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  • Can AI have a headache?

    Can AI have a headache?

    « This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »

  • Glory to the rails

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    Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.

  • After midnight

    After midnight

    The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.

  • Texting with … Nell Zink

    Texting with … Nell Zink

    « When Americans rip off other people, nobody notices. »

  • Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

    Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

    « Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »

  • Pixel War

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    Meet the strangest strangers, incels, conspiracy theorists, cyberpunks and Wikipedians.

  • Forage, farm, hunt

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    A photographer asks: why bother making photographs?

  • Pigeon Water

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    Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.

  • The art of losing

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    On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop

  • The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden

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    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

  • All is not vanity

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    Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?

  • Optimize this headline for Google*

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    Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s wanton disruption of publishing resembles evolution more than intelligent design. Journalists, publishers, regulators, and scholars are left grappling with our new, random god.