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Clippings & thoughts on media and politics. Find me on Twitter @wildebees

[brucesterling]

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/most-active-corporate-investors-artificial-intelligence/

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No comment

[thesoulfunkybrother]

- SkatePark . Kampala , Uganda .08′

by. Yann Gross

[destroytheremained-deactivated2]

That fs air!!

[wildmedia]

But simply calling Bitcoin horizontalist renders it sociologically anaemic, buying into the ideology that it is essentially a machine. Paradoxically, the ideology behind Bitcoin is premised on denying that money even has a social life: by treating money as a thing whose production is controlled by technology, not as a process whose value is sustained by its users. But the idea that money is a thing cannot withstand close scrutiny. On the contrary, there is a strong sense of community around Bitcoin, as reflected in discussion groups, Internet forums and the organizations that are associated with it. Bitcoin is currently being sustained by sociological features that are directly at odds with the political ideology and theory of money that underpin it. These include leadership, social organization, social structure, sociality, utopianism and trust. Technological artifacts cannot simply enact organizational forms on their own. Social factors inevitably emerge as those who interact with and use these artifacts both shape and are shaped by their practical use. We can only reach a proper understanding of the politics behind Bitcoin once we appreciate that it has a social life.

The politics and social life of Bitcoin underline the significance of the new currency | British Politics and Policy at LSE

[nathanjurgenson]

“the default color”

[nsx]

この写真。はじめて見たかも、かっこいい。#BrianEno http://ift.tt/1A8ixts

— odajima hitoshi (@ODAZZI) March 8, 2015

[mudwerks]

play me…

[helenlewiswrites]

The Videogame That Yanis Varoufakis Used To Study The Eurozone

- about what you can learn about Greece’s economy from Team Fortress 2.

[jacobjoaquin]

Box Fractal Cluster

Built with Processing

[gameraboy]

Metropolis (1927)

[brucesterling]

*That scene is hard to beat

[nathanjurgenson]

The only other conference I know personally that excels at structuring online and offline sociality this well is “Theorizing the Web,” which was co-founded by two scrappy graduate students on no budget, and is going into its fifth year as a pay-what-you-want-to-attend event. Some participants pay nothing, others pay more, and last year it was held in a warehouse in Brooklyn, and it was the coolest event

(via nathanjurgenson)

[wildmedia]

The Demetricator

In response, he built a browser extension called The Facebook Demetricator, which, when installed and activated, hid all numbers on Facebook. Instead of seeing the little red pop-up showing the number of notifications you have, you'd simply see the icon take on a lighter blue color. Instead of seeing the number of likes a post received, you'd see the phrase "people like this."

[wildmedia]

Given that software is Facebook’s primary asset—its deliverable product—we must examine both code and interface to understand the efficacy of this claim. Is Facebook’s interface design solely working to enable social connection, or does it work in other ways? Are the site’s data structures simply holding information in a convenient format, or does the design of those structures create other effects?

[wildmedia]

The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World | WIRED

[brucesterling]

*I don’t know where this came from but it has a distinct Tumblr smell about it

[retrogasm-deactivated20161109]

Metropolis

[todaysdocument]

"Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Books are weapons in the war of ideas", 1941 - 1945

From the series: World War II Posters, 1942 - 1945

[todaysdocument]

Banned Books Week is September 21 - 27, 2014

[brucesterling]