Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our least reflective – preoccupied with those diminutive miseries whose oversize effect we know would not stand up to criticism. - Aeon
We might typically think of hope as a touchy-feely emotion that, almost by definition, is divorced from real-life experience. In fact, as more research is beginning to show, hope is an important scientific concept—something we can define, measure, analyze, and ultimately cultivate. - The Atlantic
What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI and future-proof ourselves in the age of intelligent machines? - Harvard Business Review
Cancelling is a colloquial term applied to anything from discussion about an author with a critical tone to internet pile-ons or campaigns to deplatform individuals after that person does something their audience perceives as wrong. There is much debate. - The Conversation
As AI proliferates, this lack of originality in our daily language is what will render so many of our jobs irrelevant... It’s clear that one of our best defenses against the rise of the writing machines might be to learn how to think like a poet. - Washington Post
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some of the stresses and hurdles involved in getting films funded and made." - The Guardian (UK)
I not only worry that "cli-fi" might not be an effective form of environmental expression – I have come to believe that the genre might be actively dangerous, stunting our cultural ability to imagine a future worth living in or fighting for. - BBC
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are — including how much white matter dictates variations between people's everyday behavior, and whether it's implicated in how some patients recover better than others from life-threatening brain injuries." - Nautilus
Human bodies are basically built to see and move forward; human brains tend to conceive of time in that forward way. Octopuses can move in any direction and see almost 360 degrees. They also, unlike most humans, die quickly after reproducing. Can cephalopods offer us a new model of conceiving time? - Aeon
Thinking for yourself has never been easy, but the question of whether it is still possible at all is of some moment. The key ideals of liberal democracy—moral independence and intellectual autonomy—depend on it. - The Walrus
Free thinkers and sceptics, they imagine themselves as emancipated from imprisoning beliefs. Yet most of what they, and you, know comes not from direct experience or through figuring it out for oneself, but from unknown others. - 3 Quarks Daily
Do you study creativity by analyzing people commonly acknowledged to be creative and figure out what they all have in common? Or could someone who has never actually created anything be creative, in the way that innately intelligent people can end up in unskilled jobs? - The New Yorker
Barely more than a decade later, the internet is not the tool. I am the tool. Somehow, I have been instrumentalized by the internet, which operates me through my phone. It often feels like the internet is reading my mind. - Slate
Who picks up the tab of paying for journalism when the audience won’t, and how does that change the truths that we journalists want to tell? - The Point
