đź“Ž Perception As Controlled Hallucination. Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience. A Conversation with Andy Clark.
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
A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator that outputs ROM files for Game Boy emulators.
đź“Ž GB Studio
More than half of the world's population is now online, but that does not mean we all see the same thing. From being filtered by the government to being delivered by post […]
đź“Ž The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India
📎 Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works after two and a half centuries
Laboratory tests revealed that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death.
…mientras llamemos granjas a unas naves que en realidad son fábricas; mientras hablemos de ganaderĂa sin especificar el mĂ©todo de producciĂłn…
đź“Ž GanaderĂa: con “apellido”, por favor
Yuval Noah Harari, Sà piens. Una breu història de la humanitat. La suma de coneixements i la visió sinòptica resulten tan fascinants com inspiradores, tot i que en algunes pà gines decep la lleugeresa i la superficialitat dels raonaments.
La coagulación de un estilo de vida en C’s. Un modelo de ciudad difusa, sin servicios, sin comercios, con enclaves de seguridad y exclusión. “El nadador” de John Cheever al fondo.
📎 Jorge Dioni — PAUers. Una aproximación
Els papers de l’estada de Ch. B. a la Miskatonic University (1992) carlesbellver.net/contes/unicorns
H. M. Enzensberger, 1989: Jruschov, Jaruzelski, Suárez… “y la retirada más difĂcil de todas es la de la guerra que estamos librando desde la revoluciĂłn industrial contra nuestra propia biosfera.”
📎 Los héroes de la retirada