Hanford Idyll
...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...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Dating robots
...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...
A Cute Idea
...(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...
En passant
...giving it a collaborative, scientistic veneer, as if the quest for machine intelligence while resolve all the conflicts over intelligence among humans. The competing programmers are represented as "nerds" —...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...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...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...purposes. Privilege, misery, racism, abuse of power, and 'surviving in hell': 'We're organizing.' [Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7n-dUi_ZE While doctors were overwhelmed, under-equipped, and indignant by the number of injuries flooding their hospitals,...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...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,...
Fear of Screens
...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,”...
Subscription Drive
...world why you subscribe to TNI, send your words, pictures, video, whatever to [email protected] and you could find yourself featured on TNI. Help us reach our goal by December 20th...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...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...
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
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
Enigma Deviations
...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...
Joe Cool
...of mainstream American consumerism would lead you to expect. Choice, Schwartz explains, “enables us to control our destinies and to come close to getting exactly what we want out of...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...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....
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...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,...