tech won’t save us: Decomputing For a Better Future
Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss the global push by governments to rapidly adopt AI at all costs and how citizens can critically rethink our dependence on…
Will the Pope Be An Ally Against AI?
Paris Marx is joined by Paolo Benanti to discuss what Pope Leo XIV’s statements on AI, the publications under Pope Francis, and the ethics of AI from a theological perspective.
Inside a Hidden LA Greenhouse Full of the World’s Rarest Plants | Architectural Digest
Today on Architectural Digest, we're joined by AD100 landscape designer Carlos Campos Morera to tour the Geoponika greenhouse. Tucked away in a former truck loading bay within a Los Angeles…
Imaginary Worlds: Body Horror Gets Under My Skin
We all have that one thing we just can’t watch. For me, it’s body horror -- the kind of horror where grotesque and disturbing things happen to someone’s body, like…
The Healer By Rob Keast
He thought about turning to the orange-tie man and asking, Do you think all religion is born of desperation? As much as he wanted to be humble in the presence…
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Work, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli and Richard Hames
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its…
The Varieties of Mystical Experience
Simon Critchley seeks to say the unsayable
No, We Don’t Live in a F—ing Simulation!
It's a fun thought experiment: what if the universe is a simulation, and nothing around us is real? But lately, some of the most powerful people in tech (and politics)…