Spread from Philipp Schmitt’s photobook, ‘Computed Curation’ (all photos courtesy the artist) Increasingly, researchers and artists are tinkering with machine-learning software to explore how neural networks can express creativity, whether through generating contemporary paintings or paint swatch…

"Apple should die"https://t.co/uyQTTXBPcO — Gruber Quoted (@gruberquoted) August 3, 2017 Tweeted by @gruberquoted

Credit Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times By May 18, 2018 TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there’s no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged. Look back to the 1950s, he says — and back even further. He tells his…

"Where once we’d had a rich ecosystem of extremely stupid and funny sites on which we might procrastinate, we now had only Twitter and Facebook." I very much agree with this article. https://t.co/O1FPibILdt — Darren Barefoot (@dbarefoot) May 18, 2018 Tweeted by @dbarefoot

Wikipedia, the free, anyone-can-edit, online encyclopedia is a resource consulted by millions of people every day . But if a topic or person isn’t on the website, how much is the world missing from that gap in information? This was the real question posed by a recent Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at the…

THE RUB OF TIME Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 By Martin Amis 416 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. Martin Amis, for those who need an introduction, is a writer living in Brooklyn. He was also, for a period beginning in the mid-1980s and lasting well into the…

Twitter bots powered by @Wikipedia: An interview with Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions), internet artist and creator of @BracketMemeBot. https://t.co/Ac5Jxz8Sn6 — Wikimedia (@Wikimedia) May 14, 2018 Tweeted by @Wikimedia

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Jordan Peterson is the public intellectual du jour. Some have even declared that he is the most important public intellectual in the world. Primarily known for his videos and lectures, his second book, 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos , is a practical distillation of his philosophy that has…

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The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala brings many things to New York — Kardashians, attention, a windfall to florists and makeup artists the city over — but this year it also brought something else: the Prada Cruise 2019 show. It was only last year that Miuccia Prada joined…

Channeling the anti-Trump #Resistance, a slew of recent books seeks to reduce democracy to a defense of political “norms.” But overcoming today’s crisis will

There is a new black and sexy. Notions of attractiveness, from the type of partner we want to the aesthetic choices we make for ourselves, have shifted from

A whale of a heart: Life-size model of a blue whale heart arrives at New Bedford Whaling Museum https://t.co/6plcLJPJKu — NB Whaling Museum (@whalingmuseum) May 4, 2018 Tweeted by @whalingmuseum

Perhaps no new concept from the world of academic psychology has taken hold of the public imagination more quickly and profoundly in the 21st century than implicit bias — that is, forms of bias which operate beyond the conscious awareness of individuals. That’s in large part due to the blockbuster…

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes and debates about cultural appropriation. A recent, very long round was set off by “Open Casket,” a painting by Dana Schutz, which portrayed, in an abstract swirl, the body of Emmett Till, the black teenager tortured and lynched in 1955. There…

Even Pike Place Market must have cars... Charles Mudede This Sunday, a man in a silver sports car got tired of waiting for one person to cross the intersection on South Oregon Street and Rainier Avenue South, brazenly ran the red light, and forced that pedestrian to leap out of the raging driver's…

In the last post about remote work, we talked about technical difficulties with remote meetings . But even when the tool works perfectly, you might find remote…

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Walk Toronto's Michael Black was quoted in the @TorontoStar on ways the city can make sidewalks safer and at the same time more attractive. https://t.co/g0O37PWNyl — Walk Toronto (@Walk_TO) April 28, 2018 Tweeted by @Walk_TO

L ast July, President Donald Trump was sued in federal court over his Twitter habits. It wasn’t the tone or content of Trump’s approximately 37,300 tweets that had landed him in trouble. Instead, it was the possible unconstitutionality of the way he uses one feature of the platform: the block…

On 23 May 2014, Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old college dropout, became the world’s most famous ‘incel’ – involuntary celibate. The term can, in theory, be applied to both men and women, but in practice it picks out not sexless men in general, but a certain kind of sexless man: the kind who is…

