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Bluesky
It feels like Bluesky has finally tipped over the shitposting barrier in the last 24 hours. And I for one am extremely pleased to be here.

November 11 2024, 4:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
Emulations of photography generated by artificial intelligence are beginning to look so convincing that they can no longer be distinguished from images made by a film camera.

October 10 2024, 4:47pm | Comments
Bookmark Why You May Never See the Documentary on Prince by Ezra Edelman…
Dig, if you will, a small slice of Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour documentary about Prince — a cursed masterpiece that the public may never be allowed to see.

September 16 2024, 9:47pm | Comments
Bookmark The dark enlightenment comes to Washington
The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

September 16 2024, 9:47pm | Comments
Bookmark Unreal
The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

September 16 2024, 12:48pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: The Prince We Never Knew Ezra Edelman has made a nine-hour documentary about the complicated life and passing of the musician Prince, but disputes with the late artist's estate over his portrayal may mean it might never be seen.

September 8 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination…

September 7 2024, 7:12am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories – VICE
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

August 14 2024, 8:27am | Comments
Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries
Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

August 14 2024, 8:27am | Comments
Bookmark How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? | The…
I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell…

August 2 2024, 1:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

August 2 2024, 8:28am | Comments
Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science
Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

July 30 2024, 9:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Case for Speculative Fiction, According to Author N.K. Jemisin
To my own shame, I have become a jaded reader in recent years. By this I mean that my enthusiasm and curiosity, my drive to experience new worlds, have all been…

July 25 2024, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark What Was the “Paradigm Shift”? | The New Republic
When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm,…

June 15 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark How Tone of Voice Shapes Your Classroom Culture How Teacher Tone of…
It’s no easy task, but developing your tone of voice can build trust, reduce conflict, and set the stage for more learning in your classroom, research shows. Using your voice to…

June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…
I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Institute of Network Cultures | Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect…
Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the…

April 26 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl,…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays
It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital technologies from our everyday experiences.

April 3 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The Zeitgeist of Doom - The Atlantic
Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

March 30 2024, 9:57am | Comments
Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus
Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

March 29 2024, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark A Virtual Reality Sex Worker Was Denied Entry to the U.S. for…
Hex makes a living in virtual reality. She’s an online sex worker, hosting shows and posting photos and videos from social VR platform VRChat to her Fansly account, a subscription site…

March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The…
Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a…

March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English
The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar? | Ars Technica
The term Luddite is usually used as an insult. It suggests someone who is backward-looking, averse to progress, afraid of new technology, and frankly, not that bright. But Brian Merchant claims…

March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments
Bookmark Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then…

March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments
Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Bookmark AI and Indigenous Languages
It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at…

February 19 2024, 4:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments
Bookmark There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic
The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.

February 7 2024, 4:37pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Well, here's your viewing for the week decided. Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of…

February 4 2024, 3:46pm | Comments

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