The Happy Spinster
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February 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole.

Essential reading.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco
I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...
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February 4, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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‘I come across writing that is superficially slick and grammatically watertight, but has a weird, glassy absence behind it. There’s not much that can be done about the suspicions that such sentences provoke.’

On the blog: how to handle students co-writing with AI?
Mark Papers | Closed Loops
I had the feeling, sitting down to my marking after the Christmas break, that I was an unwilling participant in a...
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February 12, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Dem Magazin des Haymon-Verlages habe ich ein Interview zu unser aller Lieblingsthema gegeben: "Cancel Culture".

Es geht um Triggerpunkte, Machtvergessenheit und darum, dass uns der Begriff nicht klüger, sondern dümmer macht.

www.haymonverlag.at/magazin/inte...
Macht canceln Kultur? – Interview mit Kulturjournalist Johannes Franzen - Haymon Verlag
Interview mit Anti-Work-Ikone Bianca Jankovska
www.haymonverlag.at
February 9, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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How do people use social media if they overestimate their knowledge about science issues like COVID-19? 🦠
Our new study shows: In Germany and Taiwan, overestimation is not linked to social media exposure, but to more engagement – and to populist views of science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 13, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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Laion möchte einen KI-Audio-Assistenten auf den Markt bringen, der natürlicher und empathischer klingt – wie ein echter Freund.
Bud-E: Laion arbeitet an Audio-KI mit Empathie
Laion möchte einen KI-Audio-Assistenten auf den Markt bringen, der natürlicher und empathischer klingt – wie ein echter Freund.
www.heise.de
February 13, 2024 at 1:18 PM