Two things happened on the same day last week (Feb 26) and I need you to appreciate the range: the FCC passed strong net neutrality (Title II, the real thing, the four-million-comments thing, the biggest internet policy win of my lifetime), and the entire planet simultaneously stopped working over a photo of a dress. White and gold or blue and black. Our office split 60/40 and got loud about it. (It’s blue and black. The lighting is doing the lying. Color constancy is the brain’s cache invalidation bug.)
I love that both stories are the same story: perception at scale. One is how four million people change infrastructure policy; the other is how one badly-lit JPEG reveals that consensus reality is a rendering pipeline.
Samsung launched the Galaxy S6 at Mobile World Congress with a curved “edge” screen, having apparently decided that copying Apple wasn’t working and copying the future might.
TIL: color spaces, actually, because the dress made me look it up. sRGB, white balance, why cameras lie. The dress taught more people about human vision than every textbook combined. Memes are load-bearing educational infrastructure.