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December 16, 2018
Giuseppe Lippi, fantascienza editor, has died
*He was the editor of my story collection “Utopia Pirata: Racconti di Bruno Argento” and the translator of a lot of my stories. A wonderfully...
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The deep, hot biosphere
*Well, those are some extraordinary claims. They sure do sound like the strange theories of Thomas Gold, though. Gold thought that most of the living...
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Emergency plan for Venezuelan refugees
*It’s hard to think of another refugee crisis that is this humiliating to an established government. The Cuban boat-lift, maybe. But Venezuela’s outflow has been...
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December 15, 2018
How to Recognize Fake AI-Generated Images
*Boy, what a splendid tutorial. I didn’t know a tenth of this. https://www.zdnet.com/article/sqlite-... by Kyle McDonald In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the...
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Dead Media Beat: Brian May, Queen guitarist, astronomer and Victorian stereoscopist
Dr May knows how to keep himself busy By Howard Timberlake 13 December 2018 Stereoscopy is a Victorian technique for creating an illusion of depth...
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Computation with shaped wifi signals
*Boy that’s plenty weird. Waveform meta-materials, no less. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-wi-fi-a... A pair of researchers, one with the Langevin Institute, the other a company called Greenerwave, both...
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
*Expect the unsafe, the disorderly and the irregular, but here you’ve got the details on how it’s not gonna work. https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites... We, the Heads of...
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December 14, 2018
Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe
Dear Nettimers, we’ve written the discussion text below as a proposal, a strategic contribution and are curious what you make of the ideas and questions...
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The great crypto coin raids of autumn 2018
*I wonder if anybody will ever be able to steal so much wealth so easily and so quickly again. also: are the thieves “hodlers”? Then...
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December 13, 2018
Internet Doom and Gloom
*The twenty-twenties are coming. Public handwringing by Web and Internet elders If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was...
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