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“That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” - Walter Benjamin
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SMIC listing seeks billions to fund chip autonomy push
China aims to have domestically made chips satisfy 70% of its demand under the "Made in China 2025" initiative, designed to promote its high-tech industries. Chinese chipmakers have received $20.5 billion so far this year, with state-backed funds helping to boost domestic output. China is set for its biggest stock sale in a decade when homegrown chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) debuts on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style STAR Market at the end of this month.
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Shown is how the global material footprint (MF, equal to global raw material extraction) and global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and industrial processes (CO2 FFI) changed compared with global GDP (constant 2010 USD). A group of researchers, led by a UNSW sustainability scientist, have reviewed existing academic discussions on the link between wealth, economy and associated impacts, reaching a clear conclusion: technology will only get us so far when working towards sustainability – we need far-reaching lifestyle changes and different economic paradigms. During the past 40 years, worldwide wealth growth has continuously outpaced any efficiency gains. “Technology can help us to consume more efficiently, i.e. to save energy and resources, but these technological improvements cannot keep pace with our ever-increasing levels of consumption,” Prof Wiedmann says.
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Mark Zuckerberg reads "Industrial Society and Its Future" (Speech Synthesis)
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Stanford research provides a snapshot of a new working-from-home economy
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom discusses the societal impacts of a new “working-from-home economy” and the challenges posed by the massive transition to widespread remote work. "We see an incredible 42 percent of the U.S. labor force now working from home full-time."
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"Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin E. Conway
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Secret History of Silicon Valley
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Is Modern Media Destroying Our Memories?
It seems as though the more we embrace external technologies, the more our memory faculties deteriorate. But the truth might just be scarier.
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Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
Critics of the project warn about inconsistencies in the underlying concept, including that U.S. tech giants Amazon or Google were among some 300 companies and organizations involved in setting up Gaia-X.
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Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate
Minnesota protests are continuing to escalate and inspire similar demonstrations around the country in the wake of police killing an unarmed Minneapolis man this week named George Floyd. Minnesota officials say they’re using contact tracing to better understand who the protestors are and where they’re coming from. Contact tracing has previously been used as part of a comprehensive coronavirus response.
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The Diet enacted a bill Wednesday to create "super cities" where artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies are utilized to resolve social problems. The bill revising the national strategic special zone law. The revision stipulates procedures to speed up the changing of regulations in various fields to facilitate the creating of such smart cities. The government hopes to utilize cutting-edge technologies to address issues such as depopulation and the aging of society.
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How this AI-powered auto-completer is helping developers write 25% less code
The Israel-based startup was found in 2015 by Dror Weiss and Eran Yahav. Codota’s free-to-use autocomplete plug-in supports major languages such as Java, Python, Javascript, PHP, and Rust across major IDEs such as Eclipse and Android Studio. Yahav told me that Codota differs from other code completion AIs as it’s able to predict the next token completion by leaning on an AI-based code ‘dictionary.’
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NY Governor Cuomo questions why school buildings still exist — and says New York will work with Bill Gates to ‘reimagine education’ (washingtonpost)
#Comment: Corporatism & stupidity rule in failed states. Great for comedy, horrible for kids.
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systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
"Despite the age of the homesteading hobbyist making a substantial difference long being over, the image still persists. The communitarian ethos of free software can never be fully wiped from the DNA of GNU/Linux, but it can be increasingly relegated to an irrelevant curiosity. The likes of Richard Stallman, GNU and the FSF are seen more and more as an embarrassment to be overcome in favor of a more “professional” and “inclusive” scene, which will in all likelihood mean professionally showing the user their place as a data entry within the panopticon, not a free and independent yeoman as the admittedly utopian pipe dream envisioned."
"The professionals are doomed in all their vainglory to be perpetually embarking on the Sisyphean task of a unified and integrated Linux ecosystem, even if it means turning the kernel into a runtime for the BPF virtual machine, or making a Rube Goldberg machine of build and deployment pipelines, as appears to be the most recent trend. The hobbyists are doomed to shout in the void with no one to hear them. In this tragedy the only victor is chaos and discord itself, which disguises itself as “progress.” All that is guaranteed is permanent revolution through constant reinvention, where by revolution we mean running around in circles. The suits and ties have forgotten what it was to be Yippies, and for their part the Yippies are fools who are had by ideas, rather than having ideas."
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