robots
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Weekly Geekery
What do machines take from us? Hacking the police. Saving Egyptians. Do headlines change the way we read? The Internet is real.
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Author Roboto
At Melville House, Liam O’Brien delves into the fictional and factual history of book-writing computers, from Roald Dahl’s “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” to the Russian computer that rewrote Anna Karenina in the style of Murakami. With some media outlets already…
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Robots Take Over the Library
In the first step of what will undoubtedly be the robot uprising, two robots will be joining the staff of the Westport, Connecticut library. The robots will primarily assist in teaching coding, but they’re also programmed to recognize faces, practice…
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Weekly Geekery
The most powerful imaginings of science fiction aren’t the technological devices. Insert Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reference here. Despite the Internet, Millenials are out-reading you. You should feel ashamed. The difficulty of online conversations. The science of studying…
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Weekly Geekery
Social media, journalism, Ferguson, and challenging power. The Internet cannot have nice things. We’re all horses. So, where’s our Black Beauty? The nature of creativity. You guys, you guys, Buzzfeed isn’t the devil. Honestly. Is that robot a better writer than…
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Weekly Geekery
Examining the troubled origins of our search for technological utopia. Autocorrect is our favorite fall guy for texting errors, but it’s also the reason you can text. What is worth saving from your digital legacy? Don’t resist, just welcome our…
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DFW and his Big Alanis Morissette Poster. (Also, Robots.)
We recently linked to a till-then undiscovered interview with David Foster Wallace. See here for something on the music he loved.
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Weekly Geekery
Will computers replace teachers? In Silicon Valley, ladies don’t get no respect. And that difficult intersection between women, Silicon Valley, and speaking up every time is embodied in one woman: Shanley Kane. Crowdsourced editing and fact-checking. It’s a thing now.…
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Weekly Geekery
How should we handle digital memories? Do we keep them or erase them from our hard drives? Why does Pocahontas endure? Facebook is emotionally manipulating you more than your mother. Welcoming our robot overlords. You aren’t the only one concerned…
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Morning Coffee
Propeller Mag has been collecting the various terrible covers for Karel Capek‘s super great War With the Newts. An affront to human decency: proper nouns to be allowed in Scrabble. Fascinating lost turn of the century female sex study. Behold…
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Morning Coffee
The Context Project is seeking to blur the line between industrial design and fine art. It is also totally rad. Yesterday marked the 31st anniversary of the first robot homicide and the 50th of bubble wrap. So watch out I…
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Science Saturday
The jokes write themselves sometimes–on the same day that the sitting President of the US wins the Nobel Peace Prize, we bombed the moon. To be fair, we had warned the moon repeatedly about pulling all that romantic shit. When…