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Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic…

September 6 2022, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Experts to World: We’re Doomed
A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs
Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Is Worried About Crypto's Future | Time
In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air, women will emerge spinning Technicolor hula hoops, and a mechanical bull will rev into…

March 21 2022, 4:51am | Comments
Bookmark Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts
I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times
Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Who Goes Crypto? – Mother Jones
On May 4, “Ethereum Classic” popped onto the trending section of my Twitter page. I narrowed my eyes and I laughed.

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…
Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs
Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction…
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

May 31 2021, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…
We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - YES! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should…
The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Joyful Militancy | The Anarchist Library
To survive. Just keep it alive Like the moment when I first heard Gil Scott-Heron, I knew upon first read that I would return to this book.

March 3 2021, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED
In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB
Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

January 8 2021, 11:36pm | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED
Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at Atlas Research Innovations and a senior fellow at the Wharton School.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
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…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | 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
Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…
We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

July 26 2020, 12:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Bookmark The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived
The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolution or Ruin - Journal #110 June 2020 - e-flux
We know how the first paragraph begins. We’ve read about the changing climate for over twenty years, infrequently at first and then daily until we couldn’t deny it any longer. The…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…
Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments

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