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[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

That Moderna's mRNA vaccine was designed and printed in 48 hrs., from a digital model of the virus' genome, long before the biological virus reached North America is genuinely amazing. How to rebuild the whole process around this reality?

[Yuk Hui @digital_objects]

My unfinished article "For a Planetary Thinking," is published in the new issue of e-flux edited by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard, together with many other more interesting ones.
https://t.co/v9kraI6ysn

[Robert @dropfair]

@ibogost Epic and apt

[Robert @dropfair]

Unsanitized, Election Edition: One Reason So Many People Are Voting https://t.co/MviBK0qZa2.
Miles Rapoport has been working on voter registration for two decades! Well done

[Robert @dropfair]

@GMC It is wildly irresponsible to be mass-marketing vehicles like this. In no other country would they tolerate this kind of fuel efficiency. Our children will pay the price. GM we want electric, now please.

[Robert @dropfair]

@maosbot Sorry to hear Mike. Wishing you a full recovery.

[bogna @bognamk]

The desire to know the world and to change it are contradictory. If committed to the first, you end up a soft determinist, which renders the commonplace input-output, will-based idea of change unattainable. If committed to the second, gamble with contingency or refute knowledge.

[meson press @meson_press]

Algorithmic identity politics: We are highly recommending this insightful interview with @florian_cramer by @fi_lor, in which they discusses the urgent issues he wrote about in the book 'Pattern Discrimination" published with us and @UMinnPress. https://t.co/6ki2xqRdi3

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

"In AI, we have Milgram's ultimate authority figure." -- Peter Haas

(The Milgram experiment showed that people will obey an authority figure even when it entails harming others. People may be even more likely to trust what an algorithm says.)

https://t.co/EpDrERm1H9

[manovich @manovich]

Amazing resource: 71,000 hi-res historical maps available for free download https://t.co/zLf1RglGCG

[John Deighton @HBSmktg]

Research from #Oxford Internet Institute on warring bots within Wikipedia https://t.co/qKW6t8yrRB

[The Hum @the_hum_blog]

The incredible beauty of Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Scores https://t.co/J4GR1fNlOk