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  1. The German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) is calling for immediate and significant economic relief, particularly ahead of the coalition meeting schedul... news.osna.fm/?p=45502 | #news #accelerate #boost #business #competitiveness

  2. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  3. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  4. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  5. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

    #humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

  6. Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
    For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
    Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl

  7. My #toothbrush tells me, I should brush for 2 minutes. Being of normal hygiene, I brush mornings and evenings. In a year, that's 365 * 4 minutes = 24 hours and 20 minutes. That's an annual #productivity loss of €3650 assuming an hourly rate of €150.

    If we multiply the productivity loss of brushing by the world population (8266M) minus the British (70M), we get an annual global productivity loss of €29.9T

    Simultaneously, the #Stargate Project aims to spend $500B over 4 years to build more #OpenAI data centers. That's €106B/year.

    If we could just all stop brushing our teeth, we could #accelerate spam production by no less than 282 years every year! Something worth thinking about before embarking on that minty evening ritual.
  8. Some #southernEuropean #species #spread #northwards independently (=#biologicalcolonization) or establish there after human transport (= #neobiota), both favored by #globalwarming. Another option is synanthrope north expansion as in #jumpingspider #Pseudeuophrys #lanigera, since 1950s in #Germany, but originally from southwestern Europe.
    H.H. Goetzke & W. Federle (2021) studied the use of its leg pair 3 to #accelerate for #jumping

    ©#StefanFWirth 2025

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  9. The ultimate way to accelerate your innovation efforts comes from confronting what's holding you back, and understanding what will move you forward.

    That's what Embracing Mediocrity and Escaping Mediocrity are designed to do. Working together, both books provide you with powerful insight into your challenges and opportunities.

    Join the many others who have found the power of the insight they provide, in short, sharp, digestible shocks of insight.

    Learn more at mediocrity.jimcarroll.com

    Now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and direct from me!

    **#Innovation** **#Growth** **#Insight** **#Overcome** **#Accelerate** **#Progress** **#Unlock** **#Clarity** **#Breakthrough** **#Mediocrity**

  10. The ultimate way to accelerate your innovation efforts comes from confronting what's holding you back, and understanding what will move you forward.

    That's what Embracing Mediocrity and Escaping Mediocrity are designed to do. Working together, both books provide you with powerful insight into your challenges and opportunities.

    Join the many others who have found the power of the insight they provide, in short, sharp, digestible shocks of insight.

    Learn more at mediocrity.jimcarroll.com

    Now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and direct from me!

    **#Innovation** **#Growth** **#Insight** **#Overcome** **#Accelerate** **#Progress** **#Unlock** **#Clarity** **#Breakthrough** **#Mediocrity**

  11. "Humanity has endured for 1 million years for one simple reason: it is bound by limits. It is effectively regulated, and it is this regulation that lies at the heart of its genius.
    […]
    "Capital very quickly relied on the sciences, and this was not simply the result of cultural impregnation.

    "Classical science separates and analyses. All capital relies on this powerful process and adds to it control through quantification. A principle of devitalisation at the heart of modern technique.

    "This thanatocratic principle of capital, without which it is nothing, takes place in three stages: privatisation of the means, industrialisation of devitalisation, and being as a commodity."

    Thread in French: piaille.fr/@Ciriaco/1130836702 by @Ciriaco

    #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #agriculture #science #supremacy #climateBreakdown #globalHeating #digitalization #engineers #separation #data #climateCollapse

  12. "Technique is no longer some uncertain and incomplete intermediary between humanity and the natural milieu. The latter is totally dominated and utilized (in Western society). Technique now constitutes a fabric of its own, replacing nature."

    – Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Ethique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7

    #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes #agriculture

  13. "Reclaiming the use of digital devices at the receiving end does nothing to change the whole technical system. Digital technologies cannot be reclaimed, because they are the fruit of a mass society, of a society of experts, constituted of domination and exploitation, of complex and gigantic infrastructures from which citizens can only be dispossessed."

    Julia Laïnae, Nicolas Alep in "Contre l'alternumérisme", 2020

    #commoditization #commodities #acceleration #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #book #quote #quotes

  14. “The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood… Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behaviour.”

    ― Herbert Marcuse

    #entertainment #products #production #output #consumption #productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #acceleration #accelerate #technocriticism #quotes #capitalism #technique #technology #Marcuse #institutionsDeceive

  15. "It is not only its use, but #technology itself that already constitutes domination (over nature and over people), a domination that is methodical, scientific, calculated and calculating. It is not only after the fact, and from outside, that certain ends and interests specific to domination are imposed on technology - these ends and interests are already part of the constitution of the technical apparatus itself. From the outset, technology is an entire socio-historical project."

    #Quote from Herbert Marcuse, taken from his #book Industrialisation and Capitalism, 1964

    #technique #tech #progress #governance #technocriticism #ethics #engineering #science #quotes #AIEthics #digitalization #techEthics #productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #acceleration #accelerate #convergence #degrowth #governance #Industrialisation #Capitalism #Marcuse

  16. "Until degrowth becomes an urgent and imperative watchword, industrial capitalism will continue to interpret the demands of social movements as technical challenges".

    "We cannot be satisfied with improving the energy efficiency of data storage while Internet traffic increases exponentially. We cannot continue to deploy satellites en masse on the assumption that some of them will provide a better understanding of deforestation..."

    ~ Andreas Malm in "How to sabotage a pipeline"

    #productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #crush #acceleration #accelerate #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #quotes #degrowth #capitalism #book #engineering #improvements #technique #technology #Malm #extractivism #metals #energy #infrastructures