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Metafilter MeFi: Do you want T-Rex leather? Lab grown T-Rex Leather made into purse to be sent to auction. Carefully announced April 2nd.Via Reddit

April 2 2026, 3:27pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

October 12 2025, 7:01am | 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 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 Quanta Magazine
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 The Zeitgeist of Doom - The Atlantic
Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

March 30 2024, 9:57am | Comments
Bookmark Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar? | Ars Technica
The term Luddite is usually used as an insult. It suggests someone who is backward-looking, averse to progress, afraid of new technology, and frankly, not that bright. But Brian Merchant claims…

March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments
Bookmark There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic
The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.

February 7 2024, 4:37pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Well, here's your viewing for the week decided. Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of…

February 4 2024, 3:46pm | Comments
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November 27 2023, 11:53am | Comments
Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review…
“Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Heroku | Application Error
For as long as I can remember, I’ve desired romantic relationships with boys, and then as I got older, men. Also for as long as I can remember, I’ve had sexual…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic
Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark The Next Frontier in Pornography | Tim Challies
It has long been claimed that pornography drives technology. This claim is over-stated, no doubt, but what’s clear is that pornography very quickly and cleverly takes advantage of new communication technologies.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
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October 27 2023, 12:35am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…
As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments
Bookmark Demystifying Generative Art - Editorial - Le Random — A Digital Generative…
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) develops a framework for appreciating and analyzing generative art through an investigation of the movement’s locus of artistic intent.

July 20 2023, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI Will Upend Election Season - The Atlantic
Artificial intelligence is already showing up in political ads. Soon, it will completely change the nature of campaigning. Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Goopification of AI - The Atlantic
Late one recent night, I enlisted GPT-4 to fix my life. I began by soliciting broad-strokes summaries of my journalistic interests and an expedited five-step protocol for breaking in raw-denim jeans…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate…
M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 'AI Apocalypse' Is Just PR - The Atlantic
Big Tech’s warnings about an AI apocalypse are distracting us from years of actual harms their products have caused. On Tuesday morning, the merchants of artificial intelligence warned once again about…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI - The Atlantic
A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark Milk Is an Evolutionary Marvel - The Atlantic
No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’s foremost experts on lactation, it…

July 4 2023, 9:51pm | Comments
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June 23 2023, 9:00am | Comments
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People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic
Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

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