Once there were computers. Then there was batch processing, and renting out computer time. Then there was timesharing, with billing-on-demand. Then there were personal computers. Then there was the cloud. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Tech Lives Matter – Diversity in the Technology Industry.
It's great to see the moral compass evolve when we talk about how technology affects the environment. Because if the government will not hold big technology companies accountable then we have to—the workers.
Lügen sind keine alternativen Fakten, Impfgegner:innen keine verfolgten Jüd:innen.
Sprache ist eine kapriziöse, mitunter tückische Gefährtin. Man kann mit ihr eine Welt gewinnen; man kann auch eine Welt verlieren.
Uniting the mysterious worlds of quantum physics and music.
The notions of beauty and symmetry have allowed the likes of string theory and supersymmetry to survive for decades with absolutely no evidence of their veracity, simply because they’re too beautiful not to be true.
The hell to link to that Instagram is.
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.