Graffiti circulating on WeChat the past few days "Will this world get better? / Y̶e̶s̶/ Wait for the memo."
-- From "Heat, Food & Power" https://t.co/rsh0jiKH3t
‘My body was rejecting my new face. There was a zero point zero zero five per cent chance of it happening, but it was undeniable: my new skin was clamoring to get out.’
Fiction by @ysabellecheung.
https://t.co/C6RouYvP1V
A family-owned sawmill stands in the way of a major land development project that is transforming Hong Kong’s border with mainland China. Wong Hung-kuen works in view of bulldozers that had toppled neighboring businesses. Soon, they would come for his.
https://t.co/LriJhmOXOL
A dataset of 2.29 million "notable" individuals mined from Wikidata and Wikipedia. For each person, the dataset provides their birth and death dates, gender, citizenship, occupations, and other details. https://t.co/eEeE0j9yL0
"The problems that artworld DAOs seek to address: disenfranchisement, class conflict, gender inequality, and the impotence of current collective architecture are not unique to the art world." - @furtherfield
and @pennny_rafferty https://t.co/FMAaRXtjpF
NEW IPBES Report: “evidence shows that if, from the onset, local values are taken into consideration, people will feel part of the project and will be more onboard with whatever was agreed…This entails redefining ‘development’ and ‘good quality of life’” https://t.co/lv8aKOj2yh
Can there be practical #Metaverse use cases in university education? I randomly came across this "interdisciplinary exchange on Metaverse" hosted last week by @TUS_Rikou at Tokyo University of Science which, at first glance, fascinated me with an "academia x anime avatars" vibe.