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Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard | Harvard Magazine
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard | Harvard Magazine
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
Careful studies have found that this tendency has not come about primarily through conscious discrimination in hiring professors but is chiefly a result of liberals’ being more attracted than conservatives to academic careers.
·harvardmagazine.com·
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard | Harvard Magazine
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.
The type of nuclear plants envisioned, for example, are not yet even operational in the United States. Fusion power does not yet exist.
·washingtonpost.com·
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Models All The Way Down
Models All The Way Down
It contains less about how humans see the world than it does about how search engines see the world. It is a dataset that is powerfully shaped by commercial logics.
·knowingmachines.org·
Models All The Way Down
Suicide Mission
Suicide Mission
A bit biased article but still a good summary of how management beat out engineering culture.
Swampy was mired in an institution that was in a perpetual state of unlearning all the lessons it had absorbed over a 90-year ascent to the pinnacle of global manufacturing
outsourcing the vast majority of the development and engineering design of the brand-new, revolutionary wide-body jet to suppliers, many of which lacked engineering departments
there is no such thing as an accidental death during the commission of a felony
#boeing#suicide#whistleblowing#labor#stockmarket
·prospect.org·
Suicide Mission
When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
So sad. A once great company brought low by financialization.
transformed GE into a financial conglomerate that incidentally made light bulbs, appliances and jet engines
“People who knew how to build an airplane were viewed as roadblocks. They slowed things down,” said Chandler. “The only word you could speak to executives was ‘yes.'”
#boeing#seattletimes#stockmarket#seattle#work#unions
·seattletimes.com·
When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Ten Years Later, ‘Monument Valley’ Is a Monument to Mobile Gaming’s Bygone Era
Ten Years Later, ‘Monument Valley’ Is a Monument to Mobile Gaming’s Bygone Era
It is dire. Apple Arcade held so much promise for small premium games.
“It almost feels like a glimpse into a parallel existence,” he says. “One where we didn’t optimize for analytics, monetization, and attention capturing, but one where, somehow, as an industry, we optimized for quality and beauty instead.”
#apple#applearcade#videogames#iphone
·theringer.com·
Ten Years Later, ‘Monument Valley’ Is a Monument to Mobile Gaming’s Bygone Era
Models All The Way Down
Models All The Way Down
I knew it was bad but I had no idea how bad even the inputs are models upon models.
The concepts of what is and isn't visually appealing can be influenced in outsized ways by the tastes of a very small group of individuals, and the processes that are chosen by dataset creators to curate the datasets.
#artificialintelligence#art#ethics
·knowingmachines.org·
Models All The Way Down
The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans
The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans
Lots of exciting news about ongoing and potential Trek projects. Still feels like Paramount is floating this to help get bought...
At this point, is there a genre that “Strange New Worlds” can’t do? “As long as we’re in storytelling that is cogent and sure handed, I’m not sure there is,” Goldsman says with an impish smile. “Could it do Muppets?
“Visual effects people are a big, big ‘Star Trek’ fandom,” he says. “You naturally just get all these people who go a little bit above and beyond, and you can’t trade that for anything.”
#variety#startrek#television#hollywood#visualeffects
·variety.com·
The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans
What Makes Disney Villains So Gay?
What Makes Disney Villains So Gay?
Yeah yeah yeah, we all want Simba to emerge victorious at the end of The Lion King; and Snow White to wake up; and Ariel to walk on land; and the prince to marry Aurora, whoever the hell that is. Disney heroes are all very serviceable, but it’s the villains I’d rather spend time with. Ursula has the best songs. The Evil Queen has the best cape. Maleficent has the best laugh. Scar has the...
#disney#thestranger#queerness#stereotypes
·thestranger.com·
What Makes Disney Villains So Gay?