The MIT Press Reader
Five Moments in the History of Chinese Cybernetics
Tracing the history of cybernetics in China from Norbert Wiener’s visit to Qian Xuesen’s systems thinking and Mao’s β€œelectronic revolution."
Its all geotechnomics brudd
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PubMed
Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use - PubMed
The resurgence of short-form videos (SFVs), popularized by TikTok and Douyin, has transformed social media platforms, with features like Instagram ...
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The charge of privacy fetishism is illiterate because the underlying tech and protocols clearly work hence the gargantuan state machinery being deployed to desperately try and stop it - spiritual opsec demands it. The charge is usually levied because of a misdiagnosis - there is too much cultural inertia to overcome to move people away from Megacorp Tech options to practical FOSS options that can become daily drivers.
There is actually no need whatsoever for there to be a Cloud apart from maybe enterprise - storage has evolved to the point >95% can be sovereign - goes to show accelerationism does not mean tech supremacy but corporate domination
Iqra 019
On AI capex, the GCC excursion into rare earth minerals, progress and an update on the AI War
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