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  And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great…

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• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

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• Bookmark Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.…

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• Bookmark A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?

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  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

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  Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the…

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• Bookmark The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet - SAPIENS

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• Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…

  Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

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• 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…

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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

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• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

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  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

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• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

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• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

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  No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally. On the one hand, the…

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  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender

  And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great…

  November 23 2023, 3:37am | Comments

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  August 13 2023, 4:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

  You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.…

  A TIME article published recently calls for an “indefinite and worldwide” moratorium on new large AI training runs. …

  April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

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  April 17 2023, 2:15am | Comments

• Bookmark A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?

  This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?

  This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…

  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

  April 12 2022, 6:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - The Correspondent

  Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research

  You have full access to this article via your institution. Sci-Hub, the popular website that offers access to millions of pirated research papers and books, is no stranger to legal action.

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• Bookmark The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet - SAPIENS

  Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t.

  December 6 2021, 2:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…

  Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | 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

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

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• Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care

  We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

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• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

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  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…

  “I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

  October 15 2019, 7:31pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | 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

• 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

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

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• Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

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• Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…

  You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

  November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

  July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? -…

  No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally. On the one hand, the…

  July 10 2017, 10:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem is a Communist Committee | Article |…

  Stanisław Lem – according to Philip K. Dick, Lem was a composite figure created by a communist committee, photo: Elżbieta LemppIn September 1974, the FBI received a letter.

  June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’

  The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

  June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

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