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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

  March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

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  March 13 2020, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures

  While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

  February 14 2020, 5:36am | Comments

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  January 31 2020, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark What does it mean to be human? - Digg

  Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith…

  January 22 2020, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

  January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments

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  January 12 2020, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean -…

  It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! 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]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale

  Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction…

  November 11 2019, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs

  If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method. First, take some…

  November 7 2019, 8:51am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

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  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium

  In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book of Prince | The New Yorker

  On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted to write. He was looking for a collaborator. Paisley Park is…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: The Book of Prince "Now, let me stop you right there," Prince said. "Why did you write that?" It occurred to me that he might have flown me in from New York just to tell me that I knew nothing of his work. "The music I make…

  September 3 2019, 2:33pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

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  The AI voice that I hear is the voice of the total entelechy of the universe itself.

  

  September 1 2019, 4:37pm | Comments

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  What we've got here is a failure to destroy.

  

  August 22 2019, 10:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

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  April 2 2020, 9:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…

  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

  March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

  March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments

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  March 13 2020, 7:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures

  While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

  February 14 2020, 5:36am | Comments

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  January 31 2020, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark What does it mean to be human? - Digg

  Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith…

  January 22 2020, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

  January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Is AI ok?

  

  January 12 2020, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean -…

  It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! 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]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale

  Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction…

  November 11 2019, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs

  If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method. First, take some…

  November 7 2019, 8:51am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | Comments

• Bookmark Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

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  October 8 2019, 7:00am | Comments

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  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Podcast Cache AI Is A Growing Part Of The Criminal Justice System. Should We…

  From facial recognition to emotion detection to risk assessments, AI is guiding the decisions of police departments and courtrooms across the country. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-intelligence-is-a-growing-part-of-the-criminal-justice-system-should-we-be-worried/

  September 15 2019, 3:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Casey REAS - Medium

  In the art market, almost everything sold is an object such as a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or a photograph, but there are some exceptions. These deviations may…

  September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Book of Prince | The New Yorker

  On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted to write. He was looking for a collaborator. Paisley Park is…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: The Book of Prince "Now, let me stop you right there," Prince said. "Why did you write that?" It occurred to me that he might have flown me in from New York just to tell me that I knew nothing of his work. "The music I make…

  September 3 2019, 2:33pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

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  The AI voice that I hear is the voice of the total entelechy of the universe itself.

  

  September 1 2019, 4:37pm | Comments

• YouTube

  September 1 2019, 5:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  What we've got here is a failure to destroy.

  

  August 22 2019, 10:14pm | Comments

• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

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