Many say "Green New Deal", but what do they really mean? Given the track-record of leading players, one gets the impression it mainly means the complete privatisation / financialization of nature (via "ecosystem services") to further consolidate power in the hands of the very few.
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RIP Ralph Metzner (1936 - 2019):
https://erowid.org/culture/characters/metzner_ralph/metzner_ralph.shtml #Psychedelic -
"Hedge funds are watching a key lawsuit involving LinkedIn to see if they can spend billions on web-scraped data": https://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-funds-watching-linkedin-lawsuit-on-web-scraped-data-2019-3?IR=T https://outline.com/A3ZXps #Technology
‘We’re experiencing the Industrial Age of Data Aggregation’: MX’s Brandon Dewitt on the future of banking data: https://tearsheet.co/data/were-experiencing-the-industrial-age-of-data-aggregation-mxs-brandon-dewitt-on-the-future-of-banking-data/
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Harnessing Organizational Knowledge for Machine Learning: #ML #Augmentation
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/harnessing-organizational-knowledge-for.html
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"The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same": https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-hipster-effect-why-anti-conformists-always-end-up-looking-the-same/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001 "Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity" #Complexity
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https://algorules.org/ - "Rules for the Design of Algorithmic Systems" #ML #Politics
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Ÿnsect is "a young French company that leads the global field in farming insects":
http://www.ynsect.com/en/ - Entocycle is a "young UK company, active in the field of farming insects": https://www.entocycle.com - #FFHCI #ClimateChange -
This quote assumes that "something that matters" is clearly defined & general. It isn't. Creating & finding meaning is amongst the most challenging things humans do. #Ideas
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"WellSaid Labs creates life-like synthetic voices for next generation experiences, products and content": #ML #Generative
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Sogyal Rinpoche, on the issue of Death. #Mindful
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"Vatican, Microsoft team up on artificial intelligence ethics": https://apnews.com/80a110ab07834c9cbc4a825695a3a7fd #ML #Magic #Politics
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"Douglas Engelbart's Symposium - The unifying vision" - talk by @TheTedNelson:
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"Chinese state media’s latest innovation is an AI female news anchor": https://qz.com/1554471/chinas-xinhua-launches-worlds-first-ai-female-news-anchor/
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China’s virtual idols meet their fans at the intersection of entertainment and technology:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2188238/chinas-virtual-idols-meet-their-fans-intersection-entertainment-and-technology #Technology #Generative“A team of about 200 people from China and Japan worked for six months to prepare for the two-hour performance. China’s virtual idol industry, valued at less than 100 million yuan last year, is expected to grow to 1.5 billion yuan by 2023"
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Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/02/26/1807504116.abstract #HealthInstead of all this mindless talk of introducing computers into young children's lives (lots of scientific studies show its a horrible idea) - here is evidence that exposing them to nature has great effects. From an evolutionary perspective, this seems rather obvious.
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https://realtimeboard.com - "Teamwork makes the dream work" #KM
