Weshalb kehren Journalist*innen der Branche den Rücken? Bei mir war es das Gefühl, die Gesellschaft mit meiner Arbeit nicht aufgeklärter zu machen, sondern wütender. Was andere sagen hat Republik hier sehr schön zusammen gefasst: republik.ch/2021/04/29/jed…

The trademark merry-go-round of human societies. Kinda worried we're somewhere on the right side...

In 2008, I traveled to the world's largest scientific data-centers for a nature story. No matter whether the labs were devoted to internet archiving, the human genome, or the Higgs boson, they had two things in common: vast server farms, and Randall Munroe. nature.com/news/2008/0809… 1/

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Endlich. Endlich fängt ein Spitzenpolitiker an, die Dinge ehrlicher zu benennen.

Aus der heutigen NZZ, Gespräch mit dem Infektiologen Nicolas Müller vom Unispital Zürich: “Wir haben praktisch keine Geimpften bei uns. Es wäre so einfach.” Let that sink in.

Should platforms such as FB, Google, YouTube be allowed to subject material from "press publications" broadly conceived (including your favorite sources but many others too) to content moderation-as some have, whether from Aftenposten, NY Post, Sky News Australia, or Sputnik? 1/9

“This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system,” washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0…

𝙱𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙻𝙴𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂 - an AI twitter game experiment - Post a prompt that describes your monster fighter in detail (max 1 tweet) - The 2 most-liked monsters battle it out in the GPT3 arena, with AI narrating the fight and deciding who won May the best prompt win ⚔️

❤️‍🔥A new essay I try to answer the questions: what does the DTC brand deluge of the 2010s all amount to? And how do we respond to the designed cultures, connected cults, and digital faiths that are superseding brands today? This is life after lifestyle subpixel.space/entries/life-a…

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Thread. I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.

This is my third post here in all of 2023. Sadly it‘s another one in the quickly growing exodus genre. So find me over there: bsky.app/profile/thomna…

It’s striking how many family members of Israelis who were murdered or kidnapped are asking the government not to use their grief to kill more people. It seems to me that if in the worst days of their lives they can keep their humanity, the rest of us can follow their example.

Die letzten Wochen haben mein Vertrauen in journalistische Standards hart erschüttert. Jeden Tag sehe ich falsche/unbelegte Behauptungen. Von Journis unhinterfragt verbreitet, ohne jedes Gespür für Verantwortung 🧵mit paar Beispielen (Bild: Mein Gesichtsausdruck seit 4 Wochen)

This is a really big deal, under-the-radar. The new Irish media commission has a real, simple, easy to implement plan for stopping addictive and dangerous algorithms: require them to default off. People can opt-in, but start without the addictive algorithm manipulating you.

Normally we don't endorse anyone, but Donald Trump is such a unique danger to the United States of America and the rest of the world. We implore you to show up and VOTE tomorrow

After watching the racism dial turn further and further on this site, I decided to try and publicly make as definitive a case as I could. We're so far past the point of no return that I'm out of excuses for myself. Been a good 15+ year run. Bye! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.