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An interview with Jens Walter (Professor and Doctorate in Microbiology) by the woman who debunks social media food-myths (Ann Reardon)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31675191

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Video essay on how the hyper-focus in design on convenience and concealing the inner workings of things in everything can influence people individually and society more broadly.

Chapter links

• 00:00 Intro
• 1:12 Seamlessness=Thoughtless Reflex
• 3:20 Limbic Capitalism
• 5:58 Connection Breakdown
• 8:08 Sponsor Skip
• 9:23 Convenient Flattening
• 11:37 Non-Places
• 12:41 Destruction of Curiosity
• 15:01 Destruction of Personal Agency & Relationships
• 19:30 Convenience is NOT the Highest Virtue of Design
• 23:25 The Age of Empathy

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Mozilla has been going on a product ending spree over the past few months and another project has entered there sites, Orbit, the AI summarizer extension that entered beta 8 months ago.

You sure you trust VPN providers? Would it not be better to make your own VPN?

Thought this was interesting primarily for the section on providing dedicated servers while winding down/removing official servers in some(all?) regions.

Apple usually doesn't miss. But when it comes to AI they've dropped the ball in a very public way. In this episode we see the messy events behind the scenes from a lack of leadership to in-fighting to engineers quitting.

In Alex and Paul Cannon’s comedic short, starring Chris Gethard, a dad struggles to give an age-appropriate explanation of the expletive

What does it take to gaze through time to our universe’s very first stars and galaxies?

NASA answers this question in its new documentary, “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope.” The agency’s original documentary, which chronicles the story of the most powerful telescope ever deployed in space, was released Wednesday, June 11.

Cosmic Dawn offers an unprecedented glimpse into the delicate assembly, rigorous testing, and triumphant launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The documentary showcases the complexity involved in creating a telescope capable of peering billions of years into the past.

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