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Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science
Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

July 30 2024, 9:32am | 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 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 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
Syllabus Cache Working with Zotero: from A to Z
In this document, you’ll learn many new tips for using Zotero, ranging from the fundamentals to advanced integrations, and discover the myriad ways Zotero can benefit, enhance and streamline your research. This guide was originally compiled for a…

May 4 2022, 8:33am | Comments
Bookmark False Futurism — Real Life
By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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August 1 2021, 6:29pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark 'Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic
For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Patricia Lockwood on Her Novel, No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This is out February 16. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. It didn’t happen all at once.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher
It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! We’ve got people shouting that the whole idea is an absurdity or an abomination, others…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

January 19 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future
Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Instagram Not ok, internet. Not ok.

July 26 2020, 12:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache MA Internet Equalities Reading List - Creative Computing Institute -…
We are very excited about our new MA Internet Equalities Course, which will explore how power relations are organized, embedded and perpetuated in internet technologies, and how they can be re-organized or challenged through critical, creative and activist…

June 23 2020, 8:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019
Afew years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments
Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

October 18 2019, 6:29am | Comments
Bookmark The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right | Chuang
In recent years, right-wing discourse has become more and more common on the Chinese internet, particularly among young people.

September 26 2019, 5:36pm | 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
Syllabus Cache Readings in AI Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

June 19 2019, 6:53pm | Comments
Bookmark A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl
This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks.

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze
‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography
AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Internet of Evil Draft Syllabus - Google Docs
HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

December 28 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes…
In May, a video appeared on the internet of Donald Trump offering advice to the people of Belgium on the issue of climate change. “As you know, I had the balls…

November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments

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