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Left/ Right Politics in the West is now divided primarily by which version of undoing the 20th century a given psychodemographic prefers, which is confusing to the Centrist Politics that thinks the 20th century never ended.

'Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century.'

Well good thing that no one bothered with laboratory vaccines until then, given that biological immunity didn't yet exist.

dukeupress.edu/a-body-worth-d…

nice economist.com/by-invitation/…

The Browser Company what happened to Arc browser for iOS? The tabs in Arc Search don't have nearly the same functionality: can't open Google Docs directly for edits for example. Was loving the platform, now it's a broken workflow for me.

TikTok ban is a quintessential accomplishment of the dumbest and most xenophobic aspects of the techlash populism that began a decade ago.

Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic is one of my favorite books of the year and you should buy it

urbanomic.com/book/cute-acce…

Interesting and comprehensive paper on the ethics of AI assistants, what will (hopefully) be only a subset of Human-AI interaction design and not the whole scope. The latter scenario is a 'risk' worth preventing.

Indeed.

ditto on the vice versa

'is a firefly a neuron?' -Orit Peleg

'Artificial Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property'

It was great to welcome Benjamin Bratton Benjamin Bratton to CSER last week to learn more about Antikythera and plans for its upcoming Synthetic Intelligence studio this summer!

Berggruen China Center East Asia Tour:

🇨🇳⁠Shanghai: Futures of Multipolar Computation, in collaboration with Antikythera & NYU Shanghai, featuring a lecture by @Bratton on the segmentation of planetary computation into geopolitical hardware and software stacks, and the…