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‘Pregnant, homeless, what now?’ The search for a safe place to abandon a baby | Parents and parenting | The Guardian

#children #family #protection #sex_work #society | <strong>The long read:</strong> Each year, women make the desperate decision to abandon their babies. Specially designed ‘baby windows’ can help – but some argue they make matters worse

3 months ago | View Shared by victor
How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy - Ars Technica

#ai #death #future #society #will | Why requests for “no AI resurrections” will probably go ignored.

5 months ago | View Shared by victor
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

#advertising #ideas #progress #society | What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

7 months ago | View Shared by victor
A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science - Defender’s Corner

#culture #memes #society #sociology | Also known as "memetics", it's the study of the narratives that shape human behavior, and how they propagate & evolve

9 months ago | View Shared by victor
Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All - The New York Times

#countries #immigration #migration #society | Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.

10 months ago | View Shared by victor
The media fails to take Trump at his word. Again.

#articles #election #government #society #us | Three theories about why journalists don't sound the alarm loud and clear about his authoritarian plans

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

#culture #disinformation #google #misinformation #politics #research #science #society #toread | Generative AI could “distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,” and in many cases is already doing that, according to a new research paper from Google, one of the biggest companies in the world building, deploying, and promoting generative AI.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
By Design

#architecture #history #infrastructure #kitchens #organisation #society #usa | <blockquote>The history of kitchen design is full of feminist utopias founded on white supremacy.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Could NYPD Brooklyn Policing Experiment be a ‘Model for the Future’? - THE CITY

#community #police_brutality #society #us

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says | Vanity Fair

#collaboration #coronavirus #culture #research #society

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
What Big Data Will Never Explain

#big_data #culture #progress #society

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
I Dream of Canteens

#blog #food #hospitality #politics #society

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why Are Rich People So Mean? | WIRED

#culture #economics #money #psychology #society

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking | The New Yorker

#algorithms #intellectual_debt #machine_learning #research #society

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
F's and V's Might Have Appeared After Agriculture - The Atlantic

#evolution #farming #linguistics #principle #pronunciation #society | <blockquote>If farming helped introduce f’s and v’s 12,000 years ago, it would challenge the principle that humans’ language abilities haven’t significantly changed since we first learned to speak.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Opinion | The Economics of Soaking the Rich - The New York Times

#economics #inequality #politics #society #taxes #us #via:popular

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Starbucks’ Plan to Ban Straws Will Harm Disabled People | Bitch Media

#accessibility #disability_culture #ecology #environment #society | <blockquote>Straws are easy to target, but cities and companies still rely on environmentally harmful practices.</blockquote>

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
Peut-on encore ne pas travailler ? | Anthony Masure

#article #automation #consumerism #lang:fr #marxism #social #society #work

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
La gratuité, un projet de société (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2012)

#cost #free #journalism #lang:fr #public_transport #society #urbanism | <blockquote>D'Aubagne à Hasselt, de plus en plus nombreuses sont les communes européennes qui pratiquent la gratuité des transports publics. Peu connues, ces initiatives ont souvent rencontré l'hostilité, non seulement des milieux patronaux, mais également d'une partie de la population, pourtant sensibilisée aux idées progressistes. Sur le terrain, l'expérience est riche d'enseignements et incite à réfléchir au type de société que nous voulons construire.</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour - Google Books

#book #epistemology #futurism #modernism #philosophy #society #technology #to_read

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
Who Will Command The Robot Armies?

#future #politics #society #surveillance #technology

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators | UK news | The Guardian

#culture #escalators #london #society #transport #tube

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
June #188 : The Sound of Stigma - by Mark S. King

#community #gay_community #hiv #society #stigmatisation

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Article11 - Nauru : l'île de la tentation devenue enfer sur terre - Benjamin

#capitalism #geography #island #lang:fr #pacific #politics #society | <blockquote>En un livre qui fait froid dans le dos, « Nauru, l’île dévastée », Luc Folliet raconte l’histoire triste et absurde d’un peuple du Pacifique qui a eu (...)</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society

#diversity #games #racism #society #visualisation

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup | Slate Star Codex

#ingroup #politics #society #tolerance #toread #tumblr

11 years ago | View Shared by victor

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