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• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

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  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New…

  It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News

  Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

  February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments

• Additivism May 18 Transmediale 2017 In February Transmediale celebrated its...

  January 29 2019, 2:43am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice

  examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

  January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic

  It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last…

  December 28 2018, 6:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - The New York…

  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human…

  December 19 2018, 10:30am | Comments

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• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

  December 12 2018, 11:49am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache #654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis…

  I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future,…

  November 28 2018, 10:10am | Comments

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  November 20 2018, 5:01am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources

  Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve been dabbling in this field, so I thought of curating the best resources in one…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources

  Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve been dabbling in this field, so I thought…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast |…

  Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

  November 2 2018, 12:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism

  IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire.

  October 26 2018, 7:51pm | Comments

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  October 24 2018, 5:11pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)

  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

  October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments

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  Psychogenic Death is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

  

  October 9 2018, 12:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction -…

  At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…

  The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What Spotify's DNA-Test Playlist Gets Wrong About Genetic Ancestry - The Atlantic

  Genetic-ancestry tests are having a moment. Look no further than Spotify: On Thursday, the music-streaming service—as in, the service used to fill tedious workdays and DJ parties—launched a collaboration with AncestryDNA.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

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  March 28 2019, 9:40am | Comments

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  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Songs where the singer refers to their own name (and are called Steve) I have long admired the line in Stevie Wonder's 'Please Don't Go' where he sings: "Baby, please don't leave, don't leave Steve." I recently came across a song by Steve Monite, 'Only You', where he refers to himself (Steve) a lot, and it…

  February 27 2019, 4:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 13 2019, 6:17am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New…

  It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…

  What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News

  Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

  February 4 2019, 6:52pm | Comments

• Additivism May 18 Transmediale 2017 In February Transmediale celebrated its...

  January 29 2019, 2:43am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice

  examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

  January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Bookmark Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic

  It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last…

  December 28 2018, 6:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? - The New York…

  Our species possesses inherent value, but we are devastating the earth and causing unimaginable animal suffering. There are stirrings of discussion these days in philosophical circles about the prospect of human…

  December 19 2018, 10:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 13 2018, 9:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

  December 12 2018, 11:49am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 5 2018, 9:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 1 2018, 1:34pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache #654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis…

  I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future,…

  November 28 2018, 10:10am | Comments

• Twitter

  artificially intelligent gaming rigs mining bitcoin on a dead planet

  

  November 20 2018, 5:01am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources

  Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve been dabbling in this field, so I thought of curating the best resources in one…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources

  Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve been dabbling in this field, so I thought…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast |…

  Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

  November 2 2018, 12:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism

  IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire.

  October 26 2018, 7:51pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 24 2018, 5:11pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)

  We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

  October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Twitter

  Psychogenic Death is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

  

  October 9 2018, 12:50pm | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…

  Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction -…

  At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…

  The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What Spotify's DNA-Test Playlist Gets Wrong About Genetic Ancestry - The Atlantic

  Genetic-ancestry tests are having a moment. Look no further than Spotify: On Thursday, the music-streaming service—as in, the service used to fill tedious workdays and DJ parties—launched a collaboration with AncestryDNA.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

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