[nonostantement #85] - italiani analfabeti funzionali / nature on instagram / ai weapons of mass destruction
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Syrian Children Saved a German Village. And a Village Saved Itself.
"Four years after Germany took in over one million migrants, integration is quietly working, one village at a time."[In Italian] - L’Italia è prima in Europa per distanza fra percezione e realtà. A rischio è la democrazia.
"[...] in Italia il 28% della popolazione adulta è 'incapace di comprendere, valutare, usare e farsi coinvolgere da testi scritti per intervenire attivamente nella società, per raggiungere i propri obiettivi e per sviluppare le proprie conoscenze e potenzialità'"Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants
"These images of people wearing their folk costumes were taken by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman who worked as the Chief Registry Clerk on Ellis Island from 1892 until 1925."Anarchy Tamed
"This is Wasteland Weekend, the world’s biggest post-apocalyptic festival."Who Would I Be Without Instagram?
"With Instagram, self-defining and self-worth-measuring spilled over into the rest of the day, eventually becoming my default mode. If I received conflicting views of my worth or, looking at other people’s accounts, disparate ideas about how to live, the influx of information could lead to a kind of panic spiral."Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint
"Microplastic particles are everywhere, but in freshwater systems, 60 percent of particles are clothing lint from laundry."Forget brain chips, live experiences are the future of entertainment
"Virtual and augmented reality will enhance, not replace, the wonder of real-life experiences"Spoils of #nature on Instagram
"Natural sites are being overrun by a new wave of tourists just 'doin' it for the 'Gram.' And the consequences are far from harmless: threatened fauna and flora, exhausted staff, competitive jockeying for framespace. When our call of the wild rings false."[Video] - Multi-Agent Hide and Seek
"We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior."Nature documentaries need to get real about climate change
"Climate change was mentioned less than hunting or habitat loss in Our Planet – and researchers fear that the documentaries aren't driving people to change their actions"A former Google engineer warned that robot weapons could cause accidental mass killings
"Nolan said there needs to be legislation in place banning autonomous AI weapons from the battlefield such as there is for chemical weapons."[Video] - Kate Tempest - Europe Is Lost (Live on KEXP)
"[...] And here's me outside the palace of me
Construct a self and psyhcosis
Meanwhile the people were dead in their droves
And no, nobody noticed, well, some of them noticed
You could tell by the emoji they posted [...]"[Video] - Treasures in the Trash
"For 34 years, New York Sanitation worker, Nelson Molina collected items in the trash on his route in East Harlem. Over 45,000 items, all catalogued and organized on the second floor of the M11 garage."
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