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• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

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  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

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  For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

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• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

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  The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

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  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Metafilter MeFi: Too many cows Boundary violation in Minecraft "Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely…

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  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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• Bookmark The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow…

  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

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  In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

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  When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

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• Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

  October 12 2025, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

  August 14 2024, 8:27am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

  March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark AI and Indigenous Languages

  It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at…

  February 19 2024, 4:42pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Well, here's your viewing for the week decided. Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of…

  February 4 2024, 3:46pm | Comments

• Bookmark You’re wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories

  Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…

  For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

  July 6 2023, 11:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

  April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments

• Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything

  The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

  April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel

  Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

  April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments

• Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything

  The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Too many cows Boundary violation in Minecraft "Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely…

  June 15 2022, 5:15am | Comments

• Bookmark The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow…

  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow…

  The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs

  Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

  June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium

  In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

  June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  lovecraft : *sees something mildly strange* [choking back tears] this is exactly like non-euclidean geometry

  

  March 3 2022, 7:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth | WIRED

  The mouse didn't look like much. It had the same red beady eyes and white fur as any other laboratory mouse. Sure, its DNA had been tweaked to make it ideal…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 7 2022, 8:43am | Comments

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• Bookmark Extinction Politics // New Socialist

  In the wake of a decolonized and destabilized world order, the emergence of the idea of a global commons was consolidated in the 1970s in the context of attempts made by…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea

  Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | 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 All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…

  Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• YouTube

  June 28 2021, 5:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…

  When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

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