...the first two decades of the site’s operations to contain the waste from plutonium production until a more permanent solution could be found. Nearly 70 have leaked, and some of...
...ideologically. But if you are ideologically committed to the postulate of artificial intelligence and insist that robots will be able to do anything humans can do, as David Levy does...
...(or paranoid) moments, the characters chatter about the digital protocols to which they are submitted as fluently as today’s humans might complain of a life-sucking job. Through aphorisms poised between...
...It seems like an effort to emulate the atmosphere of the "New Aesthetic" through appropriated retro means, with humans rather than computers being glitchy. Critics tend to call both mumblecore...
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
...Iranian sanctions proponents, take note. [Matias Spektor, World Politics Review] Nine years ago, as chief nuclear negotiator, [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani compared the controversy around Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology...
...of the chase, their potentially surprising, and necessarily hostile, properties: chests that don’t contain what is inside, bleachers ready to topple, a light for your smoke with a bomb attached,...
...of each other,” she says, as though our phones do not contain each other. She worries that online, “we are tempted to present ourselves as we would like to be,”...
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...and pass on their genetic material. Videos that demonstrate all of this are widely available on Youtube. You can spend hours watching cuttlefish deceive the eyes of humans, predators, prey...
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
...answer would probably depend on whether or not such reflexive activity is common among humans. Duplicitous or part-hidden subjects, such as spies or queers, have long had to know a...
...customary grocery-store-brand voice, serving up tweets like this anodyne effort on Pizza Day: No need to call the pizza delivery guy, we know how to do #NationalPizzaDay. https://t.co/wpP2zoG5sg pic.twitter.com/rKH8rycoeP —...
...the prospect of dying is not even a deterrent, because the only thing humans even do, anymore, is die. So what else is left? Nothing, apparently, is the answer....
...then, might for that very reason contain within them aspects that escape detection and that remain capable of betraying themselves. In other words, in relentlessly giving a material (stone, sludge,...