That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his book, The Simulation Hypothesis, Virk endeavors to unpack the heady arguments that call our physical world into question.
BY ERIKA CHAN
“I love being an anonymous sexy stranger… Because I don’t show my face, guys are free to imagine me as whoever they like.” — Clarabelle Woods
Who is Clarabelle Woods?
Honestly, she could be anyone — which is part of the mysterious allure and the business strategy behind keeping one’s face hidden online.
Woods, who most people call “Clara,” has been an online sex worker for two years now.
“I’ve lived most of my life in a big, bustling East Coast city but have spent the last few years living further south for school,” she shared.
Woods looks some time out from her study schedule to tell us a bit about her work, her writing and her passion for the environment around us.
Year-to-date, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is up 40% against the United States dollar, and other major cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Litecoin have also demonstrated strong gains in the past four months.
Thinking of buying a Trezor Model T hardware wallet to store your Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, but not sure if it is the right storage solution for you? Let our unbiased Trezor Model T review help you make an informed decision!
By JC Adams
Ten years ago, this magazine published an article titled “A New Trans Generation” that examined a burgeoning market for “she-male” content, a descriptive that has now largely been consigned to the dustbin. Grooby Productions, Evil Angel and Kink.com were among the companies profiled, alongside trans pioneers Wendy Williams, Mandy Mitchell and Kimber James. (Williams was making use of something called MySpace, and exploring a still-new, three-year-old platform known as Twitter.) Mitchell, it was observed, was considered outré for performing with cisgender women, which was then a rarity in the genre.
I’m sure some of you have noticed issues with our sites the past couple of weeks. We’ve been trying to figure out what the problem was. Today we believe we found the issue. A plugin used on one of the Voyeur Monkey sites had a SQL query causing a load issue. This was a bitch to figure out, but we believe we have it taken care of now.
Thanks for your patience on this inconvenience.
Ruff
Learning about Bitcoin or Eth? Or are you an experienced hodler? We’ve a great source of information that you can use to stay on top of the cryptocurrency hurricane. Check it out, you can’t have enough information! Cryptofeeds.news
Here’s a bunch of interesting sites to fuck around with. You might find something valuable here for something.
Tired of reading news articles that cut you off and try to get a subscription out of you to continue reading? Like the NY Times or the Economists? Check out this site to see if they can get you past the paywall to read the entire article.
https://12ft.io/
The first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.
https://sci-hub.mksa.top/
Library Genesis is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. This from Wikipedia.
https://libgen.is/
Another site with the deal. Check it out and see if there is real deals here Can’t hurt, right?
https://pikapikadeals.com/
Now this site is a keeper. I don’t think you can find a simpler way to transfer any kind of file. Just drag and drop a file to the front page and it gives you a link to send to someone who can then download it without sending it as an attachment.
https://justbeamit.com/
The Engineering ToolBox
Free tools and information for engineering and design of technical applications. There may be one or two of you out there that can find a use for the info here. Still an interesting site though.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/amp/index.html
Do you need to glue something to something else? This site will tell you what you need to make it stick. We didn’t actually know that we needed something like this until we found it. So the Internet is useful after all. Who knew?
http://thistothat.com/
Here’s another useful site for figuring out your family’s history. Operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). They’re big on this kind of thing. But if the Mormons give you the hebe jebe’s you might want to move on. So far, I don’t see any about giving them money, but we’ll see.
http://familysearch.com/
Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, automatically share them with the security community. I haven’t used this site yet, but it might come in handy with amount of spam in my email box.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/
This site records lightning strikes world wide. Kind of an esoteric experience if you live in a strike zone.
http://www.lightningmaps.org/
This is a website with a crouton on it. I guess there needs to be one somewhere. The .com address is still available if you want it.
https://crouton.net
Yes, here it is. You can finally see when you will shuffle off this mortal coil. I’m scheduled to depart in a couple of years. Bummer.
http://www.deathclock.com/
Just like it says it is, it counts words and it will help with your grammar. Might come in handy if you’re not just an illiterate slob.
http://www.wordcounter.net/
Guides for all kinds of stuff. This looks very interesting, but I haven’t had a lot of time to explore it yet. Saving it for a rainy day. Here’s an link for useful websites.
https://www.labnol.org/internet/101-useful-websites/18078/
This is right off the front page of the site. If you’re looking to retire, hide from the law, on fixed income, or just need to find a new place to live that you can afford, start here.
Numbeo is the world’s largest cost of living database. Numbeo is also a crowd-sourced global database of quality of life informations including housing indicators, perceived crime rates, and quality of healthcare, among many other statistics.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
Moving the Voyeur Monkey Network sites has been completed. You’ll definitely notice an improvement in faster site loading. Thanks for your patience.
Dynetics also was awarded a chance to be part of the effort to get humans to the lunar surface by 2024Boeing, typically among NASA’s key contractors but whose space program has experienced multiple setbacks and delays, also submitted a bid but was not selected.
by Dominik Stroukal — Economics Expert at SatoshiLabs
Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece that expresses a point of view of the author and not an investment recommendation. We are providing a space to share the knowledge and information needed for self-education and critical thinking.
Governments and central banks are stronger than before. The system becomes more fragile and dangerous. And that’s exactly when it makes sense to buy bitcoin. Bitcoin is a hedge against the system.
Covid-19, the new coronavirus hit us much harder than the mortgage market collapse and subsequent financial dominoes in 2008. And governments and central banks have taken more drastic measures to support the economy. The borders were closed, citizens are being surveilled, companies are being nationalized, money is being given out, central banks are pumping liquidity into banks, and they are buying up everything they see.
Six years ago, a single-board computer came on the market and changed the game for tinkerers and DIYers. The Raspberry Pi is a dream machine for all kinds of projects—gaming consoles, home streaming, VPN servers, and beyond—but the first step is gathering up your supplies and learning the basics. If you’re building something with the Pi, start here.
