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• Bookmark Could you pass 'Humanity’s Last Exam'? Probably not, but neither can AI…

  Did you know some of the smartest people on the planet create benchmarks to test AI’s capabilities at replicating human intelligence? Well, scarily enough most AI benchmarks are easily completed by…

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• Metafilter Nintendo Switch 2 finally revealed After unbearable levels of speculation and leaks, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 today, surprising nobody. Most of the leaked features were verified by the trailer, but in traditional Nintendo fashion the mysterious 'C' button was rendered blank. What could…

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• 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,…

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  I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

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  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

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• 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…

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• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

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  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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• Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic

  In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

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• Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic

  In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

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• 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…

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  I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical…

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  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…

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  Philosophy stands out among the humanities: it’s one of the few subject areas where women are vastly outnumbered by men. Although male and female students take philosophy undergraduate courses in almost…

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• Podcast Cache Art And Obsolescence Podcast - Episode 005: Glenn Wharton — Art and…

  From Small Data Industries, this is the Art and Obsolescence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Fino-Radin, and on this episode I chat with art conservator Glenn Wharton. https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/005-glenn-wharton

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  Young adults generally have less sex these days, but it’s not about morality.Jojo has no moral qualms about casual sex. “The equation of sex and morality is bullshit, as long as…

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  The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived…

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  Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

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  I just lost a friend. In addition to the immense loss of life to Covid-19, we have lost people in other ways over the past year, when the confluence of quarantine,…

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  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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• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

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  Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08x6fxk

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• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

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  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

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• Bookmark Could you pass 'Humanity’s Last Exam'? Probably not, but neither can AI…

  Did you know some of the smartest people on the planet create benchmarks to test AI’s capabilities at replicating human intelligence? Well, scarily enough most AI benchmarks are easily completed by…

  May 12 2025, 4:40am | Comments

• Metafilter Nintendo Switch 2 finally revealed After unbearable levels of speculation and leaks, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 today, surprising nobody. Most of the leaked features were verified by the trailer, but in traditional Nintendo fashion the mysterious 'C' button was rendered blank. What could…

  January 16 2025, 8:36am | 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 I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…

  I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

  June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…

  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

  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

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

  October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic

  When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

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  June 27 2022, 2:33am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic

  In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic

  In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

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• 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 Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts

  I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark 'Philosophy is for posh, white boys with trust funds' – why are…

  Philosophy stands out among the humanities: it’s one of the few subject areas where women are vastly outnumbered by men. Although male and female students take philosophy undergraduate courses in almost…

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  November 1 2021, 10:57am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Art And Obsolescence Podcast - Episode 005: Glenn Wharton — Art and…

  From Small Data Industries, this is the Art and Obsolescence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Fino-Radin, and on this episode I chat with art conservator Glenn Wharton. https://www.artandobsolescence.com/episodes/005-glenn-wharton

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• Bookmark Gen Z Are “Puriteens,” But Not For The Reasons You Think |…

  Young adults generally have less sex these days, but it’s not about morality.Jojo has no moral qualms about casual sex. “The equation of sex and morality is bullshit, as long as…

  August 17 2021, 7:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals

  The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…

  Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

  July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Where Do Men Go When They Get Lost? | by Zoetica Ebb…

  I just lost a friend. In addition to the immense loss of life to Covid-19, we have lost people in other ways over the past year, when the confluence of quarantine,…

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | 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.

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• Reddit Can anyone suggest me a book wherein a character undergoes a SLOW/ GRADUAL permanent transformation into a creature/animal/monster/ hybrid I've seen my fair share of novels wherein characters transform into werewolves or animals but the transformations I've encountered almost always seems to happen rather instantaneously and in the case of shapeshifters, well they could always revert back to their human forms so…

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• Podcast Cache Seriously... - Playing With The Dead - BBC Sounds

  Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08x6fxk

  November 3 2020, 5:41am | Comments

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• Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…

  This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.  Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

  July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio

  Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

  July 4 2020, 4:16am | Comments

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  Experiencing the end of a two century old paradigm is intense huh

  

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