Finally—and this a big concern—tech problems could prevent you from accessing your money. Or your account could get hacked. Those problems kind of already exist, but can you imagine if the Fed’s CBDC got hacked somehow? The American economy would crash. As you can see, the Fed still ...
Housing encompasses more than just the concept of "a house" itself. It includes the meme value of the right to housing, the renewable resource value of material ownership, and the finite resource value of spatial ownership. If everyone in society only strives to achieve the indicator of "the ...
Memecry: tracing the repetition-with-variation of formulas on 4chan/pol/ Sal Hagen & Tommaso Venturini ‘Think global, act local’: How #MeToo hybridized across borders and platforms for contextual relevance Jiyoun Suk, Yibing Sun, Luhang Sun, Mengyu Li, Catalina Farías, Hyerin Kwon, Shreeni...
Through self-deprecating humour, students create an inverse attention economy of competitive one-downmanship, where the goal is to display humorous failure instead of perfect appearance. Our analysis shows that students use humour to express, share, and commiserate over daily struggles, but als...
"I think over a couple of generations, humanity has proven that it can adapt wonderfully to major technological shifts," Altman said. "But if this happens in a single-digit number of years, some of these shifts ... That is the part I worry about the most." ...
s being used. The energy consumed is then analogous to the total amount of water poured over a certain period of time. If you go for 24 hours we will get a kilowatt hour of an hour of energy used by a 40 W lightbulb. The 3 kW kettle draws much more power – which is analogous ...
(reminiscent of those your mum might send you home with), the question ‘what are you cooking?’ that accompanies a fresh meat order to make sure you get the perfect cut, and the familiar tone they use to talk about food (“*that” Fanta - if you know, you know”) all make Oja ...
I’ve seen subtle warning signs, in meme form, travelling among people who I know are a good deal more compassionate than most. I hate the idea of kind people being drawn down that path, if only because they’ll probably end up regretting it. But also because the mere thought of it ...
Worse, perhaps, for the health of our public institutions, economy and the democratic rule of law, how long before this type of infantilizing meme-merchandising infects the body politic at the most basic level and in everyday ways?
• key climate studies • recent developments • influence humans and the petroleum industry have to impact the climate My draft presentation is here [SPE climate 2016]. It is a 60 minute talk; I’ve used about 2/3 of the slides before (the rest are new or updated). ...