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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

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  No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’s foremost experts on lactation, it…

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• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

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  Word of the day is 'hingum-tringum' (19th-century Scots): feeble and barely presentable; just about hanging together.

  

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  My baby is 4 months old today, as I write these words. He’s been smiling for weeks already, but it has just started feeling like his smiles really mean something.

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  The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

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• Bookmark The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper

  Barrett Moore had ordered 2 million N95 masks, held enough freeze-dried food to feed families hiding from global Armageddon for decades, owned a small arsenal of guns, and fortified a pole…

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• Syllabus Cache Cyberfeminism Index

  Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the…

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  Movies are so well done. They genuinely don't feel like a rapid series of still images

  

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• Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…

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• Bookmark Coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form | The Outline

  To the well-known political, economic, and cultural revolutions that inaugurated capitalist modernity, we ought to add a fourth: a pharmacological revolution, one that began innocently enough with a variety of foreign…

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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

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• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

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• Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

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  The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our…

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  This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

  November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments

• Bluesky

  It feels like Bluesky has finally tipped over the shitposting barrier in the last 24 hours. And I for one am extremely pleased to be here.

  November 11 2024, 4:57pm | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2023, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak…

  There’s no confusing Ludovic Slimak for just another hotel guest. It’s a sweltering Sunday afternoon in late August and we’ve arranged to meet in the car park of a guesthouse on…

  September 12 2023, 7:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of 'model collapse' as AI trains…

  Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

  July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Milk Is an Evolutionary Marvel - The Atlantic

  No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’s foremost experts on lactation, it…

  July 4 2023, 9:51pm | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

  June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…

  An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…

  An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 14 2022, 2:24pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Worlds can feel shame.

  

  May 28 2022, 5:39am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  the weirdest part of the culture war is that both sides feel like they’re losing

  

  May 2 2022, 8:27pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Word of the day is 'hingum-tringum' (19th-century Scots): feeble and barely presentable; just about hanging together.

  

  November 22 2021, 2:40am | Comments

• Bookmark TNR_brand monogram_black

  My baby is 4 months old today, as I write these words. He’s been smiling for weeks already, but it has just started feeling like his smiles really mean something.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials | The…

  The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

  August 17 2021, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper

  Barrett Moore had ordered 2 million N95 masks, held enough freeze-dried food to feed families hiding from global Armageddon for decades, owned a small arsenal of guns, and fortified a pole…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Cyberfeminism Index

  Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the…

  October 22 2020, 11:59am | Comments

• Twitter

  Movies are so well done. They genuinely don't feel like a rapid series of still images

  

  October 7 2020, 2:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…

  We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

  July 26 2020, 12:13pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 1 2020, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form | The Outline

  To the well-known political, economic, and cultural revolutions that inaugurated capitalist modernity, we ought to add a fourth: a pharmacological revolution, one that began innocently enough with a variety of foreign…

  April 10 2020, 7:54am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today

  Ask yourself the following: Would you feel confident taking an over-the-counter medication if you were 98 percent sure it would work safely? Would you dare to gamble all your savings in…

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme

  As the decade began, there were rea­sons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history

  Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like…

  October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

  July 7 2019, 8:54pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Mark Fisher, on RWM podcast, 2012

  Mark Fisher is a writer, teacher and theorist living in Suffolk, England. His k-punk blog has been a well respected resource for cultural analysis on the web since its launch in 2003. In 2009, he published his first…

  May 2 2019, 9:45am | Comments

• Bookmark Annihilation and How the Movie Understands Depression

  Let’s talk about what it means to destroy yourself. In the relatively short time I’ve been alive, I have made an art out of self-destruction. I’ve placed myself in frightening situations…

  April 18 2019, 1:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dystopias Now • Commune

  The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins. Dystopias are the flip side of utopias. Both of them express feelings about our shared future; utopias express our…

  November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

• Instagram Today I am boarding a flight to Brasil, where I will speak at @picnicbrasil festival…

  October 29 2018, 6:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…

  This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Instagram TFW the #Frieze updates start hitting my feed

  October 4 2018, 1:09pm | Comments

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