Why All Great Thoughts Are Conceived by Walking | Atmos
In the French Alps, writer and philosopher Simon Parcot teaches us about the connection between mind and feet.
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Breaking from the Pace of the Net
Less is more...human
Design Taste vs. Technical Skills in the Era of AI
The need for discernment is amplified when generative AI enables anyone to create anything. Creative skills will still be necessary to produce superior designs.
The Paradox of TikTok Sponsoring This Year’s Met Gala | Atmos
The theme for this year's Met Gala is supposed to celebrate circular fashion. But TikTok’s sponsorship of the event sent mixed messages.
Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
Researchers find instances of systems double-crossing opponents, bluffing, pretending to be human and modifying behaviour in tests
Towards Planetarity
A new worldview is emerging, and it’s much richer, more meaningful, and more beautiful than the thinking that currently dominates our societies. I’m talking about planetarism, or what some also call planetarity.
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
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Surviving the AI Summer
When I was in grad school in the 1990s, we talked about “surviving the AI winter.” Explosive, transformative progress in AI had been…
Patriarchal AI: How ChatGPT can harm a woman’s career
Ruhi Khan, ESRC researcher at the LSE, argues that as companies increasingly use artificial intelligence and people gravitate towards relying on large language model chatbots like ChatGPT for ubiqu…
The Curious Educator’s Guide to AI – Simple Book Publishing
Congo’s Clean Energy Cobalt Mines Don’t Have to Be So Dirty | Atmos
In the DRC, demand for cobalt to power electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies is leaving behind a toxic legacy.
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024) – The Markup
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
The Next Phase of Feminism is Matriarchy — CHIX
Feminism has reached a dead end. It’s time to embrace a matriarchy.
Is it better to live in ‘clock time’ or ‘event time’? | Psyche Ideas
Do you stick to a set schedule, or have a looser relationship to the clock? It can affect more than how you plan your day
Our Digital Greenwashing Guide
Improve digital product and service sustainability claims in the face of changing legislation with this digital greenwashing guide.
Product Design Is Lost / Design Systems International
How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
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TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Inviolable Lore /362 — FOR THE WILD
Tuning into a magic that flows from the universe, not from an individualized self, Tyson Yunkaporta offers lucid insight into the current state of the world in this week’s episode. In maddening times of dissonance and disconnection, Tyson speaks to the need for the Right Story, for LORE. As he dives
The Great Divide | CSS-Tricks
Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it's not just in my bones. Based on an awful lot of written developer
Robin himself gave himself the job title, Adult Boy That Cares Too Much About Accessibility and CSS and Component Design but Doesn’t Care One Bit About GraphQL or Rails or Redux but I Feel Really Bad About Not Caring About This Other Stuff Though.
Front-end development’s identity crisis
I’m not a “[full-stack] developer”, regardless of what my last job title says
It's the jobs that got small
Lesbians, Labels, and LLMs :: The future of the word lesbian in digital spaces (full series)
Watch all 3 parts of our 2024 Lesbian Visibility Week Series ⚡️ Lesbians, Labels, and LLMs :: The future of the word lesbian in digital spacesFor more inform...
POV: Humility is seemingly in short supply in the design industry. What’s really behind this?
We speak to an established designer hoping to kickstart a new movement inviting more openness, transparency and vulnerability from his peers. Can it succeed?
Can AI be used to automate social science research?
A new paper on arXiv provocatively asks whether AI can do the same for social science as it's doing for discovery in other areas
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Global study maps most detailed tree of life yet for flowering plants
After the first flower bloomed on the Earth, flowering plants evolved a staggering diversity and now make up about 90% of all plant life. Charles Darwin called this rapid domination an “abominable mystery.” A study published today, April 24, in the journal Nature and led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, unveiled the most comprehensive […]
Why a neurodivergent team will be a golden asset in the AI workplace
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions
The System Itself is the Problem