How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
In the first quarter of this year, Facebook’s net income nearly doubled, while revenue rose only about 50 percent over last year’s figures. That doesn’t sound like a company that is pouring money into content moderation. It sounds like a company expanding its profit margins.
‘Success Addicts ’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy.
Achilles, success addict par excellence, chooses death.
On XKDC’s “Types of scientific paper”.
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Natural Language Processing? Übersetzungen, künstliche Intelligenz und die Frage der Identität.
Das alles wo es doch so einfach wäre! Ein Klick auf Google Translate reicht aus! Und aus Amanda Gormans „The Hill We Climb“ würde „Der Hügel, den wir erklimmen“.
Van Gogh TV’s “Piazza Virtuale” – Report-In-Progress and Preliminary Case study (via dahj.org).
A number of the phenomena that shape net culture today could already be observed in nuce at "Piazza virtuale": from chats to shitstorms, from smart mobs to cybersex, from collective creation to live video streaming.
Never for money, always for love.
One of many of my favorite scenes in the movie: first the tumbling inline skater, then the live performance with the 6Ts living room moving over everyone’s (talking, hehe) head.
Du kannst nicht immer 17 sein…
Pandemiepolitik: Die deutsche Rentokratie, jetzt auch mit Corona-Topping.
Das bundesrepublikanische System ist eben bis in die Details von einer latenten Geringschätzung des Neuen und des Jungen durchdrungen. Fast alle Dinge werden durch eine Brille der Altersbevorzugung und Jugendbenachteiligung betrachtet. Das steht – leider – sogar im Grundgesetz, und zwar in Form der sogenannten Schuldenbremse, deren Sonderform im Alltag oft schwarze Null genannt wird.
In general, it is not easy to see why a pharmaceutical company would need a monopoly as an additional incentive to enter into such a risk-free deal. It is even more difficult to understand why this exclusivity should also extend to countries which are too poor for doing any business in the first place. What remains is, once again, ideology: waiving patent protection would have all sorts of disruptive effects and do all sorts of damage to the credibility of the system! Which is probably true, but it’s not entirely self-evident that a bit of disruption would necessarily be a bad thing, is it?
The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript (via javascriptweekly.com).
const object = {
get data() {
const actualData = someExpensiveComputation();
Object.defineProperty(this, "data", {
value: actualData,
writable: false,
configurable: false,
enumerable: false
});
return actualData;
}
};