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• Metafilter MeFi: Another step towards children making LEGO AI autonomous killer drones BBC: Lego has unveiled Smart Bricks - tech-filled versions of its small building blocks - which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement. However, the new product range is causing unease among play experts, who say…

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• Bookmark Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays

  It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital technologies from our everyday experiences.

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• Bookmark Today's AI is artificial artificial artificial intelligence • The Register

  Workers hired via crowdsource services like Amazon Mechanical Turk are using large language models to complete their tasks – which could have negative knock-on effects on AI models in the future.…

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• Metafilter MeFi: It's not a glitch with the video, it's datamoshing (SLYT) "Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to…

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• Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED

  Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Effects – VIBE COHERENCE

  Peli Grietzer is a philosopher of literature who received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. His dissertation used machine learning theory to study forms of ambient meaning, like moods and…

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• Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED

  Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Effects – VIBE COHERENCE

  Peli Grietzer is a philosopher of literature who received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. His dissertation used machine learning theory to study forms of ambient meaning, like moods and…

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• Bookmark David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe · LRB…

  Not​ all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same…

  December 7 2021, 2:51pm | 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)…

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | 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…

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• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin - IEEE…

  Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency.

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

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• Bookmark Full liquid metal, now in 3D: re-visiting the freakin’ T-1000 walking out…

  If you’ve never seen James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day – either on the big or small screen – now’s the time to embrace this wonder of filmmaking and effects.

  March 25 2017, 7:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark All About Glitch: Datamoshing - Notes on Design

  In our second installment on Glitch Art we’re going to look at a type of glitch that is made using the compression artifacts from digital video called datamoshing. Datamoshing visual effects…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: Another step towards children making LEGO AI autonomous killer drones BBC: Lego has unveiled Smart Bricks - tech-filled versions of its small building blocks - which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement. However, the new product range is causing unease among play experts, who say…

  January 6 2026, 9:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays

  It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital technologies from our everyday experiences.

  April 3 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 23 2023, 3:04am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

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  November 15 2023, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Today's AI is artificial artificial artificial intelligence • The Register

  Workers hired via crowdsource services like Amazon Mechanical Turk are using large language models to complete their tasks – which could have negative knock-on effects on AI models in the future.…

  July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: It's not a glitch with the video, it's datamoshing (SLYT) "Datamoshing is a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don't. It's most noticeable between cuts and across motion. Datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to…

  June 14 2022, 7:13am | Comments

• Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED

  Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Effects – VIBE COHERENCE

  Peli Grietzer is a philosopher of literature who received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. His dissertation used machine learning theory to study forms of ambient meaning, like moods and…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED

  Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Effects – VIBE COHERENCE

  Peli Grietzer is a philosopher of literature who received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. His dissertation used machine learning theory to study forms of ambient meaning, like moods and…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 4 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe · LRB…

  Not​ all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same…

  December 7 2021, 2:51pm | 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

• YouTube

  September 23 2020, 4:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | 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

• YouTube

  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

  December 12 2018, 11:49am | 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

• Vimeo

  May 22 2018, 1:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin - IEEE…

  Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency.

  November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 2 2017, 4:41pm | Comments

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

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Full liquid metal, now in 3D: re-visiting the freakin’ T-1000 walking out…

  If you’ve never seen James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day – either on the big or small screen – now’s the time to embrace this wonder of filmmaking and effects.

  March 25 2017, 7:49am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 20 2017, 3:36pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  November 15 2016, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms…

  Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges…

  October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark All About Glitch: Datamoshing - Notes on Design

  In our second installment on Glitch Art we’re going to look at a type of glitch that is made using the compression artifacts from digital video called datamoshing. Datamoshing visual effects…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene

  It’s our 50th episode!  To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table.  We…

  October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments

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