Skip to main content

Home/ KSUDigMe/ Group items tagged Social

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Bill Genereux

How Einstein Thought: Why "Combinatory Play" Is the Secret of Genius | Brain Pickings - 0 views

www.brainpickings.org/...ought-combinatorial-creativity

creativity blog alberteinstein play ideas greatideas psychology thinking

shared by Bill Genereux on 28 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • he words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.
  • certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined.
  • the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought
Bill Genereux

Spain Takes a Giant Step Backward, Towards Its Dark Past | Wolf Street - 0 views

wolfstreet.com/...backward-towards-its-dark-past

socialmedia spain freespeech government freedom protest

shared by Bill Genereux on 28 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Criticizing or insulting the country, government or head of state during a protest or on social media: €30,000
  • efusal to show personal documentation (I.D. card, passport) to the police: €1,000
Bill Genereux

The Creepy New Wave of the Internet by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

www.nybooks.com/...creepy-new-wave-internet

internet network livingdigitally workingdigitally internetofthings

shared by Bill Genereux on 23 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 23 Dec 14
     
    As human behavior is tracked and merchandized on a massive scale, the Internet of Things creates the perfect conditions to bolster and expand the surveillance state.
Bill Genereux

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...uined-justine-saccos-life.html

Twitter bullying nytimes socialmedia shaming career jobs fired

shared by Bill Genereux on 18 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • yanked violently out of the context
  • reflexive critique of white privilege
  • well-meaning people, in a crowd, often take punishment too far.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • He retweeted it to his 15,000 followers
  • If she was going to be made to suffer for a joke, she figured she should get something out of it. “I never would have lived in Addis Ababa for a month otherwise
  • Sam Biddle
  • her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing.
  • Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.
« First ‹ Previous 61 - 72 of 72
Showing 20▼ items per page