March 21, 2023
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Forget Utopia. Ignore Dystopia. Embrace Protopia!
“The Bright Side Some proponents of protopian thinking believe that it can lead us to a better future. Others maintain we’re already living in a protopia. Send…”
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“Critic’s Notebook A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films. Send any friend a story…”
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Kids Deserve a New Gender Paradigm | The Walrus
“T oronto parent Tessa Yang is raising Elia, who is best described as a gender-fluid child. (Pseudonyms have been used for both to protect their privacy.) Gender…”
March 1, 2023
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“In a race towards the post-reality era, TikTok are leading the way. Image filters are now at a stage where they trigger visceral emotions and have a very real…”
February 27, 2023
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Maybe we’ve just forgotten how to find out about movies
“Austin Butler in Elvis , Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick , Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once , and Sigourney Weaver in Avatar: The Way of Water…”
February 23, 2023
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“In May 2022, a racist traveled several hours to kill 10 people at the Tops Friendly Market in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo. Last week, he was sentenced to…”
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Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features
“Artifact , the personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders , is now open to the public, no sign-up required. Last month, Instagram’s creators…”
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Your brain could be controlling how sick you get — and how you recover
“Download PDF Hundreds of scientists around the world are looking for ways to treat heart attacks. But few started where Hedva Haykin has: in the brain. Haykin,…”
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You’ve never talked to a language model
“You’ve never talked to a language model Feb 18 2023 Machine Learning I sure don’t fully understand how large language models work, but in that I’m not alone.…”
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Use Your Illusion | dansinker.com
“It’s March 11, 1918. Eva Carrière sits in a corner of a darkened room, mostly obscured by thick black curtains on three sides. The front is curtained too, but…”
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“According to magician Teller, “Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.”…”
February 20, 2023
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Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet
“Content Moderation from the a-toast-to-230 dept Fri, Feb 17th 2023 10:50am – Next week, the Supreme Court will hold the oral arguments in the Gonzalez and…”
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Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back
“An American AWACs began patrolling the skies west of Ukraine last night; Kyiv was locked down this morning. Motorcades crisscrossed the city and rumors began to…”
February 18, 2023
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20 Genre-Defying Sci-Fi Books That Broke the Mold
“What do we mean when we talk about genre-defying sci-fi books? Do we mean experimental formats, like epistolary novels or books told entirely through texts?…”
February 16, 2023
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“Hello citizens, Paul here 👋 Very excited to share our next installment of our “Stan” theme with you today. I can’t think of a bigger Internet “stan” than this…”
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A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
“The Shift A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine left me deeply unsettled. Even frightened. Send any friend a story…”
February 15, 2023
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Eagles Are Falling, Bears Are Going Blind
“It was late fall of 2022 when David Stallknecht heard that bodies were raining from the sky. Stallknecht, a wildlife biologist at the University of Georgia, was…”
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“This was originally published as a Stratechery Update Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth…”
February 12, 2023
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God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
““Happy to talk about it if this is interesting,” Marc Benioff , the founder of Salesforce, texted Elon Musk last spring. He continued, opaquely: “Twitter…”
February 11, 2023
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““They don’t want you to know the truth.” “I’m the only one you can trust to tell you the truth.” “Why won’t they even let us ask questions?” If you’ve heard any…”
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‘Incredibly concerning’: Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears
“When mink at a big farm in Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain, started to die in October 2022, veterinarians initially thought the culprit might be…”
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Opinion | Where American Democracy Isn’t Very Democratic
“Jamelle Bouie When the Police Are the Government Feb. 3, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos Send any friend a story As a…”
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“Tracy Bennett. Tracy Bennett. Tracy Bennett had worked as a copy editor for over 20 years and constructed crosswords as a hobby. She applied to be an associate…”
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Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
“On January 1, 2023, a swath of books, films, and songs entered the public domain. The public domain is not a place—it refers to all the creative works not…”
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In Our New Social Media Surveillance State, Anyone Can Go Viral — Whether They Like It Or Not
“Timothy Goodman was oblivious to the camera being pointed at him. It was September in New York, and Goodman, an artist and graphic designer, was near his art…”
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Welcome to the Era of AI Vertigo
“Welcome to the week of AI one-upmanship. On Tuesday, in a surprise announcement, Microsoft unveiled its plans to bring the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT…”
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Review: There Is No Magic in ‘Hogwarts Legacy’
“Yikes, y’all. I don’t even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We’re here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy , and to do that…”
February 9, 2023
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Opinion | How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair?
“At camp, David Brooks gave Peter Marks a lift. Credit… Photo illustration by Thomas Sauvin; photograph courtesy of the Marks family Opinion How Do You Serve a…”
February 7, 2023
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Opinion | An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here
“Zeynep Tufekci An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here Feb. 3, 2023 A pelican suspected to have died from H5N1 avian influenza on a beach in Peru in…”
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Neal Stephenson’s New Novel Is a Mind-Blowing Adventure in Which One Major Character Is a Mind
“Natalie Matthews-Ramo In the 12 th chapter of Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Fall , a quartet of Princeton students set out on a road trip to Iowa to visit the…”