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Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…
When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…
There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Podcast Cache When did modern humans first arrive in Europe? – podcast | Science…
Nicola Davis speaks to Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin about new archaeological discoveries which reveal that modern humans co-existed with Neanderthals for several thousand years https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/may/28/when-did-modern-humans-first-arrive-in-europe-podcast

June 29 2020, 2:46pm | Comments
Bookmark Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow | |…
The coronavirus pandemic is overwhelming to comprehend. There are now hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases. Tens of thousands have died. Nations are on lockdown as the disease continues to spread.…

April 10 2020, 7:54am | Comments
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Capitalism is the Total Science of Everything *screams for a thousand lifetimes*

March 8 2020, 3:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Hack the Planet: Tega Brain on Leaks, Glitches, and Preposterous Futures
While technology critics drag technological solutionism in five thousand words or 280 characters, artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain wields solutions against themselves, in the form of objects and installations.

February 14 2020, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark Thinking Like A Parrot: How Do Parrots View The World?
After we clambered down from the trees ourselves, people have kept (and sometimes bred) parrots as pets, for ceremonial purposes and to advertize their personal wealth or power to their fellow…

September 20 2019, 9:14pm | Comments
Reddit Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo (2015) A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

April 5 2019, 12:20am | Comments
Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived | The…
Mark Fisher was a writer and academic from the English Midlands who, in the early two-thousands, felt at odds with many of the institutions around him.

December 12 2018, 9:49am | Comments
Bookmark DNA Shows Neanderthals Spread Viruses to Humans - The Atlantic
When modern humans left Africa for Europe tens of thousands of years ago, they met Neanderthals and had sex with them. The evidence of those encounters remains inside most of us…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark A computer will (probably) eradicate humanity
There are thousands of computers that could destroy human civilization as we know it, if not eradicate the human race altogether.

August 6 2018, 8:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of…
Up to about 100,000 years ago, our human ancestors coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe and interbred with them for thousands of years. The Neanderthals eventually went extinct, but many of us…

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Furtherfield Contributions The New Observatory at FACT

July 13 2017, 7:28am | Comments
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May 1 2017, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…
A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
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November 4 2016, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Sloterdijk's Philosophy Gives Reasons for Living | The New Republic
Peter Sloterdijk has been one of Germany’s best-known philosophers for 30 years, ever since the publication of his Critique of Cynical Reason in 1983—a thousand-page treatise that became a best-seller.

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Venter steals top scholar from Google | UTSanDiego.com Mobile
La Jolla geneticist J. Craig Venter has hired one of the world’s top computer scientists to help him try to prolong and improve people’s lives by deciphering hundreds of thousands of…

August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark Hackers made Iran's nuclear computers blast AC/DC | The Verge
Between 2009 and 2010, Iran's nuclear program was the target of a devastating cyber attack. A virus, reportedly developed by the American and Israeli governments and known as Stuxnet, took control of…

August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life
n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark Iranian GIF Exhibition Brings Out the Medium’s Sharpest and Silliest
What does data sound like? There are probably thousands of answers to this question, but whatever the case, most of us can think of a few sounds conventionally used to approximate…

June 6 2014, 1:31am | Comments
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April 21 2014, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research
“Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Archaeology
Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones…
That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Bookmark Psychologists Propose Horrifying Solution to PTSD in Drone Operators
Drone operators often kill their targets from a continent away, but studies suggests that even thousands of miles of distance cannot mitigate war's devastating psychological effects.

October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments
Bookmark God and The Transcendental Object At The End Of History - disinformation
Preparing a moka pot of coffee this morning, I decided to continue my reading of Joseph Campbell’s book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces. The primary thrust of the book is…

April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

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