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  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…

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• Bookmark How RoboCop's Epic Game Boy Theme Tune Lives On, 30 Years Later…

  While video game music has become more and more popular as the years have rolled by, there once was a time when it was seen as an afterthought; the tunes that…

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• Bookmark I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers. Then I Became…

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• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

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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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  The prepper vision of the world is bleak and ruthless. Something better is happening now.

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• Bookmark Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated | Gizmodo UK

  Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted process that eventually led to us. Such is the emerging narrative in anthropology,…

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• Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic

  Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

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  Capitalism is the Total Science of Everything *screams for a thousand lifetimes*

  

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• Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…

  A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

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• Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…

  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

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• Bookmark Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean -…

  It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

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• 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

• Bookmark Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New…

  NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so…

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• Bookmark The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder…

  The Buddhist monks from Namgyal monastery in India engage in a ritual that involves the creation of intricate patterns of coloured sand, known as mandalas.

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• Syllabus Cache introducing Media Art — jonCates (2019) - jonCates - Medium

  jonCatesAug 21 · 7 min readover the last 15 years of my full-time teaching, i’ve collected, compiled, and processed a number of different ways and approaches for introducing students to Media Art in terms of the aestheticonceptechniques and…

  August 22 2019, 5:47am | Comments

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  At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? Mr. Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor.

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• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

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• Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic

  On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

  August 17 2019, 8:05am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

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  Kids be like “Watch this” then do a jump and spin wasting my fucking time

  

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• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

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• 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 How RoboCop's Epic Game Boy Theme Tune Lives On, 30 Years Later…

  While video game music has become more and more popular as the years have rolled by, there once was a time when it was seen as an afterthought; the tunes that…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark I Used to Make Fun of Silicon Valley Preppers. Then I Became…

  To hear more audio stories from publishers, like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. For years, one of the most smirked-at subspecies in the technology ecosystem was…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark When Disaster Can't Be Pictured

  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…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | This Is Not the End of the World and You…

  The prepper vision of the world is bleak and ruthless. Something better is happening now.

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 1 2020, 7:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated | Gizmodo UK

  Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted process that eventually led to us. Such is the emerging narrative in anthropology,…

  April 12 2020, 7:18am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 2 2020, 9:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic

  Here at Places, in the Bay Area, we are sheltering in place, and adjusting to changed rhythms and new anxieties as we communicate via Skype or Zoom, check the news obsessively, and find new forms of social solidarity…

  April 1 2020, 5:59pm | Comments

• Twitter

  In these troubling times, it's more important than ever to seed your torrents.

  

  March 18 2020, 11:40am | Comments

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  March 13 2020, 7:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Capitalism is the Total Science of Everything *screams for a thousand lifetimes*

  

  March 8 2020, 3:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…

  A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

  February 18 2020, 6:26pm | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy - The…

  Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly…

  February 15 2020, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 31 2020, 2:28am | Comments

• Bookmark Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean -…

  It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Next Big Cheap — Real Life

  Onstage at the November 20 Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Universal Basic Income evangelist Andrew Yang used one of his precious minutes of speaking time to casually claim that “data is…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…

  Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

  October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 8 2019, 7:00am | Comments

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  October 4 2019, 11:36am | 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

• Bookmark Linda Hamilton Fled Hollywood, but ‘Terminator’ Still Found Her - The New…

  NEW ORLEANS — Linda Hamilton laughs the way Courtney Love sings, with great raspy bravado. It would be an intimidating laugh if it didn’t come easily, and if it weren’t so…

  September 4 2019, 10:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder…

  The Buddhist monks from Namgyal monastery in India engage in a ritual that involves the creation of intricate patterns of coloured sand, known as mandalas.

  September 3 2019, 4:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache introducing Media Art — jonCates (2019) - jonCates - Medium

  jonCatesAug 21 · 7 min readover the last 15 years of my full-time teaching, i’ve collected, compiled, and processed a number of different ways and approaches for introducing students to Media Art in terms of the aestheticonceptechniques and…

  August 22 2019, 5:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Opinion | Good for Google, Bad for America - The New York…

  At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? Mr. Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor.

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark In Praise of Samuel R. Delany - The New York Times

  The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. So reflects the nameless…

  August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments

• Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic

  On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

  August 17 2019, 8:05am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache History of Computing Timeline

  As part of a series of posts that I’ve been calling “Open Source PhD,” I’m posting some of the materials that I prepared as I was studying for my comprehensive exams. You can see the reading lists for…

  July 27 2019, 4:56pm | Comments

• Twitter

  Kids be like “Watch this” then do a jump and spin wasting my fucking time

  

  July 20 2019, 7:04am | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 8 2019, 7:00pm | Comments

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