They force you to look at the world the way an AI does

Sex positivity has created a cult of celibacy

The harrowing story of how an elderly woman's body was left undiscovered for two years sparked a debate in Italy about loneliness.

A CAPTCHA that filters out humans. An app for deepfaking yourself. Damjanski’s artwork delights and intrigues at the intersection of art, culture, and the internet. Here’s what he’s diving into now.

The highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave

Who is this? Princess Leia, right? End of Rogue One. Wrong, this is not Princess Leia. This is. A photograph of Carrie Fisher in her role of Princess Leia. Chances are, your brain can tell the difference between the two photos. The first is a computer generated image ("CGI") and the se

Eugenicist thinking was rejected after the Holocaust, but in the era of Big Tech, the idea that humans can be “engineered” has resurfaced in a new guise.

what a bad time

My biggest distraction from my work, family and friends – and yet I can’t pull away, even when my own research says I should

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.

Cloning cats and dogs is expensive and controversial. But the humans behind petfluencer accounts say it's worth it.

This austere work by Jasper Johns doesn’t seem to invite much of a close read. But its cool surface belies a depth of feeling, which shows us all the power of artistic restraint.

COVID has always divided Americans. The Omicron wave is even dividing the vaccinated.

In an excerpt from his upcoming meta-“memoir,” the comedian recounts a show he performed at a hospital—for the criminally insane.

It is possible to detect eerie echoes of the confessional state of yore

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.

And how the left learned to love psychiatry

New research indicates the internet doesn't make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone.

The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.

The price for Ubers, scooters and Airbnb rentals is going up as tech companies aim for profitability.

They’re mostly women, and they “accompany” male gamers, acting as guides, training partners and even therapists.

The findings suggest recovery from the pandemic may take a long time and could affect people’s view of their relationships over time.

Farmers effectively work from home, and in the past majority of the population was farming. What can they teach us about Work-Life Balance?

pirate wires #47 // anti-vaxx hysteria, redefining truth, a year of speech policing in review, and the steady path to censorship

Well I'm in the working world again. I've found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it's returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before.

The ads are a nonstop slurry of surreal products, and I love it

The disappearing divide between “followers” and “friends”

Your health and happiness depend on knowing if you're a card-carrying member.

The striking lack of curiosity of last year