Net déck, Lëtzebuerg...

"Data literacy refers to the ability to articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and content, TO JUDGE THE RELEVANCE OF THE SOURCE AND ITS CONTENT, and to store, manage and organize digital data, information and content.

In American Kompromat, @craigunger.bsky.social sheds light on the secretive catholic connection that supported Trump’s & Vance’s political careers.
Interesting to see how Pope Leo XIV will affect this game, given that 3 out of his 5 tweets were anti-Trump/Vance.
Watching this with delight. 😄

In a nutshell:

We are universal problem solvers.
All problems can be solved.
There will always be problems.
If we stop solving problems, we are doomed.

#mostimportantbooks

“Growth of knowledge is a continual transition from problems to better problems.”
- David Deutsch

Going on a literary road trip with @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social.
#freedom

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

#signalgate is merely one artefact on the way to autocracy

"The big joke on democracy,"
Goebbels observed in 1926, "is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction."

Our democratic systems need to be upgraded to a more resilient, sustainable version for the age of AI-enabled disinformation.

First step: all read this!! Important book!

I guess I’ll be starting 2025 as “an emergent, quasi-autonomous flow of information in the multiverse”, as David Deutsch puts it. 🍾 Feels great! 😊
I haven’t earmarked books in a while, but this one contains gems of concentrated wisdom that just blew my mind.