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• Metafilter MeFi: [as a mushroom cloud rises in the distance] Apocalypse Early Warning System In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime.

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• Bookmark The nightmarish world of Andrzej Żuławski

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• Bookmark ‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak…

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• Bookmark AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein |…

  Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

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• Bookmark What we can learn from Werner Herzog’s ‘lessons of darkness’ manifesto |…

  From dragging steamboats over mountains, to holding Klaus Kinski at gunpoint, Herzog’s career has been guided by a quest for ‘ecstatic truth’, explored in a new exhibition at Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum…

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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 Why do we Britons still genuflect before age-old class caricatures? | Nick…

  In a time of British decline, acting is one of the few world-beating skills we have left. From high to low, we are masters at raiding the dressing-up box and putting…

  December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…

  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

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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 Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like - BBC Future

  Their eyes met across the rugged mountain landscape of prehistoric Romania. He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps…

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• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

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• Bookmark Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent | The Scientist…

  From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate…

  NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want to remember…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

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• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

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• Bookmark Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: the missing link between neoliberalism and the…

  The academics have distanced themselves from the fringes of the right, but their ideas have gained currency there. Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: a bridge between fringe and mainstream conservatism? Image:…

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• Bookmark Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…

  After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

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• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

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• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

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• Bookmark Inside Artificial Intelligence's First Church | WIRED

  Levandowski’s church will enter a tech universe that’s already riven by debate over the promise and perils of AI. Some thinkers, like Kevin Kelly in Backchannel earlier this year, argue that…

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• Metafilter MeFi: [as a mushroom cloud rises in the distance] Apocalypse Early Warning System In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime.

  May 5 2026, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The nightmarish world of Andrzej Żuławski

  What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on film and TV.  It’s common for viewers first…

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 15 2023, 9:00am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak…

  There’s no confusing Ludovic Slimak for just another hotel guest. It’s a sweltering Sunday afternoon in late August and we’ve arranged to meet in the car park of a guesthouse on…

  September 12 2023, 7:49pm | Comments

• Bookmark AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein |…

  Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What we can learn from Werner Herzog’s ‘lessons of darkness’ manifesto |…

  From dragging steamboats over mountains, to holding Klaus Kinski at gunpoint, Herzog’s career has been guided by a quest for ‘ecstatic truth’, explored in a new exhibition at Amsterdam’s EYE Filmmuseum…

  July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 3 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments

• 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…

  February 9 2022, 4:43pm | Comments

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  December 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Why do we Britons still genuflect before age-old class caricatures? | Nick…

  In a time of British decline, acting is one of the few world-beating skills we have left. From high to low, we are masters at raiding the dressing-up box and putting…

  December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to…

  At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter

  might siphon some gasoline to generate a non fungible jordan peterson fortnite skin or what ever you fucking dopes think is good. idont know

  

  March 27 2021, 6:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 11 2021, 8:03am | Comments

• 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 Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like - BBC Future

  Their eyes met across the rugged mountain landscape of prehistoric Romania. He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps…

  January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2020, 8:00am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Zuboff is a PSYOP

  Cold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission. Main show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a “rogue mutation” of a normal…

  August 25 2020, 4:40pm | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal DNA in Modern Human Genomes Is Not Silent | The Scientist…

  From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate…

  NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want to remember…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 4 2019, 11:36am | Comments

• Bookmark No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime - The Atlantic

  At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish,…

  February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: the missing link between neoliberalism and the…

  The academics have distanced themselves from the fringes of the right, but their ideas have gained currency there. Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: a bridge between fringe and mainstream conservatism? Image:…

  November 5 2018, 12:50am | Comments

• Bookmark ‘It’s Time to Decolonize Environmentalism’: An Interview with Zina Saro-Wiwa | Frieze

  Skip to main content Advertisement More Like This Advertisement More Like This More Interviews See All

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 19 2018, 10:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…

  After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

  May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 16 2018, 11:01am | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: What would be the symptoms of a parasitic infection of the brain? Asking for fictional reasons. The parasite in question is T. Cruzi, which is the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Usually the little guy hangs out in heart muscle and causes heart attacks, but in this universe, the parasite now likes to live and…

  March 14 2018, 11:22am | Comments

• Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

  In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

  February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments

• Bookmark Inside Artificial Intelligence's First Church | WIRED

  Levandowski’s church will enter a tech universe that’s already riven by debate over the promise and perils of AI. Some thinkers, like Kevin Kelly in Backchannel earlier this year, argue that…

  November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments

• Vimeo

  October 16 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

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