Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.
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Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline
Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.
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Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games
Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
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Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
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Bringing Species Back … From the Brink
“You could actually restore a species to be even more diverse and healthier than it was before, Church says. “You can include diversity from multiple points in the globe and multiple points in time.””
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Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave
“There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”
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Graded by an Algorithm
“Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”
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A Young Cartographer’s Mission to Map the Catholic Church — and Fight Climate Change
“The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”
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‘No Single Machine Should Be Able to Control So Many People’
Can we survive the social web?
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The Digital Security Threat Inside Jameson Rich’s Body
“It’s a feeling instead of living as a guinea pig for an opaque set of private interests, and a feeling that I can’t trust an industry that would ever put unsecure devices inside patients in the first place.”