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A *humanist technologist*, then, is someone who uses multidisciplinary skills to help organizations use or understand technology in order to improve personal and social conditions.
Being a Humanist Technologist
Ben Werdmuller
The origin of culture lies in community. Culture teaches symbolic values that found a community. The more culture becomes a commodity, the more it leaves its origin behind. The total commercialization and commodification of culture leads to the destruction of community. The 'community' that is so frequently invoked on digital platforms is a commodified form of community. Community as a commodity spells the end of community.
Non-Things
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
Hill stopped speaking in code: “You got thugging in the hood for Black people, and you got redneck records for white people.” That was just natural, a matter of water flowing downward—why fight gravity? “Your diversity is the radio dial, from 88 to 108. There’s your fucking diversity.”
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
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