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Our minds have been colonised by capital. We'll need to undo that if we are to keep the planet habitable.

The cult sci-fi author on Mars, Musk — and how speculative fiction can offer real-life solutions to the climate crisis

Rue Yi and Ruby Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces through the concept of Balkanization and Babelification

Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

Scientists measured the brain activity of people trying to discern real from synthetic faces.

Efforts to curb climate change are failing. That’s partly due to the staggering contributions of the global elite.

A study by Microsoft and other institutions shows that adding emotional stimuli to prompts enhances LLMs like ChatGPT.

There’s an old short story called “Whose job is it?” that goes like this: This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. It used to be up on the wall in my secondary school many years ago. Its message of taking ownership and responsibility and not assuming others will do what you don’t want to do has stuck with me ever since. It’s rather like the famous advice to be the change you wish to see happen. Litter doesn’t clean itself up. Broken things don’t fix themselves. It might be up to you. The story seems to be a condensed version of a longer piece by Charles Osgood called "The Responsibility Poem," though I couldn't find an original source anywhere. Also see: For want of a nail, the story spine, the Accountability Ladder, RACI

Machine-learning generated data can help make smaller AI models nearly as capable as much larger ones.

The use of artificial intelligence appears to have a significant gender imbalance.

Combining these two approaches can build political bridges and allyship globally, while tackling systems of oppression at every level.

Long-held beliefs in an ‘Otherworld’ inhabited by wrathful fairies are now driving a resurgence in Irish eco-activism

The pioneering AI researcher and activist shares her personal journey in a new book, and explains her concerns about today’s AI systems.

“Prove your value.” “Justify your presence.” “Demonstrate impact.” Too many organizations have convinced designers that they’re the…

Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extrem

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

"I am prepared to pay this price, if it helps raising awareness among the public and the societal leadership on the desperate situation we are in," said Giancarlo Grimalda.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an…

More than ever before, it is grossly obvious that the western industrialized extractivist mindset is the root cause of the multiple crises besieging the planet today. I couldn’t think of a better person to speak with about this than Dr. Anne Poelina in Australia.

A new study finds that we respond to simple commands, such as smiling or frowning, in certain phases of sleep

I'm a full-time instructor in Python and Pandas, teaching in-person courses at companies around the world (e.g., Apple and Cisco) and with a growing host of online products, including video courses and a paid newsletter

Users attribute human-like qualities to chatbots, anthropomorphizing the AI in four distinct ways — from basic courtesy to seeing AI as companions.

If we want to embed AI in society, we need to understand what it is. What do we mean by artificial intelligence? How has the technology developed? Where do we stand now?

Obsidian, the indie darling of notetaking apps, rejects everything you know about modern software. And it's working.