• Moravec's Paradox: Thinking is easy.  Moving is hard.
  
  To put it another way, the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" is the easy part, and getting a motorised suitcase to navigate a busy airport terminal is the hard part.
  
  
• Apple wants to reinvent itself as a services company.  (Bloomberg)
  
  (Looks at iTunes.)
  
  Yeah, no.
  
  
  

Social Media News

• New Zealand's Ministries of Peace and Truth have worked together to make the anti-Muslim terrorist's manifesto illegal to read.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Great.  Wonderful.  What could possibly go wrong?

• Matt Taibbi has a long and mostly solid piece on the massive media malfeasance of "Russiagate".
  
  Worth reading.  Bring snacks.
  
  
• Garth Nix has a fifth book out in the Old Kingdom trilogy.
  
  Clariel (book 4) was a prequel.  Goldenhand (book 5) is a sequel simultaneously to Abhorsen (book 3), and to Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case from the short story collection Across the Wall.  You don't need to read that but it's worth it.