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The Displacement of Purpose. — Peter Adam Boeckel There is no shortage of writing about artificial intelligence. Most of it sits at the two poles of collective imagination: radiant optimism or cinematic dread. Depending on who speaks, AI is either th...

The Displacement of Purpose

Sir Tim, one of the last, remaining greats. Humble and down to earth.

‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control

Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control buff.ly/i822TLs MUST READ #haltagi
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Teaching when to trust As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

Because of its proximity to Russia, Finland treats resistance to disinformation almost as a form of civil defence: an integral part of its broader security strategy.

Should we all be doing the same?

AI-enhanced, wireless skin-patch lets people send and receive text through touch A soft skin-like patch uses iontronic sensing, vibration feedback and synthetic-data learning to send and read all ASCII characters through touch, enabling a complete two-way tactile communication met...

AI-enhanced, wireless skin-patch lets people send and receive text through touch

The 'magic' of walking with grief Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone.

Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone. n.pr/4iW5b13

Where Do the Children Play? On the need for a world without us

Where Do the Children Play?

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

We should all be Luddites | Brookings Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

We should all be Luddites

Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.

Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region (in Belgium) Is Turning to Its People.

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

“Intuition would make you think, the more entanglement we have, the better our quantum computer is,” said particle physicist Chris White. “That actually turns out to be completely false.”

The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...

The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic

Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis - Mixcloud Blog In this article, we share how slow listening, radio and tuning in can help you chill out and unwind in the age of choice.

Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis

Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan The team showed that the brain scan analyzing technique could generate accurate descriptions of a video someone was watching.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.

Schools had become deathly silent. Now that phones are banned, they're loud again.

Pluribus review: This new sci-fi from Breaking Bad's creator is 'one of 2025's smartest shows' This series from Vince Gilligan stars Rhea Seehorn as a cynical woman living in a world where people are constantly happy. It's George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

"This show was made by humans."
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.

NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end Researchers from NASA and Toho University in Japan have used supercomputers to find out when the Earth will end

NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end

A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness

The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The Age of Enshittification

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century

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AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain

Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing July 20th, 2025 marks the 56th anniversary of the moon landing.

Nostalgia ignores pessimism, it forgets:

The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women

After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...

3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World Jul 7, 2025

“In a world of infinite content, people will increasingly organize around curators — the ones they trust to filter the chaos and surface what matters.”

3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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Unique ice, 1.5m years old, to be melted to unlock mystery BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change.

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
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Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig YouTube video by King's College, Cambridge

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Mappa Mundi - LCFI Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective. This project has a simple but essential goal – to tell women’s stories – changing the world ...

Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective, as women make up only 0.5% of recorded history.

Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI This system accelerates evolution in living cells and it's open source.

Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI

A new ‘eye’ may radically change how robots see The system contains a sensor, chip and tiny AI model inspired by biological eyes and brains and uses a tenth of the energy of a camera-based system.

A new "eye" for robots that could revolutionize how they see. The new system, called LENS, uses a neuromorphic sensor, chip, and AI model to process visual information. Unlike traditional camera-based systems, LENS uses a tenth of the energy and is more efficient in recognizing locations.

‘Cyborg’ beetles could revolutionise urban search and rescue Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine colla...

‘Cyborg’ beetles could revolutionise urban search and rescue

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