I’m really excited for @camillealston to be moving on to a new chapter but I’ll also miss her...
Human-flesh Search Engines in China
Human-flesh search engines - renrou sousuo yinqing - have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online with offline results.
Something that always fascinated us about Ringworld was this notion of breeding people to be lucky (for those of you who had a social life as a teenager, the book in part was about a future in which many people have to win the lottery in order to have a baby); we have always been curious about whether this would actually work.
karma really is a bitch.
