Call me Nuannuan
Ah, falling in love is like medical plaster
The 'market Stalinist' funding system and the parlous state of the college finances means that the college literally cannot afford to exclude students, even if it wanted to. The lack of an effective disciplinary system has not, to say the least, been compensated for by an increase in student self-motivation. Students are aware that if they don't show up for weeks on end, and/ or if they don't produce any work, they will not face any meaningful sanction. They typically respond to this freedom not by pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic (or anhedonic) lassitude: the soft narcosis, the simstim eternity, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana. Capital's interpassive nihilism. - Reflexive Impotence
Police only make an arrest — or “clear” a case, in justice jargon — in about 60 percent of all homicides.
Unlike regular virtual assistants, Xiaoice is designed to set her users’ hearts aflutter. Appearing as an 18-year-old who likes to wear Japanese-style school uniforms, she flirts, jokes, and even sexts with her human partners, as her algorithm tries to work out how to become their perfect companion.When users send her a picture of a cat, Xiaoice won’t identify the breed, but comment: “No one can resist their innocent eyes.” If she sees a photo of a tourist pretending to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, she’ll ask: “Do you want me to hold it for you?” - AI GF
The geography of American business is changing. A year ago, it was obvious that San Francisco and New York were the center of the tech and finance universes, respectively. Today, the boundaries are blurring. “Mega-cities” are unbundling into more specialized pockets across the country with lower cost of living and greater quality of life. As Peter Yared depicts above, tech is redistributing toward Austin, both tech and finance to Miami, and even LA’s deeply-rooted music industry is splitting in the direction of Nashville. - Yared.com
Just five families on the Sunday Times Rich List hold or control 29% of the UK’s fishing quota. - Unearthed
"We all get the privilege of seeing the future because we are making it,” - Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer
Right this seconde we have the privilege of seeing a different kind of human emerge. And they, we, are redistributing ourselves and our power around the world.
Itinerent market Stalinism has exiled the 20th Century man and, from this void acts appear blowing dimensional holes through cognitive points we used to be able to map to.
Do not count us out yet.
Counting exceeds what you are doing with it anyhow, spilling onto us. And we swallow.
