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Silicon Tanks: Yuk Hui Argues for Homelessness as an Antidote to Fascism | ForkLog

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Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientific minds in human history, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble of 1720. After initially making money and selling his shares, he bought back in at the peak...

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#Intelligence (智能）can be measured on tests. #Wisdom (智慧）is a good deal harder to quantify."

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The Corpse of Accelerationism - Notes - e-flux Benjamin Noys reflects on accelerationism ten years after the peak of its cultural influence.

The Corpse of Accelerationism
By Benjamin Noys

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#madeinchina #wereldmuseum #worldmuseum #technodiversity #craftandtechnology #digitalchina #crossculturaldialogue #innovation | Bei Wang 王蓓 With a dreamlike opening ceremony last night, Made-in-China exhibition opens today at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, offering a fascinating journey into the depth and continuity of Chinese craftsmanship and ...

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Why integration of science in the East and West is needed more than ever? Since the middle of the 20th century, global sinologists seem to be unable to get around a "question from the soul" – the "Needham Puzzle". For more than half a century, many scholars have tried to an...

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iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype! Rodney Brooks, co-founder of three robotic companies and an AI guru has a pragmatic and honest opinions about the state of AI and Robotics. An interview!

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Notes on Deletion and Technological Sacrifice “Artists have successfully used toilets before, so why not large language models?” Hito Steyerl – Set as default location: “Wenn ich nicht hier bin, bin ich auf dem Sonnendeck.“ Rationalism

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Tom Mullaney's The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age must be one of the best books I have read this year. | Bei Wang 王蓓 Tom Mullaney's The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age must be one of the best books I have read this year. To grasp "Digital China," we need to transcend "Blind Men and the Ele...

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道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。
Expressible way is not the eternal way, Nameable name isn't the eternal Name

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Reading Chinese translated version of Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig

Teken voor een motie van wantrouwen tegen minister Faber De ondertekenaars van deze petitie laten zien dat het Nederlandse volk klaar is met een minister die de hand boven het hoofd gehouden wordt om de coalitie bij elkaar te houden. Dit terwijl de minister...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/mo...

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.

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The Universe in Verse An annual charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry. Highlights from the previous seasons can be seen here. The Universe in Verse is now a book. …

An act of resistance and an act of persistence. Fierce insistence on the felicitous expression of nature in human nature, with our capacity for music and mathematics, for art and hope.

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The Universe in Verse was born in 2017 as part celebration of the wonder of life and the splendor of reality, and part protest against the assault on science and nature — that is, on life and reality — in the era of “alternative facts” and vanishing environmental protections.

《诗中的宇宙》诞生于 2017 年，为了纪念生命的奇迹和现实的辉煌，同时也是为了抗议 "另类事实 "横行和忽视环境保护的时代对科学和自然--也就是对生命和现实--的攻击。这既是一种反抗，也是一种坚持。 通过我们（人类）对音乐、数学、艺术和希望的能力，执着地追求自然在人类本性中的完美表达。

Before the Machine, From Logos to Lǐ: The Philosophical Architecture of Artificial Intelligence Ancient Greek and Classical Chinese Concepts Resembling Key Concepts in AI

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Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism? The least fun fact you're likely to read today: IBM helped the Nazis. Through its German subsidiary Dehomag, "Big Blue" custom-engineered Hollerith punch card machines specifically designed to meet the Third Reich's requirements for tracking, sorting, and processing human beings. These were specialized systems developed to enhance the efficiency of

A system that rewards companies for enabling authoritarianism will inevitably and consistently produce authoritarianism.

That’s not a political opinion — it’s a design specification.

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just spent a week in #China, when #DeepSeek was talked about.

#digitalchina is best described in one word: 祛魅 （disenchantment ), consciously or unconsciously. 😁

Photos credit to #Beeple solo exhibition in Deji Art Museum in #nanjing

#digitalart #digitalculture #artandtechnology #祛魅

Democracy Dies in a Rebrand Democracy doesn’t die in darkness—it dies in a rebrand, as watchdogs are neutered into lapdogs

This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.

The Great Social Media Disapora | NOEMA What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?

#tiktokrefugee Exodus is like the sequel of #xrefugee
We really need “decentralized” internet (whether it is called Web3 or DAO or other technical names…)

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Aftonbladet's investigation into Shein's returns – in 6 points Chinese Shein has become the world’s most popular online fashion brand – but its rapid rise comes with a steep environmental cost. Aftonbladet has investigated

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The richest men in the galaxy want to bring capitalism to space Science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein have inspired figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who, adopting the persona of strongmen, fantasize about saving humanity

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Happy holidays
假期快乐
Fijne feestdagen

#merrychristmas #happynewyear

“There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know.” - Jerry Muller

Another year older

Work by Axel van der Kraan, displayed at the Kröller-Müller Museum.