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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 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…

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Bookmark Women Philosophers in the Twitter ‘Manosphere’ (or, that light-hearted Hume Tweet that…
This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…
As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

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Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…
As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

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Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic…

September 6 2022, 11:51am | Comments
Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic…

September 6 2022, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Did Covid Change How We Dream? - The New York Times
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Deirdre Barrett’s body was in bed, but her mind was in a library.…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Transformation and Transcendence in 1980s Body Horror ‹ CrimeReads
‘My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.’ These are the opening words of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Life After the Fourth Industrial Revolution
It’s 7 AM, April 13th, 2025. Your smart clock rouses you from a dreamless sleep and you climb from bed as your house comes to life. The bathroom light turns itself…

March 30 2021, 12:55am | 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
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Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker
“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts
This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate…
NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want to remember…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece
The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Feminist Voices in Technology
Abbate, J. (2017) Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atkinson, P. (2011) Computer. London: Reaktion Books. Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Bridle, J.

October 27 2019, 1:48pm | Comments
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ok i'll bite what the FUCK do academics mean by "the body"

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Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic…

July 1 2019, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry
“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and…

July 1 2019, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark A Physicist Has Proposed a Pretty Depressing Explanation For Why We Never…
The Universe is so unimaginably big, and it's positively teeming with an almost infinite supply of potentially life-giving worlds. So where the heck is everybody?

June 7 2019, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…
A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

April 17 2019, 7:21am | Comments
Bookmark Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News
Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
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Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired.

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