ruff linkage 2018145 min read

[weekly linkdump, somewhat edited from my diigo]

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The demise of the nation state – “After decades of globalisation, our political system has become obsolete – and spasms of resurgent nationalism are a sign of its irreversible decline.” Death to the nation state. One world. It’s time.

Anti-Fascist Practice and Impossible Non-Violence – “Antifa do not bring violence; the violence was there in the DNA of fascism and our world through which it permeates. Our violence is counter-violence in history’s unbroken dialectic of violence and counter-violence. Why not end the cycle? I repeat here the words of late philosopher Bernard Williams, who noted that “to say peace when there is no peace is to say nothing.” The question then is not one of necessary violence, but impossible non-violence.” Interesting way of arguing this point, that won’t allow people to project fascism solely onto others and frames it more like an ongoing process.

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Large crane falls on its side at construction site for new St. Pete police headquarters – Crane almost kills a man at the future police headquarters.

Toto – Africa ( Chicken cover ) – “we can be a friend” I sure hope so.

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With a slight Peterson-voice overload, but very funny.

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The Facebook Scandal – or how to predict psychological traits from Facebook likes. – “Firstly, we learned that it is hard to predict our personality traits well from JUST Facebook likes. Secondly, we should not forget that even knowing a person’s personality very well, might not transfer into highly effective political campaigns that would be able to swing a users vote.” A very thorough technological analysis.

Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant’s Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago – “These reports reaffirm that fossil fuel companies have been—and always will be—bad actors,” said 350.org’s executive director” These guys need to be punished. Severely.

FontCodeResearch from Columbia Computer Graphics” – We introduce FontCode, an information embedding technique for text documents. Provided a text document with specific fonts, our method embeds user-specified information in the text by perturbing the glyphs of text characters while preserving the text content.” Secret code geeks rejoice.

“Let’s make it violence”: Listen to The Atlantic’s Kevin Williamson explain why women who have abortions should be hanged – “The Atlantic sparked anger by hiring columnist Kevin Williamson, who likened a black child to a primate and wrote that women who have abortions should be hanged.” Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic since.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Is Beefing With the Guy Who Claimed to Be Satoshi Nakamoto – “Buterin called Craig Wright a “fraud” at the 2018 Deconomy conference, and Wright shot back.” Wrestle metaphor is weak, but the beef is funny.

Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him – “Maryland gov. settled free speech lawsuit—Trump is still fighting a similar suit.” More of this, please.

Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google data has on you – “The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look” Shit ton of dataz.

Too Many Atheists Are Veering Dangerously Toward the Alt-Right – “And atheists can’t afford to be quiet about it.” Crucial, this is unacceptable.

Roseanne Barr is tweeting about QAnon, a new Pizzagate-style conspiracy theory – “QAnon believers are convinced that the world is run by a nefarious deep state cabal of Democrats, celebrities, and intelligence community figures (many of whom, they claim, are pedophiles).”

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The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism – “What depletes us is not just long hours but the tendencies of shame, anxiety, mistrust, competition, and perfectionism. It is the way in which these tendencies stifle the capacity for collective creativity and change.”

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«Predictive Policing» – Polizei-Software verdächtigt zwei von drei Personen falsch – “Schweizer Polizeikorps setzen einen Algorithmus ein, der die Gefährlichkeit von Einzelpersonen stark überschätzt.” Predictive policing needs to be based on open source, peer-reviewed software if it wants to minimise this type of failure rate.

Wieso es die Antifa braucht – “Wenn Neonazis die Strasse unsicher machen, stellt sich ihnen oft nur die Antifa entgegen. Ein Schlaglicht auf eine vielfältige Bewegung, die zu Unrecht verrufen ist.” So was von.

Löwen sind keine Kapitalisten | Volker Pispers – Roaarrr.

Facebook-Hetze wegen Werbeplakat – Ein ganz normales Paar – “Mit seiner Freundin posierte Philipp Awounou für ein Werbefoto – und fand sich plötzlich in einem rechten Shitstorm wieder. Wie kann ein Plakat so viel Hass auslösen? Eine sehr persönliche Spurensuche.”

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