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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from…
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from…
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When bots take over jobs, they will force a restructuring of the workplace. However, there will still be things that bots can’t do. That’s what turking is for. Turking services use human beings to do the portions of a job bots can’t do. This isn’t going to be the creative and meaningful work people hope…
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When bots take over jobs, they will force a restructuring of the workplace. However, there will still be things that bots can’t do. That’s what turking is for. Turking services use human beings to do the portions of a job bots can’t do. This isn’t going to be the creative and meaningful work people hope…
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W3C’s DRM for HTML5 sets the stage for jailing programmers, gets nothing in return [2013]
mostlysignssomeportents: An excellent editorial by Simon St. Laurent on O’Reilly Programming asks what the open Web has gained from the World Wide Web Consortium’s terrible decision to add DRM to Web-standards. As St Laurent points out, the decision means that programmers are now under threat of fines or imprisonment for making and improving Web-browsers in…
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Brain-computer interface gives lock-in sufferers a way to communicate
mostlysignssomeportents: “Noninvasive brain-computer interface enables communication after brainstem stroke” (Science Translational Medicine) reports on the successful use of a brain-computer interface to allow an individual with “lock in syndrome” (conscious and aware, but unable to move any part of his body) to spell words and carry on dialogue with his family. Read the rest…
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Brain-computer interface gives lock-in sufferers a way to communicate
mostlysignssomeportents: “Noninvasive brain-computer interface enables communication after brainstem stroke” (Science Translational Medicine) reports on the successful use of a brain-computer interface to allow an individual with “lock in syndrome” (conscious and aware, but unable to move any part of his body) to spell words and carry on dialogue with his family. Read the rest…