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Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs
List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments
Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck
Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

May 13 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic
Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

April 1 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox
No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Peter Turchin A Feminist Perspective on Human Social Evolution - Peter Turchin
Levels of inequality have changed dramatically during the course of human evolution: from the social hierarchies of our great ape ancestors to egalitarian small-scale societies of hunter-gatherers, and then to large-scale…

January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments
Bookmark We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change - The On…
As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the…

September 11 2019, 4:28am | 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
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June 15 2019, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark Political economy suggests that geoengineering is likely to be used
A QUARTER-CENTURY has passed since the first global climate-change treaty, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Humanity’s record of following through on its climate promises is dismal. The concentration of…

April 29 2019, 10:22pm | 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 BBC - Future - Why catastrophes can change the course of humanity
My father’s family came to the US in the 1930s, a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany. My life has gone well, and I suppose I should be grateful for the way…

April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments
Podcast Cache Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation, Climate Change and Societal Collapse // Acceptance…
“Getting busy with action can be a distraction from full acceptance of our predicament, where our predicament is that we don’t know. We don’t know what the best things to do are anymore and we don’t know whether…

March 10 2019, 8:04am | Comments
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February 13 2019, 6:17am | Comments
Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze
‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments
Bookmark You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes…
In May, a video appeared on the internet of Donald Trump offering advice to the people of Belgium on the issue of climate change. “As you know, I had the balls…

November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments
Bookmark The Uses of Disaster • Commune
Climate change is here. In the midst of the storm, an opportunity arises to break with capitalism and its vicious inequality. Let’s seize it while we can. The alternatives are unthinkable.

October 27 2018, 4:46am | 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 Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World…
RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | Beware Rich People Who Say They Want to Change the…
Society’s winners can seem so generous, until you consider what they’re really selling. “Change the world” has long been the cry of the oppressed. But in recent years world-changing has been…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark The End of the Line – A Climate in Crisis
The world of academia is starting to pick up on the concept that humanity is unknowingly cruising on a train ride to doomsday, a surefire encounter with collapse of society based…

August 11 2018, 3:42am | 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
Bookmark Solar Geo-Engineering Can't Save the World’s Crops - The Atlantic
Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once-outlandish idea that humanity should counteract climate change by releasing special gases into the stratosphere to…

August 9 2018, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark A groundbreaking study outlines what you can do about climate change. |…
Researchers in Sweden examined the possible steps that people can take to help tackle the climate crisis. Although a lot of resulting news coverage focused on the most effective action (having…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Bookmark The macabre world of mind-controlling parasites – Science & research news |…
The gruesome new field of neuro-parasitology could provide insights into the neurological basis for behavior and decision-making — By Conn Hastings Imagine a parasite that makes an animal change its habits,…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Colonialism did not just create slavery: it changed geology | Science |…
It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The swiftness of glaciers: language in a time of climate change |…
Language bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective ‘glacial’. I recently came across an old draft of my PhD dissertation on which my advisor had scrawled the…

April 4 2018, 8:08am | Comments
Bookmark Tourists are swarming Antarctica to see it before it’s gone | The…
“Join our team on this special voyage that equips leaders with resources and actionable solutions to become a part of a global force of change.” This isn’t the description for Doctors…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Classic Mario music but... cHAngED Super Mario Bros 2 with its music frequency table "reversed.". I'm not sure what that means exactly but it's certainly an, um, unique sound. The same thing done to Mario 3.

March 12 2018, 2:34pm | Comments
Bookmark But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? - The…
Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people don't care.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world…
When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full? If you were raised in the West, a meeting…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments

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