Die Fossilindustrie finanziert seit Jahrzehten Universitäten und fördert damit Publikationen in ihrem Interesse, z.B. zu false solutions wie #CCS. Hintergrundbericht anlässlich einer neuen Studie: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/universities-fossil-fuel-funding-green-energy

Studie: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.904

Donald Trump hat 20 Spitzenmanagern der amerikanischen Ölindustrie angeboten, für Wahlkampfspenden in Höhe von einer Milliarde Dollar alle Regulierungen der Biden-Administration, die die Förderung von Öl und Gas behindern, zu Beginn seiner Amtszeit außer Kraft zu setzen. Die Washington Post berichtet über das Treffen in Mar-a-Lago. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation

Bericht der Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/l

Die taz zum Torpedieren des Green Deal und besonders des EU-Renaturierungsgesetzes durch die EVP und über die Rolle Manfred Webers. https://taz.de/Agrarlobby-gegen-Naturschutz/!6012538/

9:25 rhetorik, emo-sprache, "er ist angepisst", defensive, abblocken, mauer, sekte, exklusiv, feinde ausschließen, kampfbegriffe, andere als "krank" beschimpfen und ignorieren, bashing ...

naja, ich mache das aber auch so. "mit idioten diskutieren" ist einfach nur zeitverschwendung, nicht-produktiver feindkontakt, kennste einen dann kennste alle. "if they dont listen, move on, so you can warn others." "dont argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." da kann ich genauso gut mit tauben schach spielen, oder mit blinden über farben streiten. zeitverschwendung.

der einfachste intelligenztest ist das thema globale übervölkerung. wer die übervölkerung leugnet, der hat sich selbst disqualifiziert aus jeder ernsthaften rationalen diskussion. solche leute sollen zu ihren wohlfühl-veranstaltungen ("demos") gehen, wo sie sich gegenseitig bestätigen, wie schlau die alle sind... dummheit ist auch ein "kult", dumme wollen unter sich sein, dumm und glücklich

aber ja, auch dumme sind allergisch gegen schlaue menschen, und sind dann "angepisst", also beleidigt, und gegen wahrheit hilft nur gewalt, also ausgrenzen, zensieren, löschen, rauswerfen, ignorieren, ...

54:20 "was würden sie sagen, wie viele ein-und-zwei-personen haushalte haben wir in großstädten wie in köln und düsseldorf?" - "viele." - "anteil? prozent?" - "ich bin ganz furchtbar mit zahlen." - "75 prozent."

warum eskaliert die gleich von "weiss ich nicht" zu "ich bin ganz furchtbar mit zahlen"?<br /> und warum erinnert mich das an den kontrast zwischen religion und naturwissenschaft...?<br /> religion im sinn von "my feelings dont care about your facts!!"

solche fälle sind der regel in der psychiatrie, keine ausnahme.<br /> im psycho-knast landen alle, gegen die man zu wenig beweise hat, um sie in den normalen knast zu sperren.<br /> praktisch immer ist es "streit" mit nachbarn oder familie, und ein anruf bei der polizei ist ein billiger weg, um den "störer" loszuwerden, dem dann von den ärzten gesagt wird "sie sind gestört" und "sie brauchen beruhigungsmittel", und die ärzte fälschen alle beweise, damit der richter sagt "der braucht eine zwangsbehandlung".<br /> ich war insgesamt circa 2 jahre im psycho-knast, immer wegen solchen "aussagen von besorgten bürgern"...<br /> wer das selber nicht erlebt hat, der wird es nicht glauben, und lieber weiter steuern und beiträge zahlen, damit das "unfehlbare" system weiter läuft... also alle sind schuld.

• for: big oil cover up, big oil - MIT, big Oil Ernest Moniz, methane emissions coverup, PBS - The Power of Big Oil, climate change - big oil lobby, quote - Ernest Moniz, quote Edmund Carlevale, quote - methane emissions coverup

• quote

  • Today, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions to address the crisis of methane emissions. But as Tony Ingraffea says, this should have happened a decade ago (https://lnkd.in/eaFpkTrj) and it didn't because of a single person.
  • And none of this is in the past. Ernest Moniz is the single person in the entire world most responsible for legitimizing the hoax of #carboncapture.
  • And carbon capture is only reason that the global oil&gas cartel has been given a green light to #drilldrilldrill. -These lies matter, and they are devastating our world.
• author: Edmund Carlevale

• date: Nov 16, 2023

• reference

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAbcNl4Lb8

• for: Carbon capture - MIT hoax, climate delay, kick the can down the road

• for: quote, quote - Ethan Zuckerman, quote - fragmentation and polarization, Indyweb - support, MIT Center for Civic Media, Global Voices
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  • We need mass innovation in design of social tools that help us
    • bridge fragmentation and polarization,
    • bring diversity into our media landscapes and
    • help find common ground between disparate groups.
  • With these as conscious design goals,
    • technology could be a powerful positive force for civic change.
  • If we don’t take this challenge seriously and assume that we’re stuck with mass-market tools,
    • we won’t see positive civic outcomes from technological tools.”
• author
  • Ethan Zuckerman
    • director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media and
    • co-founder of Global Voices

The Museum of Modern Art acquires the MIT Press colophon by Chris Walton

Muriel Cooper, the first design director of the MIT Press and a founding faculty member of MIT's Media Lab, designed the MIT Press colophon in 1965. The iconic colophon has been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in 2023.

