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Academic science is sexist: We do have a problem here(emilywillinghamphd.com)
6 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
“In particular, Facebook has studied how changes in the news feed seen by its users—the constant drip-drip-drip of information shared by friends that is heart of their Facebook experience—can affect their level of interest in politics and t
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Here's How [Facebook] Messed with Your [Voting] Feed in 2012(m.motherjones.com)
2 points by foolrush 12y ago|1 comments
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“SimCity isn’t a sandbox. Its rules reflect the neoliberal common sense”(jacobinmag.com)
5 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
And further... There is no software or algorithm that isn't sociological, political, or otherwise ideological.
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US Chief Technology Officer Thinks Every Child Should Be Able to Code(m.theatlantic.com)
2 points by foolrush 12y ago|2 comments
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8 Things That Happen When Gender Becomes Algorithmic(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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Bluetooth spying beacons uncovered in LA and Chicago(massprivatei.blogspot.com)
3 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
This point illustrates that the discourse is complex and flows into a good number of other equally toxic positions of privilege and hegemonic power. It would be quite interesting to see a breakdown of death, rape, and violent threats based
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by foolrush 12y ago
“She, you, myself, we don't have a freedom to talk without being subjected to death threats.” Except not quite. Serious question: When was the last time you received a rape or death threat for something you posted? Now accept that if y
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by foolrush 12y ago
There is a subtext of “logic and reason will trump context” here, which is distinctly Rationalist in nature. Part of the issue is an unfortunate framing of racisim, misogyny, etc. as being illogical. This misrepresents a structural issue; r
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US firms could make billions from UK via secret tribunals(independent.co.uk)
1 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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The Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software(m.theatlantic.com)
4 points by foolrush 12y ago|1 comments
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William Binney Explains Snowden Docs(alexaobrien.com)
140 points by foolrush 12y ago|18 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
A pleasant side effect of this analogy is that it calls into question the notion of “success”. Framed ideology.
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by foolrush 12y ago
Except not quite. The invisible forces at work here are in the nature of your “choices” and your agency to participate within that value system. Few here may be able to participate in the distribution of wealth within the high end of the lu
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by foolrush 12y ago
Old. Very old.
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by foolrush 12y ago
“Thinking that success must derive exclusively from either society or the individual is sheer absurdity, driven by a need to impose an idealized narrative upon messy reality.” Very astute postmodern summation. The only thing missing in this
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Power from the people: what privatisation has meant for Britain(m.ft.com)
1 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
Rubbish[1]. The idea that Apple is in the market to sell these things, and specifically, to sell more, isn't a leap of neurological fortitude. To suggest that Apple isn't analysing your purchasing to augment sales in some capacity
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by foolrush 12y ago
Applications and software? Songs? Television? Movies? Health? Seems to be a bit disingenuous to suggest that they aren't making any money from your habits and data.
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The Case for a Federal Robotics Comission(brookings.edu)
3 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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Active Authentication(darpa.mil)
3 points by foolrush 12y ago|0 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
Wonderful work. Any chance of a C or C++ implementation?
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by foolrush 12y ago
Which is an awful lot like a 4th dimension. Arguably we are all 4th dimensional travellers, albeit somewhat constrained along one of the axes. Granted, you had me at “This game isn't real life!”
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by foolrush 12y ago
You might find NASA's page on warp drives interesting. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warpstat_p...
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by foolrush 12y ago
But the fourth dimension is timespace, is it not? At least that was what I gathered from Special and General Relativity and the relativity of simultaneity. X^t, Y^t, Z^t?
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Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox(scientificamerican.com)
100 points by foolrush 12y ago|44 comments
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by foolrush 12y ago
If I could give you a thousand upvotes I would. This is exactly part of the seductive nature of “data” in EuroWestern culture. Knowledge as power, but not in the rather trivial sense of education being empowering, but in the crafting of kno
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by foolrush 12y ago
“Yet it persists in these strange classifications that have no basis in any scientific system.” It is likely even woven into scientific systems. This is precisely what Foucalt referenced in his “The Order of Things.”

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