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  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…

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  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

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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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  AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket.…

  April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse…

  AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket.…

  April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete With Human Consciousness - CNET

  Constructing humanlike artificial intelligence often starts with deconstructing humans. Take fingerprints: When holding soapy dishes, we intuitively adjust our grip based on our fingerprint structure.

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete With Human Consciousness - CNET

  Constructing humanlike artificial intelligence often starts with deconstructing humans. Take fingerprints: When holding soapy dishes, we intuitively adjust our grip based on our fingerprint structure.

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• Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…

  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

  April 12 2022, 6:51pm | Comments

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• Metafilter MeFi: "We see something like a dreamscape." Susan Stewart (Public Domain Review, 02/09/2022), "A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi's Ruinous Fantasias": "the grotteschi--their broken statues, columns, tombs, roundels, reliefs, herms, cornucopias, shells, fasces, cameos, trumpets, bones, skulls, chains, mooring rings, and urns; their half-erased or faint inscriptions, rosettes, portraits, egg-and-dart moldings; their…

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• 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…

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• Syllabus Cache How to Predict Culture in 2050?

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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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• Bookmark ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men | openDemocracy

  While I was undercover at a far Right conference in Italy last year, it was easy to hide how I really felt about the people I was ‘befriending’. I’d been feigning…

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• Bookmark Firing Blanks: Hito Steyerl and the Voiding of Research Art - Momus

  We’ve all heard the statistics. That in America, there is a mass shooting every day, that one hundred Americans die from gun violence daily, that access to a gun doubles and…

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• Bookmark Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry

  “The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and…

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• Bookmark Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

  Ranjan here, and today I'm talking Taboola and Outbrain. Most of my work in media has been on subscriptions and branded content, so I've never played in the depths of ad-tech…

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• Bookmark Too Human — Real Life

  As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

  May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Fatbergs: What do these blubbery clots say about our society and how…

  When I was a student, my girlfriend and I went on a winter weekend trip to Paris. We wore long black coats and stayed in a forlorn hotel in a narrow…

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  March 28 2019, 9:40am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Collapse: A reading list

  This post is a list of essays and articles covering climate and ecological breakdown from various perspectives, including how these overlapping crises may induce collapse of industrial civilisation as we know it. This is companion piece to my…

  January 28 2019, 9:37am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Science, Technology, and Society Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  Course Description What makes something a scientific fact? What is the social impact of new technologies? Who in society benefits and who is harmed by the rapid development of modern science and technology? These are just some of…

  January 25 2019, 9:09am | Comments

• Podcast Cache #654: Indigenous Futurism & Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace with Jason Edward Lewis…

  I talk with Jason Edward Lewis about the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace initiative, as well as the two 2167 Indigenous Storytelling in VR that he helped to produce. How do we reckon the past, present, and the future,…

  November 28 2018, 10:10am | Comments

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