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• Metafilter Nintendo Switch 2 finally revealed After unbearable levels of speculation and leaks, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 today, surprising nobody. Most of the leaked features were verified by the trailer, but in traditional Nintendo fashion the mysterious 'C' button was rendered blank. What could…

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• 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.

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• Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…

  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

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• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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• Bookmark learning from history and future of AI!

  in may 11, 1997, garry kasparov — the russian chess grandmaster — gave the final game against IBM’s deep blue supercomputer. a normal high-level chess game lasts up to four hours,…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News

  image copyrightClaire Simonin‎ / Ar ViltansouA French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades.

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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

• Bookmark ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men | openDemocracy

  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

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• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention

  Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

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

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• Bookmark Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier | New Scientist

  The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?…

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  Then a final over the top declaration

  

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• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

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• Bookmark Ancillary Mercy reviewed: The final novel in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch science…

  In an introduction to her 1969 science-fiction masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin sought to correct the assumption that science fiction is about the future.

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• Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…

  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

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• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

  October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Turkish TV station forgot to add special effects to a scene…

  Films are made with two key variables: time and money. Filmmakers also employ editors. We’ll be kind and say this Turkish TV show ran out of money and couldn’t afford to…

  May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificial stupidity can be just as dangerous as artificial intelligence.

  The day that science fiction writers have feared for so long has finally come—the machines have risen up. There is nowhere you can run and nowhere you can hide.

  April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments

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• Metafilter Nintendo Switch 2 finally revealed After unbearable levels of speculation and leaks, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 today, surprising nobody. Most of the leaked features were verified by the trailer, but in traditional Nintendo fashion the mysterious 'C' button was rendered blank. What could…

  January 16 2025, 8:36am | 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 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…

  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

  October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…

  Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 6 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark learning from history and future of AI!

  in may 11, 1997, garry kasparov — the russian chess grandmaster — gave the final game against IBM’s deep blue supercomputer. a normal high-level chess game lasts up to four hours,…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News

  image copyrightClaire Simonin‎ / Ar ViltansouA French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades.

  March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2020, 12:00pm | 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

• Bookmark ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men | openDemocracy

  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

  September 3 2020, 11:13pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 17 2020, 9:26am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

  August 8 2019, 5:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 20 2019, 10:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 17 2019, 9:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention

  Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

  February 1 2018, 9:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 3 2017, 5:09pm | Comments

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

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier | New Scientist

  The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Then a final over the top declaration

  

  January 13 2016, 7:55am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7

  The 3D Additivist Manifesto is a finalist for Screengrab 7 International Media Arts Award (Dec 2015 - Feb 2016)We’re excited and honoured to be among finalists for #Screengrab7: International Media Arts Award, on the theme of #Resistance:Screengrab7 contains works that not only interrogate the…

  December 29 2015, 11:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancillary Mercy reviewed: The final novel in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch science…

  In an introduction to her 1969 science-fiction masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin sought to correct the assumption that science fiction is about the future.

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Winning the War on Climate Change Will Require a Technocratic Revolution…

  As the 19th century entered its final decade, the War of Currents was nearing its peak. On one side of this war was Thomas Edison, who had invested heavily in direct-current…

  October 18 2015, 8:10am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2015, 7:42am | Comments

• Additivism Il ritorno del futuro

  Il ritorno del futuro A long piece - in Italian - about the current state of the future. With reflections on #Additivism, #Xenofeminism, #Chthulucene, #PostInternet: In true spirit of Marinetti, additivism chasing an ideal post-human to the edge of pornography; technological fetishism in their…

  October 5 2015, 10:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Turkish TV station forgot to add special effects to a scene…

  Films are made with two key variables: time and money. Filmmakers also employ editors. We’ll be kind and say this Turkish TV show ran out of money and couldn’t afford to…

  May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Artificial stupidity can be just as dangerous as artificial intelligence.

  The day that science fiction writers have feared for so long has finally come—the machines have risen up. There is nowhere you can run and nowhere you can hide.

  April 13 2015, 1:14pm | Comments

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