What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (Published 2018)
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?
"Under capitalism, we cannot make ethical, sustainable products affordable"
Designers producing ethical products are criticised for their high prices, but little can be done about that without wider change, writes Smith Mordak.
On the ProjectVRM list, John Wunderlich shared a find that makes clear how advanced and widespread AI-based shopping recommendation has gone so far (and not just with ChatGPT and Amazon). Here it is: Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform: Can LLM-based agents take recommender systems to the next level? It's by Jizhi Zhang, Keqin Bao, Wenjie…
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire