How a group of artist-mothers quietly rejected the reigning taboo of their era and forged a thriving practice of creativity and caregiving.| The MIT Press Reader
We are excited to welcome Jim Ternyila as US General Manager head Infinite Lambda's expansion into the US. To mark this milestone, Jim shares his take on AI readiness, what clients really need, and what makes Infinite Lambda stand out.| Infinite Lambda
How abstractions in design speed up first-use, but prevent deeper understanding of systems| www.resextensa.co
Casual programming| dubroy.com
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.| wreckage/salvage
The other week, I was interviewed about the discourse around AGI and why people like Sam Altman say that we will reach AGI soon and continu...| togelius.blogspot.com
"Investigations of a Dog" is a funny and deeply philosophical tale of a lone, maladjusted dog who defies scientific dogma and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world.| The MIT Press Reader
Well, let me tell you this was a wild, life-altering year: My partner traveled over 1000 miles to live with me. I found out I had a low-grade cancerous pancreatic tumor and had a Whipple, one of th…| trust not the eye; make of your meat an imaging device
Sam Bankman-Fried will join a proud legacy ... just not in the way he was hoping for.| davidzmorris.substack.com
The tech world’s obsession with artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.| The MIT Press Reader
Students were also more likely to feel negative emotions than positive ones while studying and completing their assignments, according to data collected by Kahoot!| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Important new study from Apple| garymarcus.substack.com
Pour l'anthropologue Payal Arora, les critiques faites aux technologies dans les pays du Nord doivent être passées au crible des usages du sud, où la créativité et l’optimisme l’emportent parfois| Mais où va le Web | Panser le numérique
I want more design writing that is experimental and ambitious.| www.jarrettfuller.blog
Susan Handy talks about the downsides of widening highways, the critical need for more bike lanes, and counterintuitive thinking about transportation.| Sactown Magazine
What to read once your gaming session is over, with books from the MIT Press.| MIT Press
We continue our Summer Playlist 2024 this week with Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten and Publisher of Super-Spiked on Substack. David Greely sits down with…| SmarterMarkets™
We continue our Summer Playlist 2024 this week with Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten and Publisher of Super-Spiked on Substack. David Greely sits down with…| SmarterMarkets™
More musings on communication and structure in TTRPGs| Līber Lūdōrum
I have come to the conclusion that the most essential element of the Silicon Valley ideology is its collective faith in technological acceleration. More than the mix of libertarianism and tech dete…| Crooked Timber
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience| Aeon
Attention is like a cat—if you’re like, “oh, I will buy a nice camera and spend a lot of time in fancy video editing software making this look nice,” it will spurn you, and also i…| Free Dissociation
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it| www.aisnakeoil.com