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Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories – VICE
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

August 14 2024, 8:27am | Comments
Bookmark Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl,…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Bookmark AI and Indigenous Languages
It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at…

February 19 2024, 4:42pm | Comments
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
Bookmark AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history |…
Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

April 25 2023, 6:51pm | 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 Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 7:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died - The Verge
Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He…

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace
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November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Atomic Hobo: Interview with director of THREADS, Mick Jackson
I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

May 26 2021, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark 'Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic
For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech | WIRED…
Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA
Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…
In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Viruses are not just threats, but actors in evolution’s long story |…
Wisdom is the ability to discern inner qualities and subtle relationships, then translate them into what others recognise as good judgment. If it comes to us at all, wisdom is the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American
Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The…
Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor…

October 4 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Capitalist Catastrophism | ROAR Magazine
Is Mark Fisher’s “capitalist realism” this generation’s “end of history thesis”? For nearly thirty years Francis Fukuyama’s contention that “Western liberal democracy” represents “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution” has…

August 9 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Black Curriculum
The Black Curriculum is a project that aims to teach Black history all year round in the school year, to 11 to 16-year-olds.

June 3 2020, 11:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ
Communist Interventions Vol. 2 (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

June 3 2020, 9:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…
We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

April 23 2020, 9:34am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Probably the Only List of Artist Films You’ll Ever Need…
We’ll be honest. The initial plan was to write a critical gaze over art docs. Not the schlocky biopics, or dewy-eyed reminisces of certain “scenes”, eras or places, but more straightforward (if beautiful) documentaries.

April 23 2020, 2:34am | Comments

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