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This is No Gods No Masters, 2024, painted by me, in wax. 65x78” Join the $2 Lunch Club! This week’s question comes to us from Will Hopkins: When your job and...

Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

On moving towards an understanding of the designed interface as complicit in neocolonialism. And why I hate Liquid Glass.

New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.

How We Redesigned Technical Interviews for the AI Era

Climate change is driving rising global temperatures, ecological degradation, and widespread human suffering. Yet, as a collective, humanity has failed to imple...

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From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot?

An unprecedented look at the state of AI’s energy and resource usage, where it is now, where it is headed in the years to come, and why we have to get it right.

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

The tool scans for users writing certain keywords on Reddit and assigns those users a so-called “radical score,” before deploying an AI-powered bot to automatically engage with the users to de-radicalize them.

The OpenAI CEO said there are clear generational differences in how people use ChatGPT — and younger users may be in deepest

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making.

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?

And brain scans show that it's not all in your head.

Think about how you experience the world—you touch, you hear, you move.

If a tree could talk, what would it say? And what would you say to it?

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

On prosocial short-form content, collective knowledge building potential of short form social media, and why your video essay could have been a tiktok

Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

A mythopoetic take on the GTC keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Spring is here and so is authoritarianism, and I recommend your serious attention to both. We may be at this resistance business for a while, so take care of yourself so you can keep taking care of human rights, truth, justice, and the natural world. What that means for each

The tiny municipality of Kamikatsu achieved an 81% recycling rate in 2016. Can it serve as a model of sustainable living for the world?

Decolonial Work: Pruning Bonsai vs. Metabolizing Decay Many approaches to decolonial work focus on the visible structures of knowledge, power, and legitimacy—pruning, shaping, or grafting elements …

Welcome to The Overview, a weekly newsletter in which Editor-in-Chief Willow Defebaugh turns to nature for lessons.

Aka, how to design online async learning experiences that learners can't afford to delegate to AI agents

What do we do when all looks lost, and disaster appears inevitable? We activate the trim tabs to push gently and intuitively against existing leverage points. Small, subtle moves can be powerful!

Josef Fares has found big success with co-operative two player games. Why aren't others doing the same?