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Nerd supremacy

December 19, 2010

Jaron Lanier gets it: “What I’m seeing in my nerd brethren is an increasing combativeness, a loss of empathy, and creepiness,” said Jaron Lanier, a critic of digital culture and a pioneering computer scientist who helped develop virtual reality. “It’s just another supremacy movement, ultimately. It just happens to be nerd supremacy.” (via ‘Hactivists’ fight [...]

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How the Amazon debacle shows the dark side of social networks

April 15, 2009

There’s no point in recapping how the “Amazon de-lists GLBT books” meme developed, because other people have done a far better job than I. But what it illustrates ably, I think, is the dark side of social networks and how they spread news. There’s a meme which appeared a while ago about a statement a [...]

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Why bank lending can never be the same again

February 27, 2009

The government has said on a number of occasions that it wants the banks to resume lending money to home-buyers and small businesses at the same levels as before the start of the credit crunch. There’s only one problem: doing so would be a sure-fire way to bankrupt the banks. And either the government doesn’t [...]

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Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies – Telegraph

June 27, 2008

Link: Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies – Telegraph. "A senior academic from Imperial College says that universities have to run catch-up classes for many students with excellent A-levels. And the National Audit Office reports that poor A-level results were the main reason why state school pupils fail to get [...]

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