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• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

  June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica

  It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

  June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right |…

  It was inspiring — really inspiring.

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• Bookmark Do Psychedelics Just Provide Comforting Delusions?

  The elephant, in this case, is the issue of mystical experiences and their role, often presumed to be causal, in how psychedelics act as a valuable treatment option for those with…

  June 13 2021, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt

  ‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du…

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  The universe is a problem of digestion. Nothing more.

  

  June 6 2021, 1:37pm | 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

• 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

• Twitter

  Something that is CHAOGENOUS is born out of total chaos.

  

  May 26 2021, 7:29am | Comments

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  The GAN she told you not to worry about

  

  May 24 2021, 11:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker

  In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Paris Review - Sex in the Theater: Jeremy O. Harris and…

  At three in the afternoon on a Friday in late January, Jeremy O. Harris arranged for an Uber to bring Samuel Delany from his home in Philadelphia to the Golden Theatre…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants |…

  Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view.

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.

  When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | 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 '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 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 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

• Bookmark What It’s Like to Date a Horse

  Bestiality, the act of having sex with an animal, tends to conjure images of a mucky, socially inadequate, desperate farmer sneaking into the barn after dark, or depraved groups of thrill-seekers…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is a game? | GamesIndustry.biz

  What is a game? It's a debate that rears its bemusing head every now and then as developers push the boundaries of the medium, and this month it has been brought…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds | The New Yorker

  Several years ago, N. K. Jemisin, the fantasy and science-fiction author, had a dream that shook her. In her sleep, she found herself standing in a surreal tableau with a massif floating…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20…

  Try​ to imagine what it is like to be a fungus. Not a mushroom, pushing up through damp soil overnight or delicately forcing itself out through the bark of a rotting…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

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  May 16 2021, 10:00am | Comments

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  Postmodernism is when you post about modernism

  

  May 15 2021, 1:00am | 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 Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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• Bookmark What Happens When Biases Are Inadvertently Baked Into Algorithms - The Atlantic

  A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more.

  May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Meficore [Aesthetics Wiki] is a comprehensive encyclopedia of online and offline aesthetics! We are an online community dedicated to the identification, observation, and documentation of visual schema. ... Enjoy your stay!

  April 26 2021, 8:48am | Comments

• Twitter

  A vast mass of indifferent ocean currents.

  

  April 24 2021, 6:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The Universe Is a Self-Learning Algorithm | Universe History

  In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms.

  April 23 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

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• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

  June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica

  It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

  June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right |…

  It was inspiring — really inspiring.

  June 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 17 2021, 4:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Do Psychedelics Just Provide Comforting Delusions?

  The elephant, in this case, is the issue of mystical experiences and their role, often presumed to be causal, in how psychedelics act as a valuable treatment option for those with…

  June 13 2021, 1:55am | Comments

• Bookmark THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt

  ‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du…

  June 8 2021, 11:55am | Comments

• Twitter

  The universe is a problem of digestion. Nothing more.

  

  June 6 2021, 1:37pm | 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

• 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

• Twitter

  Something that is CHAOGENOUS is born out of total chaos.

  

  May 26 2021, 7:29am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The GAN she told you not to worry about

  

  May 24 2021, 11:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker

  In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Paris Review - Sex in the Theater: Jeremy O. Harris and…

  At three in the afternoon on a Friday in late January, Jeremy O. Harris arranged for an Uber to bring Samuel Delany from his home in Philadelphia to the Golden Theatre…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants |…

  Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view.

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.

  When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | 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 '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 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 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

• Bookmark What It’s Like to Date a Horse

  Bestiality, the act of having sex with an animal, tends to conjure images of a mucky, socially inadequate, desperate farmer sneaking into the barn after dark, or depraved groups of thrill-seekers…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is a game? | GamesIndustry.biz

  What is a game? It's a debate that rears its bemusing head every now and then as developers push the boundaries of the medium, and this month it has been brought…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds | The New Yorker

  Several years ago, N. K. Jemisin, the fantasy and science-fiction author, had a dream that shook her. In her sleep, she found herself standing in a surreal tableau with a massif floating…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark goodnightsweetprince.rip

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain · LRB 20…

  Try​ to imagine what it is like to be a fungus. Not a mushroom, pushing up through damp soil overnight or delicately forcing itself out through the bark of a rotting…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• YouTube

  May 16 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Postmodernism is when you post about modernism

  

  May 15 2021, 1:00am | 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 Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

  Your browser is no longer supported. You can still use the site, but some features may not work as expected. Please consider upgrading to one of the following browsers. Chrome, Firefox,…

  May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark What Happens When Biases Are Inadvertently Baked Into Algorithms - The Atlantic

  A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more.

  May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Meficore [Aesthetics Wiki] is a comprehensive encyclopedia of online and offline aesthetics! We are an online community dedicated to the identification, observation, and documentation of visual schema. ... Enjoy your stay!

  April 26 2021, 8:48am | Comments

• Twitter

  A vast mass of indifferent ocean currents.

  

  April 24 2021, 6:40am | Comments

• Bookmark The Universe Is a Self-Learning Algorithm | Universe History

  In fascinating new research, cosmologists explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms.

  April 23 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

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