#Technological

François Chollet

For most of our history, the development of technology has been inextricably tied to war. Truly civilian technological progress is a very recent development -- it only really took off

A thread on Tech responses to COVID-19So @utkarsh01, @SapniGK and I locked ourselves away (figuratively) for a few weeks to devise a framework to assess the various apps we're seeing

1/ Techno-pessimism and moral panics give people assurance in uncertain times. People prefer to be cocksure that a new technology is causing the world's problems than to look for nuance

On TikTok- China banned Facebook & Twitter long ago- India recently banned TikTok- A US ban means we're truly exiting the age of a global internet...- Or are we? Long

We all know that India banned 59 Chinese apps to avenge the Galwan Valley incident but do you know India did it to counter China’s Military Civil Fusion or MCF

☉rthnormalist

Trying to uncouple a few thoughts:* As a whole, my belief that people do not materially change except in response to incentives is at odds with the fact I think

Naomi Simmons-Thorne

[expect a thread about the technological divide and why it is weighing so hard on poor students like myself in a few] @castironqueer you’re gonna enjoy this thread because it’s

The secularization of the Muslim World is a trend I expect to see accelerate in the coming decade. This will be driven by economic considerations in places like the Arab

Kodandapani’s Squirrel

Here is my review of @MalleshamMovie.It is a Hindutva project. When did I realize? My 12 yr old compared it with “the boy who harnessed the wind” and mentioned that

To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,

In physics a singularity is a hypothetical one-dimensional point in space-time that approaches infinite gravity and density. A point that bends space and time towards it. A singularity is covered

Covid19 is real but it’s not the virus we thought it was.I believe it’s been latched onto by the world elites to speed up the technological revolution.Cashless society, forced smartphones,

There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It's one disaster process--carving it up into separable parts has allowed (some of) us to

Marianne Williamson

1/ Having had surgery, I now get frequent phone messages from CVS telling me when a prescription needs to be refilled and asking if I would like them to call

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

1/2 Absent major technological breakthrough before fall (effective drugs) American life won’t normalize, economic activity won’t snap back. Which makes it frustrating why policy makers seem oddly unfocused about getting

realboyphysical

Crazy how they invented neoliberalism and then all human progress immediately stopped. Tech, science, art, philosophy - has literally anything happened since the 70s? The technological progress we have just