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Fake News by Algorithm
The choice between artificial intelligence and artificial stupidity comes down to the same old motive: profit. Silvia Swinden writes.
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Free Thing of the Week: Eveleen – Falling Rain
Back to the grind of August? Let Eveleen take you away with this wonderful music release.
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Encounters with Anonymous: The Leaning Child
Omar Willey returns with a piece on photography and the problem of uncritical inferences.
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Slow Science, Slow Food, Slow Down
Pancho Ramos-Stierle encourages you to think a little about the proverb “Fools rush in.”
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The Governor is Busy
No matter how large or crowded Istanbul becomes, the centralized government structure does not change. There is always a single governor… Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu investigates the broken links in Turkish democracy in this three-part series. Part one of three.
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Sunday Comics
It’s so deep, it’s so wide, you’re inside synchronicity/Effect without a cause, subatomic laws, Sunday Comics y’all, synchronicity!
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Three Decades After Dictatorship, Theater Aids the Search for Identity and Truth in Argentina
Romina Navarro explores identity in Latin American theater.
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Giant Bone-Crushing Croc was Top Predator of Its Time
Jon Tennant gets excited by a 160,000,000 year old giant crocodile — and who wouldn’t?
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Encounters with Anonymous: A New Feature about Photography
A new column on looking at anonymous photographs, from our publisher dude.
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Net Neutrality Won’t Save Us if DRM is Baked Into the Web
Cory Doctorow leads the fight against the new vision of the World Wide Web, complete with DRM you can’t escape.