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  • Reporting from Inside the Amazon – Columbia Journalism Review

    A new generation of journalists emerges from the rainforest, just in time for COP30. https://www.cjr.org/feature/reporting-from-inside-amazon-rainforest-climate-conference-cop30-training-program.php more ›

  • Futurology: When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)

    Listen: https://ift.tt/ExiGPrN The first machines mimicked our muscles. Today, they’ve learned to mirror our minds. Now they’re beginning to imitate something even closer to the core of our humanity – imagination itself. Sci-fi author, translator, and technologist Ken Liu calls… more ›

  • Listen Here

    Provided to YouTube by Zebralution GmbH Listen Here · Eddie Harris Presenting Eddie Harris ℗ 1961 Vee Jay Records Released on: 1961-03-11 Composer: Eddie Harris Lyricist: Eddie Harris Music Publisher: Seventh House Ltd Auto-generated by YouTube. — more ›

  • Sanctify Yourself

    In the summer of 2024, Deep Vellum, a Dallas-based press, announced a program to bring out “badass avant-garde masterpieces that would otherwise not be translated […] https://thepointmag.com/criticism/sanctify-yourself/?mc_cid=69b2e3642d&mc_eid=3dec107bf8 more ›

  • LukeW | AI Has Flipped Software Development

    For years, it’s been faster to create mockups and prototypes of software than to ship it to production. As a result, software design teams could stay “ahead” of… https://lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2112 more ›

  • Intelligence Squared Member (🔓): What led to the Iranian Revolution the rise of the Islamic Republic? With Scott Anderson

    Listen: https://ift.tt/xMpRS9C Scott Anderson is a veteran foreign reporter and war correspondent, and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Over his career he has reported from Bosnia, Libya, Palestine and across the Middle East.  In this episode, he… more ›

  • Without the night shift, there is no morning.

    Late Thursday night, we canvassed the taxi line at LaGuardia — and caught up with some old friends from @NYTWA Help us in the home stretch: https://ift.tt/0PHZ7jc Fid your pollsite: https://ift.tt/OmL9vji — more ›

  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas | What is Intelligence? | Long Now Talks

    Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s Long Now Talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things combine to make… more ›

  • Long Now: Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?

    Listen: https://ift.tt/3ihYGTE Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things combine to make… more ›

  • Media, money & the rise of Zohran Mamdani | The Listening Post

    In this special episode of The Listening Post, we examine the rise of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. A democratic socialist and outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mamdani has faced a barrage of hostility from US… more ›