Tag: links
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The pandemic virus, 2019-nCoV, is testing many of the assumptions of a highly interconnected, modern, globalised world. This 120nm virus, small to us, large by viral standards, is shining a… more ›
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In October of last year, I wrote about the absurdity of the fact that Big Media content companies and distributors were spending unprecedented sums to increase their exposure to a… more ›
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People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform. Some of that content is manipulated, often… more ›
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In 2016, William Gibson was a third of the way through his new novel when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was more ›
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https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000006082083/lethal-autonomous-weapons.html more ›
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“Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/cotton-china-uighur-labor-xinjiang-new-slavery/ more ›
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In the future, we’re all going to be shopping on video apps like TikTok. Whether you’re buying instant noodles or high-end sweaters, it has become increasingly clear that short video… more ›
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Paris, France – Parisian mushrooms are reclaiming their space in the dark spaces under the City of Light. Huge quantities of button mushrooms used to be grown using the manure… more ›
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The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn’t be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/defector-spy-taiwan-hong-kong.html more ›
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As Twitter, Facebook and YouTube shut down accounts spreading China’s narrative about the Hong Kong protests, resourceful patriots are putting their videos on another extremely popular platform: the world’s biggest… more ›