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Bookmark The Essay as Realm - The Georgia Review
When I was nine or ten years old, my grandmother gave me a book full of so many random, interesting facts and tidbits of science and history I sometimes think it’s…

November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments
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
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November 27 2023, 11:53am | Comments
Bookmark How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history |…
Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

April 25 2023, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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(Plato hearing about the history of western philosophy) wow this really blew up

April 15 2022, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Operational Images - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux
Something new was happening in the world of images, something that the theoretical tools of visual studies and art history couldn’t account for: the machines were starting to see for themselves.

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times
Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | 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
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December 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
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November 1 2021, 10:57am | Comments
Bookmark Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ - The…
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know…

October 19 2021, 7:51am | 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 Why does the Universe exist at all? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Back in the plague year of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton changed the scientific world, discovering the universal law of gravity and the mathematics of calculus. Now, in the plague year of 2020-2021,…

July 30 2021, 11:51am | Comments
Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Universe Is a Self-Learning Algorithm | Universe History
In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms.

April 23 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA
Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Fossil evidence of mysterious 'southern Denisovans' yet to be found | Natural…
Island Southeast Asia contains one of the world's richest fossil records documenting human evolution. Some of these fossils date to at least 1.3 million years ago.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | 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
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August 17 2020, 11:53pm | Comments
Bookmark Capitalist Catastrophism | ROAR Magazine
Is Mark Fisher’s “capitalist realism” this generation’s “end of history thesis”? For nearly thirty years Francis Fukuyama’s contention that “Western liberal democracy” represents “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution” has…

August 9 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

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