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Bookmark Nature Has Lost Its Meaning - The Atlantic
Humans were once a fairly average species of large mammals, living off the land with little effect on it. But in recent millennia, our relationship with the natural world has changed…

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark This is the biggest shift going on in artificial intelligence - Business…
But when Tech Insider asked 26 AI researchers whether AI has to mimic the human brain to be truly intelligent, many of them flat out said no.

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark Against Charity | Jacobin

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Metafilter "Maybe Big Brother isn't the bad guy -- if he protects us from ISIS." Transhumanist Presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan suggests microchipping Syrian refugees to aid the humanitarian effort. "Maybe Big Brother isn't the bad guy -- if he protects us from ISIS."

November 22 2015, 5:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal
In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments
Bookmark Get Ready for Your Digital Model - WSJ
Entrusting your money to a bank once seemed strange and risky. Similarly, entrusting all of your data to a company and letting its algorithms build a detailed model of you from…

November 21 2015, 8:31am | Comments
Bookmark What digital trash dumped in games tells us about the players |…
A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne, a bullet…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Life as a drone operator: 'Ever step on ants and never give…
When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark To Survive, We Must Go Extinct - Apocalyptic Terrorism and Transhumanism -…
I believe that the present century is the most precarious in which humanity has ever lived. On the one hand, certain emerging technologies are placing an ever-greater amount of power in…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Art Monthly : Events : The End(s) of Post-Internet Art
Richard Grayson, Morgan Quaintance & Maria Walsh chaired by Chris McCormack

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark 7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology | The Creators…
Paintings by the masters da Vinci, Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio are often accepted as absolute works. Today, we use mobile devices to capture these images, compressing them onto tiny screens, and…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark 'Prosthetic Tentacle' Invented As Alternative To Artificial Limbs (PICTURES)
Kaylene Kau from Taipei made the remarkable invention as part of a design school project. The limb would be able to grip many different objects by curling up with the help…

November 17 2015, 12:35pm | Comments
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November 10 2015, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Our stuff is burying us alive: Hoarding and the mountains of garbage…
Would you want to inherit your friends' stuff? Your valuables might mean just as little Look around the homes of loved ones whose objects you might at some future date have…

November 8 2015, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun? - The Baffler
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack |…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. In the mid-’90s, a computer program called Chinook beat the world’s top player at the game of checkers. Three years later, to much…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Climate & Colonialism | Public Seminar
It is possible that the climate wars have already started. The ‘aridity line’ is usually considered to be 200mm of annual rainfall. Below that, you have desert.

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Teaching machines to see and understand: Advances in AI research | Engineering…
Many people think of Facebook as just the big blue app, or even as the website, but in recent years we’ve been building a family of apps and services that provide…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Everything in the Future Could Be Made of Ants
Your future windows, walls, and possibly boats will be made of ants — or at least of an ant-like substance. New research shows why ants classify as both a solid and…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark e-flux journal 56th Venice Biennale – SUPERCOMMUNITY – Carolyn L. Kane
Plastics ... A Way to a Better More Carefree Life. Plastic, wrote Roland Barthes circa 1954, is “the first magical substance that consents to be prosaic.”2Roland Barthes, Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers (New…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments
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November 3 2015, 4:45pm | Comments
Bookmark THE HUMAN LAYER | More Intelligent Life
Is humanity’s impact on its environment so huge that the planet has entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene? The idea is gaining ground—and dividing scientists. Helen Gordon investigates

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark The AI that writes articles for you is now available for testing
Automated Insights has opened up beta access to Wordsmith, its platform for automating repetitive, time-consuming writing tasks using your data.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark 'Save the Planet, Kill Yourself': The Contentious History of the Church of…
On September 13, 1993, motorists driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike witnessed an unusual sight: A highway billboard for the Museum of Science in Boston had been covered by a ten-foot-by-ten-foot black…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Collyer Brothers brownstone, 1947 - Photos - Inside the Collyer brothers' brownstone…
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October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
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October 21 2015, 8:32am | Comments
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October 20 2015, 10:42am | Comments
Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…
Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

October 20 2015, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark She Kills People From 7,850 Miles Away - The Daily Beast
Anne crawled out of bed in her North Las Vegas house around 10 p.m. and started to get ready for her shift. She pulled her chestnut hair into a bun and…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments
Bookmark Readers Respond to Article on the Death of George Bell
One person, a self-described “lone wolf,” admitted that dying alone was his greatest fear. Another urged readers to consider the things that give life heft and depth, the things that keep…

October 19 2015, 9:04am | Comments

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