Tom Scott

> people have way too much time on their hands I love those kinds of people. Like this guy: http://www.tomscott.com/

Tom Scott is one of the great YouTubers. I don't know him personally but he does come across as a genuine down to earth guy who just wants to share knowledge with the world. I also only recently learned that he has a newsletter. He mentions it briefly in some of his videos but I have never seen him ask people to sign up. The only reason I found out about it is because he included one of my articles in it[1]. Definitely highly recommend checking it out[2]. 1 - https://mousetrack.co.uk/blog/mosquitoes-at-disney-why-do-you-almost-n… 2 - https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/

If you put 2 labels on an email, then it is represented twice over IMAP. IMAP is folder based, not label based. And what this means is that if you remove an email from a folder, you don't actually remove it completely, you just remove the label, and the email continues to exist elsewhere. (I might be wrong about this behavior: the behavior of deleting an email over IMAP depends on whether it has labels left or not). Update: good read about how the system doesn't behave like you think it does https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/

Generally speaking things that Tom Scott is involved in are either experiments or satire (and quite often both): http://www.tomscott.com/projects/ ... He's also a very entertaining speaker. If you're near a conference he's at, go along. It'll be worthwhile.

This man is incredible, his projects page is teeming with greatness: http://www.tomscott.com/projects/. Also, maybe it's just me but the background image on Tweet Trumps is kind of trippy when reading the text on the page.

Wikipedia's article on clinical death[0] seems to go into a lot of the boundaries involved and is worth a read. I have read about information-theoretic death before but forgotten the term. I first heard about Alcor quite along time ago (10-15 years), and have considered signing up, but haven't so far. As much as I'd love to cheat death I can't get over the feeling that having myself frozen would be a selfish and arrogant act. I worry that the world will continue to struggle with limited resources and wonder how people will feel if the technology to revive cryopreserved people becomes available but it's a struggle to provide the unambiguously living with food, water and shelter. That said, I find it difficult to fault those who choose to try to escape mortality. I would be interested to hear how people justify it from a resource allocation perspective. Perhaps we'll figure out how to do mind uploading and solve the problem that way? That's a whole other rabbit hole though, and there's plenty of potential for that to suck[1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_death 1. http://www.tomscott.com/life/

Obligatory link share: https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/

I mean, this conversation that is talked about in the video is pretty interesting https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/conversation-record/

TLDR: Did Insurance Fire Brigades let uninsured buildings burn? No, appears highly unlikely, but many sources claim they did. Full text version is here: - https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/firemarks/

Powaqqatsi holds a special place in my heart - it's the only film that has ever put me to sleep in a theatre. The style of this reminds me of Infinite Adam Curtis, a generated series of video clips overlaid with random punchy / pithy comments in (very loosely) his style. https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/

I don't think Tom Scott ever promoted a VPN product in a YouTube video. He's actually quite selective with his brand deals. From his contact page regarding ads: * If you're asking about pay-per-click or pay-per-lead advertising, the answer will be no. Please don't ask. * I do not review products or apps. * I am unable to accept sponsorship from apps or games that contain microtransactions or gambling. Source: https://www.tomscott.com/contact/ads

Amazed nobody has posted it yet - Infinite Adam Curtis by Tom Scott: https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/

There's always https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/ too

Klout is long dead, but Klouchebag lives on: http://www.tomscott.com/klouchebag/.

Well, bad journalism is more common than good journalism. Tom Scott proposed for many newspaper articles to have warning labels. In this case, the label would read: ‘WARNING: Journalist does not understand the subject they are writing about.’ http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/

While reading your first link, I could not help but hear someone in my head reading it like this: http://www.tomscott.com/life/ "...if you are unable to access your personal account because it is in a special memorialized state..."

Experts agree with this. See http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/

Original source: http://www.tomscott.com/mob/. From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source". That's not quite the same as embedding something in your own blog and then submitting your own blog.

Vaguely related: http://www.tomscott.com/evil/

http://www.tomscott.com/cliff/ THAT is epic. Wow.