I'd Rather Be Writing Newsletter Get new posts delivered straight to your inbox. Recent Comments Top Commenters · 355 posts · 77 posts · 36 posts · 30 posts · 29 posts · 17 posts · 17 posts · 16 posts · 15 posts · 14 posts Most Discussed Reduction, layering, and distillation as a strategy for…

Dave Carneiro is used to looking up to his father … especially when dad is strapped to a rope hundreds of feet above the ground, walking along the edge of the…

Opinion This year’s Boston Marathon, with its horizontal rain and freezing temperatures , wasn’t just an ordeal unfolding amid some of the worst weather in…

It isn't always obvious who owns Los Angeles' notable old buildings, but 4833 Fountain Avenue requires no research more intensive than an upward glance. There, in sixteen-foot letters, its current stewards have mounted — lest the symbolism of the eight-pointed cross at the tip of the rooftop pyramid…

Nearly twice as many people ride public transit everyday in Vancouver than in Seattle, even though we've got a bigger population. How come?https://t.co/T5PxJhMVmi — David Gutman (@davidlgutman) April 19, 2018 Tweeted by @davidlgutman

Twenty years and a month ago, Bill Gates, then chairman and CEO of Microsoft, made his first appearance before Congress. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gates defended against the accusation that his company was a monopoly. Antitrust investigations into the company had been…

ICYMI The @nytimes says if you've got 36 hours in Victoria, B.C., you'd best spend one of those hours at @MunrosBooks.https://t.co/EWGO10B80K#yyj — Tom Hawthorn (@tomhawthorn) April 14, 2018 Tweeted by @tomhawthorn

Something has gone wrong with the internet. Even Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Testifying before Congress , the Facebook CEO ticked off a list of everything his platform has screwed up, from fake news and foreign meddling in the 2016 election to hate speech and data privacy . “We didn’t take a broad…

Micah Baldwin / Via Flickr: micahb37 This open letter was produced by a group of 67 scientists and researchers. The full list of signatories can be found below. In his newly published book geneticist David Reich engages with the complex and often fraught intersections of genetics with our…

I think I amat least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me forproductivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compoundgrowth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well,and it is magic. A small productivitygain,…

The Sedin twins have officially announced their retirement, and the topic will get a lot of discussion over the next week. Rightly so. They are the greatest Vancouver Canucks of all time. They almost singlehandedly transformed the modern game, creating set-plays, dekes, and breakouts that are now…

Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times Older writers find younger ones irritating, Martin Amis writes in “The Rub of Time,” his fourth nonfiction miscellany, because their emergence is like a series of telegrams from the boneyard. “They are saying, ‘It’s not like that anymore. It’s like this.’”…

It can be difficult to explain a love of Toronto to your friends if they, say, live in London or New York. Trying to sell people on why one sticks with Toronto,…

Ian Capstick is a social entrepreneur and a teaching fellow at the Center for Social Impact Strategy at University of Pennsylvania. For eight years, I was a…

“Baklava! Baklava!” he bellows. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Announcing the Merv Adey Memorial Fellowship An opportunity for new…

“The call for a guaranteed basic income is a classic example of [...] when capitalists have surplus capital and labor they use mass culture and ideology, in this case neoliberalism, to reconfigure the habits of a society to absorb the surpluses. “ https://t.co/BTVNXIzC1J — Alex Payne (@al3x) April…

The Sinking City feels like a soggy, nightmarish version of L.A. Noire, a comparison developer Frogwares proudly acknowledged when I spoke to them at GDC. It's set in the 1920s and stars Charles Reed, a private investigator working in the fictional, waterlogged city of Oakmont, Massachusetts, which…

Digital anthropologist Amber Case explains why conversational AI still has a long way to go before it meets our expectations Chat—whether that’s apps, interfaces or bots—remains a hot topic for marketers and entrepreneurs. Increasingly fueled with artificial intelligence and complex algorithms, chat…