Indi Samarajiva: This is the point. You have taken an orderly system balancing a whole lot of chaos and fucked with it. I don’t know how it’s going to explode, but I can promise you this. It’s going to explode. This is precisely why we have elections, and why both sides accept the results. To […]

FiveThirtyEight: Even if a vaccine has trained your immune cells to kick the butt of any SARS-CoV-2 viruses they spot, they might not be able to neutralize the ones resting in your nose, on the other side of your mucous barriers. Those COVID-19 viruses wouldn’t hurt you, but they still might be able to replicate […]

David op Raptitude: Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. Vier-vijfde werken is de beste beslissing die ik ooit nam. Een beslissing in eerste instantie om meer […]

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Bonnie Kristian op The Week: I do not think my older family members understand the extent to which the content they encounter is tailored by algorithms to set their lizard brains on fire. Like the majority of their peers, as a 2019 survey showed, they probably don’t understand an algorithm is involved at all. They […]

Jeremy Keith: The greatest trick the ad tech industry has pulled is convincing the world that contextual relevance is somehow less effective than some secret algorithm fed with all our data that’s supposed to be able to practically read our minds and know us better than we know ourselves. En een quote voor alle krantenwebsites […]

Ashley Willans van Harvard Business School in een kort interview in de Campaigns & Elections Creative nieuwsbrief: One of the types of time that goes missing in the work-from-home environment is the casual conversation. These spontaneous mechanisms are what drives innovation. Hier heb ik de laatste weken echt serieus last van. Zowel op ’t werk, […]

Alexander Klöpping: Every morning, I wake up to a fresh edition of the Times on my wall. Prijzig, maar zalig idee.

Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic: Many voters were buffered from the financial repercussions of joblessness, unequal in terms of their experience of the downturn, and polarized in terms of their understanding of who was responsible for it and how bad things were. That helped Trump in 2020. Just not enough. Interessant perspectief. Hoe staten die […]

University of Cambridge: The perceived reliability of misinformation dropped an average of 16% in those who completed Harmony Square compared to their assessment prior to playing. The game also reduced willingness to share fake news with others by 11%. Importantly, the players’ own politics – whether they leaned left or right – made no difference.  Goed initiatief!