I’m pretty experienced in some technical ways, but still learning a lot on Linux / kernel level. I appreciate your comment as I learn more about lower level architectures like this.

Reading about the Hurd microkernal was really interesting, here’s the wiki article for others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

Def open to other suggestions on good resources for these topics.

I was at a tech conference recently, and the local city tech department was showing off the cameras all around the city. They were all tracking individual vehicles with computer vision, across town as the traffic moved from one camera to another.

I didn’t get a chance to ask them whether law enforcement used the data, but I’m pretty sure that’s a given.

Silicon manufacturing is one of my obsessive interests. For anyone else interested in learning more, I’ve learned a lot from the Asianometry YouTube channels.

I went in with really low hopes, but ended up liking the new Alien Romulus movie, due to some of the reasons you outlined.

It’s not perfect and has its dumb choices (uncanny valley de-aged android from Alien, stupid callback lines). But the characters are generally all solid, and there’s just enough world building without getting too expository. And there’s a new twist on alien morphology that was interesting and straight up good horror.