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  Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose…

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  When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm,…

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• Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English

  The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

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• Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…

   THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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• 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…

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• Syllabus Cache An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First…

  This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators…

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• 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…

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  One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and…

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• Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time

  Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

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  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

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  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…

  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

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• Bookmark Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is |…

  The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

  April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

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  March 6 2022, 10:00am | 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.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark How Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Sex and Survival | The New Yorker

  In Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower” (1993), a climate-change Book of Exodus set in a scorched mid-twenty-twenties California, a preacher’s daughter named Lauren Oya Olamina tries to convince…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark How I'm Decolonizing My Sci-Fi Reading | Book Riot

  As bookish people, we are all mostly aware on some level that the diversity of the publishing industry doesn’t reflect the diversity of the country, much less the English-speaking world.

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

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  February 7 2022, 8:43am | Comments

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