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Month: October 2019
’emerging organisations such as Momentum, the Five Star Movement, Podemos, France Insoumise and many others as “digital parties”, or “platform parties,” […] following the logic of the digital platforms of contemporary capitalism and mimicking operations like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.’
— https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/momentum-labour-online-digital-activism-social-media-party/
The man who coined it ‘failed to foresee’ the association with white supremacy.
‘In any case, the term caught on, and it has been embraced with particular zeal by the Google AI Quantum team.’
Riiiighht…
https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/
The BlackIce Mx looks super fun, an open hardware FPGA dev board. Someone was demoing the NES chips built on one, and Alan showed me an implementation of RISC-V. https://mystorm.uk/mystorm-opensource-fpga-hardware-blackice-mxusing-blackedge/
Given the stated potential of quantum computers, it seems worrying that they will be the playthings of wealthy states and corporations. Barclays recently used it for some financial application for example. The liberatory potential could be vast, but will it be used for those ends? Don’t want to be a crank, but I’m not feeling particularly hopeful…
Fuck off