Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."
A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.
A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...
Modeled after the human vocal tract, MIT CSAIL’s AI system can generate and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. It “sketches up” human-like vocal impressions without training, or ever hearing a human mimic that particular sound.
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries
might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable.
In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which
has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace
the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary
boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological
macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding
and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in
the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that
would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
Climate policy is on a collision course with physical reality
There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse.
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.