Return rate of Chinese students studying abroad: https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2157081/how-chinese-students-who-return-home-after-studying
1987: 5%
2007: 30%
2017: 79%
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"How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds - Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens": https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-smartphones-hijack-our-minds-1507307811
‘As the phone’s proximity increased, brainpower decreased.’
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"The future belongs to the people who can see "now" from a long-term perspective" - Gregory McKeown
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Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare:
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/future-of-information-warfare/ #SE
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Interesting Person: Chögyam Trungpa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_TrungpaSuzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and another important exponent of Buddhism to western students, described Trungpa in the context of a talk about emptiness:
The way you can struggle with this is to be supported by something, something you don't know. As we are human beings, there must be that kind of feeling. You must feel it in this city or building or community. So whatever community it may be, it is necessary for it to have this kind of spiritual support.
That is why I respect Trungpa Rinpoche. He is supporting us. You may criticize him because he drinks alcohol like I drink water, but that is a minor problem. He trusts you completely. He knows that if he is always supporting you in a true sense you will not criticize him, whatever he does. And he doesn't mind whatever you say. That is not the point, you know. This kind of big spirit, without clinging to some special religion or form of practice, is necessary for human beings."When we talk about compassion, we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative to wake a person up." - Chögyam Trungpa
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The nature of knowledge is fractal: The closer you get, the more you'll find.
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The "Fake News" development hints at a deeper conundrum: "What is your truth?".
The hardest part of speaking truthfully is knowing your truth. It changes from moment to moment & is intricately linked with your current state of being: health, relations, priorities etc. -
Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (1997):
Saafi Brothers Dj Set January 2014
Saafi Brothers – Midnight's Children
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The amount of innovation in e-commerce is staggering: Shopping is now fun, personal, on-demand & frictionless.
This is rapidly expanding consumerism globally, which in turn is accelerating climate change. How can we re-direct this innovation towards better outcomes?
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Pybossa: "crowdsourcing framework to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone": https://github.com/Scifabric/pybossa - https://pybossa.com/:
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"China Is Launching Weather-Control Machines Across An Area The Size Of Alaska":
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/05/10/china-is-launching-a-massive-weather-control-machine-the-size-of-alaska/ #ClimateChange -
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2017
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Interview with Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters
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"Talking Face Generation by Adversarially Disentangled Audio-Visual Representation": https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07860v1 https://liuziwei7.github.io/projects/TalkingFace
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Generative Storytelling: "We require a fractalline narrative that works at multiple levels of interests and concerns".
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Formalizing user rights on the Web - talk by Paul Frazee at JSConf EU 2018
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Livny's Law: "It depends"
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Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/ice-lake-suwa-japan-torne-river-climate-change-monk-shinto/ #ClimateChange
