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Metafilter Ocarina of Time versus GTA VI It's official: Nintendo is releasing a 'reborn' version of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (OOT) for the Switch 2. Often considered the greatest, and certainly the most generously reviewed game of all time, Nintendo have long been rumoured to be…

June 10 2026, 8:00am | Comments
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…

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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
Bookmark Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America | The New…
When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President Trump during the Inauguration in January, many observers saw an allegiance…

March 7 2025, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas
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January 22 2025, 9:25am | 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 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
Bookmark The dark enlightenment comes to Washington
The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

September 16 2024, 9:47pm | Comments
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The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

September 16 2024, 12:48pm | 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 How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? | The…
I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell…

August 2 2024, 1:07pm | Comments
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 The Case for Speculative Fiction, According to Author N.K. Jemisin
To my own shame, I have become a jaded reader in recent years. By this I mean that my enthusiasm and curiosity, my drive to experience new worlds, have all been…

July 25 2024, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark What Was the “Paradigm Shift”? | The New Republic
When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm,…

June 15 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Institute of Network Cultures | Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect…
Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the…

April 26 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The Zeitgeist of Doom - The Atlantic
Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

March 30 2024, 9:57am | Comments
Bookmark Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar? | Ars Technica
The term Luddite is usually used as an insult. It suggests someone who is backward-looking, averse to progress, afraid of new technology, and frankly, not that bright. But Brian Merchant claims…

March 22 2024, 3:13am | 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 There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic
The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.

February 7 2024, 4:37pm | Comments
Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…
THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… |…
If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review…
“Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

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
Bookmark The Next Frontier in Pornography | Tim Challies
It has long been claimed that pornography drives technology. This claim is over-stated, no doubt, but what’s clear is that pornography very quickly and cleverly takes advantage of new communication technologies.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism
Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great…

November 23 2023, 3:37am | Comments
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Bookmark A new generation of Silicon Valley designers is racing to build AI’s…
The bartender pouring free drinks glances around with nothing to do as the raucous room full of startup founders and software developers gravitates toward its preferred drug: networking.

August 20 2023, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Christopher Nolan: the last Tory - New Statesman
The system was as predictable as it was brutal. It was at Haileybury, caught between the indignities of space and the pressures of time, that Christopher Nolan realised he was going…

August 19 2023, 9:52am | Comments
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