Yearly Archives: 2023
We’re All Afraid Of Losing Our Memory. But Remembering Everthing Can Be Debilitating
A ceaseless and faultless archive of mental images is instantly available; every configuration of clouds he has ever witnessed can be compared to the...
Canadian Actor Gordon Pinsent, 92
The Grand Falls, N.L., native and Canadian household name had a storied acting career spanning dozens of films and TV projects over six decades,...
When Dinosaur Encyclopedias Strode The World
From the 18th century to the 21st, the stats keep rising — number of words, number of entries, number of volumes — and the...
Science Fiction Magazines Have Been Inundated With Chatbot-Generated Stories
The editors of three science fiction magazines — Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction — said this week...
AI Is One Thing, But AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Takes It To The Next...
Unlike existing, but newly popular, artificial intelligence (AI) systems which are designed to perform specific tasks such as image recognition, speech recognition, and natural...
Big Sporting Events Are Showing Us The Future Of Our Dystopian Surveillance Society
Sports are a harbinger of a future of surveillance that is more intrusive, multitudinous, and expansive. But they aren’t just showing us the future. Sometimes, they’re...
How Did Jonathan Majors Get To Be In Every Movie, Everywhere, All At Once?
It all started when he was forced to take a theatre class after getting in trouble as a kid. - NPR
It’s Super Secret Oscar Ballot Season
And, from the super secret ballots revealed in their entirety here, it sure looks like Todd Field is going to win Best Director for...
Ukraine Issues A Banksy-Based Stamp
The Banksy mural "depicts a man resembling Russian President Vladimir Putin being flipped during a judo match with a young boy." - BBC
The ChatBots Were Never The Point
They were just stalking horses for much, much more expensive and powerful programming interfaces. - Slate
Trying To Reverse-Engineer A Video Game
The game won't be ready for years - but by the time it is, players will have watched "content" for it on TikTok, read...
A Science Fiction Magazine Had To Close Submissions After Being Flooded With AI Content
Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke says some people submitting AI content are "listening to all these experts on TikTok and YouTube that say, ‘Hey, you...
Designing Costumes For A Large Group Of Women Whose Characters Dress To Never Stand...
The costume designer for Women Talking "found two consultants who helped her create the costumes authentically. They assisted her in sourcing fabric from...
Look, Just End Grey’s Anatomy
The main character has now left, after 19 seasons, and truly, it's run out of steam. Please, people, just let it go. - HuffPost
Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Has Been Banned From Making Movies Or Leaving Iran
"There's sort of a state of fear and tension and paranoia that comes with making and watching Panahi's art. And I think there is...
Four Promoted Dancers At City Ballet Signal A Change
The times are changing, with the youngest, and first Asian American woman principal, being 21, and the oldest a 32-year-old who said, "I’m freaking...
Why Music Can Cue Such Intense Memories
"Patients with Alzheimer’s still can experience the music 'time travel' episodic memory phenomenon even after the disease has attacked their hippocampus, as long as...
The War Poetry Of Ukraine
"The war has been going on since 2014, but it wasn’t until the full-scale invasion of February 2022 that the world started paying attention....
Everything Everywhere All At Once Takes Producers Guild Awards, Actors Take SAG Awards
It was a really good night for the cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All at Once, as the cast won four acting awards...
The Worst Job Listing In The Art World Isn’t That Far From The Usual...
"As it pinged from one reader to another, people argued about which aspect of the job, which offered to pay '$65,000 to $95,000,' was...
Why Has Italy Kept Much Of Its Fascist Architecture And Statuary?
"After World War II, prompted by the Allies, Germany underwent an intense de-Nazification program. Not so Italy — there was no equivalent de-fascistization. The country is...
How To Become Bad Cinderella
First, watch In the Heights in high school. Linedy Genao: "I was like, ‘They said Dominican Republic on Broadway! I didn’t know that was...
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Calls Black People ‘A Hate Group’ And Papers Drop The...
Adams' right-wing rhetoric has become increasingly clear since the election of the 45th president in 2016, but his most recent racist rant finally ended...
Indigenous Jazz Musicians Take Their Place On The World Stage
Delbert Anderson has goals. "I want to be the one who kept it all together and takes joy in my art and changes my...
Look, Why Would Anyone Pay For Facebook?
Facebook, sadly, "is following the trajectory of the airline industry writ large. It is a once-revolutionary service that, over time, has transformed into something...
