Warning: Contains strobing effects. A short animated documentary by Eryk Salvaggio on how AI image generation works, and the entanglement of composite photography,…
]]>This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.
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]]>I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows.Your favourite and mine Wombat/Kingfisher Ursula Vernon has released a short comic about the post-apocalypse on Twitter, using AI generated art.
]]>Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. Until a few weeks ago, Dan Olson had a pretty comfortable—if niche—thing going on YouTube.
]]>What if NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CloneX, and other such stupid crap were actually honest about what they were?
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The TikTok Cultures Research Network held its third virtual event TikTok Methodologies on 19 July 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Professor Patrik Wikström, and Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye.
The field of digital media research is rapidly expanding to include innovative and exciting TikTok research. As one of the most widely used digital short video platforms around the world, TikTok is a key social arena to study global youth culture, creativity, professionalization, and activism. This event was a critical forum for discussion on TikTok research frameworks and methodologies from emerging voices in the field.
]]>Horror movies played a huge role in my life and horror classics such as "The Shining," "The Exorcist," and "The Thing." are and likely always will be some of my favorite films of all time. But the horror genre has changed drastically. The plots are formulaic, remakes and reboots are the norm and the scares are dried up.
I'll always be a fan of horror movies, but if you are looking for some severe scares this Halloween, consider checking out a non-horror. A BBC produced Docu-drama from 1984 called, "Threads."
The most realistic and gruesome depiction of nuclear war and the price to be paid afterward are on full display in "Threads." (1984) And there are no shortages of terrifying scares.
With "Threads," (1984) if you know, you know. If you don't know and are on the hunt for scares and a shock to your system, look no further than "Threads" (1984)
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]]>At the moment, there is an abundance of scarcity. Companies complain that there are shortages of semiconductors, lumber, steel, plastics, chemicals, and other inputs and raw materials. The pandemic disrupted many international supply chains.
]]>Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to, well, just about anything.
]]>I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books and short stories you have read? I'll start with: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison American War by Omar El Akkad Bleakwarrior by Alistair Rennie And though they aren't scifi, most Cormac McCarthy books have made me wince at a few points. submitted by /u/SheedWallace to r/printSF [link] [comments]
]]>What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this class explores the equally compelling history of engineering and design projects that raise difficult questions, aid marginalized communities, address urgent social issues, or create new social conditions.We’ll talk to designers, artists, and engineers who work on issues of sustainability, power, health, education, and more. And we’ll run our own experiments in creative design work for the public good. The class includes significant reading, field trip(s) and guest lectures, short experiments, and a culminating project.We want you to witness and be inspired by the exciting, expansive fields of what are variously called social design, engineering for the public good, socially engaged art practices, and many other names. However, we also want you to be well versed in the many, many pitfalls of so-called “activist” work with technology—when it’s under-informed, poorly researched, focused on form and not on substance, it risks not only being ineffective, but can lead to actual harm. We take this risk seriously, so this course will have you mostly listening, learning, listening and learning some more, and, finally proposing—not carrying out fully-fledged projects in one semester. Trust us on this: We can have fun and be at play with ideas while also operating with due diligence as socially-minded engineers and designers. Humility and questions are your trusty companions here, your true north. We want to help you to lay a foundation; you will have many, many future opportunities to build the house.
]]>At around 8:00pm on the 24th of November 2009 John Edward Jones – an avid amateur caver – entered the Nutty Putty caves just south of Salt Lake City in Utah. He was accompanied by a large group of family and friends – it was, after all, just before Thanksgiving. The trip was intended to be a brief adventure that they could share before the holiday. What it turned into was a living nightmare that would cost John Edward Jones his life.
I tell the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters... but without sensationalism or disturbing imagery. Fascinating Horror is all about in-depth research, respectful storytelling, and learning what we can from the mistakes of the past. You might be surprised to discover just how much of today's world is shaped by long-forgotten disasters from decades gone by.
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Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of time. Life freezes in place.
]]>Eleven philosophy short-courses taught in Melbourne June - July. The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is proud to present the Winter School 2020 curriculum. All courses are 10 hours in length. All courses will be taught via Zoom.
]]>Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of time. Life freezes in place.
]]>Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.
]]>Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.
]]>AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects] Semi-related: OpenAI's GPT-2: the model, the hype, and the controversy (Towards Data Science), and Experimenting with OpenAI's Improved Language Model (short post on Medium), which notes "The public at large will need to become more skeptical of the content they consume online."
]]>What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).
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