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Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments
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Humans have always lived alongside monsters, both real and imagined. The etymological root of the word also gives us “demonstrate,” and monsters have always been used by humans to demonstrate the…

March 5 2025, 8:55pm | Comments
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Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose…

January 9 2025, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories – VICE
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

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Bookmark ‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is…
At a recent “hoarding panel” meeting in east London, Daniel Pearson, commander for Shadwell and Whitechapel fire stations, played attenders a recording of a 999 call in which a panicked resident…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.
Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments
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OCTAVIA BUTLER LIVED the last seven years of her life in a modest midcentury home in Lake Forest Park, a bedroom community northeast of Seattle.

December 12 2022, 6:54am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Creative and/or weird uses and abuses of Twitch streaming I am interested in innovative, creative uses and/or abuses of the Twitch streaming platform. Streamers who have used the platform as a creative medium, regardless of its (main) intention as a place for game streaming. Art and performance are what come to mind,…

November 17 2022, 7:11am | 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
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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March 21 2022, 1:00pm | Comments
Bookmark If everyone lived in an 'ecovillage', the Earth would still be in…
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Mystery of Why Our Ancestors Left Africa - The Atlantic
On a searing-hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses and thistles stretches into the distance. Far on the horizon, the mountains…

November 2 2021, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…
At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
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September 4 2021, 7:41pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’
The phrase Jay Inslee used was “permanent emergency.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt
‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du…

June 8 2021, 11:55am | Comments
Bookmark 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says | Live…
The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent —…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Scientists grow human-neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishes | Live Science
Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Joyful Militancy | The Anarchist Library
To survive. Just keep it alive Like the moment when I first heard Gil Scott-Heron, I knew upon first read that I would return to this book.

March 3 2021, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark What do we know about the lives of Neanderthal women? | Aeon…
The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark Parasite-inspired drug delivery system could be the future of medicine - BBC…
You based the technology on parasitic hookworms. Where did that idea come from? We’ve been trying to deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract, and that is a formidable challenge because the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark The Zoom Gaze — Real Life
Since the pandemic began, the seemingly mundane protocols of Zoom have become a significant part of many people’s daily lives: finding the right link, setting up the peripherals, managing the glitches…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
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September 11 2020, 1:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals
A quarter of the way through Kindred, I was longing to meet a Neanderthal. By the end, I realized that we had met. She is in me — or at least,…

August 19 2020, 7:13am | 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 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 The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism — Course Out Now!…
Following our one-hour promo chat from the other day, I’m very excited to announce that The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism, a collaborative course written by James ‘@meta_nomad‘ Ellis and myself is now live at teachable.com.

July 24 2020, 12:59pm | Comments

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