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Bookmarks: 2023-47

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Manu Magalhães
Manu Magalhães
Curious Cat

I decided to clear up all my bookmarks and store them in my blog.
Here's the first wave of unread links :D

Art || Design​

  • 🇬🇧 Susan Kare, the Pixel Queen
    She designed nothing less than the icons for the original Mac.
  • 🇬🇧 What if the Incas had invaded Europe?, by The Guardian.
    Review of the book Civilizations by Laurent Binet. " [...] he presents something that reads more like a collection of primary sources than a conventional novel. What to call it? A historical systems novel, preoccupied with the roots of great power conflict, and the historical forces that underpin it? Or just a jeu d’esprit? It’s a bit of both, and it’s tremendous fun."
  • 🇬🇧 Hope Gap (trailer), movie directed by William Nicholson.
    Recommended by @lorewilbe. "If you are a child of divorce, may I recommend this film? It's beautiful and heartbreaking and somehow a little bit healing too." Although I'm not a child of divorce, her description made me curious.
  • 🇬🇧 Top 10 hacking films of all time, by The Daily Swig.
    Not sure if those qualify as "art", but they might be fun for some.
  • 🇬🇧 The Art of Elsa Gramcko.
    I really enjoyed Arriba No. 27 and got curious about the painter. This article has an academic approach, though.

Science​

Maps​

Antropology || Psycology​

Society || Tech​

  • 🇬🇧 Who was Thomas Sankara?, by France24 English (10 min).
    I'm very curious about this man because of his extraordinary actions during his 4 year government (1983-1987) in Burkina Faso. Things like: banned female genital mutilation and forced marriage; literacy rates were raised from 13 percent in 1983 to 73 percent in 1987; over 2.5 million children were vaccinated against measles, meningitis, and yellow fever in just two weeks; 7,460 government primary health posts were built (almost one per village); planted 10 million trees, had an all-women motorcycle personal guard, and under his leadership, Burkina Faso was the first country in Africa to acknowledge the HIV/AIDs epidemic.
  • 🇬🇧 Palantir's God's-Eye of Afghanistan, by Wired.
    The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.
  • 🇬🇧 We need to talk about 'Cloud Neutrality', by Wired.
    A multibillion-dollar, privately-owned infrastructure is now essential to the modern internet economy. That should freak you out.
  • 🇬🇧 The Last Children of Down Syndrome, by The Atlantic.
    Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
  • 🇬🇧 Inside the Suspicion Machine, by Wired.
    Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.
  • 🇬🇧 The Internet was built for connection - how did it go so wrong? by The New Statesman.
    The World Wide Web celebrates its 30th birthday this year (2021). Its users are less empowered than ever.
  • 🇬🇧 People Over Robots, by Foreign Affairs.
    The Global Economy Needs Immigration Before Automation.
  • 🇬🇧 Rabbit Hole, podcast by The New York Times.
    Mini series explaining how social media radicalizes people.
  • 🇬🇧 Democracy and invisible codes: How algorithms are modulating behaviors and political choices, book by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira.

Theology || Christianity​

Career || Programming​