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• Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED

  The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

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• Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED

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• Bookmark Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate - New Statesman

  Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. What should women care about in 2022? This was the implicit question asked by Mumsnet on Tuesday, when the platform hosted a discussion…

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• Syllabus Cache AI DECOLONIAL MANYFESTO

  AI Manyfesto signed , ... Sign your name This manyfesto is a provocation, a question, an opening, a dance about a future of AI technologies that is decolonial.

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• Bookmark Theory in Crisis Seminar - Benjamin Noys, The Crisis of the Future…

  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory provide in the context of entrenched capitalist crisis? These are some of the…

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• Metafilter MeFi: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus... Physical virology (SLNYT) Of all the pandemic questions bedeviling scientists, the one that Juan Perilla is asking might be among the strangest: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus, would it squish, or would it shatter?

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• Bookmark "The world has become weird": crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment - STEPS…

  In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020.

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• Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB

  Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

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  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

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• Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck

  Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

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• Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

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• Bookmark Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox

  They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then…

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• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

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• Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs

  Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

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• Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED

  The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

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• Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED

  The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

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• Bookmark Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate - New Statesman

  Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. What should women care about in 2022? This was the implicit question asked by Mumsnet on Tuesday, when the platform hosted a discussion…

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• Syllabus Cache AI DECOLONIAL MANYFESTO

  AI Manyfesto signed , ... Sign your name This manyfesto is a provocation, a question, an opening, a dance about a future of AI technologies that is decolonial.

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• Bookmark Theory in Crisis Seminar - Benjamin Noys, The Crisis of the Future…

  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory provide in the context of entrenched capitalist crisis? These are some of the…

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• Metafilter MeFi: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus... Physical virology (SLNYT) Of all the pandemic questions bedeviling scientists, the one that Juan Perilla is asking might be among the strangest: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus, would it squish, or would it shatter?

  January 27 2021, 6:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark "The world has become weird": crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment - STEPS…

  In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020.

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• Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB

  Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

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• Bookmark Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged…

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  What can our awareness of the immediate present gain from the study of old visual art? At this time, when we need all of the help we can get, that hard…

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  What can our awareness of the immediate present gain from the study of old visual art? At this time, when we need all of the help we can get, that hard…

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• Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck

  Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

  May 13 2020, 5:59pm | Comments

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• Bookmark The Posthuman Enlightenment | Public Books

  What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability…

  February 12 2020, 10:16am | Comments

• Portfolio PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism

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• Bookmark Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He’s Trying To Rule –…

  “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the…

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• Bookmark Counting the Countless — Real Life

  This piece originated as a talk at Seattle University. Well, really it originated as a question from the Seattle Non-Binary Collective, a group of Seattle residents and visitors with genders beyond…

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