#information · Louche Cannon

William Davies · Antimarket: Capitalism Decarbonised

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:30:05 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/william-davies/antimarket

Hence the enthusiasm for projects such as the not-for-profit Open Library of Humanities, set up by Birkbeck academics in 2013, which now publishes 33 open access journals per year. When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism.

Read it never... — (recur think)

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:13:51 +0200

Bookmarked https://prertik.com/read-it-never

maybe I should stop using pinboard….

How Claude Shannon Invented the Future | Quanta Magazine

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:01:50 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the rate of text messages possible if sending 100 letters per minute. It is one of 26100 messages every minute, not 26100.

How the Index Card Cataloged the World - The Atlantic

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:58:42 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/

Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything. An Object Lesson.