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Bookmark I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…
I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The…
Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a…

March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… |…
If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | 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
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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March 21 2022, 1:00pm | Comments
Bookmark False Futurism — Real Life
By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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January 21 2022, 9:00am | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | 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
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November 1 2021, 10:57am | Comments
Bookmark Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist | Infectious diseases…
The Covid pandemic has already turned life as we know it upside down – and no doubt prompted some people to want to leave the planet. Now a leading scientist has…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - YES! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus... Physical virology (SLNYT) Of all the pandemic questions bedeviling scientists, the one that Juan Perilla is asking might be among the strangest: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus, would it squish, or would it shatter?

January 27 2021, 6:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Dougal Dixon’s After Man, the Initial Pitch Document — Tetrapod Zoology
There can’t be many visitors here who are unaware of Dougal Dixon and his 1981 book After Man (Dixon 1981), the work which effectively started the entire Speculative Zoology (or SpecZoo)…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Collapse of Civilization reading list
This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

September 21 2020, 5:59am | 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
Bookmark Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal
I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be…

August 19 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong…
It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong…
It sounds like a sci-fi movie, or the weirdest series of Big Brother ever. Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
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July 25 2020, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers. Then I Became…
To hear more audio stories from publishers, like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. For years, one of the most smirked-at subspecies in the technology ecosystem was…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…
Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers. Then I Became…
To hear more audio stories from publishers, like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. For years, one of the most smirked-at subspecies in the technology ecosystem was…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark My degree show was cancelled – what can I do instead? The…
Everything’s shutting down, with public gatherings on lockdown and with art events cancelled across the board, what can art students do about the prospect of their degree shows being cancelled/postponed? Are…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Podcast Cache NaturSlime w/Ben Woodard
We interview Ben Woodard and discuss his work focusing on the Naturphilosophie, Schelling, Slime Dynamics, and especially Biopolitics in the wake of Covid-19. Interview by Dustin Breitling === Original video: https://m.soundcloud.com/diffractionscollective/naturslime-wben-woodard Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Wed Jun 3…

June 3 2020, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…
Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

May 17 2020, 8:23am | Comments
Bookmark The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future…
Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague…

May 17 2020, 1:23am | 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
Bookmark Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow | |…
The coronavirus pandemic is overwhelming to comprehend. There are now hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases. Tens of thousands have died. Nations are on lockdown as the disease continues to spread.…

April 10 2020, 7:54am | Comments
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