Alternative realities
Hehe, playing Paladins this morning and being in a totally different world.
untypical
I just realize I am an untypical user of news on the net: In the spectacular frontline-documentary on on Facebook, …
Byung-Chul Han
A quite intriguing philosopher. He is a contemporary thinker with quite a differentiated view on our new and divided, supposedly …
Mind, society, emotions and power structures
A great article about the work of the philosopher Byung-Chul Han: https://www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2014/05/byung-chul-han-philosophie-neoliberalismus/komplettansicht
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A thought
That is why all improvers of our situation who merely concentrate on health are so petit-bourgeois and odd, the raw …
Data-Industrial Complex
An interesting overview of several contributing factors for the result of the last election of the President of the United …
The data that turned the world upside down
motherboard.vice.com/…/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win An excellent overview about the state of the art Military psy-ops, Facebook data-mining and the possibilities and limits of …
Democracies not attractive anymore?
How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in …
Google and social research
US data scientist Seth Stephens‑Davidowitz on disturbing truth about our hidden desires, beliefs and prejudices by analyzing Google trends: Everybody lies: …