https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html

Twitter公布了对大量厉害国水军帐号，并提供了帐号相关资料及推文内容的下载。感兴趣的可以研究一下。

在传播理论中，信息并非“数据”或“输入”，而是“改变局面的差异”（a difference that makes a difference)。

Everything has been explained. There is nothing left to consider. The explanation can no longer be treated as a definition. The question: a description. The answer: not explanation, but a description and knowing how to consider it. Asking or telling: there isn't any difference.

The final elegance: assuming, asking the question. No answers. No explanations. "Why do you demand explanations? If they are given, you will once more be facing a terminus. They cannot get you any further than you are at present." The solution: not an explanation: a description and knowing how to consider it.

Experience a minute. Experience an hour. Can you experience a minute and an hour together, simultaneously, at the same time? This is an important question to ask.

No explanation, no solution, but consideration of the question. "Every proposition proposing a fact must in its complete analysis propose the general character of the universe required for the fact." The description, the proposition: not a definition, but a commission. "Understanding a commission means: knowing what one has got to do."

Any new style, any new life, any new world, is but a god where gods are no longer valid. "The god that one so finds is but a word born of words, and returns to the word. For the reply we make to ourselves is assuredly never anything other than the question itself."

"Our kind of innovation consists not in the answers, but in the true novelty of the questions themselves; in the statement of problems, not in their solutions." What is important is not "to illustrate a truth—or even an interrogation—known in advance, but to bring to the world certain interrogations . . . not yet known as such to themselves."

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in fantastic amounts of data, or in huge libraries filled with books. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative. Ask the most subtle sensibilities in the world what questions they are asking themselves.

— from By the Late John Brockman, 1969

最近比较集中的看了一些Art & Tech的东西，深刻地感觉自己的词汇库需要更新升级。那些所谓的“大词”实际上并不是一般词汇的高级替代，而是拥有其自身的语境和所指，其表现力常常要结合特定的理论和历史来体会。虽然，和字典的编纂者一样，我也认为使用基础词汇解释世界是一种美德和必要的思考训练，但那些生僻词汇中所蕴含的引申含义与附加的表现力也确实令人着迷。

这也提醒我们，“概念”总是在某种交互关系中才能被具体地理解。比如，当我们说mucosal immune system，想到的不仅是作为人体免疫第一道防线的粘膜，也有可能是指与以antibodies为核心的免疫观相对的另一种以训练与适应为核心的免疫观。

#工具Tool
https://www.mapchecking.com/
想知道某个地方可以站多少人？这个工具可以帮到你

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QPafzsUkz725XmSUPKLM4w

虽然这是一篇谈论「举报」与「自我审查」的文章，但可悲的是，这篇文章本身的文字与音频相比，也是经过自我审查的。

人工智能峰会上的双马会，至少说明了三件事：1. 马云不是visionary，最多算一个广告主。2. 嘴上对AI持低预期的，手上正加大对AI的研发投入；真的承认AI潜力的，反而更会担心由此产生的风险。前者其实比后者更相信AI，但也更狡猾和没有下限。3. 技术问题都是政治问题。

https://www.businessinsider.in/elon-musk-and-jack-ma-fight-about-ai-and-mars-but-agree-that-love-is-the-answer/articleshow/70892426.cms

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/FZz_r9aDLjsE2jpWc2XELw

马云： 我也不喜欢爬喜马拉雅山，有一天如果有电梯的话，我希望能够坐上电梯到喜马拉雅顶上看看。

从没想到，电梯也可以这么恐怖。马云，快闭嘴吧！

有不少的短视频作者都会在自己的视频里加一声“呼”、“啧”或者弹舌之类的短促声音。之前一直没有想明白是为什么，今天突然意识到，这就是“巴甫洛夫效应”啊，让你产生条件反射性的愉悦。（恩，都是狗啊）

为什么真实的东西吸引人？一个原因就是真实的东西细节是极其丰富的，它常常能让日常之物显现诱人的魅力。这种细节的丰富性是很难人工设计的。

#活动
9.13 广州最后的夏天，年轻的乐队要在客厅里演出。

四首诗，三首是AI写的。读到“近海川原薄，人家本自稀”就觉得不是AI能写出来的，结果确实也是这样，只是还暂时说不出个中原因。

最近总是不知道如何给别人建议。比如，如果单位的行政人员消极怠工，你到底是要建议她装可怜搏同情，还是据理力争？前者毫无原则，后者后患无穷。太难了。

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!