote-phosphor LED bulb.  Warm white light, 900 lumens bright, for less than 10 Watts.  Now if only they can get someone other than Home Despot to carry them!

Multi-agency armed raid takes down raw milk and cheese producer

Apparently the agricultural industrial complex is willing to take down its competition with a hail of lead if necessary.  A multi-agency SWAT team descended upon a raw milk and cheese buying club in SoCal, and is holding the proprietor without bail.  How can this be a serious law enforcement priority?

Bicycles and Fresh Bread

The NY Times points out that bicycles and the European penchant for fresh bread are more closely related than you might at first imagine.  A writer in Amsterdam talks about how a slightly different conception of daily life enables cities without cars, and how that life is really more free than our slavish commitment to the car.