The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Did HAL Commit Murder?

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Meditation and the Unconscious

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Atlas of Poetic Zoology

When Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perception

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The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines

How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda

The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva

'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco

Types and Programming Languages (2002)

The Engineered Student: On B. F. Skinner’s Teaching Machine

The Paradox of a Man’s Most-Feared Test, the PSA

Before Pong, There Was Computer Space

The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’

AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence

How to Fire Frank Lloyd Wright

Why Science Can't Settle Political Disputes

Walking Trees, Parasitic Flowers, and Other Remarkable Plants

The Truth, by Stanisław Lem

American Environmentalism Failed

Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

Alien Dreams: The Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials

The Cold War Fashion Showdown

Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City

What Irony Is Not (2020)

The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

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