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We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…

It is not only that those wistful and innocent longings we all feel when we think of home were once subject to urgent medical intervention and scrutinised as symptoms of a fatal disease. The 17th-century medical-scientific literature possessed a weirdly inhuman and morbid philosophy of the effects of nostalgia. - Psyche

How AI Is Changing The Job Of Design

Whether it’s Adobe apps or Figma, AI features are increasingly being built into creative tools that push designers into an era of editing and using AI as a tool, rather than having to create everything from scratch. - The Verge

Having It All: It Doesn’t Have To Be Morality Versus Consumption

 The implicit claim of Abundance is that material abundance not only makes things cheaper, easier, or higher quality, but also makes it easier for people to be better. - 3 Quarks Daily

Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness

Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received by their senses. It is a different state from simply being awake, where sensations are processed automatically and unreflectively. Rather, conscious perception requires a detailed and voluntary analysis of external stimuli. - Wired

What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive

Hobby inflation, understood in this light, is about much more than price hikes: It’s about the shrinking and possible disappearance of opportunities for people from different backgrounds to get to know one another. - The Atlantic

Artists In The United States Survived A Rabidly Anti-Art Government Before

And here’s how to do it again. - The Conversation

How Trump And His People Want To Capture The History Of The United States

“The president has gone beyond rhetoric, moving to challenge or seize control of history-related federal cultural institutions including the Smithsonian, the National Park Service and the National Endowment for the Humanities.” - The New York Times

When An AI Chatbot Simply Makes Up A Company Policy, Things Can Go Very Wrong

This seems fine: “Instead of admitting uncertainty, AI models often prioritize creating plausible, confident responses, even when that means manufacturing information from scratch.” - Wired

Can Architecture, And Urban Planning, Help Older People Age In Safer Neighborhoods?

“Cities are often defined by spatial ageism where environments are not set up for older people. The age-friendly movement aims to ensure older people can still play a part in civic life.” - The Guardian (UK)

How Curiosity Fires Up Great Leadership

Curiosity fosters openness and collaboration while reducing decision-making errors. Yet only 24% of organizations actively encourage it, leaving a wealth of untapped potential on the table. The best leaders don’t just seek answers; they reframe problems. - Fast Company

Many Thought TV Would Kill Movies. It Didn’t. Lessons For The Coming Of AI?

Today, lessons from the introduction of TV demonstrate how the creative industries have navigated the introduction of new technology. And could offer some comfort to those who fear that artificial intelligence (AI) technology could be a death knell for the creative industries. - The Conversation

The Shutting Down Of American Intellectual Leadership

There’s a cost to this beyond the tourist dollars and economic impacts others will analyse. It’s the great silencing of a cultural conversation once led by America, rooted in values of social freedom and personal liberty that influenced the imagination of the world. - The Guardian

Eric Schmidt: AI Will Rival The Smartest Artists In a Few Years

“This is happening faster than… our society, our democracy, our laws will address, and there’s lots of implications. That’s why it’s underhyped – people do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free.” - Music Business World

Why The Human Brain Needs Ideologies

Our brains are these amazingly predictive organs trying to constantly explain the world, because that’s our way to survive. We have to have a reliable model of reality so that we can know what to expect—for example, when there’s going to be a confrontation with someone we’re in a relationship with. - Nautilus

Tech Titans Propose An End To Intellectual Property

One can only imagine what the value of music would look like if copyright protections were to disappear altogether. It would not be a stretch to imagine that its value would fall close to zero, along with the value of other commercialized cultural products, and the value of labor carried out by artists and other creators. - Music Business...

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