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• Bookmark The Labyrinth and the Plague | The Current | The Criterion Collection

  Of all the weird scenes that populate seventies science-fiction cinema, the most bizarre might be in 1971’s The Omega Man.

  January 25 2020, 6:31am | Comments

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  Today's gender is not about you.

  

  January 23 2020, 4:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What does it mean to be human? - Digg

  Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith…

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• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

  January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments

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  might fuck around and just shit myself

  

  January 16 2020, 5:45am | Comments

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  Is AI ok?

  

  January 12 2020, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019

  Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme

  As the decade began, there were rea­sons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Peter Turchin A Feminist Perspective on Human Social Evolution - Peter Turchin

  Levels of inequality have changed dramatically during the course of human evolution: from the social hierarchies of our great ape ancestors to egalitarian small-scale societies of hunter-gatherers, and then to large-scale…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | 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 There's Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman - Electric Literature

  Rosemary Woodhouse has unwrapped a piece of steak from its waxy brown paper. She cuts it in half and drops it into a hot pan. It sizzles. She flips it. She…

  December 20 2019, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS

  When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

  December 4 2019, 4:36pm | 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…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | 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

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

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  all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began

  

  December 1 2019, 3:51am | Comments

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  Important moment for Transhumanist bullshit

  

  November 30 2019, 4:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale

  Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction…

  November 11 2019, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

  In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

  November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mystery of S., the Man with an Impossible Memory | The…

  On an April afternoon in 1929, a timid-looking man with a broad face appeared at Moscow’s Academy of Communist Education and asked to see a memory specialist. The man, who would…

  November 9 2019, 4:51am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

  November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs

  If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method. First, take some…

  November 7 2019, 8:51am | Comments

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  A monkey just came apart in there.

  

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• Bookmark The First Terminator Movie Gave Sarah Connor One of the Most Compelling…

  If you’re excited to see Terminator: Dark Fate this week, chances are you’ve seen the first two films starring Sarah Connor. And chances are, when given a say, you prefer to…

  November 1 2019, 5:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Feminist Voices in Technology

  Abbate, J. (2017) Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atkinson, P. (2011) Computer. London: Reaktion Books. Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Bridle, J.

  October 27 2019, 1:48pm | Comments

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  I am tired of not knowing what is going on

  

  October 27 2019, 6:58am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Labyrinth and the Plague | The Current | The Criterion Collection

  Of all the weird scenes that populate seventies science-fiction cinema, the most bizarre might be in 1971’s The Omega Man.

  January 25 2020, 6:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Today's gender is not about you.

  

  January 23 2020, 4:51am | Comments

• Bookmark What does it mean to be human? - Digg

  Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith…

  January 22 2020, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox

  No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

  January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  might fuck around and just shit myself

  

  January 16 2020, 5:45am | Comments

• Twitter

  Is AI ok?

  

  January 12 2020, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019

  Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you…

  Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be…

  January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments

• Bookmark BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme

  As the decade began, there were rea­sons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Peter Turchin A Feminist Perspective on Human Social Evolution - Peter Turchin

  Levels of inequality have changed dramatically during the course of human evolution: from the social hierarchies of our great ape ancestors to egalitarian small-scale societies of hunter-gatherers, and then to large-scale…

  January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | 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 There's Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman - Electric Literature

  Rosemary Woodhouse has unwrapped a piece of steak from its waxy brown paper. She cuts it in half and drops it into a hot pan. It sizzles. She flips it. She…

  December 20 2019, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS

  When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

  December 4 2019, 4:36pm | 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…

  December 2 2019, 6:25pm | 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

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began

  

  December 1 2019, 3:51am | Comments

• Twitter

  Important moment for Transhumanist bullshit

  

  November 30 2019, 4:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life

  Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

  November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments

• Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

  November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale

  Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction…

  November 11 2019, 6:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

  In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race…

  November 9 2019, 10:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The Mystery of S., the Man with an Impossible Memory | The…

  On an April afternoon in 1929, a timid-looking man with a broad face appeared at Moscow’s Academy of Communist Education and asked to see a memory specialist. The man, who would…

  November 9 2019, 4:51am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World

  What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

  November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs

  If you want to appear very profound and convince people to take you seriously, but have nothing of value to say, there is a tried and tested method. First, take some…

  November 7 2019, 8:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  A monkey just came apart in there.

  

  November 7 2019, 1:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 9:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  November 6 2019, 4:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The First Terminator Movie Gave Sarah Connor One of the Most Compelling…

  If you’re excited to see Terminator: Dark Fate this week, chances are you’ve seen the first two films starring Sarah Connor. And chances are, when given a say, you prefer to…

  November 1 2019, 5:53pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Feminist Voices in Technology

  Abbate, J. (2017) Recoding Gender: women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Atkinson, P. (2011) Computer. London: Reaktion Books. Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Bridle, J.

  October 27 2019, 1:48pm | Comments

• Twitter

  I am tired of not knowing what is going on

  

  October 27 2019, 6:58am | Comments

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