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January 2 · Issue #145 · View online
Articles/posts that for some reason created a spark in my memory.
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Normality—A video by Silvia Susanna
About how we have become “insufficiently shocked” by people who trample on our norms
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Normality, silvia susanna
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Groove is in the Heart:
About Distributed Cooperative Organisations for radical workplace democracy
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Groove is in the Heart: The DisCO Elements
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Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics - Superflux
About revolt against the limits of anthropocentric capitalism
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Think of information as light, not liquid.
A provocation metaphor for information by John V Willshire. What if data is not a flow of liquid, but behaves more like light and particles?
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Information is Light, Not Liquid
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VR Architecture & Tools For Thought
About the creative and philosophical implications of designing spaces in virtual reality, as well as philosophies around tools for thought and software that can completely change the way we think creatively. With the amazing Andreea Ion Cojocaru.
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VR Architecture & Tools For Thought with Andreea Ion Cojocaru | Mind Meld Podcast #28
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Review: ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’ | by Dan Hill | Dark Matter and Trojan Horses | Dec, 2020 | Medium
Ed. The editors of this new collection, Architects After Architecture, kindly asked me to write a short endorsement for the dust jacket. Of course, I wrote a form of quick review instead, from which…
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Not being there: from virtuality to remoteness | ROUGH TYPE
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Social Networking 2.0 – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video - Andreessen Horowitz
Taking cues from gaming, entertainment, and abroad, video-first products are transforming the future of education, shopping, and solopreneurship.
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Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World | CCCB LAB
Climate emergency is forcing us to harness our ability to intervene in planetary processes and direct it at repairing the damage caused to the planet.
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David Byrne: 'Spike Lee and I have a lot in common' | David Byrne | The Guardian
The former Talking Heads frontman on the importance of performance, covering Janelle Monáe, and his hope for the American experiment
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The US has suffered a massive cyberbreach. It's hard to overstate how bad it is | Technology | The Guardian
This is a security failure of enormous proportions – and a wakeup call. The US must rethink its cybersecurity protocols
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S2E3: Hitchhiking on the Information Superhighway // Robbie Stamp
In this episode of ‘Are You A Robot?’, Robbie Stamp joins us to discuss what technological future we want to design for ourselves. This episode is brought to…
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Apple’s Brings a Bazooka to Facebook’s Gun Fight | by M.G. Siegler | Dec, 2020 | Medium
This is just such a killer response from Tim Cook and Apple to Facebook’s attack on the upcoming IDFA changes. Facebook undoubtedly thought they had the winning hand in playing the small business…
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Big Tech Turns Its Lobbyists Loose on Europe, Alarming Regulators - The New York Times
Silicon Valley is building a powerful influence industry in Brussels, which has “never seen this kind of money” spent this way.
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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand | by Tim Maughan | Nov, 2020 | OneZero
Welcome to No One’s Driving — a column by novelist and tech writer Tim Maughan about how to understand a world governed by systems and technologies that are spiraling out of control. One of the…
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Sad by Design
Symposium End to EndLecture PerformanceSad by Designwith We Are Not Sick (John Longwalker & Geert Lovink)
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Sad by Design
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Tick-Tock Talk - 1 - Breaking Smart
Literally, about zeit-geist. Venkatesh Rao explores The Clockless Clock
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The benefits of embracing 'deep time' in a year like 2020 - BBC Future
Taking inspiration from a far-sighted Finnish nuclear waste project, anthropologist Vincent Ialenti explains why embracing Earth’s radical long-term can be good for well-being.
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A Rare Photograph Captures ISS Moving Between Jupiter and Saturn During the Great Conjunction | Colossal
Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture
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A Very Bumpy Ride | Edge.org
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Bad Metaphors Startup “Cults”
Calling tech companies “cults” distracts from the social and economic conditions that empower them
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Why Chinese youngsters are embracing a culture of “slacking-off” — Quartz
A widening wealth gap is prompting some to reject social norms around work and productivity.
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Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ - The New York Times
The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when they get there.
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How a Software Map of the Entire Planet Could Change the World Forever
3D digital maps will become living breathing, real-time representations of the world. Some refer to this idea as a “digital twin” of the planet.
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Bloom
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The Big Ideas Fintech Will Tackle in 2021 - Andreessen Horowitz
Democratizing investing, embracing social+, embedding insurance, revamping distribution, empowering community, and disintermediating the banking system.
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SEC.gov | SEC Charges Ripple and Two Executives with Conducting $1.3 Billion Unregistered Securities Offering
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Are 'social tokens' the next big thing?
Creators and influencers have a new way to monetize their efforts and reward their loyal followers.
