2018-12-24T11:53:09+00:00
TIL how soy sauce was introduced do the US market and how Kikoman “had to adapt its sauce to the local cuisine if it was going to succeed” by creating new recipes and branding it differently". More here at The Economist.
2018-12-23T10:18:14+00:00
Via Bloomberg: Facebook has become part of the e-commerce infrastructure in emerging markets so of course it’s hard to quit.
2018-12-20T15:53:18+00:00
A Short Video Introduction to Hilma af Klint, the Mystical Female Painter Who Helped Invent Abstract Art via [@openculture] (http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059102).
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2018-12-20T15:32:22+00:00
Scary TedEd talk on fake videos of real people, but the last part of the title seems to be missing from the talk. “And how to spot them” = install the browser extension?
2018-12-15T20:56:11+00:00
Kids say the darndest things 🍃
2018-12-14T08:05:20+00:00
Not that funny, but still a good video on why we need right to repair legislation:
2018-12-12T16:02:01+00:00
Can hacking be justified? An analysis of Kenneth Himma’s argument on hacking as civil disobedience, and a discussion on how risks for security are distributed between who decides, who receives benefit and who the cost. Great lecture with @KMacnish on computer ethics today!
2018-12-11T14:55:52+00:00
Today’s lecture with @Nisa00 on the “Politics of problem definition: the co-production of institutions, migrants and technologies”.
2018-12-11T07:23:55+00:00
Agree with this article from the Washington Post on how it seems that so much classical is being promoted as soothing or something to fall asleep too: “This is a deeply unsatisfying way to describe one of our most storied art forms. Even music that is superficially calm and slow can contain depth, tension and difficult themes. The industry sells classical music as a mellow monolith when it is in fact capable of stirring any and all emotions, serving any and all ends — divine and hellish. The way we talk about culture, any culture, shapes how we think about it, so we should not be so narrow in our choice of language.”.