Memia on Sunday 13-Feb-2022: splintered realities and epistemic security▶️📢🛡️// 5 seconds in a tokamak⚛️🧲// Ozark, but with bitcoin💸// the new romantics💘// nerdle🤓

Now is the summer of our discount tent

Kia ora,

I hope you’re keeping dry!

In this week’s subscriber-only Memia on Sunday for the wet weekend:

• ▶️📢🛡️Splintered realities and epistemic security

  • Early reflections on this week’s unpleasant (but arguably over-exposed) anti-vaccine-mandates/whatever else protest in Parliament Gardens.

    • (If Parliament was in the metaverse instead we’d never have this problem, huh…)

  • Exploring the concept of “epistemic security” and whether coordinated disinformation driving a “splintered reality” for protestors is really a sign of imminent national security threat?

• ⚛️🧲5 seconds in a tokamak

  • A new nuclear fusion experiment broke a 20-year-old record for power generation. Wow.

• Weekend exploring

  • The regular weekend selection of links for your Sunday reading, listening and watching, including:

    • 🥽Metaversal history

    • 🧞The Year of the DAO

    • 💸Ozark, but with Bitcoin

    • 🎶Music Map - a new musical graph database which you can spend hours exploring…

    • 🤓Nerdle - Wordle but with arithetic.

    • 💘A nostalgic BBC documentary on The New Romantics

    • 🌋A new volcano forming (slowly) under Bay of Plenty

• Weekender

  • An all-time classic by Frances Cook.

Read on!