Plato wanted to ban poets from his ideal society, David Hume called them ‘liars by profession’.
How is computer programming different today than 20 years ago?
A desktop software now means a web page bundled with a browser.
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed.
Suddenly I have a lot more money and a lot less time, which means I have a lot more in common with the typical working North American than I did a few months ago. While I was abroad I wouldn’t have thought twice about spending the day wandering through a national park or reading my book on the beach for a few hours. Now that kind of stuff feels like it’s out of the question. Doing either one would take most of one of my precious weekend days!
Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It.
The most important lesson from the 2016 election about misinformation isn’t that misinformation occurred; it is how cheap and easy misinforming people was.
Relevant: Disinformation For Hire – How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online.
The great paradox of our time: everything is both better and worse than ever before.
In the past two centuries, fossil capitalism has made us wealthier, healthier, safer and more informed than ever. Now, however, this driver of progress has begun to cause our demise, making us feel cynical, or powerless. Yet there is always room for hope – that is the nature of humankind.
unsubscribe aggressively.
Canned Emails, a minimal site with prewritten emails.
The new reality: this is Australia at 1°C warming.
Our government is failing us (and you).
Danke, Denkmalschutz, sagten die Tiere…
Eine Arche hinter Gittern? Über Sinn, Unsinn und Zukunft von Zoos.
Zu kleine Gehege, zu wenige Artgenossen
Turbofolk: how Serbia’s weird and wonderful pop music came in from the cold.
Not really sure how the Onuka video fits in there, but it offers convenient opportunity for the following segue.
Relevant: The leader of the group Onuka Nata Zhizhchenko about the tour in China, the creative tandem with Evgeny Filatov and self-doubt.
The 02/02/2020 snapshot archived in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault will sweep up every active public GitHub repository, in addition to significant dormant repos as determined by stars, dependencies, and an advisory panel.
Looks like Antville is getting the deep-freeze treatment, too… (chuckles)