SpaceXponential
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SpaceXponential
How many illegible others, human and nonhuman, have perished because we did not attend to them properly? I think of the terrifying rates of species extinction, as well as the disproportionate death rates of queer, racialized, and otherwise marginalized bodies. How many have not perished, but are reduced in some way, smaller versions of the beings... See more
Jasmine Wang π± β’ Attending to the Other
TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology
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Again, as I noted above, Facebook made the 2013 decision to increase the value of newsworthy links for a reason, and in the time since, BuzzFeed in particular has proven that there is a consistent and repeatable way to not only reach a large number of people but to compel them to share content as well. Was Krugman wrong because he didnβt appreciate... See more
Stratechery β’ Mistakes and Memes
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.
NOEMA β’ All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
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The metaphor of risk management uses financial incentives to empower our nobler epistemic instincts.
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