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MYTH OF EQUALITY. “Thus, the new social that is made by the multitude also entraps it; the real challenge here is to see beyond the myth of digital media democratization. The digitally fostered values of openness have driven a culture of unbridled commentary that reveals that there is no ‘mainstream’, despite the veneer of the promotion of the egalitarian Web: “join the conversation” invites Twitter, “Comment is free” declares The Guardian.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

ARCHIVES RUN RIOT. “However, as the archive has broken free of its bonds of space, institution and regimented classification, it has run riot, consuming almost everything in its path. Thus, as Kroker puts it: “the content of the archive has suddenly and risibly expanded to encompass the totality of life itself.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

QUASI ARCHIVES. “As Van House and Churchill observe: “Archives sit in the boundary between public and private. Current archives extend well beyond a person, a space, an institution, a nation state. They are socio-technical systems, neither entirely social nor technical.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

HYPERCONNECTED ARCHIVES. “The archives of a broadcast era mass media, once trapped in the archival space of a vault or library subject to the material conditions of order, classification, and retrieval, are rendered fluid through their hyperconnectivity.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

THE ARCHIVE AS MEDIA. “Indeed, today, the archive can be seen as a medium in its own right, as it has been liberated from ‘archival space into archival time’. The notion of the archive as static is replaced by the much more fluid temporalities and dynamics of ‘permanent data transfer’, defining the new memory ecology.” https://lnkd.in/dWiV2eZ View in LinkedIn

FAILSAFE BUTTON NEEDED. “Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) impossible.” Disturbing at the least, https://lnkd.in/ddCku3H View in LinkedIn

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“STRANGE MATTER is thought to exist in the interior of neutron stars. These stars are what remain after massive stellar cores have exhausted all their fuel and collapse, birthing a bountiful supernova in the process. Electrons and protons merge into neutrons, reaching a maximum density at a radius of about 6 miles (10 km).” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

UPDATED PHRASE. “Wheeler even coined the phrase "it from bit" to serve as a modern alternative to the Cartesian epigram "Cogito ergo sum." https://lnkd.in/dRTpKuH View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STAR SPEW. “This is strange matter. And it could exist here on Earth already, deposited in our water or tucked away in Arctic meteorites. This strange matter is like a pathogen — infecting and converting normal matter into something altogether different. “A lump of strange matter has an insatiable appetite for neutrons and grows fat by eating them.” Anything coming into contact with the border of strange matter would be consumed by it, altered at a subatomic level until the normal matter itself became strange.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn