The 2016 U.S. presidential elections triggered emotions I had not felt for years. In 1998, Venezuela, where I’m from, elected a populist president who, like U.S. President Donald Trump, ran a campaign based on anti-establishment sentiments. Countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Nicaragua followed suit, and I began to wonder about the extent to which …
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Parlameter za dobro informirano javnost
Ekipa Parlameter, ki deluje v okviru inštituta Danes je nov dan, je zagnala spletno orodje Parlameter, ki z analizo glasovanj in transkriptov lajša spremljanje dogajanja v Državnem zboru. Orodje je namenjeno splošni javnosti, novinarjem in medijskim hišam, raziskovalcem in razvijalcem ter vsem, ki jih zanima delo Državnega zbora. Parlameter analizirane podatke vizualizira in predstavlja v …
Zakaj bi morali prepovedati robote ubijalce: Toby Walsh
Profesor umetne inteligence z Univerze Novega južnega Walesa Toby Walsh pojasnjuje, zakaj bi morali prepovedati robote, ki lahko kot avtonomno orožje locirajo, sledijo in uničijo tarčo. V svojem prispevku obravnava in ovrže pet tez, ki se običajno pojavljajo v prid argumentom razvoja takih robotov. Skupaj s svojimi kolegi je Walsh podpisnik odprtega pisma, v katerem pozivajo …
Nadaljuj z branjem Zakaj bi morali prepovedati robote ubijalce: Toby Walsh
Pregled dogajanj v EU – od begunske krize do parlamentarnih selitev
Na vrhu šefov držav in vlad EU v Bruslju so se prejšnji teden uspeli dogovoriti o nadaljnjih ukrepih pri spopadanju z begunsko krizo v Evropi (sodelovanje s Turčijo, povečanje pristojnosti in nalog agencije EU za zunanje meje Frontex). O prihodnosti Velike Britanije v EU niso razpravljali, ker britanski premier Cameron za zdaj še ni predstavil svojih zahtev, zato bodo o …
Nadaljuj z branjem Pregled dogajanj v EU – od begunske krize do parlamentarnih selitev
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"Danes je poglavitna bolezen uzbeške družbe strah." Kudrat Bobojonov, uzbeški novinar v izgnanstvu na Švedskem (Foreign Policy, 14. julij 2015)
TEDWomen 2015: Leaders with an eye for justice
"The number one abuse of human rights on earth is the mistreatment of women and girls." (Jimmy Carter)
On the Difference Between ‘Technical’ and ‘Tactical’ Spies | Longreads
O tehnično in taktično podkovanih vohunih.
In a recent piece for the New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson reviewed Half-Life, a biography of Bruno Pontecorvo, a brilliant nuclear physicist and possible spy. Pontecorvo spent six years working on nuclear reactors in Canada, where he may or may not have passed information on to Soviet contacts. However, according to Dyson—who is himself a world-renowned mathematical physicist— even if Pontecorvo had been a spy, the overall effect of his information wouldn’t have been hugely important. Perhaps some of it might have been useful to Soviet bomb designers, but it wouldn’t have been a game changer. Furthermore, the Soviets already had two technical spies (Klaus Fuchs and Ted Hall) relaying information from Los Alamos.
This is where Dyson brings up an interesting distinction: that between technical and tactical spies. As a layperson, I’d always presumed a spy is a spy; however, in Dyson’s view, technical and tactical spies belong in entirely different categories. He…
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