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dance lessons for tainted love
laughingsquid: A Hilariously Descriptive Step-by-Step Tutorial Showing How to Dance to the 1980s SoftCell Song ‘Tainted Love’
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surveillance capitalism
azspot: Surveillance Capitalism
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I’ve learned my forms of procrastination are subtle pushes into productivity. Checking RSS feeds to spark ideas for writing, jumping between Android and iOS projects or updating an experiment. Anyone else procrastinate like this?
I’ve learned my forms of procrastination are subtle pushes into productivity. Checking RSS feeds to spark ideas for writing, jumping between Android and iOS projects or updating an experiment. Anyone else procrastinate like this? creativesomething: I’ve learned my forms of procrastination are subtle pushes into productivity. Checking RSS feeds to spark ideas for writing, jumping…
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i see what you did there
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How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness
How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness wildcat2030: Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. Consciousness, I argue in a new paper, may be caused…
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Better Living Through Non-Zero Sum Games
jkottke: One of the very few books I think about all the time is Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Paras Chopra tweeted out a good summary of the book a couple of weeks ago. The basic premise of the book is that history has a direction which favors co-operation and non-zero sum…
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quipu
protoslacker: “In a century of study, no one has managed to make these knots talk. But recent breakthroughs have begun to unpick this tangled mystery of the Andes, revealing the first signs of phonetic symbolism within the strands. Now two anthropologists are closing in on the Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone. That could finally…
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Call for Proposals – ESJP 14 | Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
Call for Proposals – ESJP 14 | Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace this aspiration to social justice among engineers gives me hope. The call for proposals is worthy of your time
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Common sense: the Chomsky/Piaget debates come to AI
mostlysignssomeportents: In 1975, Noam Chomsky and Jean Paiget held a historic debate about the nature of human cognition; Chomsky held that babies are born with a bunch of in-built rules and instincts that help them build up the knowledge that they need to navigate the world; Piaget argued that babies are effectively blank slates that…