20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
“Or, Our office has become an AirBeeandBee.”
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“Or, Our office has become an AirBeeandBee.”
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Quartz
20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
On the main drag of sunny Santa Barbara, California, four blocks from the Pacific Ocean, sits the three-story headquarters of Invoca, an artificial-intelligence software company. Like many offices, the building has been empty since March, when Invoca sent…
Not the Onion: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube
An academic critical media literacy conference warning of the dangers of media censorship has, ironically, been censored by YouTube.
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An academic critical media literacy conference warning of the dangers of media censorship has, ironically, been censored by YouTube.
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The Washington Standard
Not The Onion: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube
41 Tweet 41SharesThe entire video record of the conference — estimated at around 24 hours of material — was mysteriously disappeared from YouTube say conference organizers. An academic critical media literacy conference warning…
On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines
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Aeon
The problem with prediction
Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think
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Forwarded from Pavel Durov
The "capitalism <-> socialism" opposition seems outdated. I prefer to think in terms of "centralization vs decentralization". Humans have evolved to perform best in small groups of less than 150 people. That's why wherever there's centralization and excessive hierarchy, there's inefficiency and underutilized human potential. Capitalist monopolies and socialist dictatorships are equally bad.
In a natural environment, every small community is able to produce an outstanding leader and an independent thinker. In today's world of trillion-dollar monopolies and bloated governments, the potential of hundreds of millions of people is suppressed by the limitations imposed by our artificial societal structures.
That is the reason why tens of thousands of people working at big corporations such as Facebook have failed to keep up with what our small team at Telegram has been implementing. That’s also the reason why countries like Russia fail to generate and retain global brands in their jurisdictions. Genuine creativity is rare in organizations and societies built on excessive hierarchies and lack of personal autonomy.
In a natural environment, every small community is able to produce an outstanding leader and an independent thinker. In today's world of trillion-dollar monopolies and bloated governments, the potential of hundreds of millions of people is suppressed by the limitations imposed by our artificial societal structures.
That is the reason why tens of thousands of people working at big corporations such as Facebook have failed to keep up with what our small team at Telegram has been implementing. That’s also the reason why countries like Russia fail to generate and retain global brands in their jurisdictions. Genuine creativity is rare in organizations and societies built on excessive hierarchies and lack of personal autonomy.
“Mastication is the first important step in breaking down food, so that it can be assimilated by the body.
Everything one eats should be digested in the mouth before it is digested in the stomach.
If you gulp down food, bypassing this vital step, it is literally dynamite when it reaches the stomach.
Protein foods such as meat, fish, and fowl require less mastication than complex starches.
It is just as well to chew them thoroughly anyway.
The more completely food is masticated, the more nourishing it will be.
This means that if you thoroughly chew your food, the amount you eat can be reduced, often by one half.
- Peter Kelder.
Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth.
Everything one eats should be digested in the mouth before it is digested in the stomach.
If you gulp down food, bypassing this vital step, it is literally dynamite when it reaches the stomach.
Protein foods such as meat, fish, and fowl require less mastication than complex starches.
It is just as well to chew them thoroughly anyway.
The more completely food is masticated, the more nourishing it will be.
This means that if you thoroughly chew your food, the amount you eat can be reduced, often by one half.
- Peter Kelder.
Ancient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth.