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• 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…

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• Bookmark The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants |…

  Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view.

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• Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader

  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

  June 3 2020, 11:52am | Comments

• Reddit Would you rather have sex with a human sized fish or one of those tiny fish people find in sushi… submitted by /u/wouldyouratherGPT2 to r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [link] [comments]

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• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

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• Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution

  Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

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• Bookmark Crispr Can Speed Up Nature—and Change How We Grow Food | WIRED

  Although he worked on a farm as a teenager and has a romantic attachment to the soil, ­Lippman isn’t a farmer. He’s a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in…

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  The Whole Universe Wants to be a Machine':

  

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…

  A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

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• Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…

  A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

  November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context

  For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

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• Bookmark John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by…

  At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size,…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse - disinformation

  From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…

  A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

  May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism at Transmediale 2017

  Additivism at Transmediale 2017Some details about #Additivism events coming up in Berlin as part of Transmediale Festival, 2017:On the Far Side of the Marchlands Wednesday, February 1st (opening from 6pm) - March 26thErnst Schering Foundation with works by Morehshin Allahyari, Cathrine Disney, Keeley Haftner, Britt…

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• Bookmark Small brown pebble found on East Sussex beach is pickled dinosaur brain

  The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

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  The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past…

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  Can anyone suggest artists working with plant life or fungus, growing, breeding, cultivating?

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  Fig. 1: Illustration for Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-1869). Marco Saccaperni, 2011. I am filthy [Je suis sale]—writes Lautréamont—I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit.

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier | New Scientist

  The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?…

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• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

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• Bookmark Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women | Fusion

  I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it lets…

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  "BiteLabs grows meat from celebrity tissue samples and uses it to make artisanal salami." So proclaims the copy on BiteLabs.org, right under an all-caps call to action: EAT CELEBRITY MEAT.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

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• 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

• Twitter Favourites

  The ants in my apartment are my friends now

  

  May 24 2022, 9:10am | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants |…

  Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view.

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Black Anarchism Reader

  In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by…

  June 3 2020, 11:52am | Comments

• Reddit Would you rather have sex with a human sized fish or one of those tiny fish people find in sushi… submitted by /u/wouldyouratherGPT2 to r/SubSimulatorGPT2 [link] [comments]

  May 21 2020, 6:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  the year 2020? no one wants that

  

  October 15 2019, 1:41pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 17 2019, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution

  Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Crispr Can Speed Up Nature—and Change How We Grow Food | WIRED

  Although he worked on a farm as a teenager and has a romantic attachment to the soil, ­Lippman isn’t a farmer. He’s a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in…

  August 11 2018, 3:42am | Comments

• Twitter

  The Whole Universe Wants to be a Machine':

  

  July 8 2018, 2:26pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…

  A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

  November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…

  A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

  November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context

  For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

  September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments

• Bookmark John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by…

  At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size,…

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

  July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse - disinformation

  From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…

  A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

  May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism at Transmediale 2017

  Additivism at Transmediale 2017Some details about #Additivism events coming up in Berlin as part of Transmediale Festival, 2017:On the Far Side of the Marchlands Wednesday, February 1st (opening from 6pm) - March 26thErnst Schering Foundation with works by Morehshin Allahyari, Cathrine Disney, Keeley Haftner, Britt…

  January 17 2017, 3:03am | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 4 2016, 8:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Small brown pebble found on East Sussex beach is pickled dinosaur brain

  The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

  November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark A new dating sim highlights the pickup artist's ugly game of seduction…

  The dating sim has been experiencing something of a reexamining of late, finding itself in the broader public eye as iterations upon its core tenants are warped, distorted, and pushed past…

  October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache #Additivism plants and insects art

  Can anyone suggest artists working with plant life or fungus, growing, breeding, cultivating?

  October 6 2016, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark FILTH AS NON-TECHNOLOGHY | non

  Fig. 1: Illustration for Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-1869). Marco Saccaperni, 2011. I am filthy [Je suis sale]—writes Lautréamont—I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit.

  September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier | New Scientist

  The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

  June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Tate Series: Digital Thresholds: from Information to Agency (public event)

  May 17 2016, 7:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women | Fusion

  I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it lets…

  April 27 2016, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Guy Who Wants to Sell Lab-Grown Salami Made of Kanye West…

  "BiteLabs grows meat from celebrity tissue samples and uses it to make artisanal salami." So proclaims the copy on BiteLabs.org, right under an all-caps call to action: EAT CELEBRITY MEAT.

  April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments

• Additivism Accelerationist Art

  April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments

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