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How do we find true belonging, and true community in the most literal sense of that word? To answer this question, Dr. Yuria Celidwen, from Chiapas, Mexico, combines Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science in her research.

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Algorithmic media have adopted and adapted divinatory practices and vernaculars of prediction, prophecy, probability, fortune-telling and forecasting – suggesti...

Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.

As the Great Unraveling continues apace, the need for radical change will become more apparent, causing more and more people to seek out alternatives. At that point, the winds of change will be blowing at our backs.

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the advertising industry called Patternz. Google has taken action in response to 404 Media's inquiries.

Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’

The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

While it’s to be expected that some researchers will remain dedicated to earth shattering breakthroughs, ultimately the crowds at Davos – and at every other AI gathering this year – will be much hu…

We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.

The problems with carbon-aware software that everyone’s ignoring. Plus solutions to move forward = grid-aware software. - GitHub - climateaction-tech/grid-aware-software: The problems with carbon-a...

Some friends are ‘close’. Others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors

Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives, according to a quantitative analysis.

Renowned physician Gabor Maté ruminates on trauma and Jewishness at a time of conflict

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching

With a global increase in web searches of the term 'climate anxiety' this film is a timely exploration of the emotional effect of climate change through one individual’s remarkable true story.

New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

Have fun with drawing! Create yourself a creative playground we need a goal and rules. Here is why and how:

The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own.

18th century German forest management explains why government websites make you want to pull your hair out

Limor Fried’s code is often a de facto standard, and now ChatGPT is using it

We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as inspiration for more helpful and diverse representations of AI.

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.

I thought about AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li this weekend, who was mysteriously missing from a New York Times list of AI pioneers.

This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.