As seen today in Berlin:
"Fools hurry. The intelligent wait. The wise go into the garden." - Tagore
U.S. networks are largely Huawei-free, and so the industry report also concluded that a prohibition on Chinese network kit would disadvantage Europe: "The need to replace network equipment and the capacity constraints on the remaining mobile equipment vendors would disrupt current rollout plans. Such a delay would widen the gap in 5G penetration between the EU and the U.S. by more than 15 percentage points by 2025."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/10/huawei-europe-faces-60-billion-hit-just-as-u-s-hints-its-all-about-trade-talks/ #Technology #Military
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Weapon Systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.03899.pdf
"Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine": https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html #OpenSource #Regenerative
Open Source instructions for “Agri-Stick” - a appliance for measuring four agronomic parameters incl. soil temperature & moisture, atmospheric temperature & humidity: https://www.instructables.com/id/Agri-Stick/ #OpenSource #Regenerative #Biomaker
"The “open source soundscapes” methodology addresses this gap of knowledge and, by arguing that quietness is a commons, it places people at the heart of the quiet areas evaluation and planning process": https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/noise.2017.4.issue-1/noise-2017-0008/noise-2017-0008.xml #Urban #Design #P2P
"A Review of User Interface Design for Interactive Machine Learning":
Chi Time interviews: Ken Cohen 2 History of Qigong. #Mindful
Five-Animal Frolics: https://archive.shine.cn/sunday/now-and-then/FiveAnimal-Frolics/shdaily.shtml
The Trauma of Technology - talk by Thomas Hübl
"How system thinking is killing your creativity" - by @bonnittaroy: medium.com/open-participa… or in other words: "The only good system is the sound system."
https://medium.com/open-participatory-organized/how-system-thinking-is-killing-your-creativity-2b127aee0b11
going forward, my standard answer to 95% of questions:
i have no clue or strong believes - you seem to have both, so you tell me.
Commons-Based Renewable Energy in the Age of Climate Collapse - by David Hammerstein:
http://www.davidhammerstein.com/2019/05/by-david-hammerstein-the-main-lesson-to-be-learned-from-the-collapses-of-past-societies-is-that-a-society-s-steep-decline-may-begin
"There is a surprising over-confidence that the same centralized energy model that got us into this mess is also going to get us out of it."
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” – Marshall McLuhan
The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech/591052/ #Technology #Politics
"Second, the mythology of tech as the carrier of progress has imploded, just as it did for the robber barons of the late 19th century, ushering in the trust-busting era. "
"At a broad ideological level, two things have happened. First, the idea of cyberspace, a transnational, individualistic, largely unregulated, and free place that was not exactly located in any governmental domain, has completely collapsed."
"the findings constitute the first time that a mechanism transmitting neuronal responses across generations has been identified." https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/Israeli-study-Nervous-system-can-transmit-messages-to-future-generations-591795 I'm very sceptical of these findings. Culture is it. Plus, this will be militarised in 10 seconds.
#NeuroScience #Evolution
Blender is Free Software: https://code.blender.org/2019/06/blender-is-free-software/
A love letter to #OpenSource. Thank you @tonroosendaal !
Peer Reviewed Article: Rapid Gene Expression Changes in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes upon Practice of a Comprehensive Yoga Program: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0061910 #Mindful #Health
"These data suggest that yoga and related practices result in rapid gene expression alterations which may be the basis for their longer term cell biological and higher level health effects."
RIP Dr.John! Enormous respect and gratitude to this giant of music & spirit. He provided the soundtrack for many beautiful moments in my life. You will be missed John, see you on the other side! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-drjohn-idUSKCN1T72Z0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John #Music