đź“Ž Facebook podrĂa (si quisiera) acabar con las noticias falsas
Sabe quién distribuye las noticias falsas, cuándo, para quién y por qué, pero no tiene ningún incentivo para desmontar esas redes.
đź“Ž Facebook podrĂa (si quisiera) acabar con las noticias falsas
Sabe quién distribuye las noticias falsas, cuándo, para quién y por qué, pero no tiene ningún incentivo para desmontar esas redes.
Alerta roja.
…cubrir literalmente todo de plantas …con relación a todas las otras soluciones es la más efectiva y barata, y tenemos todas las técnicas para hacerlo.
📎 Stefano Mancuso: “Debemos cubrir nuestras ciudades de vegetación”
đź“Ž Scientists discover sea of fresh water under the ocean. Located off the US Atlantic coast, it rivals the size of even the largest terrestrial aquifers.
đź“Ž Sidewalk chalk drawing goes back 500 years. Beggars in 16th-century Italy drew pictures of the Madonna outside cathedrals, earning coins from pilgrims and the nickname madonnari.
Kafka (“Un mĂ©dico rural”) sobre el requisito lingĂĽĂstico en atenciĂłn primaria: “Escribir recetas es fácil, pero es difĂcil entenderse con la gente en el resto de las cosas.”
“Vivan las cadenas” és el lema absolutista que no em puc estar d’evocar cada vegada que es diuen meravelles de la blockchain. Però crec que valdria igualment per a tants altres artificis tecnològics amb què ens delectem a fermar-nos.
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đź“Ž David Harvey: “Es ridĂculo que yo hoy sea millonario por tener un piso… A los especuladores hay que protegerlos de sĂ mismos para protegernos a todos.”
đź“Ž Perception As Controlled Hallucination. Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience. A Conversation with Andy Clark.
đź“Ž The New Wilderness:
…what are the consequences of raising a generation of children whose every action feeds into a corporate database?—Maciej Cegłowski
📎 Cunningham Sanitarium: patients spent weeks inside a giant steel sphere —five stories— breathing air at twice the atmospheric pressure. Dr. Cunningham was a pioneer of this —snake oil— hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Fa un parell de setmanes em van tancar el quiosc. D’acĂ a un parell de setmanes tancaran el periòdic que encara solia comprar.
When Twitter came along we collectively decided that this kind of thing [microblogging] was Twitter’s jurisdiction — that these are just tweets.
But why should we agree that Twitter, or any company, owns an entire form of writing for the web?
Vivim en el futur. President d’un paĂs centreamericà —pare imam, famĂlia palestina emigrada amb passaports imperi otomà — governa donant ordres a ministres a travĂ©s d’una xarxa informĂ tica pĂşblica. Si m’ho conta Philip K. Dick, em meravelle davant la imaginaciĂł desbordant.
Miskatonic University Digital Strategy Plan. Main themes:
Bitcoin has a lingering problem that few people are talking about… Hardly anyone is using it for anything beyond speculation. news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/03/2122251
đź“Ž Open enough? Eight factors to consider when transitioning from closed to open resources and courses: open licensing, accessibility and usability standards, language, cultural considerations, support costs, digital distribution, and file formats.
📎 The transformational power of how you talk about your life: “…the stories we tell about ourselves reveal ourselves, construct ourselves, and sustain ourselves through time”.
Per a si mateix, pensĂ TintĂn, hi havia al seu davant el record de l’amor i la sendera que floria.
—Frederic Tuten, TintĂn al nou mĂłn.
Els personatges d’HergĂ© s’encreuen amb els de Thomas Mann en una altra muntanya mĂ gica i s’hi deixen enredar. En mala hora.
Dissabte.
Fossil fuels get a makeover. The US Department of Energy referred to domestic natural gas as “molecules of U.S. freedom” or, more simply, “freedom gas”.
El ascenso de Vox como termómetro del éxito cultural de la izquierda. “En pocos campos es más evidente esa desazón en la ultraderecha que sobre el sistema educativo.”
A Street Artist In Venice. “Never invited to be the part of the Biennale, Banksy once again invited himself to showcase his work.”
Tots els dies Twitter em mostra missatges publicitaris del mateix candidat a l’alcaldia de València, una ciutat on no visc i un senyor a qui no votaria mai. Perfils de votants, propaganda polĂtica ultrapersonalitzada, mĂ xima disrupciĂł electoral. Steve Bannon rules the world.
The US government appears to have decided that it’s simply too risky for a Chinese company to control too much 5G infrastructure.
—MIT Technology Review, Feb 8, 2019