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AI like Soul Machines offer nothing good or human.
Social media only has the chokehold we let it have.
Should all AI art be labelled as such, or is it an artform unto itself?
Contemplating 21st-century choices.
As always, one of the cheapest games I bought is the best.
Bots are here, where’s the plan to deal with them?
It sounds like a college kid regurgitating political talking points. || Chris Beck
My treatment for The Tech Boyzz deserves another look from Hollywood, especially during the ongoing writers’ strike.
Dumb browser removes something great.
From "cry bullying" to claims of immunity, how the digital realm has morphed the principles of criticism and the enduring essence of Socratic questioning.
Hell is other peoples’ TVs.
Hey! “Cool kids,” leave Twitter alone.
How the business world's favorite social network became a wasteland of artificial authenticity.
Make it personal and take it personal.
The game companies aren’t all right.
The problem with computers.
Notes on interstellar communication.
A reflection on the life and times of James Rolfe, whose current body of work might as well be posthumous.
Notes on the sad declines of people who bet everything on their bodies and lost.
My terminal dispute with Daniel Dennett, philosopher #1.
Camden Camden’s gains and losses might not have been real, but they felt real to her followers. Wasn’t that enough?
A brief CNBC segment from October 2021 when Bankman-Fried was a free man.
Featuring J. P. Eckert, Ernest Nagel, A. L. Samuel (IBM), Richard Hamming (Bell), and more.
The co-founder and former CEO of Twitter on how his company started.
During the company's early days in San Jose, from a CBS affiliate in the spring of 2007.
Remarkable restored and color corrected footage adjusted to 60 frames per second, or 60fps.
A 30-minute interview from before he was world famous, but well on his way.
On CNBC the year that "The Facebook" launched.
Say nanobots consume the entire known univerese tomorrow. This is what the EAS would look like (probably).
