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CULTURE
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Dangerous VR and Tech Innovation: Ethics of Lethal Designs
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Fun things turned killer provocations:
Palmer Luckey (founder of the Oculus) posts a design for a VR helmet that can kill you, inspired by anime: http://
palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-
the-game-you-die-in-real-life/
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Julijonas Urbonas designed a roller coaster that would kill anyone who rides on it https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasi
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Marie Curie: Breaking Barriers in Science 100 Years Ago
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17 Nobel Prizes on this iconic picture in 1927 at the Fifth Solvay Conference! Notice that the only woman in this group is Marie Curie. 100 years ago, imagine all the obstacles and biases she had to go through… And you, who is your idol in science? #innovation #tech #science
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Generative Art Bridges Imagination and Reality Gap
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Generative art drastically narrows the gap between imagination and reality, but it doesn’t replace imagination.
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ICLR Code of Conduct and Organizer Authority Questioned
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The ICLR code of conduct (
https://
iclr.cc/public/CodeOfC
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For-Profit Social Media Networks and Algorithmic Polarization
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This paper makes an important argument as to why for-profit social media networks will always tend to encouraging polarizing moral outrage, even if that was not the original intent of the platform creators. https://
x.com/emollick/statu
/emollick/status/1580568584606322690
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Toxic Workplace Culture Impacts Employee Mental Health UK
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Toxic workplace cultures are impacting mental health. 2 in 5 employees in the UK have experienced problematic behaviour at work. 42% confirmed toxic #workplace #culture impacted their #mentalhealth. #wellness #wellbeign #HR #employees #leadership https://
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Community Platform Alternative After Tech Exodus
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I know that, and I've seen it happen many times before, but maybe this time it's different? We are a savvy bunch. We just got burned, bad, by Elon. We want somewhere nice to talk to each other, and we are willing to pay a reasonable price to get it.
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Mastodon’s Decentralized Design: Promoting Instance Diversity Over Centralization
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The interesting thing about that is they don't WANT to get huge – http://
mastodon.social is run by the Mastodon org as a reference implementation, but they're very invested in getting people to use other instances instead, hence the directory on https://
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Sleep deprivation impacts founder productivity and startup success
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If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
1) Lack of makes you generate worse ideas
2) Lack of makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
3) Getting boosts your mood, upping the mood of your startup
4) Lack of lowers your entrepreneurial ability