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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 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 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 Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?
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June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email - The Atlantic
Every day, the mail still comes. My postal carrier drives her proud van onto the street and then climbs each stoop by foot. The service remains essential, but not as a…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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Bookmark David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe · LRB…
Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same…

December 7 2021, 2:51pm | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News
image copyrightClaire Simonin‎ / Ar ViltansouA French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades.

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Bookmark The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know.…
Editor's note: On April 16, news came out that the U.S. government said it was investigating the possibility that the novel coronavirus may have somehow escaped from a lab, though experts…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic
Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

April 1 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Bookmark If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human…
“I don’t care what people say,” asserts Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department and author of one of the most controversial articles in the realm of science last year…

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Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…
British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off
In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned…

July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Memes are modern-day propaganda
The framing of the term “fake news” orients you toward thinking whether a claim is true or false. By this logic, it assumes that people share things online because they’re 100%…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News
Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’ - BBC News
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate. That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.

February 4 2019, 6:52pm | 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
Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
I wonder if the reason we keep on cycling back to hope about cool things like VR is that for all the tech news and our fetishizing about our touch devices,…

July 22 2018, 5:33am | 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.

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

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