There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
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Passagierde.
Guerilla Diffusa.
Gerade in den letzten Wochen und Monaten wurde diese Ankündigung wahr gemacht. Gruppen mit Phantasienamen wie "Hau weg den Scheiß" oder "Westdeutsche Abbauhelfer" attackierten Stromtrassen oder demolierten Bahnschienen, um Munitionszüge zu blockieren. "Revolutionäre Handwerker" sägten Telephonmasten ab, "Feurige Ratten" ließen Bundeswehrdepots in Flammen aufgehen.
Caring by Counting.
In order to make progress as a field, we need standard tasks which quantify bias.
1st ACL Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing
Minimalepisodism.
Now I agree with most of the premises of the minimalists — that technology scrambles our brains and attention, that the decrease of long-form reading, writing and thinking is a real loss and that indeed to get stuff done we need to unplug sometimes — and even some of their techniques. My gripe is with the way they sell it as a way of life. It’s much more valuable as a periodic phase of life.
Vivek Haldar: Minimalism is not a viable intellectual strategy