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The Future of Paying Each Other on the Web | by Amber Case | Oct, 2020 | Medium
It is populated by struggling creators, relentless advertisements, and dominated by large chains and fast-food services. There isn’t much room for mid-sized businesses, and customers and workers…
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Future of MicroPayments Conference
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Fireside Chat: Money at Human Scale: Douglas Rushkoff and Amber Case | Future of Micropayments 2020
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Building a Global Payments Powerhouse — Kamran Zaki, COO of Adyen | by Miguel Armaza | Wharton FinTech | Nov, 2020 | Medium
In this episode, I sit down with Kamran Zaki, COO of Adyen (AMS:ADYEN), a Dutch payments company that allows businesses to accept and receive payments across multiple channels and platforms. Publicly…
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Companies are now writing reports tailored for AI readers – and it should worry us | Big data | The Guardian
A recent study suggests lengthy, complex corporate filings are increasingly read by, and written for, machines
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My True Love Gave to Me… – BLDGBLOG
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Robocars 2020 year in review (Video and Story) | Brad Ideas
It was a much bigger year for Robocars than anybody expected. At the start of the year everybody felt we were in a “robocar winter” with things slowing down and pulling back. Instead, the year showed big milestones and huge valuations. This year, in addition to my traditional text review, I have done it as a video for those who prefer that. The video can be seen below on
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»Brewing Symbiotic Care: Feeding and Nurturing a Fungi Cyborg Feminist Future« Marie-Eve Levasseur
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Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics for Nearly $1 Billion. Now What?
Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics for Nearly $1 Billion. Now What?
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DeepMind solves protein folding | AlphaFold 2
A quick video on the basics of DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 breakthrough. Please support this channel by checking out our sponsors:- Vincero: https://vincerowatche…
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Chinese Robotaxi Firm AutoX Starts Operation In Shenzen With No Human Driver
The Chinese startup is one of the first to take the leap to trusting its vehicles to roam the streets and take (special) passengers around with no safety driver to intervene in case of a problem.
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Shimon Raps
Shimon can now listen to a rapper, understand what they are saying and respond.
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Shimon Raps
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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here | by Dave Gershgorn | Dec, 2020 | OneZero
OneZero’s General Intelligence is a roundup of the most important artificial intelligence and facial recognition news of the week. The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside…
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Ove Arup Key Speech - Arup
In 1970 Arup’s founder – Ove Arup – made a speech articulating his vision for the firm and principles for its operation. They guide Arup today.
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STAR TREK: ACID PARTY
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STAR TREK: ACID PARTY
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Lucia Bru, 'Twenty-first Floor' - Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
Belgian artist Lucia Bru guides you through her exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong. She shares her inspiration coming from the landscape in Hong …
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Lucia Bru, 'Twenty-first Floor' - Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
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Choreolab online première
In de succesvolle reeks Choreolab krijgen onze dansers de kans om de choreograaf in zichzelf te ontdekken. Ze stellen je negen gloednieuwe choreografieën voo…
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The model challenge: how to capture art in 3D for augmented and virtual reality | The Art Newspaper
As the art world rushes to digitise we look at the different ways to create digital renderings of works
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Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow
When a fashion show becomes a video game…
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Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow
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Disrupt & Reflect
Fantastic collection of artistic interventions interrogating the click-click-click nature of the internet and its distractions
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See the Renovation Project of the Iconic Modernist Theater in Veliky Novgorod — Strelka Mag
Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
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Book Design as Architecture: An interview with Larissa Kasper, Rosario Florio & Samuel Bänziger — Strelka Mag
Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
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Toyah & Roberts Sunday Lunch - Anarchy in the UK
Anarchy in the uk with a festive twist, for Robert & Toyah’s Sunday Lockdown Lunch this coming weekend. Premieres 12 noon on Sunday 13th December 2020.Order …
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Toyah & Roberts Sunday Lunch - Anarchy in the UK
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Sónar+D CCCB 202 Music: Ubaldo
With an aesthetic reminiscent of the outer reaches of folktronica, or the free jazz output of Smalltown Supersound, Ubaldo weaves a warm tapestry of sound to…
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Matmos - "No Concept" (official music video)
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Matmos - "No Concept" (official music video)
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Ligeti - Artikulation
In the 70’s, Rainer Wehinger created a visual listening score to accompany Gyorgy Ligeti’s Artikulation. I scanned the pages and synchronized them with the m…
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Tesla’s new Boombox feature will let car owners fart at unsuspecting neighbors - The Verge
Tesla’s new holiday update is here, and with it a new Boombox ability that lets people use farting sounds as their car’s horn instead of boring old honks. The update, which is part of firmware 202.48.26, is one that Tesla fans have ben anticipating.
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🎄 FIRST LOOK! Tesla Software 2020.48.26 aka: "Holiday update"
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KFC launches game console with built-in chicken warmer - BBC News
Fast food chain says people thought the built-in warmer was a spoof but is ready for production.
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Grid | Frame Studio - Every Classic Deserves To Be Framed – gridstudio.cc
In this digital technology era today, some digital products will be brought back your memories. We select the precious collection of marvellous article, unfold and restore in a collage frame, turn them into a tale of smart phone generation with value of art, the best choice for your collection permanently.
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Geomedia, or What Lies Below – BLDGBLOG
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