The commission had originally been offered to Paul Rand (o Eye Bee M logo fame) in 1962, but when he turned down the offer, he suggested they offer it to Cooper.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/riverside-ca/fred-aldrich-6032921

Fred Waldo Aldrich, Jr. (1927-12-10 - 2014-06-29) engineer of Marlborough, MA.

A big part of the WHY that too many issuers do not address. Authoring metadata with the consumer in mind will give our Earners a competitive advantage.

Fascinating idea of systems not only serving to inform learners/earners about where they can go and how to get there, but to also be a reliable signal about their potential to advisors, councilors, social workers, navigators, parents, recruiters and others

reminder that stakeholders are not monolithic and neither is any given stakeholder's incentive structure. Yes, keep it simple when mapping out stakeholder ecosystem. And, include multiple incentives when relevant.

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/10/18/more-mit-challenge/

https://www.kevinmarks.com/memex.html

I got stuck over the weekend, so I totally missed Kevin Marks' memex demo at IndieWebCamp's Create Day, but it is an interesting little UI experiment.

I'll always maintain that Vannevar Bush really harmed the first few generations of web development by not mentioning the word commonplace book in his conceptualization. Marks heals some of this wound by explicitly tying the idea of memex to that of the zettelkasten however. John Borthwick even mentions the idea of "networked commonplace books". [I suspect a little birdie may have nudged this perspective as catnip to grab my attention—a ruse which is highly effective.]

Some of Kevin's conceptualization reminds me a bit of Jerry Michalski's use of The Brain which provides a specific visual branching of ideas based on the links and their positions on the page: the main idea in the center, parent ideas above it, sibling ideas to the right/left and child ideas below it. I don't think it's got the idea of incoming or outgoing links, but having a visual location on the page for incoming links (my own site has incoming ones at the bottom as comments or responses) can be valuable.

I'm also reminded a bit of Kartik Prabhu's experiments with marginalia and webmention on his website which plays around with these ideas as well as their visual placement on the page in different methods.

MIT MediaLab's Fold site (details) was also an interesting sort of UI experiment in this space.

It also seems a bit reminiscent of Kevin Mark's experiments with hovercards in the past as well, which might be an interesting way to do the outgoing links part.

Next up, I'd love to see larger branching visualizations of these sorts of things across multiple sites... Who will show us those "associative trails"?

Another potential framing for what we're all really doing is building digital versions of Indigenous Australian's songlines across the web. Perhaps this may help realize Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly's dream for a "third archive"?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494369809538195456.html

Link to : https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universities-say-they-want-more-diverse-faculties-so-why-is-academia-still-so-white/

Are they really the ones pushing the progress and innovating, or are they benefiting from filtering out only the highest level potential producers and simply supporting them?

Would we get more overall benefit from raising the level of the ocean so that all boats rise instead of a select few?

Another example, how was Hungary able to produce so many Nobel Prize winners?

Zewe, A., & Technology, M. I. of. (2021, December 19). MIT Scientists Find Clues to Why Fake News Snowballs on Social Media. SciTechDaily. https://scitechdaily.com/mit-scientists-find-clues-to-why-fake-news-snowballs-on-social-media/

This almost appears to be a small, community-based commonplace book.

And apparently published on PubPub.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Samuel Klein</span> in Samuel Klein on Twitter: "@flancian See also https://t.co/KMmU7pDuQx" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:30:42</time>)</cite></small>

Taber, S. (2019, September 18). The Problem With Sugar-Daddy Science. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/problem-sugar-daddy-science/598231/

Rotman, D. (2020 April 8). Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both. MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/08/998785/stop-covid-or-save-the-economy-we-can-do-both/

MIT since 2000

MIT Blockchain article

As per the linked post:

Using Snow’s essay as a jumping off point, I want to consider a problem that’s been on my mind a great deal since joining the MIT Media Lab five years ago: how do we help smart, well-meaning people address social problems in ways that make the world better, not worse?

Not to defend Ethan, but he’s typically quite explicit about such thing. At least, he doesn’t evade responsibility.

From his about page (also in narrative version in the Do Not Track doc):

Those annoying pop-up windows? My fault, at least in part. I designed a vertically-oriented popup window that included navigation tools and an ad for inclusion on webpages at some point in late 1996 or early 1997. It was intended to be less intrusive than inserting an ad into the middle of a user’s homepage. I won’t claim responsibility (irresponsibility?) for inventing the damned things, and I disclaim any responsibility for cascading popups, popups that move to the top, and those annoying “bot” windows that open different popups every few minutes. Still, the fault is at least in part mine, and I’m sorry. :-)