Edition-147 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the absence of a free will, the self, and much more that is not real (by Dave Pollard). Made me think. http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2019/04/28/nothing-on-offer-here/
• About Stephen Wolfram’s recent talk about computational intelligence and computational contracts. Fascinating. https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/a-world-run-with-code/
• About AI hacking humanity, and the promise and perils of the transformative technology. Interview with Yuval Noah Harari, and Fei-Fei Li: https://www.wired.com/story/will-artificial-intelligence-enhance-hack-humanity/
• About the tyranny of convenience in the seemingly dystopian world technology companies are building: https://onezero.medium.com/the-tyranny-of-convenience-2e7fa145ab4
• About everything becoming waste: former nations, extinct species, dead languages, discontinued software (video documentary): https://www.nowness.com/story/post-hoc-adam-luxton

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Edition-146 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About project HOME, a school for culturemakers, and some of the origins of the Extinction Rebellion: https://dark-mountain.net/after-we-stop-pretending/
• Joi Ito (Director MIT Media Lab) says we should challenge the cult of Singularity. AI won’t take over the world: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-extended-intelligence
• About the tendency of technology firms to exploit human weaknesses, and what to do about it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-ethics-idUSKCN1S002A
• About Kevin Kelly’s latest Data Manifesto: https://kk.org/thetechnium/data-manifesto/
• About Carole Cadwalladr’s TED talk that became a global viral sensation: she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/21/carole-cadwalladr-ted-tech-google-facebook-zuckerberg-silicon-valley

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Edition-145 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About  the connections between infrastructure and code, state surveillance and corporate power, social prejudice and algorithmic bias, and the environment and computation, by @jamesbridle: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/16/new-ways-of-seeing-john-berger-digital-age-decode-radio-4
• About a 29 minutes breathtaking video Timelapse of the Future: https://aeon.co/videos/deep-time-and-beyond-the-great-nothingness-at-the-end-of-the-universe
• About the delusion of digital escapism aka “waldenponding”: https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding-ii?e=951a16bd6f
• About the delusion of Maslow’ pyramid: https://complexwales.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/maslows-island/
• About the delusion of Efficiency: https://onezero.medium.com/the-efficiency-delusion-f6a97241e1e1

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Edition-144 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About moving into a “designer reality.” Cool mash-up song feat by Douglas Rushkoff & R.U. Sirius: https://youtu.be/V4pvIcFIm1k
• About poetic computation, a coder’s form of artwork: http://poeticcomputation.info/chapters/ch.1/
• About radical data science: a data science that is not controlling, eliminationist, assimilatory: https://reallifemag.com/counting-the-countless/
• About revisiting speculative visions from the past: https://medium.com/@alexiskalagas/a-bubble-to-call-your-own-3a7093559325
• About three short science fiction films about screening surveillance: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/screening-surveillance.html

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Edition-143 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the difference of three kinds of designers out there today: classical designers, design thinkers, and computational designers (by @JohnMaeda): https://qz.com/1585165/john-maeda-on-the-importance-of-computational-design/
• About “The New Organs”, a project to gather, archive and investigate the theories and realities of corporate surveillance: https://neworgans.net/about.html
• About Andreessen Horowitz taking the unusual step of renouncing its venture capital status—and making even bigger, riskier bets: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/02/andreessen-horowitz-is-blowing-up-the-venture-capital-model-again/#44af82c47d9f
• About “Corporate Gaslighting” – Rob Campbell’s attempt to try and stop the slow, systematic abuse from a management style where the goal appears to be to systematically destroy the confidence and self-worth of their employees: https://robcampbell.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/together-we-can-make-it-better/
• About “Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow” is published by Rolling Stone in RollingStone: https://medium.com/rollingstone/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-bf25e51a9af5

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Edition-142 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• Bizarre video about consciousness in an AI-driven world. Alienating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHy73N1BgE
• Another video, this time about dance: how did this ultimate frivolity become a human necessity? Every culture dances: https://youtu.be/FyTqEl1yKbQ
• Why the institutional models built on scalable efficiency or scalable learning are incompatible. By John Hagel: https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2019/03/expanding-our-horizons-efficiently.html
• About a nightmarish scenario of surveillance by machines: https://www.wired.com/story/machines-shouldnt-have-to-spy-on-us-to-learn/
• An artistic reflection on ethical aspects of living with robots and AI: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/26/robot-love-ine-gevers-ai-development-unethical/

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Edition-141 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About smaller groups creating more innovative work than larger groups: https://eighteenthelephant.com/2019/03/14/science-small-groups-and-stochasticity/
• About coders’ addiction to efficiency. There is more to life than efficiency: https://www.wired.com/story/coders-efficiency-is-beautiful/
• About the evolution from an attention economy towards an availability economy: https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/uber-gig-workers-customers.html
• About the importance of play in work and culture: https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/the-playflow-challenge?e=951a16bd6f
• About the inner workings of Apple – Long video interview with Ken Kocienda – Via Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/2019/02/24/apple-steve-jobs-software-product-design-process-ken-kocienda-creative-selection/

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