[nonostantement #56] - netflix and global culture / the big club by george carlin / the trauma floor of facebook
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The Big Money
"As soon as they turn 18, members of North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians become eligible to receive a check that can reach into the six figures. What do you do when you’re young and suddenly flush with cash?"Buddhist robot priest to dole out advice in Kyoto temple
"A 400-year-old temple in the deeply traditional Japanese city of Kyoto has unveiled a robotic deity to deliver Buddha’s teachings in a bid to reach younger generations of Japanese."Busy Is Not a Badge of Honor. Try Doing Nothing for a While.
"The problem with this completely reasonable idea is that we live in an unreasonable world. People wear “busy” like a badge of honor. It almost feels like a cult."Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth
"Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it’s aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience."[In Italian] - La legge Merlin - Case chiuse a Napoli
"A cinquant'anni dalla legge Merlin al meridione, un audiodocumentario che racconta il punto di vista maschile sulla prostituzione attraverso i racconti di quelli che furono fruitori dei casini a Napoli."[Video] - George Carlin - The big club
"The Real Owners of this Country don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking.
They want OBEDIENT WORKERS, OBEDIENT WORKERS."The Trauma Floor
"The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America"
"To Facebook, it will seem as if they never worked there at all. Technically, they never did."We shouldn’t blame Silicon Valley for technology’s problems—we should blame capitalism
"Technology is not driving itself. It doesn’t want anything. Rather, there is a market expressing itself through technology—an operating system beneath our various computer interfaces and platforms that is often unrecognized by the developers themselves.
This operating system is called capitalism, and it drives the antihuman agenda in our society at least as much as any technology."Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
"Psychologists have a name for this: “phubbing,” or snubbing a person in favor of your phone. Studies have shown that excessive phubbing decreases relationship satisfaction and contributes to feelings of depression and alienation."
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