Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it’s a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there’s unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done. Having another
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"We do not exist “in” our bodies anymore. We snapped a part of our brains and eyes and we implanted them on our mobile phones. A part of our brains is Google itself now, and we are not ashamed to use this extrapolated brain and its capabilities incessantly. As the mind-body duality dissolves itself into an entanglement of elongations of
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The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons - Security and Privacy Blog for Non-Techies
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All Fours: A Novel
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