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from my link log —
Meritocracy is not only false, it's bad for you.
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you
saved 2020-07-24

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life—money, power, jobs, university admission—should be distributed according to skill and effort.

Arbor Neuroscience CEO Philip Sabes tells Shanghai BCI symposium that prediction is the neuromodulation bottleneck https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-philip-sabes-arbor-neuroscience-shanghai-bci-inno-salon-fudan-fores…

Arbor Neuroscience CEO Philip Sabes tells Shanghai BCI symposium that prediction is the neuromodulation bottleneck
Philip Sabes, a Neuralink founding scientist (2017 to 2020) and now CEO of Arbor Neuroscience, delivered a keynote at the BCI Inno+ Salon International Symposium on Brain-Computer Interface in Shanghai on 14 September 2026. His stated thesis was that the real bottleneck in neuromodulation is prediction: because clinicians cannot reliably predict what will happen after brain stimulation, treatment outcomes are inconsistent. Sabes summarised current practice as 'poke and hope' and positioned Arbo…

Long after his death in 2010,
Howard Zinn's books and speeches
are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and fundamentalist politicians.
In 2020, Trump called out Zinn by name from the White House lawn,
smearing Zinn’s work as “propaganda… that tries to make students ashamed of their own history.”
So, who was Howard Zinn?
And why are his critics so determined to keep his work from the public?
In this live event, hosted at…

MAGA wants to ban his books. Who was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why the right people fear what Zinn has to teach us.

Erinnert ihr euch noch, 2020 , als Masken für viele Teufelszeug waren? KI macht vieles möglich 🤣

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Key Matchups: Raiders chasing first win at SoFi Stadium since 2020 https://www.raiders.com/news/key-matchups-raiders-chasing-first-win-at-sofi-stadium-since-2020

Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/ai-infrastr…

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia's dominance | TechCrunch
The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Welcome to the mid-2020's. Yet again, parody news site describes current events more accurately than mainstream media.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/tech-oligarchs-agree-calling-ai-too-dangerous-way-…

Canadian investors ditched U.S. stocks at a record pace in July
Canadians sold $31-billion worth of U.S. stocks and equity funds that month, according to Statistics Canada, the largest monthly net exodus from American markets ever, topping even the sudden pullback that occurred in March, 2020
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what is going on.... I
#USA #CANADA

How Maxx Crosby went from being ‘murdered by own fan base’ to Raiders fan favorite https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-maxx-crosby-went-from-being-murdered-by-own-fan-base-to-raiders-fan-favorite-38…

Why The Giants Will Beat the Cowboys, Why They Won't and a Prediction https://www.si.com/nfl/giants/onsi/why-the-giants-will-beat-the-cowboys-why-they-won-t-and-a-prediction-01m25r96r48y

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Carcassonne von The Coding Monkeys läuft selbst auf der iPadOS 27 Beta weiterhin problemlos. 🎉
Die App erschien im Juni 2010. Obwohl sie 2020 aus dem Store flog, sichert Version 4.40 bis heute den Zugriff via Kaufhistorie.
In unserer Familie ist es das meistgespielte digitale Spiel überhaupt. Sehr schade, dass dieser Klassiker nicht mehr verkauft wird.
Danke an @…

Estaba leyendo ahora sobre Encarna Sšnchez, la famosa periodista de #EncarnaDeNoche
El artículo estš un poco anticuado, pero resulta interesante en tanto que creo que es desconocido que era lesbiana
Luces y sombras de Encarna Sšnchez

#E-Bikes sind in Deutschland deutlich verbreiteter als noch vor wenigen Jahren.
Laut einer E.ON-Umfrage besitzen 31,4 Prozent der Erwachsenen ein Elektrorad. 2020 waren es 15,2 Prozent. Besonders hoch ist die Verbreitung in ländlichen Regionen. Rund 40 Prozent der E-Bike-Besitzer nutzen ihr Rad auch als Alternative zum Auto.

E-Bike-Boom: Fast jeder Dritte in Deutschland besitzt ein Elektrorad
Laut einer E.ON-Umfrage besitzen 31,4 Prozent der Erwachsenen ein E-Bike. Seit 2020 hat sich der Anteil mehr als verdoppelt – besonders auf dem Land boomt es.

from my link log —
Microsoft Pluton: a security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs.
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-secur…

Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs | Microsoft Security Blog
In collaboration with leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., we are announcing the Microsoft Pluton security processor. This chip-to-cloud security technology, pioneered in Xbox and Azure Sphere, will bring even more security advancements to future Windows PCs and signals the beginning of a journey with ecosystem and OEM partners.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Deshaun Watson hasn't been good since 2020, why the Browns still need a 2027 QB plan

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-the-browns-still-need-a-2027-q…

„Im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie spendete sie im April 2020 eine Million US-Dollar für die Forschung am Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Im November 2020 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass #Parton|s Spende maßgeblich zur Entwicklung des Moderna-Impfstoffs beigetragen habe.“

Trump's DNI pick Jay Clayton won't tell senators Biden won the 2020 election (Justin Papp/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/trump-dni-jay-clayton-senate-2020-election.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p74#a260715p74

from my link log —
Land of monopolists: private equity 'roll-ups' hit virtually everything.
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-land-of-monopolists-from-portable
saved 2020-07-12

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-2020-election-georgia-fulton-artificial-intelligence-fbi
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p75#a260715p75

#Solarstrom hat in Deutschland zwischen 2020 und 2025 nach Berechnungen des BSW-Solar fossile Energieimporte im Wert von rund 20 Milliarden Euro ersetzt.
Zudem wurden durch die erzeugte Strommenge erhebliche #Treibhausgas-Emissionen vermieden.
Auf Basis von UBA-Schätzungen summie…

Hunderte Milliarden Euro an Klimaschäden durch deutschen Solarstrom gespart
Schätzungen zufolge hat Solarstrom in Deutschland Klimaschäden und Treibhausgase massiv reduziert, besonders in den vergangen fünf Jahren.

#Tatort - Es lebe der König! - #ARD #mdr #WDR
#krimi #crimi