According to Reuters, Barcelona had about 1M Catalans on the streets yesterday, demonstrating for independence: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/around-one-million-rally-for-catalan-ind...

Meanwhile in Barcelona: https://www.rt.com/on-air/402917-barcelona-catalan-independence-rally/

WTF, Estonia?! https://edri.org/leaked-document-eu-presidency-calls-for-massive-internet-filtering/

In 6 days, I'll be sitting on my bicycle, going from Munich to Venice in 4 days, with ~400 other idiots. They call it Tour de Friends.

Apparently it's possible to kill tumors with alcohol injections: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/09/02/ethanol-lethal-injection-tumors-11779

Stumbled upon this nice overview of the current state of quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYESkqXVWa0

Just in case you missed it last week: the Bitcoin blockchain is now being sent to Earth from satellites, so you can build local payment infrastructure without having to pay for the many gigs of data per month, that are required to be downloaded these days for running a fully validating node: https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-satellite.html

Simply amazing.

Just got a serious bike fit. Feels like a tailor-made new bike now. Best #cycling upgrade ever.

So Google assembled a Core Hip Hop Team in order to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the birth of hip hop: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop