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Bookmark Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America | The New…
When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President Trump during the Inauguration in January, many observers saw an allegiance…

March 7 2025, 3:55am | Comments
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Humans have always lived alongside monsters, both real and imagined. The etymological root of the word also gives us “demonstrate,” and monsters have always been used by humans to demonstrate the…

March 5 2025, 8:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Neural Networks - Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained | Towards Data…
Neural Networks – Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained

February 10 2025, 2:10pm | Comments
Bookmark Paul Taylor · Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins: AI Doomerism
Late last year, Rishi Sunak interviewed Elon Musk in front of an invited audience after the Bletchley Park summit on AI safety.

January 25 2025, 8:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture.

January 22 2025, 9:25am | Comments
Metafilter Nintendo Switch 2 finally revealed After unbearable levels of speculation and leaks, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 today, surprising nobody. Most of the leaked features were verified by the trailer, but in traditional Nintendo fashion the mysterious 'C' button was rendered blank. What could…

January 16 2025, 8:36am | Comments
Bookmark What are students using AI for? - by Spencer Lane Jones
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many posts about teaching writing in the age of AI! The Important Work is a space for writing instructors at all…

January 11 2025, 8:03pm | Comments
Bookmark A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler |…
Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the…

January 11 2025, 8:03pm | Comments
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Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose…

January 9 2025, 6:37am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Archival Images of AI Playbook
Archival Images of AI Playbook

December 4 2024, 12:18pm | Comments
Bluesky
Stop trying to make X happen

November 19 2024, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Essay as Realm - The Georgia Review
When I was nine or ten years old, my grandmother gave me a book full of so many random, interesting facts and tidbits of science and history I sometimes think it’s…

November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark No Human Being Can Exist | Online Only | n+1 | Saree…
How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend of mine was invited to…

November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments
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
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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
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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

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