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Reality Check
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How to Harness Your Behavioural Wake to Amplify Culture
Every interaction we have, whether in a high-stakes meeting or a casual coffee chat, leaves a wake. Is yours calm, or chaotic?
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fic…
AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness
Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
I'm Already Getting Tired Of Woke Patriarchy | Ela Bambust
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Nicolas Mattia – Keep your Mac awake with caffeinate
This explains how to keep a Mac from going to sleep using a simple command
In the wake: on Blackness and being
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe i…
The Pines asks what would Alan Wake look like if it was about therapy, and I kind of want to know the answer
The open world psychological horror RPG looks familiar, but has enough going on to help it stand out.
waking world
#1277 Matthew McManus: The Right Wants You Stupid, and Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Marxism
Reflections on Habermas; Luzzato's "The First Fascist"
Reading, Watching 03.15.26
[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
Very eager to hear people’s thoughts on this video. I think he explains the issues with the left’s current rhetoric surrounding AI very well.
The Left Has An AI Problem
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