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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 Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
Emulations of photography generated by artificial intelligence are beginning to look so convincing that they can no longer be distinguished from images made by a film camera.

October 10 2024, 4:47pm | Comments
Bookmark Why You May Never See the Documentary on Prince by Ezra Edelman…
Dig, if you will, a small slice of Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour documentary about Prince — a cursed masterpiece that the public may never be allowed to see.

September 16 2024, 9:47pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: The Prince We Never Knew Ezra Edelman has made a nine-hour documentary about the complicated life and passing of the musician Prince, but disputes with the late artist's estate over his portrayal may mean it might never be seen.

September 8 2024, 12:32pm | 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
Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments
Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought - Nerdist
In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine
But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
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Metafilter MeFi: It isn't lost and it isn't a masterpiece Apparently back in 1975, Graham Chapman of Monty Python and Douglas Adams not quite yet of Hitchhiker's Guide wrote a television show. It's an incomprehensible mess that's entirely worth watching. Out Of The Trees [32m]

September 26 2023, 12:43pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First…
This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators…

July 12 2023, 6:33am | Comments
Bookmark Women Philosophers in the Twitter ‘Manosphere’ (or, that light-hearted Hume Tweet that…
This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate…
M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock
Ok this is kind of incredible: Brick Technology built a solar-powered Lego clock that will keep time for a billion years.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi…
One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried…
On May 30, a research organization called the Center for AI Safety released a 22-word statement signed by a number of prominent "AI scientists," including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI;…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | 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 age of average — Alex Murrell
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | 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 The age of average — Alex Murrell
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

April 18 2023, 12:52am | 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, 12:52am | 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 Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 7:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
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Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 5:53am | Comments
Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…
You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

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, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Experts to World: We’re Doomed
A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 1:53am | Comments

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