12 Posts in “Society”
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How do we know we are in a bubble? Wait until it Pops
I follow economics and the stock market in the periphery. It does not affect me directly, but it certainly affects me indirectly, so I pay as much attention as I think it deserves, which ebbs and flows with the highs...
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Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Wow. Love this article so much. Long read, but full of humor and biting observation. To position yourself as the arbiter of a reality that is right in front of you, and to reject that reality simply because you don’t...
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Managing my Political and our Collective Depression
Such a good article that captures much of what I have been feeling. Political depression was a term I’d stumbled towards in trying to name the mixture of sorrow, distress, numbness, and nihilism that I was seeing again and again...
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Self Censorship is Empathy, and that’s Not a Bad Thing
While the example this author uses is a weak one, in my opinion — I think the co-worker needed to hear that her husband has a problem, and needs support to help work through that — I do think he has...
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The AI discourse, or lack of
Why is there not a middle-ground when it comes to AI? Ai is either the worst thing in the world — burning our planet, making us all dumber, and sucking up all the venture cap money ever created (all true to...
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Zero Trust Internet
AI-generated content has gotten too good, and it happened faster than society can keep up with. A lack of media literacy which perpetuates misinformation is already a massive problem. It’s only going to get worse. Images and videos and audio...
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Personalization might be the Biggest Problem
A recent article in my feed communicated something that I have been thinking pretty well, so I reproduce it here: …modern maps put everyone at the centre of the world. […] countries put themselves at the centre of world maps....
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The End of Programming as We Know It
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly media, is someone to listen to. He popularized the term “open source” and ”Web 2.0” and has been in the industry for over 40 years. His observations about the changing landscape of programming and the...
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The Internet, what sustains it, and Future-thinking
Been thinking about the future of the web quite a bit lately. I am not a futurist, so it is difficult to see what is happening now and then project that into the future. While I can be an optimist...
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HBR Press Live: The Age of Outrage
Kartick studies the art and the science of building trust. Taught a course called “How to Lead in a Polarized World.” Five part framework: Turn down the temperature Wait for aggression to subside or actively change your environment to calm...
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The cultural power of the anti-woke tech bro: The aesthetic of Cybertrucks, energy drinks, and MMA, explained
The “Manosphere” …the parts of the internet where men complain about their lack of access to women and sex and blame society’s present ills on feminism. […] they tend to frame their position as “anti-woke,” or a counterpoint to what...
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What Marc Maron Taught Me
I’ve been listening to Marc Maron’s podcast WTF for a few years now, off and on. Not every episode, because the guy interviews people all the time. Just the people that interest me. He’s a great interviewer and always gets...