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• Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED

  In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

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• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

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• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? 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…

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  Since the pandemic began, the seemingly mundane protocols of Zoom have become a significant part of many people’s daily lives: finding the right link, setting up the peripherals, managing the glitches…

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  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…

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• Bookmark Opinion | NFTs: What Are You Paying for When You Buy a…

  On March 13, Li Jin sold a GIF for $25,000. A link to the moving image, which was assigned a unique bit of code as proof of authenticity and stored on…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Why “the Mind Is Just a Computation” Is a Fatally Flawed Idea…

  The computational theory of mind (CTM) is the theory that the mind is a computation (calculation) done by the brain. That is, the mind works by rule-based manipulation of symbols, which…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Fossil evidence of mysterious 'southern Denisovans' yet to be found | Natural…

  Island Southeast Asia contains one of the world's richest fossil records documenting human evolution. Some of these fossils date to at least 1.3 million years ago. 

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• Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - Architecture - e-flux

  We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

  February 4 2021, 12:55pm | Comments

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  January 31 2021, 3:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like - BBC Future

  Their eyes met across the rugged mountain landscape of prehistoric Romania. He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps…

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED

  In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Make art against singularity

  

  January 2 2021, 10:03am | Comments

• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

  January 1 2021, 11:03pm | Comments

• Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? 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…

  December 23 2020, 10:31am | Comments

• Bookmark The Zoom Gaze — Real Life

  Since the pandemic began, the seemingly mundane protocols of Zoom have become a significant part of many people’s daily lives: finding the right link, setting up the peripherals, managing the glitches…

  December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: This Person Exists A website showing the real faces of real people used to train This Person Does Not Exist, without their knowledge or consent.

  December 9 2020, 1:37am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache How to Predict Culture in 2050?

  Milanote relies on JavaScript to do anything useful, please enable it and try again.

  November 29 2020, 6:36am | Comments

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  November 2 2020, 1:46am | Comments

• Bookmark An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried

  Human extinction. The coordinated release of various strains of a human sterilization virus.

  October 22 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache An Open P2P Resource for AI technology: Art, Academia and…

  An open knowledge list for all to add to, use, and share with others.

  October 14 2020, 11:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2020, 12:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life

  “If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

  October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The…

  Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor…

  October 4 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  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…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2020, 8:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

  August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 17 2020, 11:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs

  List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

  July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 4 2020, 6:34pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux

  We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

  June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

• Bookmark Watching ‘The Thing ’ at the End of the World | Vanity…

  You know the situation must be bad if they’re shooting at a dog. That’s how The Thing opens. And it’s how the thing, itself, operates: disarming us through false appearances. Because,…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

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