“As it gradually tightens the loops in Twitter’s social fabric, the algorithm risks further insulating its users from people whose viewpoints run counter to their own—a phenomenon, already rampant on Facebook, that has contributed to the polarization of the American electorate and the Balkanization of its media.”
If Humans Are Special, As In Not Just Animals, What Does That Mean?
Scientists may try to define or explain this, says a philosopher, but only philosophers can really do the job. “Human beings live in mutual accountability, each answerable to the other and each the object of judgment. The eyes of others address us with an unavoidable question, the question ‘why?'”
It’s Utterly Ridiculous, From A Talent Point Of View, That We Don’t Have More Women Composers
The executive of the national charity for new music in the UK says, “Working with a more representative group of composers leads to a more thrilling variety of new music, more artistic innovation and also, perhaps, a positive and constructive challenge to an industry that can sometimes fall back on traditional ideas of what, or rather who, constitutes a composer.”